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HTMHell
Submit to the Quirks of HTML by Felix Hessenberger It was on a cold February evening. I had been working on a client project,...
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by Felix Hessenberger It was on a cold February evening. I had been working on a client project, building an order item list—nothing out of the ordinary. To adjust an item’s quantity, the user would open a popup form with a single input field, type a number, and hit...
Diaries of Note
The British people are like children Few people were as close to Adolf Hitler as Joseph Goebbels. As the Reich Minister of Propaganda in...
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Few people were as close to Adolf Hitler as Joseph Goebbels. As the Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany, he played a crucial role in shaping the image and message of the Third Reich, manipulating public opinion and orchestrating a vast machinery of lies and deception....
Maps Mania
Some More Maps of Sounds
7 months ago
Eric Bailey
These three links spell out a big uh oh for where things are headed when placed in context with each... Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal - 404 Media Thread by...
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Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal - 404 Media Thread by stillorangecrushed - Thread Reader App AI models fed AI-generated data quickly spew nonsense - Nature
Both Are True
i want to be good but i am bad - help? at what point are we no longer able to change our brains?
10 months ago
The Roots of...
What I’ve been reading, November 2023 A ~monthly feature. Recent blog posts and news stories are generally omitted; you can find them in...
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A ~monthly feature. Recent blog posts and news stories are generally omitted; you can find them in my links digests. All emphasis in bold in the quotes below was added by me. Books Finished Lynn White, Medieval Technology and Social Change (1962). Last time I talked about the...
Quantum Frontiers
Let the great world spin I first heard the song “Fireflies,” by Owl City, shortly after my junior year of college. During the...
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I first heard the song “Fireflies,” by Owl City, shortly after my junior year of college. During the refrain, singer Adam Young almost whispers, “I’d like to make myself believe / that planet Earth turns slowly.” Goosebumps prickled along my … Continue reading →
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course: Week 1 I’m embarking on a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week...
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I’m embarking on a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week 1. Readings Following Gioia’s plan, I read six of Plato’s dialogues: Euthypro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, and Books I and VII of The Republic. I used the beautiful edition published (for free)...
Basta’s Notes
Matt Basta: purveyor of fake news A story about how I accidentally duped the Bay Area press in 2013
a year ago
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on October 4, 2016: social media, differing political views, and friendship Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 3 and B trains...
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Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 3 and B trains home: I came across this Good Guy Boss meme on Facebook yesterday: I will respect you regardless of who you support in this election. I don't unfriend people due to political views....
Stephen Diehl
Exotic Programming Ideas: Part 2 (Term Rewriting)
over a year ago
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Inland Northwest, Day 3 (Let the Races Begin) The main reason we went to the Inland Northwest was to run some races. It also became an excuse to...
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The main reason we went to the Inland Northwest was to run some races. It also became an excuse to experience a part of the country I hadn’t explored much. Either way, the first of the races was finally about to begin. The Oregon Race We walked through the dark to a park along...
Josh Thompson
A New Old Financial Product I’m going to weave together talk of land value, and financing, and some of the primitives1 around...
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I’m going to weave together talk of land value, and financing, and some of the primitives1 around financial products. How much would you pay for a box that lives in your mailbox and delivers $1000 on the first of every month? Would you pay at least $5000, if you felt really...
TheCollector
7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism undefined
10 months ago
Josh Thompson
Becoming an Early Riser Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.  -The man no child likes to...
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Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.  -The man no child likes to hear about when being awoken by their parents Getting out of bed is a struggle. I’ve spent the better part of twenty four years setting my alarm as late as possible so I could have...
Flashbak
A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
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Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo. In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
Sam Altman
How To Be Successful I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of...
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I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of money or to create something important. Usually, people start off wanting the former and end up wanting the latter. Here are 13 thoughts about how to achieve such outlier...
Seth's Blog
Customer satisfaction and tipping In North America, tipping is an unfair system built into the status quo by law. Restaurants aren’t...
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In North America, tipping is an unfair system built into the status quo by law. Restaurants aren’t allowed to easily spread tips around, and as a result, they tend to to exacerbate many of the inequities in our culture at the same time that they make it hard to count on a fair...
TheCollector
10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times undefined
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Josh Thompson
How Can You Buy Happiness? You can’t, but that won’t stop you and me from trying, at least a little. We (Humans, americans, at...
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You can’t, but that won’t stop you and me from trying, at least a little. We (Humans, americans, at least “other people like me”) like to buy things. But we should do more than just buy things. Experiences can have a much bigger impact on people’s happiness than things, and a...
TheCollector
Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction undefined
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TheCollector
5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know undefined
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99% Invisible
Blood in the Machine [EPISODE] Brian Merchant is a tech reporter, and he’d been covering the industry for years when he started to...
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Brian Merchant is a tech reporter, and he’d been covering the industry for years when he started to notice a term that kept coming up. Especially when he wrote a story that was critical of tech, he’d be accused of being a “Luddite.” Like most people, Brian knew at least vaguely...
Seth's Blog
Make or buy? If you’re a writer, it probably doesn’t pay to chop down trees and make your own paper, or even to...
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If you’re a writer, it probably doesn’t pay to chop down trees and make your own paper, or even to set up a little machine shop to make your own pens. That’s pretty obvious. Should the smoothie shop make its own almond milk? It’s pretty clear that Starbucks should have a team of...
Ben Borgers
A Sixth Sense for Errors
over a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Three levels of enthusiasm for technology Most businesses today believe that technology can dramatically improve the way they operate. But...
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Most businesses today believe that technology can dramatically improve the way they operate. But they embrace technology with varying levels…
TheCollector
Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin? undefined
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TheCollector
10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels undefined
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Paolo Amoroso's...
