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Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #57: The government isn't as sluggish as it feels Why Labour supporters should hold their nerve (for now)
5 months ago
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Odds and Ends #57: The government isn't as sluggish as it feels

from Odds and Ends of History [alt+shift+b] in technology

5 months ago
Why Labour supporters should hold their nerve (for now)
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A Beautiful Site
Determine file extensions using JavaScript A quick JavaScript function to determine a file's extension. function fileExt(path) { return...
over a year ago
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Determine file extensions using JavaScript

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

over a year ago
A quick JavaScript function to determine a file's extension. function fileExt(path) { return path.substr(path.lastIndexOf('.') + 1); }
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TokyoDev
Transferring from the Philippines to be a QA Engineer in Japan Intra-company transfers are a less-common way to move to Japan for work, but [Mary Grygjeanne Grace...
a year ago
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Transferring from the Philippines to be a QA Engineer in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Intra-company transfers are a less-common way to move to Japan for work, but [Mary Grygjeanne Grace Icay](https://www.tokyodev.com/authors/mary-grygjeanne-grace-icay) (Gray in the [TokyoDev Discord community](https://discord.gg/seUNe38YgV)) managed to do it. She originally worked...
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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
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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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Alice GG
Thoughts on releasing our first indie game Two weeks ago we released Dice’n Goblins, our first game on Steam. This project allowed me to...
2 months ago
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Thoughts on releasing our first indie game

from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 months ago
Two weeks ago we released Dice’n Goblins, our first game on Steam. This project allowed me to discover and learn a lot of new things about game development and the industry. I will use this blog post to write down what I consider to be the most important lessons from the months...
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Atoms vs Bits
Raising Bread In the days before yeast, we had yeast
2 months ago
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Raising Bread

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2 months ago
In the days before yeast, we had yeast
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Commoncog
Learning About Moats the Hard Way How even legendary conglomerator Henry Singleton got caught out by competitive arbitrage at the end...
a year ago
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Learning About Moats the Hard Way

from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
How even legendary conglomerator Henry Singleton got caught out by competitive arbitrage at the end of his career.
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The Universe of...
Stuff I wanted to say to the historic district people but didn't [ Thanks to John Wiersba for noticing that I forgot to publish this. ] A few weeks ago I wrote a...
9 months ago
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Stuff I wanted to say to the historic district people but didn't

from The Universe of Discourse [alt+shift+b] in comics

9 months ago
[ Thanks to John Wiersba for noticing that I forgot to publish this. ] A few weeks ago I wrote a letter to my neighbors about why I thought it was a bad idea to oppose building more housing in our neighborhood. I didn't write this paragraph: In the past it has often happened that...
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Ben Borgers
Meaningful Conversation
over a year ago
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Meaningful Conversation

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over a year ago
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TheCollector
Excavations Reveal Ancient “Mosaic House” in Pergamon Turkish archaeologists discovered 2,000-year-old mosaics in Pergamon, an important center of power...
4 months ago
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Excavations Reveal Ancient “Mosaic House” in Pergamon

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

4 months ago
Turkish archaeologists discovered 2,000-year-old mosaics in Pergamon, an important center of power and culture in Hellenistic Greece. The “ornate” tile floors, which belong to a Roman period residence, offer new insights into the lives of the ancient city’s elite.   Mosaic House...
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High Signal
Michael's app makes your phone dumb Michael Tigas is the founder of Dumb Phone, an app that makes your smart phone into a minimal...
10 months ago
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Michael's app makes your phone dumb

from High Signal [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

10 months ago
Michael Tigas is the founder of Dumb Phone, an app that makes your smart phone into a minimal device!
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Seth's Blog
Them or us? What kind of culture will we build? At work, in our community, online? Each of us builds culture...
a year ago
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Them or us?

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

a year ago
What kind of culture will we build? At work, in our community, online? Each of us builds culture every time we interact with anyone else. Opting out isn’t possible, all we can do is decide what sort of impact and contribution we’re each going to make. It’s tempting to say, “they”...
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RhysTranter.com
“In these dark times…” In these dark times we look for the light
over a year ago
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“In these dark times…”

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over a year ago
In these dark times we look for the light
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One Useful Thing
Latent Expertise: Everyone is in R&D Ideas come from the edges, not the center
a year ago
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Latent Expertise: Everyone is in R&D

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a year ago
Ideas come from the edges, not the center
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Articles
Interviews from the Future of Web Apps in Miami
over a year ago
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Interviews from the Future of Web Apps in Miami

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over a year ago
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Classical Wisdom
Was Aristotle Right About Happiness? LIVE Substack Session: Wednesday @ 1pm
3 months ago
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Was Aristotle Right About Happiness?

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3 months ago
LIVE Substack Session: Wednesday @ 1pm
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Calculated Risk
A few comments on the Seasonal Pattern for House Prices Another update ... a few key points: 3) The seasonal swings have increased recently without a surge...
3 months ago
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A few comments on the Seasonal Pattern for House Prices

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

3 months ago
Another update ... a few key points: 3) The seasonal swings have increased recently without a surge in distressed sales. Click on graph for larger image. The second graph shows the seasonal factors for the Case-Shiller National index since 1987. The factors started to change...
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diamond geezer
Jurassic Coast 1 Jurassic Coast (part 1) The Jurassic Coast is the umbrella name for the shoreline between Exmouth...
a month ago
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Jurassic Coast 1

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

a month ago
Jurassic Coast (part 1) The Jurassic Coast is the umbrella name for the shoreline between Exmouth and Swanage, renowned for undulating hills, pebble beaches and crumbling cliffs. It's partly in Devon but mostly in Dorset, and famed for its fossils as the wave-lapped rocks...
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👋 Hello, I'm...
Work-n-travel: A practical guide for staying productive while exploring the world. ...
a year ago
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Work-n-travel: A practical guide for staying productive while exploring the world.

from 👋 Hello, I'm Ruslan. [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

a year ago
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diamond geezer
Eastbourne to Bexhill Walking the England Coast Path Eastbourne → Bexhill (10 miles) England Coast Path is a massive...
5 months ago
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Eastbourne to Bexhill

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

5 months ago
Walking the England Coast Path Eastbourne → Bexhill (10 miles) England Coast Path is a massive project to open up and waymark a right of way around the country, as yet incomplete. In most cases you could have walked it anyway but the signposts are a reassuring sight in areas...
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TheCollector
How Henry VII Took the English Throne & Founded the Tudors Henry VII often slips through the cracks of history, being sandwiched between the controversial...
a week ago
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How Henry VII Took the English Throne & Founded the Tudors

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

a week ago
Henry VII often slips through the cracks of history, being sandwiched between the controversial Richard III, a Renaissance Machiavellian prince, and Henry VIII, an impossibly charismatic and epoch-shaping monarch. But without Henry VII, there would be no Henry VIII. It was Henry...
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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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Fort Klock

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

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...
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Map of the Week
30 Day Map Challenge-One Final Note In writing yesterday’s post I forgot about this awesome music video about the 30 Day Map Challenge....
7 months ago
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30 Day Map Challenge-One Final Note

from Map of the Week [alt+shift+b] in cartography

7 months ago
In writing yesterday’s post I forgot about this awesome music video about the 30 Day Map Challenge. The lyrics are French with English subtitles and it’s fun to hear how musical words like choropleth and story map can sound in French. “Some people sell houses, chickens, bidets, I...
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The Marginalian
Uncoding Creativity in the Age of AI: What Makes a Great Poem, What Makes a Great Storyteller, and... I once asked ChatGPT to write a poem about a total solar eclipse in the style of Walt Whitman. It...
5 days ago
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Uncoding Creativity in the Age of AI: What Makes a Great Poem, What Makes a Great Storyteller, and What Makes Us Human

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

5 days ago
I once asked ChatGPT to write a poem about a total solar eclipse in the style of Walt Whitman. It returned a dozen couplets of cliches that touched nothing, changed nothing in me. The AI had the whole of the English language at its disposal — a lexicon surely manyfold the poet’s...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Free Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The consciousness debate is there in case we get...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Free

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

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The consciousness debate is there in case we get tired of that one. Today's News:
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
The 40-Year-Old Version There is a path weaving through the seven lakes of Loveland that hugs the western edge of Boyd Lake,...
over a year ago
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The 40-Year-Old Version

from Adrian Hanft, III: RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
There is a path weaving through the seven lakes of Loveland that hugs the western edge of Boyd Lake, kisses the tip of Horseshoe, parts the lips of Westerdoll and Heinricy, caresses the Upper and Lower Hoffmans.
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Daily Stoic
How To Deal With Regret ( 3 Stoic Strategies to Live Free) What Is Regret? “Two elements must therefore be rooted out once for all, – the fear of future...
a year ago
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How To Deal With Regret ( 3 Stoic Strategies to Live Free)

from Daily Stoic [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
What Is Regret? “Two elements must therefore be rooted out once for all, – the fear of future suffering, and the recollection of past suffering; since the latter no longer concerns me, and the former concerns me not yet.” – Seneca, from Letters from a Stoic After a long day at...
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Commoncog
What’s an Operational Definition Anyway? Two principles on collecting data, from the field of Statistical Process Control. As with most...
a year ago
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What’s an Operational Definition Anyway?

from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
Two principles on collecting data, from the field of Statistical Process Control. As with most principles in SPC, this is both simpler and more important than you might think.
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Londonist
Ian McKellen Is Back Doing Shakespeare On The London Stage In 2024 Player Kings launches in the spring.
a year ago
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Ian McKellen Is Back Doing Shakespeare On The London Stage In 2024

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a year ago
Player Kings launches in the spring.
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African History...
The pyramids of ancient Nubia and Meroe: death on the Nile and the mortuary architecture of Kush a complete history of an African monument
over a year ago
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The pyramids of ancient Nubia and Meroe: death on the Nile and the mortuary architecture of Kush

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over a year ago
a complete history of an African monument
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Interaction Magic -...
Orientation Using Mahony & Madgwick to calibrate and process Arduino orientation data.
over a year ago
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Orientation

from Interaction Magic - George Cave [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
Using Mahony & Madgwick to calibrate and process Arduino orientation data.
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NeuroLogica Blog
Is Music Getting Simpler I don’t think I know anyone personally who doesn’t have strong opinions about music – which genres...
a year ago
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Is Music Getting Simpler

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

a year ago
I don’t think I know anyone personally who doesn’t have strong opinions about music – which genres they like, and how the quality of music may have changed over time. My own sense is that music as a cultural phenomenon is incredibly complex, no one (in my social group) really...
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Contraption Co.
Behind the scenes of the Find AI API We recently released a Search API for Find AI, and announced its integration with Clay.com. APIs...
7 months ago
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Behind the scenes of the Find AI API

from Contraption Co. [alt+shift+b] in programming

7 months ago
We recently released a Search API for Find AI, and announced its integration with Clay.com. APIs allow developers to interact with a product using code. There are many different ways to build an API, and many tools to make it easier for customers to adopt. In this post, I&
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Joke Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This joke would be offensive to humans, however HA...
4 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Joke

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4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This joke would be offensive to humans, however HA HA HA HA HA Today's News:
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Andrew Fraknoi –...
Dec. 21 is Winter Solstice — Why We Have Seasons on Earth Saturday, Dec. 21 will be the winter solstice – the shortest day and longest night of the year, with...
6 months ago
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Dec. 21 is Winter Solstice — Why We Have Seasons on Earth

from Andrew Fraknoi – Astronomy Lectures – Astronomy Education Resources [alt+shift+b] in science

6 months ago
Saturday, Dec. 21 will be the winter solstice – the shortest day and longest night of the year, with which we mark the beginning of the winter season in the Earth’s northern hemisphere.  It’s interesting to note that the planets Venus and Jupiter do not have seasons like the...
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Londonist
When A Plague Of Millions Of Rats Gnawed Its Way Through Central London They even ate the window frames...
a year ago
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When A Plague Of Millions Of Rats Gnawed Its Way Through Central London

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a year ago
They even ate the window frames...
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Christopher Butler
Being Normal There’s a theory of Being Online that online isn’t merely a technological thing — access to a...
a year ago
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Being Normal

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

a year ago
There’s a theory of Being Online that online isn’t merely a technological thing — access to a signal, say, like a telephone line — but a modality. A form; a way. And being, of course, is just being. Early internet users have trouble with this theory because we remember using...
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Roberto Vitillo's...
Scalability patterns of distributed systems I have released a new chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems ! It explores the different...
over a year ago
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Scalability patterns of distributed systems

from Roberto Vitillo's Blog [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
I have released a new chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems ! It explores the different patterns at your disposal when designing…
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Open Culture
Jimi Hendrix Opens for The Monkees on a 1967 Tour; Then Flips Off the Crowd and Quits It’s easy to dismiss The Monkees. Critics and listeners have been doing it since the sixties,...
11 months ago
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Jimi Hendrix Opens for The Monkees on a 1967 Tour; Then Flips Off the Crowd and Quits