My Common Lisp setup on Linux <![CDATA[Now that I'm back to Lisp I'm actively exploring Interlisp as a Common Lisp environment...
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<![CDATA[Now that I'm back to Lisp I'm actively exploring Interlisp as a Common Lisp environment too. But to code in Common Lisp also on my Crostini Linux system, the Linux container of chromeOS I use on a Chromebox, I'm setting up a suitable development environment. In addition...
The Wandering...
53° 30′ N So, there I am, driving along in Edmonton, Alberta. I come to a stop light on Fort Road, look to my...
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So, there I am, driving along in Edmonton, Alberta. I come to a stop light on Fort Road, look to my right and I see this: Is that a building with longitudes written on the roof?!?! And what are these longitudes? 9° 49’ W—that’s nowhere near Edmonton! Nor is 123°30’ E. What’s …...
TheCollector
Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas undefined
7 months ago
The Honest Broker
I Say Forbidden Things About Sports What's happening in athletics is tragic—but don't expect to hear about on ESPN
a month ago
bt RSS Feed
Click to Load Website Images Click to Load Website Images 2021-03-25 In my previous post about switching my Jekyll blog over to...
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Click to Load Website Images 2021-03-25 In my previous post about switching my Jekyll blog over to PHPetite, I briefly mentioned how I only loaded in article images if the user clicked or tapped the empty file element. In this post, I’m going to quickly breakdown the update I’ve...
diamond geezer
Crossing the boundary While I was in Enfield, heading away from the power station, I decided to depart across Sewardstone...
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While I was in Enfield, heading away from the power station, I decided to depart across Sewardstone Marsh. Why exit the dull way when you can cross the Lea and walk through a minor Essex village? The riverside path passed nosey ponies and a pumping station and crossed three...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Explore the Arctic's Beauty and Wildlife on a Luxury Cruise
4 months ago
Archinect - Features
An Industry Pins Its Hopes on Interest Rate Cuts: Archinect’s State of AEC July 2024 Welcome to the second installment of Archinect's new series, State of AEC. At the end of each month,...
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Welcome to the second installment of Archinect's new series, State of AEC. At the end of each month, we will guide you through the latest analyses, indexes, and trends on how the architecture and construction industries are performing economically. As we reflect back on June and...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
What can strong engineers do that weak engineers can't? Right now people are blowing up on Twitter about whether the USA needs to import top talent from...
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Right now people are blowing up on Twitter about whether the USA needs to import top talent from other countries, and if that means that…
Anecdotal Evidence
'More Talkative But Less Writative' Lately I’ve been reading the Swift/Pope correspondence. Long ago I adopted the author of Gulliver’s...
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Lately I’ve been reading the Swift/Pope correspondence. Long ago I adopted the author of Gulliver’s Travels as the most useful model for prose style in English. It’s not the only way to write but it’s the best if we judge clarity the supreme virtue. Sloppy prose, unless...
Spoon & Tamago
The Playable Poetry of Zeni Tainaka The Day I Couldn’t Write a Poem is a short, playable game in which the reader moves a character...
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The Day I Couldn’t Write a Poem is a short, playable game in which the reader moves a character through text, interacting with obstacles and making your way through a narrative. It’s the work of Zennyan (Zeni Tainaka), a Japanese pixel artist who has been experimenting with...
Internal Tech Emails
"I don't want to create a paper trail" I would prefer that Omid do it verbally since I don't want to create a paper trail over which we can...
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I would prefer that Omid do it verbally since I don't want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later? Not sure about this.. thanks Eric
Londonist
Support Great Ormond Street Hospital - By Climbing The Walkie Talkie! Up for a challenge?
a year ago
Irrational...
Playing with Streamlit and LLMs. Recently I’ve been chatting with a number of companies who are building out internal LLM labs/tools...
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Recently I’ve been chatting with a number of companies who are building out internal LLM labs/tools for their teams to make it easy to test LLMs against their internal usecases. I wanted to take a couple hours to see how far I could get using Streamlit to build out a personal LLM...
Blog - Bitfield...
Cryptography in Go: AES explained AES is the modern standard encryption algorithm, but how does it work? Where does it come from?...
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AES is the modern standard encryption algorithm, but how does it work? Where does it come from? Let’s kick the tyres with a high-level overview of AES internals.
PostHog's RSS Feed
VC is a tool, not a religion We raised over $27,000,000 then realized we should be growing out of our own revenue instead. Day 1...
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We raised over $27,000,000 then realized we should be growing out of our own revenue instead. Day 1 – We started bootstrapping, then changed our minds…
The Marginalian
Albert Camus on How to Live Whole in a Broken World Born into a World War to live through another, Albert Camus (November 7, 1913–January 4, 1960) died...
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Born into a World War to live through another, Albert Camus (November 7, 1913–January 4, 1960) died in a car crash with an unused train ticket to the same destination in his pocket. Just three years earlier, he had become the second-youngest laureate of the Nobel Prize, awarded...
CONTEMPORIST
This Secluded A-Frame Cabin Was Given A Contemporary Design Update Matiere Premiere Architecture together with its affiliated construction company, Nu Drom, has...
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Matiere Premiere Architecture together with its affiliated construction company, Nu Drom, has completed a contemporary update for an A-Frame cabin located on the shores of a lake near Montreal, Canada. Originally built in the 1950’s, the exterior was updated with natural white...
CONTEMPORIST
Clerestory Windows Add Natural Light Inside This New Addition To An Australian Home Architecture firm Bryant Alsop has shared photos of a contemporary renovation and extension of a...
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Architecture firm Bryant Alsop has shared photos of a contemporary renovation and extension of a typical free-standing timber period home in Australia. The view from the front door shows off the hallway that connects the original home with the new extension. The hallway...
Tony Finch's blog
semaphoreslo in Golang and GNU make Semaphores are one of the oldest concurrency primitives in computing, invented over 60 years ago....
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Semaphores are one of the oldest concurrency primitives in computing, invented over 60 years ago. They are weird: usually the only numbers of concurrent processes we care about are zero, one, or many – but semaphores deal with those fussy finite numbers in between. Yesterday I...
The Architectural...
The 10 Most Common Arguments of Modernists – and Why They Don’t Hold Up After discussing architecture with modernists for years, it is clear that the way modernists argue...
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After discussing architecture with modernists for years, it is clear that the way modernists argue is based on a dogmatic worldview. Despite their assumptions rarely being based on empirical studies and scientific investigations, they find it hard to imagine anything other than...
AFAR Media - Travel...
3 Great California Travel Itineraries to Inspire Anyone
11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Herodotus Versus Thucydides? Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Rails has two default stacks
over a year ago
HTMHell
How to transfigure wireframes into HTML Soon enough in your career as a web developer, you encounter the situation where a designer hands...
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Soon enough in your career as a web developer, you encounter the situation where a designer hands over a wonderful web design in all its large-screen glory. Your mission now is to transform it into code to present a prototype as soon as possible, starting with nothing but an...
The Ruffian
Britain's Peculiar Brand of Patriotism, In Three Ads Heroes To Zeroes
7 months ago
AVC
The Freedom To Innovate Back in 2014, USV got subpoenaed by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) over...
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Back in 2014, USV got subpoenaed by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) over our web3 investing activities. We hired a law firm, answered the subpoena, and that ultimately landed me in public testimony in front of the DFS staff. In my testimony, I explained...
Notes on software...
Exploring a Postgres query plan I learned this week that you can intercept and redirect Postgres query execution. You can hook into...
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I learned this week that you can intercept and redirect Postgres query execution. You can hook into the execution layer so you're given a query plan and you get to decide what to do with it. What rows to return, if any, and where they come from. That's very interesting. So I...
James Cheshire
Atlas des Unsichtbaren Thrilled to announce the publication of German edition of Atlas of the Invisible: Atlas des...
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Thrilled to announce the publication of German edition of Atlas of the Invisible: Atlas des Unsichtbaren. It is published by Hanser, who also did an amazing job with our previous book Die Wege der Tiere, and available in all good bookshops across the German speaking world. Click...
On the Arts
On the Arts: A Year-End Review A brief guide to everything published this year.
a year ago
Stephen Wolfram...
A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics This is part 2 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second...
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This is part 2 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 2. A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics 3. How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of...
TheCollector
The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons undefined
2 months ago
Ken Shirriff's blog
Intel's $475 million error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running...
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In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running Pentium line. The Pentium had many improvements over the previous processor, the Intel 486, including a faster floating-point division algorithm. A year later, Professor Nicely, a number...
Londonist
That Time Lord Onslow's Monkey Escaped Onto The Tube Simian crisis at Barbican.
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible? undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death undefined
7 months ago
TokyoDev
There’s No Place Like Home: Finding an Apartment in Japan What’s this about key money, gift money, guarantors, and guarantor companies? Why did the realtor...
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What’s this about key money, gift money, guarantors, and guarantor companies? Why did the realtor give a moving-in quote of 600,000 yen for an apartment that costs 80,000 yen a month to rent? Why does my apartment not have lights, curtains, or even a stove? Am I getting ripped...
Unfiltered by Tim...
Successful People Use "Anti-Productivity" to Achieve Extraordinary Results. You Should Too. Here's what it bizarrely is (without complexity)
2 months ago
Apoorva Srinivasan
an experiment in navigating the knowledge frontier beyond search Lately, I've been experimenting with interfaces for large language models (LLMs) in my free time....
a year ago
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a year ago
Lately, I've been experimenting with interfaces for large language models (LLMs) in my free time. The fruit of this labor is something I'm calling "curie," an exploratory and sense-making tool designed to navigate complex topics. 0:00 ...
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: ClickHouse vs BigQuery Both BigQuery and ClickHouse are databases designed to handle lots of data (like loads of data),...
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Both BigQuery and ClickHouse are databases designed to handle lots of data (like loads of data), but they have distinct philosophies and use cases…
TheCollector
How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh? undefined
8 months ago
The Honest Broker
Mainstream Is Now Fringe, and Fringe Is Mainstream The current state of media is total anarchy
a month ago
The Ruffian
Notes On the Great Vibe Shift The Extraordinary Impact of Trump's Second Victory
4 days ago
Basta’s Notes
I'm going to run for president And I want you to be angry, too
3 days ago
Rest of World -...
As muggings spike, phone thieves in Brazil have an easy target: Gig workers Losing a phone can devastate gig workers’ ability to make a living, while the apps they work for...
a year ago
The Roots of...
The epistemic virtue of scope matching Something a little bit different today. I’ll tie it in to progress, I promise. I keep noticing a...
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Something a little bit different today. I’ll tie it in to progress, I promise. I keep noticing a particular epistemic pitfall (not exactly a “fallacy”), and a corresponding epistemic virtue that avoids it. I want to call this out and give it a name. The virtue is: identifying the...
Coding Horror
An Exercise Program for the Fat Web When I wrote about App-pocalypse Now in 2014, I implied the future still belonged to the web. And it...