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11 months ago
It’s easy to dismiss The Monkees. Critics and listeners have been doing it since the sixties, although the band has also come in for its share of reappraisals, particularly for their psych-rock album Head. (That’s the soundtrack from the 1968 Jack Nicholson-directed art film of...
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TokyoDev
Skyrocketing software developer salaries in Japan a portent of a seismic shift Traditionally in Japan, salaried employees work for a single company their entire life, with their...
over a year ago
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Skyrocketing software developer salaries in Japan a portent of a seismic shift

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Traditionally in Japan, salaried employees work for a single company their entire life, with their pay rising as their seniority increases. So uniform is compensation that common wisdom even gives [a formula](https://news.nicovideo.jp/watch/nw1745758) for what your monthly...
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The Honest Broker
How Virtual Reality Died Meta, Microsoft, and Apple lost billions trying to convince us to live in the Matrix. Can you guess...
8 months ago
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How Virtual Reality Died

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

8 months ago
Meta, Microsoft, and Apple lost billions trying to convince us to live in the Matrix. Can you guess what they're doing next?
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SatPost by Trung...
OpenAI, Humane and Apple's Shadow The future of consumer AI hardware is coming into focus. Who will win?
a year ago
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OpenAI, Humane and Apple's Shadow

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

a year ago
The future of consumer AI hardware is coming into focus. Who will win?
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
How I made banditypes, the smallest TS validation library I open-sourced banditypes — the smallest runtime validation library for TS / JS. It manages to fit...
over a year ago
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How I made banditypes, the smallest TS validation library

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

over a year ago
I open-sourced banditypes — the smallest runtime validation library for TS / JS. It manages to fit all the basic functionality into an astounding 400 bytes. For reference, the popular zod and yup libraries are around 11KB, superstruct measures 1.8KB for the same set of...
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Marcus on AI
Decoding (and debunking) Hard Fork’s Kevin Roose His latest New York Times piece tells us a lot about what he doesn’t really understand
4 months ago
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Decoding (and debunking) Hard Fork’s Kevin Roose

from Marcus on AI [alt+shift+b] in AI

4 months ago
His latest New York Times piece tells us a lot about what he doesn’t really understand
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Herbert Lui
Polish as a commodity Here’s an interesting idea: don’t use your editing time to polish a post (i.e., tightening up...
5 months ago
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Polish as a commodity

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

5 months ago
Here’s an interesting idea: don’t use your editing time to polish a post (i.e., tightening up sentences, making line edits, rephrasing, etc.).  Instead, use it to do more research. For example, find a better example—one that surprises you (and, hopefully, the reader). You could...
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99% Invisible
It’s Howdy Doody Time! [EPISODE] If your parents or grandparents grew up in the United States in the 1950s, there’s a decent chance...
a year ago
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It’s Howdy Doody Time! [EPISODE]

from 99% Invisible [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
If your parents or grandparents grew up in the United States in the 1950s, there’s a decent chance that they know the theme song to The Howdy Doody Show. The Howdy Doody Show is one of those pieces of 1950s ephemera that has come to symbolize mid-century American childhood. For...
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Articles
Moving on
over a year ago
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Moving on

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over a year ago
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Should Apple be more open? It is almost religious orthodoxy in the tech community that “open” is better than “closed.” For...
over a year ago
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Should Apple be more open?

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

over a year ago
It is almost religious orthodoxy in the tech community that “open” is better than “closed.” For example, there have widespread complaints…
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Atoms vs Bits
80/20 Strength Training or, weightlifting for lazy people
over a year ago
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80/20 Strength Training

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over a year ago
or, weightlifting for lazy people
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BLDGBLOG
Uncontrolled Remains I find landfill chemistry weirdly fascinating, particularly the idea that untold millions of tons of...
5 days ago
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Uncontrolled Remains

from BLDGBLOG [alt+shift+b] in architecture

5 days ago
I find landfill chemistry weirdly fascinating, particularly the idea that untold millions of tons of garbage being stored in giant, artificial landforms—or simply buried underground like false geological deposits—might be inadvertently catalyzing chemical processes we neither...
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Old Structures...
Still Developing The caption on this 1882 picture is obviously wrong. Jacob Ruppert’s house was at the corner of...
7 months ago
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Still Developing

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7 months ago
The caption on this 1882 picture is obviously wrong. Jacob Ruppert’s house was at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 93rd Street, and the big avenue to the right is Park (Fourth) Avenue. You can tell because of those little bridges and the wide center mall: this is the north end of...
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markround.com
Disqus - An Apology Earlier today, I got an email alerting me to an angrier than usual comment on this website. It was a...
a year ago
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Disqus - An Apology

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a year ago
Earlier today, I got an email alerting me to an angrier than usual comment on this website. It was a proper keyboard warrior rant accusing me of all sorts of misdeads revolving around “forcing ads down people’s throats”. I replied saying that there had never been any ads on this...
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Drew Ex Machina
USAF Project Able-1: The First Attempt to Reach the Moon In the years leading up to the beginning of the Space Age, there were many studies made in the West...
over a year ago
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USAF Project Able-1: The First Attempt to Reach the Moon

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

over a year ago
In the years leading up to the beginning of the Space Age, there were many studies made in the West about lunar missions which gripped the […]
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Dreams of Space -...
A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964) An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
10 months ago
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A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)

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

10 months ago
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do. A Visit to the New York World's Fair was the official World's Fair...
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Old Structures...
A Stylistic Joke As A Name There’s a large, somewhat ominous, vaguely art deco building in lower Manhattan commonly called the...
7 months ago
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A Stylistic Joke As A Name

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

7 months ago
There’s a large, somewhat ominous, vaguely art deco building in lower Manhattan commonly called the Tombs. The main portion of it is a courthouse with a lot of court-related office space, the northern wing – see below – is a short-term prison, mostly used to hold people awaiting...
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The Forney Flyer
Our Summer Plans up in the Air... And a Motorcycle Adventure from Late Last Year I mentioned in a recent letter that we sent to many of you, that you should check this blog for the...
over a year ago
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Our Summer Plans up in the Air... And a Motorcycle Adventure from Late Last Year

from The Forney Flyer [alt+shift+b] in travel

over a year ago
I mentioned in a recent letter that we sent to many of you, that you should check this blog for the latest updates regarding our plans to be in the U.S. briefly this summer. Well, as you can imagine, those plans are totally muddled right now because of all the Covid-19 related...
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Ryan Hoover's...
Real friends
a year ago
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Real friends

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a year ago
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Nela Dunato Art &...
Personal branding for neurodivergent professionals Personal branding can be awkward for everyone. Combine it with social difficulties, anxiety,...
a year ago
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Personal branding for neurodivergent professionals

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

a year ago
Personal branding can be awkward for everyone. Combine it with social difficulties, anxiety, masking, and emotional reactivity that often come packaged with a neurodevelopmental condition like autism or ADHD, and you find yourself in quite a predicament. I’ve been writing about...
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A Beautiful Site
SimpleImage 3.0 Back in 2011, I released the first version of SimpleImage for PHP — an open source project for...
over a year ago
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SimpleImage 3.0

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

over a year ago
Back in 2011, I released the first version of SimpleImage for PHP — an open source project for working with images. Today, version 3.0 has landed, and there's a lot to love about it. Overview # Here's how it works at a glance: try { // Create a new SimpleImage object $image =...
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Strange Loop Canon
We all live on a knife's edge, and it's fine Or: How we weaponised serendipity
a year ago
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We all live on a knife's edge, and it's fine

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a year ago
Or: How we weaponised serendipity
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Quanta Magazine
‘Once in a Century’ Proof Settles Math’s Kakeya Conjecture The deceptively simple Kakeya conjecture has bedeviled mathematicians for 50 years. A new proof of...
3 months ago
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‘Once in a Century’ Proof Settles Math’s Kakeya Conjecture

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3 months ago
The deceptively simple Kakeya conjecture has bedeviled mathematicians for 50 years. A new proof of the conjecture in three dimensions illuminates a whole crop of related problems. The post ‘Once in a Century’ Proof Settles Math’s Kakeya Conjecture first appeared on...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing PostHog Cloud EU It's no secret that some popular analytics tools, such as Google Analytics, have fallen foul of GDPR...
over a year ago
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Introducing PostHog Cloud EU

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

over a year ago
It's no secret that some popular analytics tools, such as Google Analytics, have fallen foul of GDPR regulations in the EU. That's one reason why we…
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Business Brainstorms
Hard startups, importance of founder-led sales, Netflix for written content Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
a year ago
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Hard startups, importance of founder-led sales, Netflix for written content

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a year ago
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “I wish I could pay per newspaper article, with only...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Being Trans Is Not A Mental Illness On the current episode of the SGU, because it is pride month, we expressed our general support for...
over a year ago
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Being Trans Is Not A Mental Illness

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

over a year ago
On the current episode of the SGU, because it is pride month, we expressed our general support for the LGBTQ community. I also opined about how important it is to respect individual liberty, the freedom to simply live your authentic life as you choose, and how ironic it is that...
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Quadruped Ladder Climbing Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
9 months ago
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Video Friday: Quadruped Ladder Climbing

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9 months ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. IROS 2024: 14–18 October 2024, ABU...
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Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #43: An awesome drone trial in central London, legalised e-scooters at last, and... And yes, I am on Bluesky.
7 months ago
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Odds and Ends #43: An awesome drone trial in central London, legalised e-scooters at last, and National Data Library progress

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7 months ago
And yes, I am on Bluesky.
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Common Edge
A Radical (and Totally Practical) Rethinking of U.S. Housing Construction Vienna and Paris demonstrate that there are easier, less-expensive ways to build homes.
6 months ago
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A Radical (and Totally Practical) Rethinking of U.S. Housing Construction

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6 months ago
Vienna and Paris demonstrate that there are easier, less-expensive ways to build homes.
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Asterisk
Greening the Solar System A future where life flourishes beyond Earth is closer than you think. How, precisely, will we get...
4 months ago
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Greening the Solar System

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4 months ago
A future where life flourishes beyond Earth is closer than you think. How, precisely, will we get there?
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Vadim Kravcenko
As a recent college graduate, should I work in a tech startup? As someone that has worked in startups and large companies in their career, it depends on what you...
over a year ago
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As a recent college graduate, should I work in a tech startup?

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

over a year ago
As someone that has worked in startups and large companies in their career, it depends on what you want to […] The post As a recent college graduate, should I work in a tech startup? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Articles
How to get (and keep) a job in startups
over a year ago
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How to get (and keep) a job in startups

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over a year ago
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A Beautiful Site
Hashing Passwords with Node.js and bcrypt The bcrypt library on NPM makes it really easy to hash and compare passwords in Node. If you're...
over a year ago
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Hashing Passwords with Node.js and bcrypt

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

over a year ago
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...
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Arduino Blog
The Club Master is a Nano RP2040 Connect-powered device that improves your golf swing When playing golf, few things are as important as using the correct form when swinging, since even...
a year ago
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The Club Master is a Nano RP2040 Connect-powered device that improves your golf swing

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

a year ago
When playing golf, few things are as important as using the correct form when swinging, since even small deviations can be the difference between a hole-in-one and additional strokes. To improve his game, Concept Bytes has designed a small clip-on device called the “Club Master.”...
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AI Snake Oil
Is AI-generated disinformation a threat to democracy? An essay on the future of generative AI on social media
over a year ago
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Is AI-generated disinformation a threat to democracy?

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over a year ago
An essay on the future of generative AI on social media
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journal – Winnie Lim
drawing & painting as a form of meditation I just started drawing and painting again last week after stopping for a couple of months. Since...
a year ago
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drawing & painting as a form of meditation

from journal – Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
I just started drawing and painting again last week after stopping for a couple of months. Since then I’ve been trying to do it more regularly, hoping to incorporate it as a...
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Londonist
High Rocks: Stunning Views, Steam Trains And 18th Century Graffiti Oh, and a top-notch pub right across the road.
a year ago
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High Rocks: Stunning Views, Steam Trains And 18th Century Graffiti

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a year ago
Oh, and a top-notch pub right across the road.
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Molson Hart's Blog -...
15 mental Abilities & Traits Which Make You Successful But Are Not on an IQ Test 1. Empathy 2. Dexterity 3. Persuasion 4. Musicality 5. Confidence 6. Ambition 7. Grit 8....
a year ago
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15 mental Abilities & Traits Which Make You Successful But Are Not on an IQ Test

from Molson Hart's Blog - Molson Hart [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
1. Empathy 2. Dexterity 3. Persuasion 4. Musicality 5. Confidence 6. Ambition 7. Grit 8. Creativity 9. Flexibility 10. Energy 11. Individualism 12. Willpower 13. Stoicisim 14. Objectivity 15. Allure
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mtlynch.io
What I Learned About Upwork from a Bumbling Scammer For years, I’ve hired freelancers through a site called Upwork. The site attracts many different...
over a year ago
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What I Learned About Upwork from a Bumbling Scammer

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

over a year ago
For years, I’ve hired freelancers through a site called Upwork. The site attracts many different professionals, so I’ve used it to find everything from cartoonists to software developers to copy editors. Some were great, some were disastrous, but none of them had ever tried to...
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Quanta Magazine
A New Agenda for Low-Dimensional Topology This past October, dozens of mathematicians gathered in Pasadena to create the third version of...
a year ago
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A New Agenda for Low-Dimensional Topology

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

a year ago
This past October, dozens of mathematicians gathered in Pasadena to create the third version of “Kirby’s list” — a compendium of the most important unsolved problems in the field. The post A New Agenda for Low-Dimensional Topology first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Retail Design Blog
Bershka flagship store by Castel Estudio Part of the Inditex empire, fast-fashion brand Bershka specifically targets a young demographic with...
10 months ago
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Bershka flagship store by Castel Estudio

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

10 months ago
Part of the Inditex empire, fast-fashion brand Bershka specifically targets a young demographic with on-trend streetwear styles. In Spain, its...
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The Marginalian
Is Peace Possible Is Peace Possible?, originally published in 1957, is the second title in Marginalian Editions. Below...
a month ago
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Is Peace Possible

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

a month ago
Is Peace Possible?, originally published in 1957, is the second title in Marginalian Editions. Below is my foreword to the new edition as it appears in on its pages. How ungenerous our culture has been in portraying science as cold, unfeeling, and aloof from the human sphere. No...
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Nat Eliason's...
Fast Cash vs. Slow Equity Knowing what you're building
4 months ago
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Fast Cash vs. Slow Equity

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4 months ago
Knowing what you're building
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Open Culture
Watch Philosophy Lectures That Became a Hit During COVID by Professor Michael Sugrue (RIP): From... If we ask which philosophy professor has made the greatest impact in this decade, there’s a solid...
a year ago
50

Watch Philosophy Lectures That Became a Hit During COVID by Professor Michael Sugrue (RIP): From Plato and Marcus Aurelius to Critical Theory

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

a year ago
If we ask which philosophy professor has made the greatest impact in this decade, there’s a solid case to be made for the late Michael Sugrue. Yet in the nearly four-decade-long career that followed his studies at the University of Chicago under Allan Bloom (author of The Closing...
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High Signal
From agency to SaaS founder - how Jules is making the change Jules is making $500k a year in revenue with his SEO agency Embarque. But now he's switching things...
6 months ago
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From agency to SaaS founder - how Jules is making the change

from High Signal [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

6 months ago
Jules is making $500k a year in revenue with his SEO agency Embarque. But now he's switching things up with a move into SaaS.
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Daniel Immke's Blog...
How I quit social media Just to keep things clear, I consider social media to be any service where you’re presenting...
over a year ago
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How I quit social media

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

over a year ago
Just to keep things clear, I consider social media to be any service where you’re presenting yourself using your real name. I don’t think…
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Laetitia@Work
AI’s battle of the skills: upskilling vs deskilling Laetitia@Work #78
4 months ago
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AI’s battle of the skills: upskilling vs deskilling

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4 months ago
Laetitia@Work #78
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Calculated Risk
BLS: Job Openings Increased to 7.7 million in January From the BLS: Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary The number of job openings was little changed...
4 months ago
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BLS: Job Openings Increased to 7.7 million in January

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

4 months ago
From the BLS: Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary The number of job openings was little changed at 7.7 million in January, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Hires held at 5.4 million, and total separations changed little at 5.3 million. Within...
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Seth's Blog
Every tactic… Has a strategy behind it. Often unsaid, undiscussed and hidden. It’s easier to simply play with the...
2 months ago
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Every tactic…

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

2 months ago
Has a strategy behind it. Often unsaid, undiscussed and hidden. It’s easier to simply play with the tactic of the moment. Tell me what your tactic is trying to accomplish and I’ll be halfway to understanding what your strategy is. But it makes a lot more sense to announce your...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Finding Small Primordial Black Holes Astrophysicists come up with a lot of whacky ideas, some of which actually turn out to be possibly...
7 months ago
69

Finding Small Primordial Black Holes

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

7 months ago
Astrophysicists come up with a lot of whacky ideas, some of which actually turn out to be possibly true (like the Big Bang, black holes, accelerating cosmic expansion, dark matter). Of course, all of these conclusions are provisional, but some are now backed by compelling...
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Archinect - Features
'Starting a Successful Woman-Owned Business in a Heavily Male-Dominated Industry Is No Joke':... In this episode of our Studio Snapshot series, Archinect connected with Allison Bryan, Founding...
9 months ago
70

'Starting a Successful Woman-Owned Business in a Heavily Male-Dominated Industry Is No Joke': A Conversation with Open Studio Collective

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

9 months ago
In this episode of our Studio Snapshot series, Archinect connected with Allison Bryan, Founding Principal of multi-disciplinary design practice Open Studio Collective, based in Bozeman, Montana, and Ojai, California. Trained in both graphic design and architecture, Bryan talks...
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Adventures In...
Layout sandwich Here’s how to make an ArcGIS Pro layout where certain elements of the map step over the neatline and...
a year ago
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Layout sandwich

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

a year ago
Here’s how to make an ArcGIS Pro layout where certain elements of the map step over the neatline and the graticule is relegated only to the oceans. Because that looks cool! Mapping has a long and handsome history of neatlines that are interrupted by bits of land spilling over it,...
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TokyoDev
Announcing the 2023 TokyoDev Developers Survey The 2023 edition of the TokyoDev Developer Survey [is now...
a year ago
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Announcing the 2023 TokyoDev Developers Survey

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
The 2023 edition of the TokyoDev Developer Survey [is now live](https://surveys.tokyodev.com/en-US/survey/tokyodev/2023)! If you’re a software developer living in Japan, please help us by taking it. [Last year’s survey](https://www.tokyodev.com/insights/2022-developer-survey)...
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Yale E360
China Allows New Coal Plants, but With More Limited Role China will allow the construction of new coal power plants through at least 2027 but with...
2 months ago
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China Allows New Coal Plants, but With More Limited Role

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

2 months ago
China will allow the construction of new coal power plants through at least 2027 but with restrictions aimed at limiting emissions and boosting renewables, according to a newly released action plan. Read more on E360 →
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Frank’s Ramblings
My Experience Living and Working in China, Part II: COVID Stories In this four-part article, I’ll go over some of the lessons I learned living and doing business in...
over a year ago
45

My Experience Living and Working in China, Part II: COVID Stories

from Frank’s Ramblings [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
In this four-part article, I’ll go over some of the lessons I learned living and doing business in China’s tech industry. During my time in China, I’ve led a team of 10+ engineers to develop a location-based IoT and sensing platform, co-founded an open-source project called...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
HogMail #15 Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
over a year ago
19

HogMail #15

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

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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Benny Kuriakose
Sustainability in School Design Sustainability is a practice that seeks to minimize the negative impact of buildings on the ...
a year ago
20

Sustainability in School Design

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

a year ago
Sustainability is a practice that seeks to minimize the negative impact of buildings on the environment by efficient and moderate use of...
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Wait But Why
You Won’t Believe My Morning A highly unexpected turn of events. The post You Won’t Believe My Morning appeared first on Wait But...
over a year ago
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You Won’t Believe My Morning

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over a year ago
A highly unexpected turn of events. The post You Won’t Believe My Morning appeared first on Wait But Why.
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TheCollector
10 Locations from the Odyssey and Their Real-Life Counterparts Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film, “The Odyssey,” slated for release on July 17, 2026, is a...
4 months ago
49

10 Locations from the Odyssey and Their Real-Life Counterparts

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

4 months ago
Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film, “The Odyssey,” slated for release on July 17, 2026, is a cinematic adaptation of Homer’s ancient Greek epic poem. The narrative follows Odysseus, portrayed by Matt Damon, on his arduous journey home following the Trojan War, encountering...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Technology predictions For those of us in the prediction business, it’s sometimes useful to go back and read past...
over a year ago
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Technology predictions

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over a year ago
For those of us in the prediction business, it’s sometimes useful to go back and read past predictions to try to discern patterns in what…
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Krebs on Security
Feds Link $150M Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a...
4 months ago
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Feds Link $150M Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks

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4 months ago
In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a series of six-figure cyberheists across dozens of victims resulted from thieves cracking master passwords stolen from the password manager service LastPass in 2022. In a court...
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SatPost by Trung...
Garmin's ~$40B Pivot The GPS pioneer took huge hits from Apple (iPhone, Watch) and Google (Maps). But huge R&D investment...
5 months ago
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Garmin's ~$40B Pivot

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

5 months ago
The GPS pioneer took huge hits from Apple (iPhone, Watch) and Google (Maps). But huge R&D investment helped turn the company from an automotive GPS firm to a leader in fitness watches and trackers.
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Daniel Bourke
Introducing Nutrify 1.2.3 Whole Food Streaks, Widgets, Quick Summaries and 41 New Foods.
8 months ago
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Introducing Nutrify 1.2.3

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8 months ago
Whole Food Streaks, Widgets, Quick Summaries and 41 New Foods.
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Daniel De Laney
Secure File Transfer During my time at frog, I lead a team of designers to transform a secure file transfer app owned by...
over a year ago
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Secure File Transfer

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over a year ago
During my time at frog, I lead a team of designers to transform a secure file transfer app owned by IBM. In addition to leading the team in Austin I helped manage designers working out of frog’s new studio in India, reviewing their work and setting priorities. frog itself has a...
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Unfiltered by Tim...
You Don't Want to Be Rich, You Want Independence “Autonomy is wealth”
2 months ago
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You Don't Want to Be Rich, You Want Independence

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2 months ago
“Autonomy is wealth”
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The Changelog
A Simple, Delay-Tolerant, Offline-Capable Mesh Network with Syncthing (+ optional NNCP) A little while back, I spent a week in a remote area. It had no Internet and no cell phone coverage....
over a year ago
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A Simple, Delay-Tolerant, Offline-Capable Mesh Network with Syncthing (+ optional NNCP)

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over a year ago
A little while back, I spent a week in a remote area. It had no Internet and no cell phone coverage. Sometimes, I would drive in to town where there was a signal to get messages, upload photos, and so forth. I had to take several devices with me: my phone, my wife’s, maybe a …...
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Notes on software...
Languages you can run in the browser, part 1: Python, JavaScript, SQLite This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
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Languages you can run in the browser, part 1: Python, JavaScript, SQLite

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over a year ago
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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mtlynch.io
What Got Done - Month 1 Highlights I launched my task journaling app, but it hasn’t attracted many users. Interviewing...
over a year ago
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What Got Done - Month 1

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over a year ago
Highlights I launched my task journaling app, but it hasn’t attracted many users. Interviewing potential customers gave me a good idea for my next project. I earned $107 from Is It Keto and $123 from Zestful without working on either. Goal Grades Publish a minimum viable product...
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Noahpinion
Yes, it's OK to be mad about crime in San Francisco Let's not make excuses for Chaos City.
over a year ago
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Yes, it's OK to be mad about crime in San Francisco

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over a year ago
Let's not make excuses for Chaos City.
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Steven Scrawls
Not As Giants Love Not As Giants Love Short story, ~2000 words A week ago, when I asked you if you still loved me, I...
a year ago
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Not As Giants Love

from Steven Scrawls [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
Not As Giants Love Short story, ~2000 words A week ago, when I asked you if you still loved me, I thought the most painful thing you could’ve said was no. I don’t know if you remember, but when you said “Of course I still love you” and asked if I still loved you, I started to...
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Abhishek Chakraborty
The Perks of Being Relentlessly Curious Being relentlessly and randomly curious about everything around us is something that each of us can...
over a year ago
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The Perks of Being Relentlessly Curious

from Abhishek Chakraborty [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
Being relentlessly and randomly curious about everything around us is something that each of us can push ourselves to do, every waking hour, just as Leonardo did.
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Know Ourselves? The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
10 months ago
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How Can We Know Ourselves?