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When I wrote about App-pocalypse Now in 2014, I implied the future still belonged to the web. And it does. But it's also true that the web has changed a lot in the last 10 years, much less the last 20 or 30. Websites have gotten a lot
TheCollector
6 Astounding Achievements by Maya Lin undefined
a year ago
./techtipsy
My very first Dungeons and Dragons campaign In December 2024, I did something that I had never done before: I participated in a short (~6 hours)...
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In December 2024, I did something that I had never done before: I participated in a short (~6 hours) Dungeons and Dragons campaign. It was the nerdiest thing ever, and I loved it! The setting After another day of keeping a critical production service up, the whole team met up at...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The UX of Proving Our Humanity To Machines What happens when we can't convince machines that we are human?
over a year ago
Louwrentius
Blu Ray is dead HD-DVD may be dead, but Blu Ray is just as dead. The whole concept of optical media is dead....
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HD-DVD may be dead, but Blu Ray is just as dead. The whole concept of optical media is dead. Honestly, who is still burning CD's or DVD's nowadays? (If you are, why for Christ sake? I can't think of a single good reason) And at 10 euros ($100) for a single Blu Ray disk, you must...
journal – Winnie Lim
experimenting with Obsidian Books have radically changed my life. One of the original purposes of this website was to share the...
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Books have radically changed my life. One of the original purposes of this website was to share the learnings I had from them – read through my personal lenses, layered with the...
ntietz.com blog
In Defense of the Midwest As an undergraduate, I always imagined that I would someday move to the SF Bay Area to live in the...
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As an undergraduate, I always imagined that I would someday move to the SF Bay Area to live in the heart of the software industry. With this in mind, in my final semester at Kent State, I joined a Silicon Valley startup as their third engineer1. The staff at that time was split:...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Selectively disabling payment gateways in WooCommerce I recently wrapped up a big WooCommerce project that required quite a bit of customization. I’ve...
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I recently wrapped up a big WooCommerce project that required quite a bit of customization. I’ve decided to write about a few of those…
Seldo.com
Databases: how they work, and a brief history
over a year ago
Essays - Benedict...
The problem of AI ethics, and laws about AI Should you try to write laws, or lay down ethical principles, about a technology that will be used...
10 months ago
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Should you try to write laws, or lay down ethical principles, about a technology that will be used in entirely different ways, for different purposes, in different industries? How about if it’s changing entirely every 18 months?
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Boo Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Let this strip-club ghost joke convince you that I...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Let this strip-club ghost joke convince you that I don't plan for holiday comics. Today's News:
Epic Web Dev
Stop Lying to Your Users
a year ago
Cheese and Biscuits
The Barn at Moor Hall, Ormskirk In restaurants that offer both an A La Carte and parallel set menu I often play a bit of a thought...
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In restaurants that offer both an A La Carte and parallel set menu I often play a bit of a thought experiment. If there was no such separation of options, and if all the dishes available were priced evenly on the same list, which would I end up going for? Set menus (usually,...
Calculated Risk
Question #3 for 2025: What will the unemployment rate be in December 2025? Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of...
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Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of these questions concern real estate (inventory, house prices, housing starts, new home sales), and I posted thoughts on those in the newsletter (others like GDP and employment will...
Dreams of Space -...
What the Moon Is Like (1963) Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
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Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again. What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
The Modern House
<strong>How to grow a green garden: from creating compost to planting produce</strong>
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Monos store by Ste Marie Following last year’s opening of its first store in Vancouver, Canadian luggage brand Monos has...
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Following last year’s opening of its first store in Vancouver, Canadian luggage brand Monos has inaugurated a second retail space...
markround.com
Amiga Systems Programming in 2023 Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs If you ever get a chance to look through the...
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Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs If you ever get a chance to look through the classic Amiga OS source-code still floating around some murky corners of the internet, it is a thing of beauty and astonishing capabilities. It’s an inspirational piece of computing...
Dominik Sobe's...
V(D)Logging some of my thoughts
a year ago
The Honest Broker
Tell Us What You're Doing? Today is open mic day at The Honest Broker—and you can promote your own projects
4 months ago
TheCollector
History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre? undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know undefined
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Time Is Tight' My brother is dying as he lived – stubbornly. He has been in hospice for two weeks and is...
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My brother is dying as he lived – stubbornly. He has been in hospice for two weeks and is failing incrementally. On Monday we were swapping memories and he stopped talking on Tuesday, the same day he stopped eating. He lies on his back on the hospice bed, mouth open, eyes staring...
Flashbak
Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951 Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration,...
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Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
Open Culture
Get Unlimited Access to Courses & Certificates: Coursera Is Offering 40% (or $159) Off of Coursera... A heads up on a deal: Between today and June 23, 2024, Coursera is offering a 40% discount on its...
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A heads up on a deal: Between today and June 23, 2024, Coursera is offering a 40% discount on its annual subscription plan called “Coursera Plus.” Normally priced at $399, Coursera Plus (now available for $239.40) gives you access to 7,000+ courses for one all-inclusive...
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BOND STREET £320   London's Monopoly Streets BOND STREET Colour group: green Purchase price: £320 Rent: £28 Length: 800m Borough: Westminster Postcode: W1 penultimate street on the Monopoly board famously doesn't exist, even though it has a station named after it. It's also...
Math Is Still...
Elliptic Curves Yield Their Secrets in a New Number System Ana Caraiani and James Newton have extended an important result in number theory to the imaginary...
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Ana Caraiani and James Newton have extended an important result in number theory to the imaginary realm. The post Elliptic Curves Yield Their Secrets in a New Number System first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: After 10 minutes of DuoLingo, my daughter and I were able to have entire conversations in Greek just by inflecting the word karoto. Today's News:
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Replacing Overground signage The renaming of the Overground lines draws closer, indeed should be taking place next month. The...