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10 months ago
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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TheCollector
Why Is Goliath Killed Twice in the Bible? David’s slaying of Goliath is one of the Bible’s most well-known stories. But the story’s plot line...
3 weeks ago
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Why Is Goliath Killed Twice in the Bible?

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3 weeks ago
David’s slaying of Goliath is one of the Bible’s most well-known stories. But the story’s plot line in the Hebrew Bible contains three confusing wrinkles. First, the reader is introduced to David twice in the narrative. Second, David meets Saul, the king of Israel, twice in the...
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Fonts In Use – Blog...
WAR IS OVER! (If You Want It) Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: entertainment.ha.com License: All Rights Reserved. Original...
over a year ago
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WAR IS OVER! (If You Want It)

from Fonts In Use – Blog Only [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: entertainment.ha.com License: All Rights Reserved. Original WAR IS OVER! postcard. The War Is Over! campaign for peace was launched 50 years ago this week by Yoko Ono & John Lennon. On December 15, 1969, a series of billboards, leaflets,...
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Ken Shirriff's blog
The transparent chip inside a vintage Hewlett-Packard floppy drive While repairing an eight-inch HP floppy drive, we found that the problem was a broken interface...
a year ago
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The transparent chip inside a vintage Hewlett-Packard floppy drive

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

a year ago
While repairing an eight-inch HP floppy drive, we found that the problem was a broken interface chip. Since the chip was bad, I decapped it and took photos. This chip is very unusual: instead of a silicon substrate, the chip is formed on a base of sapphire, with silicon and metal...
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Musings on Markets
Country Risk: My 2024 Data Update After the 2008 market crisis, I resolved that I would be far more organized in my assessments and...
11 months ago
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Country Risk: My 2024 Data Update

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11 months ago
After the 2008 market crisis, I resolved that I would be far more organized in my assessments and updating of equity risk premiums, in the United States and abroad, as I looked at the damage that can be inflicted on intrinsic value by significant shifts in risk premiums, i.e., my...
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The Marginalian
After Love: Maxine Kumin’s Stunning Poem About Eros as a Portal to Unselfing It is one of the hardest things in life — discerning where we end and the rest of the world begins,...
a year ago
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After Love: Maxine Kumin’s Stunning Poem About Eros as a Portal to Unselfing

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a year ago
It is one of the hardest things in life — discerning where we end and the rest of the world begins, negotiating the permeable boundary between self and other, all the while longing for its dissolution, longing to be set free from the prison of ourselves. That is why we cherish...
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Josh Thompson
Crock Pots are Foolproof, Right? A while back I got together with my good friend Dustin. I had an evening free, wanted to cook, AND...
over a year ago
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Crock Pots are Foolproof, Right?

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

over a year ago
A while back I got together with my good friend Dustin. I had an evening free, wanted to cook, AND hang out with good friends. I wanted to try a really good looking recipe, and watch Django Unchained. The cooking instructions for the recipe was “cook on low for 7-9 hours”. I...
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balajis.com
No Cap Fed-killed banks took $100B+ from BTFP to stay afloat, but who's counting?
over a year ago
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No Cap

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over a year ago
Fed-killed banks took $100B+ from BTFP to stay afloat, but who's counting?
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99% Invisible
Lost Cities of Geo Redux [EPISODE] If we’ve learned anything from watching the turnover of tech giants like Yahoo and Myspace, it’s...
over a year ago
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Lost Cities of Geo Redux [EPISODE]

from 99% Invisible [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
If we’ve learned anything from watching the turnover of tech giants like Yahoo and Myspace, it’s that internet darlings rise and fall — and there’s something darkly fascinating about watching it happen in real time. The Lost Cities of Geo We may now be seeing it all again with...
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Calculated Risk
Thursday: Unemployment Claims, PPI, Q3 Flow of Funds Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. initial weekly...
7 months ago
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Thursday: Unemployment Claims, PPI, Q3 Flow of Funds

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

7 months ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released. The consensus is for 220 thousand initial claims, up from 213 thousand last week. Producer Price Index for November from the BLS. The...
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Mind Prison: Notes...
OpenAI ends the era of reality with Sora Notes From the Desk: No. 26 - 2024.02.15
a year ago
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OpenAI ends the era of reality with Sora

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a year ago
Notes From the Desk: No. 26 - 2024.02.15
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The American Scholar
The Importance of Being Different A travel writer’s education The post The Importance of Being Different appeared first on The...
a year ago
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The Importance of Being Different

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a year ago
A travel writer’s education The post The Importance of Being Different appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Platformer
Google goes to court On the eve of a major antitrust trial — and its 25th birthday — the company is bracing for a fight
a year ago
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Google goes to court

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a year ago
On the eve of a major antitrust trial — and its 25th birthday — the company is bracing for a fight
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Seth's Blog
Find the others: Worldwide Strategy Meetups On October 22, around the world, I’m helping to organize hundreds of in-person get togethers. A...
9 months ago
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Find the others: Worldwide Strategy Meetups

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

9 months ago
On October 22, around the world, I’m helping to organize hundreds of in-person get togethers. A chance to share your work and have a conversation about your strategy with others. Mutual support and peer connection. All the details are on this page. It’s free. A chance to connect...
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Contemporist...
A Home Designed To Walk Up And Around The Green Roof AtelierM has sent us photos of a contemporary home they completed in Capilla del Senor, Argentina,...
9 months ago
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A Home Designed To Walk Up And Around The Green Roof

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

9 months ago
AtelierM has sent us photos of a contemporary home they completed in Capilla del Senor, Argentina, whose design was inspired by geometry and its surroundings.
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Tony Dinh's...
May 2022: $7,839 MRR, travel, experiments, and a new app. Hello everyone, it’s Tony again 👋 These days time flies so fast to me! I’m having so many updates...
over a year ago
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May 2022: $7,839 MRR, travel, experiments, and a new app.

from Tony Dinh's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago
Hello everyone, it’s Tony again 👋 These days time flies so fast to me! I’m having so many updates in May that I want to share with you all. Let’s go! Welcome 128 new subscribers since the last issue! If you are new here, this is a monthly newsletter of my indie hacking journey....
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Articles
Don't swim upstream
over a year ago
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Don't swim upstream

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over a year ago
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Alice GG
Create a presskit in 10 minutes with Milou Talking to the press is an inevitable part of marketing a game or software. To make the journalist’s...
a year ago
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Create a presskit in 10 minutes with Milou

from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Talking to the press is an inevitable part of marketing a game or software. To make the journalist’s job easier, it’s a good idea to put together a press kit. The press kit should contain all the information someone could want to write an article about your product, as well as...
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David Heinemeier...
A writer's Ruby Programmers at large seem eternally skeptical of style. And I’m not just talking about the...
a year ago
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A writer's Ruby

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

a year ago
Programmers at large seem eternally skeptical of style. And I’m not just talking about the stereotype of nerds in uncoordinated outfits or using pocket protectors. But style in the broad sense of aesthetics. Many appear imbued with fundamental opposition to the idea that how...
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High Signal
The IndieHackers podcast has ended - the 10 best episodes The IndieHackers podcast, which celebrated founders who hadn't raised venture capital, has now ended
6 months ago
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The IndieHackers podcast has ended - the 10 best episodes

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6 months ago
The IndieHackers podcast, which celebrated founders who hadn't raised venture capital, has now ended
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Blog of Simple...
Privacy Monthly: December
a year ago
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Privacy Monthly: December

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a year ago
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Londonist
In Pictures: Vintage London Palladium Programmes Robert Opie shares his collection with us.
a year ago
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In Pictures: Vintage London Palladium Programmes

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a year ago
Robert Opie shares his collection with us.
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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

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3 months ago
My body is a machine.
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TheCollector
Why Is There So Much Blood in Mesoamerican Mythology? In the Aztec mythos, Huitzilopotchli sought revenge on his sister Coyolxauhqui for attacking their...
4 months ago
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Why Is There So Much Blood in Mesoamerican Mythology?

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

4 months ago
In the Aztec mythos, Huitzilopotchli sought revenge on his sister Coyolxauhqui for attacking their mother, throwing her head into the sky to become the moon watching over. In the Maya mythos, Buluc-Chabta wore a necklace made of human eyes. Brutality and war were often the way of...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
What we built at our windswept Mykonos hackathon As a fully-remote company with 47 misfits spread across ten countries, our offsites are a vital part...
a year ago
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What we built at our windswept Mykonos hackathon

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

a year ago
As a fully-remote company with 47 misfits spread across ten countries, our offsites are a vital part of our culture. They’re a great way to get to…
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Old Structures...
Colorful and Accurate The map above, from 1884, shows the planned line of the new Croton Aqueduct from the reservoir on...
a year ago
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Colorful and Accurate

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
The map above, from 1884, shows the planned line of the new Croton Aqueduct from the reservoir on the right (to the north) to New York City on the left. The new aqueduct runs on a much straighter line than the old, which required more tunneling, and therefore reflects the more...
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History Today Feed
The Merovingians: ‘Do-Nothing Kings’? The Merovingians: ‘Do-Nothing Kings’? JamesHoare Fri, 04/25/2025 - 09:26
2 months ago
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The Merovingians: ‘Do-Nothing Kings’?

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2 months ago
The Merovingians: ‘Do-Nothing Kings’? JamesHoare Fri, 04/25/2025 - 09:26
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Seth's Blog
When was the last time you used a compass? How about an astrolabe? Or even a watch? Technology advances, and sooner or later, the old stuff...
a year ago
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When was the last time you used a compass?

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

a year ago
How about an astrolabe? Or even a watch? Technology advances, and sooner or later, the old stuff gets left behind. It’s easy to romanticize some of the classic devices that we built civilization on, and it’s worth remembering that the tech we’re wrestling with now will soon be...
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Blog of Simple...
Privacy Monthly: September 2023
a year ago
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Privacy Monthly: September 2023

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a year ago
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Epic Web Dev
Support Responsive Favicons for a Professional Look (tip) Create a responsive favicon that adapts to the user's system preference for light or dark mode.
over a year ago
22

Support Responsive Favicons for a Professional Look (tip)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Create a responsive favicon that adapts to the user's system preference for light or dark mode.
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Scarlet Ink
6 Ways that Good People Build Trust, and Become Leaders That Others Follow What type of leader do you want to be? One core identifying feature of admired leaders is how many...
7 months ago
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6 Ways that Good People Build Trust, and Become Leaders That Others Follow

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

7 months ago
What type of leader do you want to be? One core identifying feature of admired leaders is how many people follow them to their next role. And trust is the core tool to improve that metric.
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Ken Shirriff's blog
Reverse engineering the 59-pound printer onboard the Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle contained a bulky printer so the astronauts could receive procedures, mission...
11 months ago
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Reverse engineering the 59-pound printer onboard the Space Shuttle

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

11 months ago
The Space Shuttle contained a bulky printer so the astronauts could receive procedures, mission plans, weather reports, crew activity plans, and other documents. Needed for the first Shuttle launch in 1981, this printer was designed in just 7 months, built around an Army...
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Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 30 October-5 November 2023 The best articles from Londonist over the past week.
a year ago
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Best Of Londonist: 30 October-5 November 2023

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a year ago
The best articles from Londonist over the past week.
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History Today Feed
Remembering South Vietnam Remembering South Vietnam JamesHoare Wed, 04/30/2025 - 09:14
2 months ago
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Remembering South Vietnam

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2 months ago
Remembering South Vietnam JamesHoare Wed, 04/30/2025 - 09:14
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Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: Idiot Plots Plus! Gavin's podcast, morning routines, and a good chickpea post
3 months ago
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Weekly Scroll: Idiot Plots

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3 months ago
Plus! Gavin's podcast, morning routines, and a good chickpea post
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Left To Write
#4 Writemas: When A Man Loves A Woman Dear Ladies, I wish you could see inside a man’s head when he falls in love with a woman. It’s so...
a year ago
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#4 Writemas: When A Man Loves A Woman

from Left To Write [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
Dear Ladies, I wish you could see inside a man’s head when he falls in love with a woman. It’s so surreal and stunning that you’ve got to experience it to believe it. First, it starts small. He begins to notice things about her appearance. Like the curve of her small nose, the...
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Calculated Risk
New Home Sales Increase to 664,000 Annual Rate in November The Census Bureau reports New Home Sales in November were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate...
6 months ago
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New Home Sales Increase to 664,000 Annual Rate in November

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

6 months ago
The Census Bureau reports New Home Sales in November were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of 664 thousand. Sales of new single-family houses in November 2024 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 664,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the...
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Made by Ollin
Priors for Autonomous Vehicle Development
over a year ago
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Priors for Autonomous Vehicle Development

from Made by Ollin [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
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Raptitude.com
Two Ways to Change Your Momentum This is hardly a brilliant insight, but I’ve noticed that making small, “good” decisions early in...
8 months ago
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Two Ways to Change Your Momentum

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8 months ago
This is hardly a brilliant insight, but I’ve noticed that making small, “good” decisions early in the day makes the whole day work better. If I wake up and avoid screen time and loafing around, I get more and better work done, I make more sensible meal choices, I’m less needy and...
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Noahpinion
Western democracies are actually pretty good at war The authoritarian advantage is hype. But China is the real deal.
3 weeks ago
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Western democracies are actually pretty good at war

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3 weeks ago
The authoritarian advantage is hype. But China is the real deal.
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Joel Gascoigne
How to start your startup in 4 steps * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Having started...
over a year ago
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How to start your startup in 4 steps

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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Having started my latest venture [http://bufferapp.com] just over 5 months ago, and having just reached ramen profitability [http://www.paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html], I want to share some...
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The Berkeley...
Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing: A 100-AV Highway Deployment Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning We deployed 100 reinforcement...
3 months ago
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Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing: A 100-AV Highway Deployment

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3 months ago
Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning We deployed 100 reinforcement learning (RL)-controlled cars into rush-hour highway traffic to smooth congestion and reduce fuel consumption for everyone. Our goal is to tackle "stop-and-go" waves, those...
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Posts on Made of...
todo.pl ratmenu broder has been hacking on some better quicksilver integration for Hiveminder using todo.pl. I don’t...
over a year ago
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todo.pl ratmenu

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over a year ago
broder has been hacking on some better quicksilver integration for Hiveminder using todo.pl. I don’t use a mac, but I don’t see why linux users shouldn’t get fun toys to. So I hacked up the following two-liner that uses todo.pl and ratmenu to pop up a list of tasks, and mark one...
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Old Structures...
Doodling In A Hotel A remarkable sketch by Cass Gilbert from July 1933: From left to right, the Dom Tower in Utrecht...
a year ago
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Doodling In A Hotel

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
A remarkable sketch by Cass Gilbert from July 1933: From left to right, the Dom Tower in Utrecht (fourteenth-century, 368 feet high): St Mark’s Campanile in Venice (ninth century, rebuilt in the early twentieth century after it collapsed, 323 feet high): and Gilbert’s own...
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
8 months ago
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Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic

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8 months ago
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
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The personal website...
Bottom Line Up Front: write to make decisions faster On April 2nd, 2020, Brett Crozier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt’s commanding officer, was relieved of...
over a year ago
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Bottom Line Up Front: write to make decisions faster

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
On April 2nd, 2020, Brett Crozier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt’s commanding officer, was relieved of command. The Navy’s decision to remove Crozier stemmed from a message that the commander wrote to his superiors. The message concerned a developing emergency aboard the Roosevelt:...
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Seth's Blog
The early adopter (and the dilettante) The early adopter bought an iPhone in 2008 and never looked back. They played a few games of...
a year ago
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The early adopter (and the dilettante)

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a year ago
The early adopter bought an iPhone in 2008 and never looked back. They played a few games of pickleball and then joined a club and bought the equipment. They picked up a new magazine on the newsstand and then subscribed, and they bought the new bestseller and then read the...
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Calculated Risk
Fed Chair Powell: "Tariff increases will be significantly larger than expected"', Expect "higher... From Fed Chair Jerome Powell: Economic Outlook. Excerpt: Turning to monetary policy, we face a...
3 months ago
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Fed Chair Powell: "Tariff increases will be significantly larger than expected"', Expect "higher inflation and slower growth"

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3 months ago
From Fed Chair Jerome Powell: Economic Outlook. Excerpt: Turning to monetary policy, we face a highly uncertain outlook with elevated risks of both higher unemployment and higher inflation. The new Administration is in the process of implementing substantial policy changes in...
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Tony Finch's blog
random numbers from pcg32 at 200 Gbit/s One of the neat things about the PCG random number generator by Melissa O’Neill is its use of...
4 months ago
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random numbers from pcg32 at 200 Gbit/s

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4 months ago
One of the neat things about the PCG random number generator by Melissa O’Neill is its use of instruction-level parallelism: the PCG state update can run in parallel with its output permutation. However, PCG only has a limited amount of ILP, about 3 instructions. Its overall...
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Willem's Blog
Designing an interface for a food ordering page Designing a food ordering page is surprisingly challenging because of the many variables that need...
over a year ago
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Designing an interface for a food ordering page

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Designing a food ordering page is surprisingly challenging because of the many variables that need to be accommodated on a very small screen.
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Louwrentius
71 TiB DIY NAS based on ZFS on Linux This is my new 71 TiB DIY NAS. This server is the successor to my six year old, twenty drive 18 TB...
over a year ago
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71 TiB DIY NAS based on ZFS on Linux

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
This is my new 71 TiB DIY NAS. This server is the successor to my six year old, twenty drive 18 TB NAS (17 TiB). With a storage capacity four times higher than the original and an incredible read (2.5 GB/s)/write (1.9 GB/s) performance, it's a worthy successor. Purpose The...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Social Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The funniest thing is that all the humans are dead...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Social

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The funniest thing is that all the humans are dead and all the talking things at the end are confused robots! Today's News: We're a best book of the year!
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Steve Klabnik
Moving from Sinatra to Rails
over a year ago
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Moving from Sinatra to Rails

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over a year ago
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diamond geezer
post-Stockport housekeeping 10 items of post-Stockport housekeeping 100 largest towns and cities by population. At the start of...
3 months ago
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post-Stockport housekeeping

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

3 months ago
10 items of post-Stockport housekeeping 100 largest towns and cities by population. At the start of the year I had 13 to go but since then I've ticked off Sunderland (32nd), Hartlepool (84th) and Stockport (60th). Of the ten that remain the largest is now Huddersfield (33rd),...
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The American Scholar
Tiger Mom At a forest preserve in India, a writer sees the world anew and learns how to focus her son’s...
4 months ago
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Tiger Mom

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4 months ago
At a forest preserve in India, a writer sees the world anew and learns how to focus her son’s restless mind The post Tiger Mom appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Calculated Risk
Thursday: Unemployment Claims Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. initial weekly...
2 months ago
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Thursday: Unemployment Claims

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2 months ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released. The consensus is for initial claims of 223 thousand, down from 241 thousand last week.
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Let This Be a Moment A moment when you discover that legacy media is not in your best interest, being fueled by...
6 months ago
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✏️ Let This Be a Moment

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

6 months ago
A moment when you discover that legacy media is not in your best interest, being fueled by advertising and bureaucratic bullshit. If you've worked anywhere, you should understand that no organization is immune to this. A moment when you might consider stepping out of your shoes...
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Old Structures...
Specialization From 2018, a photo by Carol Highsmith taken from the Empire State Building and showing the variety...
a year ago
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Specialization

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a year ago
From 2018, a photo by Carol Highsmith taken from the Empire State Building and showing the variety of buildings on the east side of midtown south. I think most people will agree that this is a very New Yorky view of New York. The discussion at the “Office To Residential Summit”...
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blag
Accepted to the Recurse Center! I got accepted into Recurse Center, wooo!
over a year ago
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Accepted to the Recurse Center!

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over a year ago
I got accepted into Recurse Center, wooo!
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TheCollector
5 Crimes Henry Kissinger Committed in Latin America Henry Kissinger was a consequential American diplomat who served as U.S. National Security Advisor...
3 months ago
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5 Crimes Henry Kissinger Committed in Latin America

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
Henry Kissinger was a consequential American diplomat who served as U.S. National Security Advisor and Secretary of State, helping shape American foreign policy for much of the 1970s. In the broader context of the Cold War, Kissinger led American diplomacy with pragmatism and...
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Abort Retry Fail
The History of Windows 3 Windows becomes competitive
a year ago
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The History of Windows 3

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a year ago
Windows becomes competitive
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escape the algorithm
The New Turing Test Changing the AI conversation
a year ago
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The New Turing Test

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a year ago
Changing the AI conversation
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Josh Thompson
2020 Annual Review please note: i’m publishing this far after it was drafted, which was in January 2021. It’s being...
over a year ago
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2020 Annual Review

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

over a year ago
please note: i’m publishing this far after it was drafted, which was in January 2021. It’s being published in June 2022 - I’m trying to back-fill ‘annual reviews’, I never finished this one or published it, until now. Is it even possible to mention a 2020 review without somehow...
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devonzuegel.com
Tutorial: Telegram → Logseq quick notes I've long wanted a notes app with an optional chat style interface for append-only notes. The idea...
over a year ago
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Tutorial: Telegram → Logseq quick notes

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

over a year ago
I've long wanted a notes app with an optional chat style interface for append-only notes. The idea is that I'll use the simpler append-only interface while on the go, and then use full-featured interface to review, edit, and organize those notes when I'm back at my computer. I...
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Spoon & Tamago
The Yakitorill is our Kitchen Appliance of 2025 Yakitori lovers take note. Grilling yakitori at home just got a lot easier thanks to the new...
6 months ago
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The Yakitorill is our Kitchen Appliance of 2025

from Spoon & Tamago [alt+shift+b] in travel

6 months ago
Yakitori lovers take note. Grilling yakitori at home just got a lot easier thanks to the new Yakitorill: a combination of the words yakitori and grill. This beautiful kitchen appliance, developed by Fukuoka-based firm Guardner, promises less smoke and an overall cleaner...
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Both Are True
always drop a poop joke around other moms at the playground and other lessons in authentic weirness from New Yorker cartoonist Erika Sjule
3 weeks ago
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always drop a poop joke around other moms at the playground

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3 weeks ago
and other lessons in authentic weirness from New Yorker cartoonist Erika Sjule
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Chris Nicholas
Quick UI: Rotating text mask I came across an appealing text effect on the Adobe XD home page, and thought I'd recreate it here,...
over a year ago
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Quick UI: Rotating text mask

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over a year ago
I came across an appealing text effect on the Adobe XD home page, and thought I'd recreate it here, and give it a quick colourful retouch.
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Diaries of Note
Sunlight can only be pictured with shadows Born in 1886 in Covington, Kentucky, James Webb Young was no stranger to the persuasive power of...
a year ago
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Sunlight can only be pictured with shadows

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a year ago
Born in 1886 in Covington, Kentucky, James Webb Young was no stranger to the persuasive power of words, rising through the ranks to become an influential figure at J. Walter Thompson, one of the world’s leading advertising agencies. Known for his keen insights into human...
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Quanta Magazine
The Usefulness of a Memory Guides Where the Brain Saves It New research finds that the memories useful for future generalizations are held in the brain...
a year ago
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The Usefulness of a Memory Guides Where the Brain Saves It

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

a year ago
New research finds that the memories useful for future generalizations are held in the brain separately from those recording unusual events. The post The Usefulness of a Memory Guides Where the Brain Saves It first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Londonist
East London Could Be Getting This Flashy New Lido What a beaut.
a year ago
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East London Could Be Getting This Flashy New Lido

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a year ago
What a beaut.
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Astral Codex Ten
The Early Christian Strategy ...
7 months ago
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The Early Christian Strategy

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7 months ago
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Words and Buttons...
Partial order and non-Boolean logic Non-Boolean logics are rare but not extinct. Interval logic is one example. Sometimes, you can...
over a year ago
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Partial order and non-Boolean logic

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

over a year ago
Non-Boolean logics are rare but not extinct. Interval logic is one example. Sometimes, you can implement a logic you want within total order or partial order but sometimes even that isn't enough and you need an even more general relation. With operator overloading, you have the...
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Construction Physics
Can We Afford Large-scale Solar PV? In the US solar energy has steadily risen in how much of our electricity it supplies.
a month ago
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Can We Afford Large-scale Solar PV?