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The renaming of the Overground lines draws closer, indeed should be taking place next month. The original intention was for the changeover to be in August in conjunction with a new tube map, but that's not happened so technically it's late. That said, an awful lot of signage on...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Strangford (Jo Pearson) Hi! I’m Jo, working as a printmaker under the name 'Strangford' in Northern Ireland - though I’m...
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Hi! I’m Jo, working as a printmaker under the name 'Strangford' in Northern Ireland - though I’m originally from South London. Describe your printmaking process. I make large, bright, unusual relief prints from my home studio; mostly of animals. I carve into flooring lino - it’s...
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I've always had an ambivalent relationship with goals. I don't like goals that feel like checkpoints on a treadmill. They make you reach for a million dollars in revenue, celebrate for a second, and then turn the chase to five million the minute after. No thanks. But specific,...
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Explore Burj Al Babas, Turkey’s Abandoned Town of 587 Disney-Style Castles Burj Al Babas might have been constructed expressly to attract the attention of the internet....
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Burj Al Babas might have been constructed expressly to attract the attention of the internet. “Sitting near the Black Sea, the town is full of half-finished, fully abandoned mini castles — 587 of them to be exact,” write Architectural Digest’s Katherine McLaughlin and Jessica...
IEEE Spectrum
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Watching movies and TV series that use digital visual effects to create fantastical worlds lets people escape reality for a few hours. Thanks to advancements in computer-generated technology used to produce films and shows, those worlds are highly realistic. In many cases, it can...
Good Enough
Season 1, Issue 5: Promotes Regularity Good Enough is taking a summer pause! We each have travel plans lined up for the summer. We each...
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Good Enough is taking a summer pause! We each have travel plans lined up for the summer. We each have at least two children in our homes, begging for attention. And we each truly appreciate extended breaks as a means of reinvigorating ourselves to the ever important task of...
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Cancel Like Everything Tracy Jenkins's For Like Ever poster is an iconic piece of "the millenial aesthetic." I've made a...
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Tracy Jenkins's For Like Ever poster is an iconic piece of "the millenial aesthetic." I've made a new poster inspired by For Like Ever and the current need for social distance: The texture in the clouds below the text is made up of no symbols and small x's: I've made an A4...
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Following no less than eight shop-in-shops at leading department stores across Seoul, the time was right for Spanish luxury brand...
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The square after Piccadilly on the Monopoly board is GO TO JAIL. The accompanying picture may show a police officer blowing a whistle but the person who actually sends you to jail is a judge in a court room, so today's post is about criminal courts in London. Criminal courts in...
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The Decline of FPS Games I read an article about the decline of FPS games and it made me think a bit. When was the last time...
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I read an article about the decline of FPS games and it made me think a bit. When was the last time I actually enjoyed an FPS game? I installed old Deus Ex a while ago but it’s what 12 years old? Team Fortress was okay, the one or two times I tried it, but I can’t say I truly...
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Different Types of Commercial Use From 1880, a view of Broadway looking north from Morris Street to Trinity Church. Given how deserted...
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From 1880, a view of Broadway looking north from Morris Street to Trinity Church. Given how deserted it is, it’s either early in the morning on a weekend or a holiday. Wm. M Fleiss & Co, on the left, is at 47 Broadway. Broadway is lined with office and loft buildings which are...
Val Sopi
A fresh new start: Investing in myself towards financial freedom and sharing my personal and... <p> <i>This is the first of many updates in the <a...
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<p> <i>This is the first of many updates in the <a href="https://valsopi.com/financial-freedom">Financial Freedom</a> series, where I hold&nbsp;myself publicly accountable for my big challenge ahead!</i> </p> <p> <i><b>TLDR:</b>&nbsp;Towards the end of this article,...
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Ten Pairs of Books for Christmas This year's roundup of books to give to discerning architects for the holidays is presented in...
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This year's roundup of books to give to discerning architects for the holidays is presented in pairs. While at least one book in each pair is new, the other one isn't necessarily so — new, old, or not-so-old, it is related to the first in some manner, as explained in my...
Frank’s Ramblings
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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...
TheCollector
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“The typical path of how people respond to life-changing inventions I’ve never heard of it. I’ve heard of it but don’t understand it. I understand it, but I don’t see...
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I’ve never heard of it. I’ve heard of it but don’t understand it. I understand it, but I don’t see how it’s useful. I see how it could be…
Open Culture
How Editing Saved Ferris Bueller’s Day Off & Made It a Classic “In our salad days, we are ripe for a particular movie that will linger, deathlessly, long after the...
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“In our salad days, we are ripe for a particular movie that will linger, deathlessly, long after the greenness has gone,” writes the New Yorker’s Anthony Lane in a recent piece on movies in the eighties. “When a friend turned to me after the first twenty minutes of Ferris...
Many Worlds
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Among the most eagerly awaited results from the early observations of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is whether or not the seven rocky planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system have atmospheres. The TRAPPIST-1 planets are close to us (40 light-years away), are all solid rather than...
fast.ai
Qualitative humanities research is crucial to AI Following the thread of any seemingly quantitative issue in AI ethics (such as determining if...
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Following the thread of any seemingly quantitative issue in AI ethics (such as determining if software to rate loan applicants is racially biased or evaluating YouTube’s recommendation system) quickly leads to a host of qualitative questions. Unfortunately, there is often a large...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Costa Rica, Part 6 (Beyond the Beach) My flirtation with idleness ended. I simply couldn’t sit around Tamarindo another day doing nothing...
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My flirtation with idleness ended. I simply couldn’t sit around Tamarindo another day doing nothing or I’d grow increasingly frustrated. So the relaxation was fine for awhile but now I needed to find something else to do. Surfing lessons didn’t seem like a thing for me but plenty...
Christopher Butler
Periodical 15 All art is a copy of something. Hello from the art room. My older kiddo and I watched a short...
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All art is a copy of something. Hello from the art room. My older kiddo and I watched a short documentary about artist and engineer Peter Vogel this morning. I learned about him from flipping through an old issue of OMNI from the early 80s which reviewed a gallery showing...
The Honest Broker
Am I Wrong About the Live Music Resurgence? Am I crazy? Let's find out...
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Batik on Paper Batik is a fun, dynamic way of creating bold and beautiful designs on cloth but did you know batik...
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Batik is a fun, dynamic way of creating bold and beautiful designs on cloth but did you know batik can be made on paper too? We used some Tej Prakrtika paper (as well as testing some others) to create a colourful, abstract batik.  You'll find lots more batik projects here. Begin...
Miguel Carranza
Working with Miguel: A Practical Guide Since reading ‘High Growth Handbook’ by Elad Gil, the value of writing a ‘Working with’ document...
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Since reading ‘High Growth Handbook’ by Elad Gil, the value of writing a ‘Working with’ document became crystal clear to me. I am sharing mine externally to inspire other founders and leaders to reflect and write down their own working styles. These documents are incredibly...
Diaries of Note
Practically all were intact Frank Hurley was an audacious Australian photographer and adventurer best known for his remarkable...
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Frank Hurley was an audacious Australian photographer and adventurer best known for his remarkable images of Antarctica, particularly those he took on Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. When Hurley wrote this diary entry on 2nd November 1915,...
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Changes A lot has been going on lately and it feels like I’m being swamped. I can’t complain too much but...
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A lot has been going on lately and it feels like I’m being swamped. I can’t complain too much but there are things I’d like to change after the exam period this week. Program more! nothing since christmas or someting. I need to finish: Ada project for school. Can’t believe I...
alexwlchan
Generating art from lattice graphs A couple of weeks ago, I went to see my sister playing percussion in a brass band at the...
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A couple of weeks ago, I went to see my sister playing percussion in a brass band at the Proms. While I was on the train home, I had an idea for a fun art project. I sketched it out on a napkin, got it working, posted a few pictures on Twitter, then put it down. On Saturday I was...
Marcus on AI
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What kept me going during the dark years of 2022 and 2023 when Generative AI was wildly overhyped and I was constantly ridiculed was the secure knowledge that the truth would eventually come out.
Maps Mania
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AI, Architecture, and the Uncanny Valley Technology can design, but it can’t understand the “why” of buildings—yet.
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Focus on the process, not the outcome Woorkeri Raman, a former Indian cricketer and former coach of the India women’s national cricket...
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Woorkeri Raman, a former Indian cricketer and former coach of the India women’s national cricket team, has two non-negotiables. As an offspinner, you must never get cut, and you must never get driven through the covers. Even when Ravichandran Ashwin takes five wickets, Raman will...
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Cookie banners show everything that's wrong with the EU Companies have spent billions on cookie banner compliance only to endlessly annoy users with no...
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Companies have spent billions on cookie banner compliance only to endlessly annoy users with no material improvement to their privacy, but this unsightly blight is still with us (and the rest of the internet!). All because the EU has no mechanism for self-correcting its...
Math Is Still...
‘The Rest of the World Disappears’: Claire Voisin on Mathematical Creativity The recipient of the 2024 Crafoord Prize in Mathematics discusses math as art, math as language, and...
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The recipient of the 2024 Crafoord Prize in Mathematics discusses math as art, math as language, and math as abstract thought. The post ‘The Rest of the World Disappears’: Claire Voisin on Mathematical Creativity first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Hakerem office by Anderman Architects More than a hundred years ago, “Hakerem Spirits” was founded. A little over ten years ago, we...
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More than a hundred years ago, “Hakerem Spirits” was founded. A little over ten years ago, we designed their offices....
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Competing in search A quarter century after 'don't be evil', a judge has found that Google is abusing its monopoly in...
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A quarter century after 'don't be evil', a judge has found that Google is abusing its monopoly in search. But no-one knows what happens next, and whether this ruling will change anything. Will Apple build a search engine? Will ChatGPT change search? Does it matter?
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...
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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...
TheCollector
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The Company Rockwell International has been around for quite a while. Willard Rockwell started the company in 1919 to sell a newly designed truck axle bearing. Over the years, Rockwell acquired businesses in many different fields, including defense, industrial electronics,...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Temp Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Hey, at least Kelvins would've been worse? Today's...
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Irrational...
Interviewing engineering executives. Earlier I wrote about getting hired as an Engineering executive, and it’s perhaps even more...
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Earlier I wrote about getting hired as an Engineering executive, and it’s perhaps even more important to discuss the opposite question: how should you interview and evaluate Engineering executives? As an Engineering executive, you may not directly run one of these searches, but...
Mazdak
Capital Gains Tax Hike: Sell Now or Hold On? A Canadian Investor's Guide Canada's recent federal budget has sent ripples through the investment and real estate communities....
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Canada's recent federal budget has sent ripples through the investment and real estate communities. A key change: a looming increase in capital gains tax on sizeable transactions. This has many wondering – should I sell assets before June 25th, 2024, to avoid the taxman's bite?...
TheCollector
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Recurse Center Day 13: Why 'Raft'? I started re-reading Raft and I learned why it is called so!
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What's "good" code and does it matter? I take pride in my work and in writing good code, and it's important sometimes to take a step back...