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a month ago
In the US solar energy has steadily risen in how much of our electricity it supplies.
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Seth's Blog
The NSE confusions “Nobody wants this” is unlikely. “Somebody will like this” is almost certainly true. “Everyone needs...
3 months ago
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The NSE confusions

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3 months ago
“Nobody wants this” is unlikely. “Somebody will like this” is almost certainly true. “Everyone needs this” is a trap. The work begins with finding the right somebodies, while ignoring the imaginary everyone. Scale is rarely the first signal of important work.
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Eric Bailey
Thoughts on embedding alternative text metadata into images Another trend I see from time to time on social media is the idea that images should have...
a year ago
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Thoughts on embedding alternative text metadata into images

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Another trend I see from time to time on social media is the idea that images should have alternative (alt) text descriptions included in their metadata. Like a lot of things accessibility-related, the idea contains nuance that needs unpacking. At a high level, storing alt text...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
A Glance through Docusaurus, Docz, and React-Static a survey of new documentation/static site generators
over a year ago
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A Glance through Docusaurus, Docz, and React-Static

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over a year ago
a survey of new documentation/static site generators
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Don't Worry About...
o3 Is a Lying Liar I love o3.
2 months ago
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o3 Is a Lying Liar

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2 months ago
I love o3.
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Seth's Blog
Fooling ourselves It’s tempting to believe that we’re not easy to fool. Not by a magician, a politician or a banker....
a year ago
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Fooling ourselves

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a year ago
It’s tempting to believe that we’re not easy to fool. Not by a magician, a politician or a banker. Other folks might be easily duped by a spammer or a hustler, but not us. And yet, no one fools you more than you. When you look in the mirror, do you see what others see, […]
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Open Culture
Learn Data Analytics & AI with Google, and Fast-Track Your Career ?si=azZbGLEr_9EFWypL We’re living in the age of data and artificial intelligence (AI). Every second,...
8 months ago
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Learn Data Analytics & AI with Google, and Fast-Track Your Career

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8 months ago
?si=azZbGLEr_9EFWypL We’re living in the age of data and artificial intelligence (AI). Every second, vast amounts of data are being generated, processed, and analyzed. And increasingly AI plays a central role in how that data gets managed. For companies, governments, and...
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Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Rituals Ritual, a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, actions, or revered objects. When you...
10 months ago
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Rituals

from Carl Barenbrug RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

10 months ago
Ritual, a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, actions, or revered objects. When you hear this word, where does your mind take you? For me, I find myself asking, what's the difference between a ritual and routine? Turns out that, in essence, routines are practical,...
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Seth's Blog
The ledge Drowning is devastating, a tragic and painful way to go. So much so that feeling like we’re drowning...
9 months ago
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The ledge

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9 months ago
Drowning is devastating, a tragic and painful way to go. So much so that feeling like we’re drowning is a trigger, an overwhelming emotion that causes us to grasp, struggle and leave our best self behind. It’s easy to experience this even when we’re out of the water. When the...
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DYNOMIGHT
Nursing doubts: Is breastfeeding good? If you ask the internet if breastfeeding is good, you will soon learn that YOU MUST BREASTFEED...
10 months ago
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Nursing doubts: Is breastfeeding good?

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10 months ago
If you ask the internet if breastfeeding is good, you will soon learn that YOU MUST BREASTFEED because BREAST MILK = OPTIMAL FOOD FOR BABY. But if you look for evidence, you’ll discover two disturbing facts. First, there’s no consensus about why breastfeeding is good. I’ve seen...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Equity value Warren Buffet once said: Buy into a business that’s doing so well an idiot could run it, because...
over a year ago
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Equity value

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

over a year ago
Warren Buffet once said: Buy into a business that’s doing so well an idiot could run it, because sooner or later, one will. This is a useful…
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Rest of World -...
Popular Chinese AI chatbots accused of unwanted sexual advances, misogyny Glow, known for its immersive role-play experience, lacks clear moderation rules.
over a year ago
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Popular Chinese AI chatbots accused of unwanted sexual advances, misogyny

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over a year ago
Glow, known for its immersive role-play experience, lacks clear moderation rules.
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Posts on Made of...
Reader/reader blocking in reader/writer locks Abstract In writer-priority reader/writer locks, as soon as a single writer enters the acquisition...
over a year ago
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Reader/reader blocking in reader/writer locks

from Posts on Made of Bugs [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Abstract In writer-priority reader/writer locks, as soon as a single writer enters the acquisition queue, all future accesses block behind any in-flight reads. Thus, if any readers hold the lock for extended periods of time, this can lead to extreme pauses and loss of throughput...
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TheCollector
10 Highlights of Fondation Louis Vuitton Collection Fondation Louis Vuitton is a privately owned cultural institution that opened its doors to the...
a month ago
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10 Highlights of Fondation Louis Vuitton Collection

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a month ago
Fondation Louis Vuitton is a privately owned cultural institution that opened its doors to the public in 2014. It houses vast collections of modern and contemporary art belonging to the luxury goods conglomerate LVMH and its founder, Bernard Arnault. The Fondation Louis Vuitton...
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essay – snarfed.org
New job, hello climate tech I have a new job! I’m doing climate tech at NCX (née SilviaTerra), using satellite imagery to...
over a year ago
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New job, hello climate tech

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

over a year ago
I have a new job! I’m doing climate tech at NCX (née SilviaTerra), using satellite imagery to prevent deforestation and sequester more carbon in trees. A few years ago, I looked around for a side project on the climate crisis. Nothing big, maybe 5-10 hours a week, but I was ready...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Insta Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Please don't email - I am already filled with...
over a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Insta

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over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Please don't email - I am already filled with regret about the votey. Today's News:
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Josh Thompson
2018 In Review & Thoughts on 2019 I find a lot of value in other people’s reviews of their years. It’s the time of year to be...
over a year ago
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2018 In Review & Thoughts on 2019

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over a year ago
I find a lot of value in other people’s reviews of their years. It’s the time of year to be contemplative and reflective on the last 12 months, so here we are. Note to reader: I’m posting this in May, 2019. I wrote it in late December, 2018, didn’t get around to finishing it up...
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The Elysian
US states should have autonomy—like EU countries All we need to change is taxation.
3 months ago
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US states should have autonomy—like EU countries

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3 months ago
All we need to change is taxation.
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escape the algorithm
Befriending neighbors and beneighboring friends The Casement Window Theory of community building
11 months ago
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Befriending neighbors and beneighboring friends

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11 months ago
The Casement Window Theory of community building
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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
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Things worth spending on

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8 months ago
Worthwhile investments, in my experience, and occasional treats that make my day more delightful.
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Patrick Kayongo
The vastness of the ocean The vastness of the oceancan't fit in my phone.The sand through my feetthe smell of the airthe howl...
a year ago
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The vastness of the ocean

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a year ago
The vastness of the oceancan't fit in my phone.The sand through my feetthe smell of the airthe howl of the breezehas nowhere to go. The pages of a bookcan’t fit in my phone.The texture of the pagesthe scent of the pressthe uncontested immersionhas nowhere to go. The tapestry of...
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sbensu
Creative kernels Artists can often trace entire pieces around one idea that drives everything else.
a year ago
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Creative kernels

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a year ago
Artists can often trace entire pieces around one idea that drives everything else.
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Noahpinion
Understanding America's New Right Fighting for Western Civilization in someone else's back yard
3 months ago
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Understanding America's New Right

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3 months ago
Fighting for Western Civilization in someone else's back yard
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Rozado’s Visual...
Is the Great Awokening Really Winding Down? Part I: Some Multifaceted Evidence from Twitter Content There has been some discussion lately by Eric Kaufmann, Tyler Cowen, Balaji Srinivasan, Paul Graham...
over a year ago
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Is the Great Awokening Really Winding Down? Part I: Some Multifaceted Evidence from Twitter Content

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over a year ago
There has been some discussion lately by Eric Kaufmann, Tyler Cowen, Balaji Srinivasan, Paul Graham and Musa Al Gharbi as to whether The Great Awokening is winding down. I’m going to write a series of blog entries about this topic to contribute to the discussion. In order to do...
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Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: A Time To Kill Globe Emojis Gone Viral and Le Poisson Steve
2 months ago
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Weekly Scroll: A Time To Kill

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2 months ago
Globe Emojis Gone Viral and Le Poisson Steve
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Cremieux Recueil
Just Pay Them Off The International Longshoremen's Association is protecting people whose jobs are no longer...
9 months ago
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Just Pay Them Off

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9 months ago
The International Longshoremen's Association is protecting people whose jobs are no longer necessary. Stop fighting and just pay them so they go away.
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General Robots
What's With All the Humanoid Robots? If you follow robotics at all you may have noticed that there has been an explosion of humanoid...
a year ago
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What's With All the Humanoid Robots?

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a year ago
If you follow robotics at all you may have noticed that there has been an explosion of humanoid robot startups. What's with that? Why humanoids? Why now?
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fast.ai
nbdev+Quarto: A new secret weapon for productivity Our favorite tool for software engineering productivity–nbdev, now re-written with Quarto
over a year ago
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nbdev+Quarto: A new secret weapon for productivity

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over a year ago
Our favorite tool for software engineering productivity–nbdev, now re-written with Quarto
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The Ruffian
The Historian and the Culture Warrior Plus: Thoughts on Responses To the Kaba Verdict
8 months ago
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The Historian and the Culture Warrior

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8 months ago
Plus: Thoughts on Responses To the Kaba Verdict
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Idle Words
Effective Political Giving With less than two months left before the election, this is an explainer for the politically...
over a year ago
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Effective Political Giving

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over a year ago
With less than two months left before the election, this is an explainer for the politically panicked. You're anxious, you feel the need to do something, and you have a little money to spare. Who should you give it to? My goal here is not to sell you on specific candidates...
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Calculated Risk
CPI Preview The Consumer Price Index for February is scheduled to be released tomorrow. The consensus is for a...
4 months ago
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CPI Preview

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4 months ago
The Consumer Price Index for February is scheduled to be released tomorrow. The consensus is for a 0.3% increase in CPI, and a 0.3% increase in core CPI.  The consensus is for CPI to be up 2.9% year-over-year (YoY), and core CPI to be up 3.2% YoY. We forecast a 0.29% increase...
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Open Culture
Watch the Very First YouTube Video, “Me at the Zoo,” Now 20 Years Old Given the dominance YouTube has achieved over large swathes of world culture, we’d all expect to...
2 weeks ago
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Watch the Very First YouTube Video, “Me at the Zoo,” Now 20 Years Old

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2 weeks ago
Given the dominance YouTube has achieved over large swathes of world culture, we’d all expect to remember the first video we watched there. Yet many or most of us don’t: rather, we simply realized, one day in the mid-to-late two-thousands, that we’d developed a daily YouTube...
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Old Structures...
On The Spectrum Between Solid and Hole For study, two photos of the elevated structure supporting the 2 and 5 trains in the Bronx. This...
a year ago
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On The Spectrum Between Solid and Hole

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
For study, two photos of the elevated structure supporting the 2 and 5 trains in the Bronx. This piece of the subway system has a slightly odd history. The portion south of and up to 180th Street, at the south end of Bronx Park, was planned as part of the original IRT subway, but...
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Ryan Mulligan
Penguin! My partner and I finally finished our epic three-part claymation saga. It's our first attempt at...
a year ago
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Penguin!

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a year ago
My partner and I finally finished our epic three-part claymation saga. It's our first attempt at creating stop-motion videos with clay and it truly is a lot of work for such a short result. That claymation episode of Parks and Recreation is a little too real. I won't compare our...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
10,000 Loose Fans I broke past 10,000 Twitter followers on Saturday. Obviously this is a completely arbitrary...
over a year ago
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10,000 Loose Fans

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over a year ago
I broke past 10,000 Twitter followers on Saturday. Obviously this is a completely arbitrary milestone and pretty minor in the hierarchy of needs. I'm not celebrating.
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Ryan Hoover's...
How to come up with side project ideas
over a year ago
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How to come up with side project ideas

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over a year ago
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Post Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I feel like more comics need to use the word...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Post

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I feel like more comics need to use the word salience. Today's News:
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ We're not in Kansas anymore Day 20: Sept 29, 2023 — Alyssa and Craig take us to Post Coffee for a farewell coffee and tea. I...
a year ago
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✏️ We're not in Kansas anymore

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a year ago
Day 20: Sept 29, 2023 — Alyssa and Craig take us to Post Coffee for a farewell coffee and tea. I try to pay, but Craig literally holds me in place while Alyssa sneaks in with a credit card. We linger in the sun over drinks, and like most departures, say goodbye with the hopes...
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David Crawshaw
2016-01-02 "The Refragmentation" "Nations and Nationalism Since 1780"
over a year ago
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2016-01-02

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over a year ago
"The Refragmentation" "Nations and Nationalism Since 1780"
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Willem's Blog
Supernova E3 Pro 2 dynamo powered headlight
over a year ago
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Supernova E3 Pro 2 dynamo powered headlight

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over a year ago
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TheCollector
What Is the History of Arizona’s London Bridge? Many have heard the rhyme “London Bridge is Falling Down,” and many know that the current London...
4 months ago
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What Is the History of Arizona’s London Bridge?

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4 months ago
Many have heard the rhyme “London Bridge is Falling Down,” and many know that the current London Bridge was not the original. However, did you know that a bridge that used to be in London actually took a trip overseas, and now resides on a completely different body of water?  ...
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African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903. The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
8 months ago
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An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.

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8 months ago
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
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Seth's Blog
Taken for granted A poignant definition of civilization is all the conveniences, courtesies, standards, insulation and...
9 months ago
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Taken for granted

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9 months ago
A poignant definition of civilization is all the conveniences, courtesies, standards, insulation and tools that we hardly notice now but that we would miss if they were gone.
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Seth's Blog
Productivity, AI and pushback Typesetters did not like the laser printer. Wedding photographers still hate the iphone. And some...
a week ago
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Productivity, AI and pushback

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a week ago
Typesetters did not like the laser printer. Wedding photographers still hate the iphone. And some musicians are outraged that AI is now making mediocre pop music. One group of esteemed authors is demanding that book publishers refuse to use AI in designing book covers, recording...
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IEEE Spectrum
The Marimba Virtuoso’s Desktop Planetarium The United States was at the time approaching “peak space.” The previous year, cosmonaut Yuri...
a year ago
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The Marimba Virtuoso’s Desktop Planetarium

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a year ago
The United States was at the time approaching “peak space.” The previous year, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin had become the first human to reach outer space, and on 12 September 1962 President Kennedy would announce the United States’ intention to put a man on the moon before the...
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The Universe of...
Leopards, faces, etc. I expect we in the United States are about to see a wave of domestic terrorism unprecendented since...
7 months ago
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Leopards, faces, etc.

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7 months ago
I expect we in the United States are about to see a wave of domestic terrorism unprecendented since the 1870s. In the wake of the Civil War, white Southerners used systematic terrorism to continue white supremacy. If a black person became too prosperous, masked thugs would come...
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The American Scholar
“Guests” by Celia Thaxter  Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Guests” by Celia Thaxter  appeared first on The American...
6 months ago
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“Guests” by Celia Thaxter 

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6 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Guests” by Celia Thaxter  appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Atoms vs Bits
Incumbency Advantage What if good candidates just win against bad ones?
10 months ago
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Incumbency Advantage

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10 months ago
What if good candidates just win against bad ones?
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Atoms vs Bits
My Personal Electoral College Total Would the states you've visited be enough to win the electoral college? Find out....
a year ago
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My Personal Electoral College Total

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a year ago
Would the states you've visited be enough to win the electoral college? Find out....
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Himanshu Mishra |...
You need a Product Mindset Treat Your Developers Like VIP Customers Your developers are not just users; they're customers who...
a year ago
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You need a Product Mindset

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a year ago
Treat Your Developers Like VIP Customers Your developers are not just users; they're customers who have high expectations from your internal…
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Both Are True
BATCAVE LIVE #002 RECAP (PROFOUND) the minutes, the hours, the days, the little pleasures, the agenda jokes, the realization that we...
a month ago
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BATCAVE LIVE #002 RECAP (PROFOUND)

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a month ago
the minutes, the hours, the days, the little pleasures, the agenda jokes, the realization that we are swarm + GLENNON DOYLE WATCH
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Maps Mania
Mapping Your Future Climate Risks
a month ago
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Mapping Your Future Climate Risks

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a month ago
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Himanshu Mishra |...
मसान (Masaan) …
over a year ago
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मसान (Masaan)

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over a year ago
…
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
The IKEA Defense of Flat Earthers Flat Earthers are perhaps the only group of people that it is still socially acceptable to...
over a year ago
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The IKEA Defense of Flat Earthers

from Adrian Hanft, III: RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
Flat Earthers are perhaps the only group of people that it is still socially acceptable to discriminate against. We just can’t bring ourselves to tolerate people who believe the world is flat. And yet the fundamental ideas powering a flat Earth believer is an approach that most...
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
Svelte stores: the curious parts We've already learnt a lot about svelte's reactivity system — the primary way to work with state in...
over a year ago
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Svelte stores: the curious parts

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

over a year ago
We've already learnt a lot about svelte's reactivity system — the primary way to work with state in svelte components. But not all state belongs in components — sometimes we want app-global state (think state manager), sometimes we just want to reuse logic between components....
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Mazdak
The Dangers of AI "Answers" From fake presidential pardons to AI-generated movie reviews, artificial intelligence is blurring...
7 months ago
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The Dangers of AI "Answers"

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7 months ago
From fake presidential pardons to AI-generated movie reviews, artificial intelligence is blurring the lines between fact and fiction.
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Abstruse Goose
the glorious new master race
over a year ago
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the glorious new master race

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over a year ago
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Tinker, Tamper,...
On The End of Bitcoin [This is a repost of a thread of mine from a dead social media platform. The original posting date...
over a year ago
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On The End of Bitcoin

from Tinker, Tamper, Alter, Fry [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
[This is a repost of a thread of mine from a dead social media platform. The original posting date was May 24th, 2022. I have not added new content.]Is there some scientific literature/scenario planning on the End of Bitcoin? With the next two halvings mining income will shift...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Implementing nested context menu in Svelte 5 I was working on Edna, my open source note taking application that is a cross between Obsidian and...
3 weeks ago
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Implementing nested context menu in Svelte 5

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

3 weeks ago
I was working on Edna, my open source note taking application that is a cross between Obsidian and Notational Velocity. It’s written in Svelte 5. While it runs in the browser, it’s more like a desktop app than a web page. A useful UI element for desktop-like apps is a nested...
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Mazdak
Big Tech Layoffs, Musk Acquiring TikTok, ChatGPT's New Features, ... Meta is executing a strategic 5% workforce reduction, but this isn't your typical layoff.
5 months ago
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Big Tech Layoffs, Musk Acquiring TikTok, ChatGPT's New Features, ...

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5 months ago
Meta is executing a strategic 5% workforce reduction, but this isn't your typical layoff.
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Uncharted...
The Most Important Time in History Is Now AGI Is Coming Sooner Due to o3, DeepSeek, and Other Cutting-Edge AI Developments
5 months ago
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The Most Important Time in History Is Now

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5 months ago
AGI Is Coming Sooner Due to o3, DeepSeek, and Other Cutting-Edge AI Developments
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Jonas Hietala
Writing lessons learned after writing a book A good writer isn’t born; a good writer is created It may sound dumb, but one of my reasons for...
a year ago
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Writing lessons learned after writing a book

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a year ago
A good writer isn’t born; a good writer is created It may sound dumb, but one of my reasons for writing a book was to improve my writing ability. Maybe I could’ve practiced on the blog instead, but putting things on paper gave it some added weight I don’t think I would’ve gotten...
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Arduino Blog
GLEWBOT scales buildings like a gecko to inspect wall tiles A great deal of building maintenance expenses are the result of simple inaccessibility. Cleaning the...
a year ago
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GLEWBOT scales buildings like a gecko to inspect wall tiles

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a year ago
A great deal of building maintenance expenses are the result of simple inaccessibility. Cleaning the windows are your house is a trivial chore, but cleaning the windows on a skyscraper is serious undertaking that needs specialized equipment and training. To make exterior wall...
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African History...
Roads and wheeled transport in African history. Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
a year ago
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Roads and wheeled transport in African history.

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a year ago
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
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African History...
The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE) Journal of African cities: chapter 15
9 months ago
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The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)

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9 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
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The Works in...
The discovery of copper New ways to find and extract copper from the earth.
2 months ago
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The discovery of copper

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2 months ago
New ways to find and extract copper from the earth.
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Seth's Blog
Two kinds of creative feedback If you’re the client or the boss, it’s possible that someone is going to create creative work for...
4 months ago
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Two kinds of creative feedback

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4 months ago
If you’re the client or the boss, it’s possible that someone is going to create creative work for you. Sooner or later, you’ll get something that doesn’t work. You might want to explain why it’s not good enough. Perhaps you can demonstrate how it doesn’t fit the genre or meet...
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Ognjen Regoje •...
Why are you here, manager? In The Innovator’s Dilemma Christensen talks about how when acquiring a company you might either be...
2 months ago
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Why are you here, manager?

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2 months ago
In The Innovator’s Dilemma Christensen talks about how when acquiring a company you might either be acquiring its product or its processes. Depending on which it is, you need to handle the integration differently. I’ve realized that hiring a new manager follows a similar pattern:...
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Matt Mazur
When LTD Purchasers Meet an Inactive User Policy Last year I participated in a Lifetime Deal (LTD) promotion to offer Preceden to the AppSumo...
a year ago
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When LTD Purchasers Meet an Inactive User Policy

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a year ago
Last year I participated in a Lifetime Deal (LTD) promotion to offer Preceden to the AppSumo community. Maybe I’ll dive into my experience there in another post, but I wanted to share an interesting thing that’s happening now, a year after the deal ended. AppSumo has a policy...
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Arduino Blog
This perplexing robotic performer operates under the control of three different Arduino boards Every decade or two, humanity seems to develop a renewed interest in humanoid robots and their...
9 months ago
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This perplexing robotic performer operates under the control of three different Arduino boards

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9 months ago
Every decade or two, humanity seems to develop a renewed interest in humanoid robots and their potential within our world. Because the practical applications are actually pretty limited (given the high cost), we inevitably begin to consider how those robots might function as...
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Luxagraf:...
Baseball Diamonds We would never have come this way if weren't for the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York....
a year ago
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Baseball Diamonds

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a year ago
We would never have come this way if weren't for the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Not that I wanted to go there that badly, but when we took the kids to a baseball game back in Florida the Baseball Hall of Fame somehow came up and I remember Elliott saying "can...
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Hixie's Natural Log
Assertions We're pretty aggressive about assertions in the Flutter framework. There's several reasons for...
a year ago
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Assertions

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a year ago
We're pretty aggressive about assertions in the Flutter framework. There's several reasons for this. The original reason was that when I wrote a bunch of this code, I had nowhere for it to run. I literally wrote the first few thousand(?) lines of framework code before we...
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The Diff
Who Else But Google? Plus! Tariff Plays; Good Trades; Capital Structure; Moderation; Debt and the Dollar
2 months ago
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Who Else But Google?

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2 months ago
Plus! Tariff Plays; Good Trades; Capital Structure; Moderation; Debt and the Dollar
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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

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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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Out-of-Pocket Blog
23andMe, a healthcare fund idea, and the NHS | Out-Of-Pocket Some random musings coming from London
8 months ago
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23andMe, a healthcare fund idea, and the NHS | Out-Of-Pocket

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8 months ago
Some random musings coming from London
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Infinite Scroll
Podcast - The Culture War and MAGA ft. Cartoons Hate Her How did weird online battles over gender lead to the tariff policies we're seeing today?
2 months ago
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Podcast - The Culture War and MAGA ft. Cartoons Hate Her

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2 months ago
How did weird online battles over gender lead to the tariff policies we're seeing today?
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Cheese and Biscuits
Lita, Marylebone The food at Lita is very nice. I'm saying that up front because I worry that the list of things I...
5 months ago
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Lita, Marylebone

from Cheese and Biscuits [alt+shift+b] in travel

5 months ago
The food at Lita is very nice. I'm saying that up front because I worry that the list of things I didn't like about the place threatens to overwhelm the main message which should be that, despite everything, the food is very nice. And maybe if you went to Lita yourself, and you...
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Yale E360
Facing High Tariffs in U.S., Chinese Solar Flows to Poorer Countries Facing high tariffs in the U.S. and Europe, Chinese solar and battery companies have been selling a...
2 months ago
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Facing High Tariffs in U.S., Chinese Solar Flows to Poorer Countries

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2 months ago
Facing high tariffs in the U.S. and Europe, Chinese solar and battery companies have been selling a growing share of their products to poorer countries, a new analysis finds. Read more on E360 →
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Provider Directories, Physician data, and Ribbon Health | Out-Of-Pocket why can't I find any important info about my doctor lol
a year ago
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Provider Directories, Physician data, and Ribbon Health | Out-Of-Pocket

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a year ago
why can't I find any important info about my doctor lol
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Res Obscura
Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
a year ago
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Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis

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a year ago
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
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xkcd.com
Trojan Horse
a month ago
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Trojan Horse

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NeuroLogica Blog
Bill Gates Backs Nuclear No one ever said that nuclear power is simple or easy. It’s a tricky and expensive technology. But...
a year ago
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Bill Gates Backs Nuclear

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a year ago
No one ever said that nuclear power is simple or easy. It’s a tricky and expensive technology. But it also has tremendous potential to create large amounts of reliable green low carbon energy, and many believe that we cannot ignore this potential if we are going to tackle climate...
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./techtipsy
I held a talk about my self-hosting adventure! There are two reasons why I haven’t written much lately, and one of them is that I was cooking up...
over a year ago
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I held a talk about my self-hosting adventure!