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I take pride in my work and in writing good code, and it's important sometimes to take a step back and ask: what does that even mean? And does it matter? At a high level, "good code" is code that is suitable for its purpose and achieves its goals. That definition is pretty...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Books I Have Liked' One way to classify readers is by their choice of reading matter across time. Some are specialists....
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One way to classify readers is by their choice of reading matter across time. Some are specialists. They read deeply but narrowly, only science fiction or the Latin classics in translation. That strategy is alien to me because by nature I’m an omnivore, moving from Henry James to...
Herbert Lui
Be the first If you really want to make a difference in somebody’s life, be the first person to make a...
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If you really want to make a difference in somebody’s life, be the first person to make a contribution.  This could mean being their first customer, their first donor, or the first person to leave a comment or share the work.  It will make a powerful impression, give them energy,...
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Energy shock It's 2 years today since... a) all Covid-related legal restrictions were withdrawn b) Russian...
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It's 2 years today since... a) all Covid-related legal restrictions were withdrawn b) Russian invaded Ukraine It's also two years since the start of the energy shock that hoicked our gas and electricity bills to unheard-of levels. On the day of the invasion the annual energy...
Willem's Blog
Some thoughts on touch screen user interface design I am working on a new app involving personal health that requires a natural intuitive interface that...
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I am working on a new app involving personal health that requires a natural intuitive interface that works well on touch screens. It's good to check out some best practices for touch UI design
diamond geezer
Euros final liveblog Euros final liveblog 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇸 19:00 Only an hour to go. 19:10 I'm having steak and ale...
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Euros final liveblog 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇸 19:00 Only an hour to go. 19:10 I'm having steak and ale pie. 20:00 Kick-off. The score is nil nil. 20:48 Off for oranges at half time. 21:05 Back. 21:06 Goal 😢 21:32 Goal 😀 21:46 Goal 😢 21:54 ENGLAND HAVE COME SECOND! 21:55 I'm sure...
A Beautiful Site
Convert arrays to CSV with PHP The following snippet will convert a simple PHP array into CSV (comma-separated values)...
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The following snippet will convert a simple PHP array into CSV (comma-separated values) format. function csv($array) { $csv = ""; for ($i = 0; $i < count($array); $i++) { $csv .= '"' . str_replace('"', '""', $array[$i]) . '"'; if ($i < count($array) - 1) $csv .= ","; ...
A Smart Bear
Why I feel like a fraud (Impostor Syndrome) Most high-performing people experience Impostor Syndrome. I did too. When you understand the cause,...
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Most high-performing people experience Impostor Syndrome. I did too. When you understand the cause, you can defeat it.
TheCollector
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Robert Caro on the Art of Biography I was never interested in writing biographies merely to tell the lives of famous men. From the first...
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I was never interested in writing biographies merely to tell the lives of famous men. From the first time I thought of becoming a biographer
Jonas Hietala
fish_update_completions in Slackware 14.1 I’ve been trying out fish shell lately. A cool feature with fish is that it can automatically...
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over a year ago
I’ve been trying out fish shell lately. A cool feature with fish is that it can automatically generate completions by parsing the installed man pages by running fish_update_completions. Unfortunately this is what I got: Traceback (most recent call last): File...
Scott DeLong
Weeks 44-47: The end is near As this challenge comes to an end, it feels good to be at a point where I'm about as immune as...
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As this challenge comes to an end, it feels good to be at a point where I'm about as immune as possible to looming threats The post Weeks 44-47: The end is near appeared first on Scott DeLong.
Math Is Still...
During Pregnancy, a Fake ‘Infection’ Protects the Fetus Cells in the placenta have an unusual trick for activating gentle immune defenses and keeping them...
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Cells in the placenta have an unusual trick for activating gentle immune defenses and keeping them turned on when no infection is present. It involves crafting and deploying a fake virus. The post During Pregnancy, a Fake ‘Infection’ Protects the Fetus first appeared...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Mouldering Boots of Other Days' The triolet, like its cousins the rondeau, rondel, and rondelet, is an intricate French verse form,...
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The triolet, like its cousins the rondeau, rondel, and rondelet, is an intricate French verse form, usually eight lines long and written in iambic tetrameter. The first line is repeated as the fourth and seventh lines. Among English-language poets, Robert Bridges and Thomas Hardy...
GitButler
The Birth of THE MERGE Sitting at lunch one day, the GitButler team were having our usual conversations of how awesome our...
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Sitting at lunch one day, the GitButler team were having our usual conversations of how awesome our community is, product feature ideas, and how much Kiril loves food. As we shifted toward the topic of conferences, the idea of hosting our own event emerged. Wouldn’t it be fun
Posts on Made of...
A week with the iPhone I’ve had a new iPhone for about a week now, so I figure it’s time to write up some thoughts about...
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over a year ago
I’ve had a new iPhone for about a week now, so I figure it’s time to write up some thoughts about it. First, the little things. It is, in typical Apple fashion, an incredibly slick piece of work. Scrolling and zooming images or webpages is simple, easy, and, well, just fun to do...
Raw Thought (from...
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Musings on Markets
Data Update 4 for 2023: Country Risk - Measures and Implications I describe myself as a dabbler, and it does get in the way of my best laid plans. A few weeks ago, I...
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I describe myself as a dabbler, and it does get in the way of my best laid plans. A few weeks ago, I posted my first data update pulling together what I had learned from looking at the data in 2023, and promised many more on the topic. In the month since, I have added two more...
Blog System/5
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The Marginalian
Don’t Waste Your Wildness "What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakable, unforgettable,...
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"What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakable, unforgettable, unshamable, elemental as earth and ice, water, fire and air, a quintessence, pure spirit, resolving into no constituents. Don't waste your wildness: it is precious and necessary. In...