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over a year ago
There are two reasons why I haven’t written much lately, and one of them is that I was cooking up a talk about self-hosting, more specifically my own self-hosting adventure (the other one is the Steam Deck, more about that in the future). The talk took place on May 25th 2023 at...
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diamond geezer
TfL FoI requests in February 2025 20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in February 2025 1) The oldest bus in service in London...
4 months ago
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TfL FoI requests in February 2025

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4 months ago
20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in February 2025 1) The oldest bus in service in London is the Uno 605, a vehicle introduced in 2007 and currently in use on route 383. However, this vehicle is due to be withdrawn from the fleet shortly. 2) On average TfL's income from...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes From “You Are Not A Gadget” Jaron Lanier’s book You Are Not a Gadget was written in 2010, but its preface is a prescient banger...
a year ago
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Notes From “You Are Not A Gadget”

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

a year ago
Jaron Lanier’s book You Are Not a Gadget was written in 2010, but its preface is a prescient banger for 2024, the year of our AI overlord: It's early in the 21st century, and that means that these words will mostly be read by nonpersons...[they] will be minced...within industrial...
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Many Worlds
All Six Element Needed For Life as We Know It Have Now Been Found in The Watery Plumes of Enceladus The elements needed for life as we know it are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen sulfur and...
over a year ago
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All Six Element Needed For Life as We Know It Have Now Been Found in The Watery Plumes of Enceladus

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over a year ago
The elements needed for life as we know it are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen sulfur and phosphorus. Before today, planetary scientists could say that five of those crucial elements had been found in the watery spray that spurts out of the Saturn’s moon, Enceladus.  All that...
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 Bop Spotter I installed a box high up on a pole somewhere in the Mission of San Francisco. Inside is a crappy...
8 months ago
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🔗 Bop Spotter

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

8 months ago
I installed a box high up on a pole somewhere in the Mission of San Francisco. Inside is a crappy Android phone, set to Shazam constantly, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It's solar powered, and the mic is pointed down at the street below. Visit original link → or View on...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“Just” One Line From Jeremy Keith’s piece “Responsibility”: Dropping in one line of JavaScript seems like a...
a year ago
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“Just” One Line

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

a year ago
From Jeremy Keith’s piece “Responsibility”: Dropping in one line of JavaScript seems like a victimless crime. It’s just one small script, right? But JavaScript can import more JavaScript. “It’s just one line of code” is a pitch you hear all the time. It might also be the biggest...
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Wuthering...
Books finished in April 2023 I continue the practice of posting a list as a substitute for real writing. Coming soon: a long...
over a year ago
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Books finished in April 2023

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

over a year ago
I continue the practice of posting a list as a substitute for real writing. Coming soon: a long overdue loot at Seneca's plays, a glance at Gide's Counterfeiters, and some messing around with Plato's Republic. If I did not write in April, I at least read: GREEK PHILOSOPHY The...
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Josh Thompson
RailsConf Presentation: 'Junior' Developers are a Solution to Many of your Problems Did this talk resonate and you want to implement some of the ideas at your company? I might be able...
over a year ago
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RailsConf Presentation: 'Junior' Developers are a Solution to Many of your Problems

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over a year ago
Did this talk resonate and you want to implement some of the ideas at your company? I might be able to help. Shoot me an email at joshthompson@hey.com or book some time to talk at https://calendly.com/joshthompson/coffee. This talk is available on railsconf.org, here:...
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Quanta Magazine
The Mathematician Who Finds the Poetry in Math and the Math in Poetry The links between math, music and art have been explored for thousands of years. Sarah Hart is now...
a year ago
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The Mathematician Who Finds the Poetry in Math and the Math in Poetry

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a year ago
The links between math, music and art have been explored for thousands of years. Sarah Hart is now turning a mathematical eye to literature. The post The Mathematician Who Finds the Poetry in Math and the Math in Poetry first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Articles
If you're from Edmonton, you'll remember Happy Pop soda
over a year ago
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If you're from Edmonton, you'll remember Happy Pop soda

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over a year ago
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journal – Winnie Lim
playing my own little game My interest in playing board games got reignited after watching some korean tv puzzle shows. After...
3 weeks ago
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playing my own little game

from journal – Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life

3 weeks ago
My interest in playing board games got reignited after watching some korean tv puzzle shows. After few days of playing board games my partner was reminded that life is like playing a...
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TheCollector
6 Famous Artworks That Are Lost Forever For centuries, humans have considered pieces of art important enough to preserve and cherish despite...
4 months ago
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6 Famous Artworks That Are Lost Forever

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4 months ago
For centuries, humans have considered pieces of art important enough to preserve and cherish despite their seeming impracticality. Still, in spite of our efforts to keep them intact, works of art too often fall victim to tragic accidents. Some pieces remain known only in art...
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xkcd.com
Number Shortage
8 months ago
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Number Shortage

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8 months ago
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David Heinemeier...
Challenging the guardians of the paradigm I swear the intention isn’t to constantly start fights with guardians of every sacred paradigm in...
a year ago
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Challenging the guardians of the paradigm

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

a year ago
I swear the intention isn’t to constantly start fights with guardians of every sacred paradigm in the tech world. To be honest, it’s been a bit exhausting at times to concurrently argue on at least three major flanks. But that’s just how this year has turned out, given the work...
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The Ruffian
The Biden Conundrum On the president's prospects, plus a rattle bag of stimulants and delights
a year ago
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The Biden Conundrum

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a year ago
On the president's prospects, plus a rattle bag of stimulants and delights
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Articles
The iPad is a family device
over a year ago
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The iPad is a family device

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over a year ago
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Londonist
Supperclub.Tube: The Tube Carriage Serving A Six-Course Tasting Menu Definitely the best way to spend three hours on the tube.
a year ago
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Supperclub.Tube: The Tube Carriage Serving A Six-Course Tasting Menu

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a year ago
Definitely the best way to spend three hours on the tube.
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AI Tidbits: AI...
The rise of autonomous agents Did recent trends and OpenAI's GPTs announcement unlock autonomous agents?
a year ago
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The rise of autonomous agents

from AI Tidbits: AI Agents [alt+shift+b] in AI

a year ago
Did recent trends and OpenAI's GPTs announcement unlock autonomous agents?
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Rest of World -...
Nigeria’s dating app for people who want to stop dating and get hitched already What started out as a matchmaking WhatsApp group has turned into a popular dating app with over 2.1...
over a year ago
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Nigeria’s dating app for people who want to stop dating and get hitched already

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over a year ago
What started out as a matchmaking WhatsApp group has turned into a popular dating app with over 2.1 million recorded matches and 44 marriages.
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Eric Bailey
Organize your CSS declarations alphabetically There are a few schools of thought when it comes to organizing your CSS declarations. Each approach...
over a year ago
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Organize your CSS declarations alphabetically

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
There are a few schools of thought when it comes to organizing your CSS declarations. Each approach uses an underlying concept to impose a specific declaration order. When I say organizing declarations, I’m talking about the CSS code placed inside selectors, not an approach to...
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Birchtree
I’m Knee-Deep in Turkey Another week, another fantastically fun episode of Comfort Zone! This week Niléane talked about her...
7 months ago
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I’m Knee-Deep in Turkey

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

7 months ago
Another week, another fantastically fun episode of Comfort Zone! This week Niléane talked about her new Flight Simulator obsession, we go on a tangent about PC gaming, Chris (who says he’s an iPad guy) brings another Mac to talk about, and I had the gang look
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Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing NightPad Wireless Charger NightPad has no LEDs, so it won't light up your room. This was a frustration we had with other...
over a year ago
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Introducing NightPad Wireless Charger

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

over a year ago
NightPad has no LEDs, so it won't light up your room. This was a frustration we had with other wireless chargers - which I covered with electrical tape. So in designing this one, the first thing we did was remove the light. NightPad charges iPhone 50% faster than standard Qi...
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Seth's Blog
Reality as reassurance Culture makes it tempting (and easy) to insulate ourselves from reality. Credit card debt is an...
over a year ago
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Reality as reassurance

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

over a year ago
Culture makes it tempting (and easy) to insulate ourselves from reality. Credit card debt is an invisible burden, until it’s not. Ignoring the changes in our climate makes our days easier, but not our years. We can avoid the bank balance, not work on the annual budget and ignore...
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Rest of World -...
Pakistan’s electric rickshaws are accelerating the country’s EV revolution Automaker Sazgar is focused on meeting local needs as Pakistan pushes for EV adoption, but high...
4 months ago
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Pakistan’s electric rickshaws are accelerating the country’s EV revolution

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

4 months ago
Automaker Sazgar is focused on meeting local needs as Pakistan pushes for EV adoption, but high costs remain a barrier for some drivers.
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Contemporist...
These Designs Turn Wood Walls Into Vertical Art Stile, a longstanding leader in high-quality wood flooring from Umbria, has introduced a new way to...
2 weeks ago
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These Designs Turn Wood Walls Into Vertical Art

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

2 weeks ago
Stile, a longstanding leader in high-quality wood flooring from Umbria, has introduced a new way to experience wood surfaces: Stilart Wall – Vertical Wood Design. This concept brings together advanced laser engraving and traditional craftsmanship to create visually expressive...
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Christian Selig
Smart Open Xcode If you’re like me, you often have multiple versions of Xcode installed. One or two beta versions, a...
a year ago
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Smart Open Xcode

from Christian Selig [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
If you’re like me, you often have multiple versions of Xcode installed. One or two beta versions, a stable version, and maybe another version in case the most recent stable version has something weird about it. I also really like mapping my Caps Lock key to something more useful,...
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Contemporist...
An Exposed Structure Shows Off This House Design That Wraps Around A Pool Architecture firm Apiacas Arquitetos, has shared photos of a home they completed in Sao Paulo,...
10 months ago
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An Exposed Structure Shows Off This House Design That Wraps Around A Pool

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

10 months ago
Architecture firm Apiacas Arquitetos, has shared photos of a home they completed in Sao Paulo, Brazil, that was designed with a single-story layout that wraps around a swimming pool.
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Londonist
The Must-See London Exhibitions To Look Forward To In 2024 A glance ahead to the capital's upcoming blockbuster exhibitions.
a year ago
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The Must-See London Exhibitions To Look Forward To In 2024

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a year ago
A glance ahead to the capital's upcoming blockbuster exhibitions.
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Ognjen Regoje •...
Do what's right Doing what’s right is so interesting. It’s so difficult It’s difficult to be completely honest with...
a year ago
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Do what's right

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

a year ago
Doing what’s right is so interesting. It’s so difficult It’s difficult to be completely honest with yourself when you know what’s right but you don’t want to do it. It’s often physically more difficult: you’ll have to spend more effort, more time, more money. But it’s so...
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Escaping Flatland
Morning ritual + reading recommendations
a year ago
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Morning ritual

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a year ago
+ reading recommendations
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Working Theorys
Weekend Theorys No. 4 Time to lameness, netizens vs. citizens, and OpenAI scaring creative people (again)
a year ago
84

Weekend Theorys No. 4

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a year ago
Time to lameness, netizens vs. citizens, and OpenAI scaring creative people (again)
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Computer Ads from...
Adam Osborne Interview by Practical Computing (1983) Osborne reveals his philosophy
3 months ago
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Adam Osborne Interview by Practical Computing (1983)

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3 months ago
Osborne reveals his philosophy
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High Signal
Is Ruby on Rails dead in 2024? No! Ruby on Rails, or 'Rails' for short, is a framework for making websites with the programming...
a year ago
145

Is Ruby on Rails dead in 2024? No!

from High Signal [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

a year ago
Ruby on Rails, or 'Rails' for short, is a framework for making websites with the programming language Ruby. The idea behind it is to simplify how programmers create websites and it caused a storm amongst developers when it was released in August 2004 by software engineer David...
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Noahpinion
When are tariffs good? National security, infant industries, national champions, and some more unorthodox theories.
5 months ago
37

When are tariffs good?

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5 months ago
National security, infant industries, national champions, and some more unorthodox theories.
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Under One of the most formal elements in Central Park is the Bethesda Fountain and Terrace, just south of...
9 months ago
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One of the most formal elements in Central Park is the Bethesda Fountain and Terrace, just south of The Lake. The terrace overlooks the fountain from the elevation of the 72nd Street crosstown drive, and has three sets of stairs leading down; the undercroft of the terrace is a...
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