Computer Ads from...
Intel's Inboard 386/PC Welcome to the 1990s.
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Marian's Blog
BTduino BTduino is an Android app that lets you add a custom bluetooth interface to your Arduino project...
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BTduino is an Android app that lets you add a custom bluetooth interface to your Arduino project without any programming on the Android side. Everything is better with bluetooth! Here are some examples: Download Android APK file Android 4.0 or higher is...
Blog - Practical...
How the Hawaiian Power Grid Works [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In January of 2024, right on...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In January of 2024, right on the heels of a serious drought across the state, a major storm slammed into the Hawaiian islands of Oahu and Kauai. Severe winds caused damage to buildings, and heavy rain flooded...
TheCollector
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NeuroLogica Blog
Spider-Man’s Web Shooter I have to admit that my favorite superhero as a kid, and still today, is Spider-Man (and yes, that’s...
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I have to admit that my favorite superhero as a kid, and still today, is Spider-Man (and yes, that’s the correct spelling). There are a number of narrative reasons for this that I grew to appreciate more as I aged. First, Spider-Man is in the sweet spot of super abilities – he is...
David Heinemeier...
The tech layoffs continue A quarter of a million tech workers were laid off last year from the likes of Google, Amazon, Meta,...
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A quarter of a million tech workers were laid off last year from the likes of Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and thousands of other big and small companies in the industry. And it looks like this year is not going to bring any relief. Google just announced more layoffs, Twitch...
Steve Blank
Lessons for the DoD – From Ukraine and China Portions of this post previously appeared in War On the Rocks. Looking at a satellite image of...
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Portions of this post previously appeared in War On the Rocks. Looking at a satellite image of Ukraine online I realized it was from Capella Space – one of our Hacking for Defense student teams who now has 7 satellites in orbit. National Security is Now Dependent on Commercial...
CONTEMPORIST
Two Spiral Staircases Help Create This Unique Home Design Architect Alexis Dornier together with interior designer Silvia Fairman, have completed a new home...
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Architect Alexis Dornier together with interior designer Silvia Fairman, have completed a new home in the Balinese jungle, that features a unique design centered around a pair of spiral staircases. Drawing inspiration from the beauty of nature and a desire to challenge...
Applied Cartography
Mass renaming files in fish on macOS One of many two-liners to come as I migrate things from the old site onto Obsidian: brew install...
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One of many two-liners to come as I migrate things from the old site onto Obsidian: brew install rename rename "s/.mdx/.md/" **.md
History Today Feed
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks JamesHoare Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
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Seth's Blog
The B2B questions Questions people ask themselves when looking at a web page aimed at businesses (B2B). They are...
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Questions people ask themselves when looking at a web page aimed at businesses (B2B). They are rhetorical, but should give you a place to begin: Is it my job to deal with this? Who sent me here? Will this advance my project? Will it help me get ahead if I take action? If I ignore...
The Elysian
Are Democrats too liberal? Or too conservative? We're asking the wrong questions.
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The efficient market hypothesis is a widely taught financial theory that states, roughly, that under certain generally-held conditions…
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Introduction About a year ago, I bought an used PC based off of a Lenovo Erazer X510. It had a dual-core Intel Pentium G3220 CPU, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, a crappy Codegen 400W power supply and a 60GB SSD. I added an Nvidia GTX 1050 and just like that, a budget gaming PC was born. My...
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Our guests for Thanksgiving dinner will be my oldest son and daughter-in-law, and two women, acquaintances of my wife, both recently divorced. The latter would likely otherwise spend the holiday alone. The only serious expression of gratitude is welcoming others and sharing...
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Thomas Owers knew nothing about growth engineering when he started the first growth team at Let's Do This – a Y Combinator startup with $80M in…
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If you know a bit about public key cryptography, you probably know that you don’t directly encrypt a message with a public key encryption algorithm like RSA. This is for many reasons, one of which being that it is incredibly slow. Instead you do what’s called hybrid encryption:...
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This is the last of the collection of little-known ballfields, following Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens, and the little-known teams who played in those fields. It’s very difficult to find information about the only Bronx important ball field in the Bronx. While it’s sometimes...
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Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
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This is the 9th post in my series on building a toy GPT. For better understanding, I recommend reading my earlier posts first. Word embeddings convert words into fixed-length numerical arrays. Each number in these arrays corresponds to a specific characteristic of the word, such...
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In the early 2000s, Web 2.0 prompted new web standards, HTML5 and CSS3. Developers used 'shims' and 'polyfills' for browser compatibility, fostering innovation. The post Filling gaps with a polyfill appeared first on The History of the Web.
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Security doesn't respect abstraction boundaries The fundamental tool of any engineering discipline is the notion of abstraction. If we can build a...
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The fundamental tool of any engineering discipline is the notion of abstraction. If we can build a set of useful, easily-described behaviors out of a complex system, we can build other systems on top of those pieces, without having to understand to worry about the full complexity...
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To come back and suggest that Apple needs to think dramatically different about how we are running our company is a shocking response.
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When you hear the word “river,” you probably picture a majestic body of water flowing through a natural habitat. Well, the LA River looks nothing like that. Most people who see it probably mistake it for a giant storm drain. It’s a deep trapezoidal channel with steep concrete...
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The role of a software developer often gets distilled down to a singular activity: coding. While coding is undeniably the […] The post Habits of great software engineers appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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A photo of New York 1900. showing two of the four images of the Colonial Club in the book. We included so many images of the pleasant but unremarkable building because that was where we wrote the book, in Robert A.M. … Continue reading → The post My Meals With Bob: My Mini Memoir...