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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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Casey Handmer's blog
Powering the Mars base This post is part of the series on space topics. This post is not the last word on this topic. The...
a month ago
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a month ago
This post is part of the series on space topics. This post is not the last word on this topic. The usual caveats apply. I’m curious if you have strong opinions on different fuel mixes. A growing Mars base has a prodigious need for power. I’ve previously written two posts on...
Ben Borgers
Thinking in Silence
over a year ago
Mazdak
Is Tesla's Full Self-Driving REALLY Safer Than Humans? Tesla's latest vehicle safety report claims that Autopilot has a crash rate of one accident per 7...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Tesla's latest vehicle safety report claims that Autopilot has a crash rate of one accident per 7 million miles, significantly lower than the U.S.
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we monetized our open source devtool So, you’ve decided to build an open-source product. While your choice is highly commendable, the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So, you’ve decided to build an open-source product. While your choice is highly commendable, the resounding applause from devs on GitHub and Hacker…
Internal Tech Emails
Instagram cofounder on Mark Zuckerberg will he go into destroy mode if I say no
a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Why you should start marketing early * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been thinking a lot recently about when the right time is to start marketing a startup. In my previous startup [http://myonepage.com], we were hesitant to attempt to get press early. We were...
Archinect - Features
'AI Is Built on Datasets That Are Already Biased'; A Conversation with Felecia Davis Ever since her childhood summers sewing patterns at the family dining table, Felecia Davis has...
a year ago
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a year ago
Ever since her childhood summers sewing patterns at the family dining table, Felecia Davis has understood the power of textiles to be a vehicle for communication, connection, and understanding. As her career in architecture unfolded in parallel with wider advances in...
Lighthouse Blog
Updates November 24: Content parsing improvements
a year ago
Seth's Blog
The paradox of lottery thinking Tim Brownson points us to this recent poll of people in Great Britain. About one out of four people...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Tim Brownson points us to this recent poll of people in Great Britain. About one out of four people surveyed (of all ages) believe that they could qualify for the Olympics if they trained for the next four years. This is absurd. It’s the very absurdity of it that makes it common....
TheCollector
Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US undefined
10 months ago
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#35) Chinese defense spending, activists vs. normies, corporate diversity, phones in schools,
8 months ago
Arduino Blog
This nature-inspired display reacts to ambient sounds We all need ways to calm down and relax, and few things are as effective as nature itself. Taking...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
We all need ways to calm down and relax, and few things are as effective as nature itself. Taking inspiration from organic patterns and smooth, flowing waves, dzeng on Instructables has built an LED wall light that responds in real-time to the sounds within a room. The project...
Ralph Ammer
Confucius – Why we need rituals This is a quick introduction to the virtue philosophy of Confucius. The post Confucius – Why we...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a quick introduction to the virtue philosophy of Confucius. The post Confucius – Why we need rituals appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
Computer Things
Stroustrop's Rule Just finished two weeks of workshops and am exhausted, so this one will be light. Hanuka Sale Logic...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Just finished two weeks of workshops and am exhausted, so this one will be light. Hanuka Sale Logic for Programmers is on sale until the end of Chanukah! That's Jan 2nd if you're not Jewish. Get it for 40% off here. Stroustrop's Rule I first encountered Stroustrop's Rule on this...
Val Sopi
Quitting is for the naive <p>Pop culture glorifies quitting. I have done it. There's nothing glorious about it. Having your...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
<p>Pop culture glorifies quitting. I have done it. There's nothing glorious about it. Having your savings dwindle fast is no fun. Time is relative. You have no idea how fast it flies when you need it the most. Especially when you have no contacts in the industry nor an audience....
Noahpinion
How Pakistan can join the South Asia growth boom A guest post by Murtaza Hussain
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
5 essential tips for Customer Success teams on PostHog While PostHog is obviously useful for product managers, engineers and analysts, there’s a lot it can...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
While PostHog is obviously useful for product managers, engineers and analysts, there’s a lot it can do for other teams too — including customer…
Both Are True
What's the one thing we all hate but can't stop doing? achieving ourselves to death within the social media industrial complex
a year ago
Open Culture
Inside the Beautiful Home Frank Lloyd Wright Designed for His Son (1952) Being Frank Lloyd Wright’s son surely came with its downsides. But one of the upsides — assuming you...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Being Frank Lloyd Wright’s son surely came with its downsides. But one of the upsides — assuming you could stay in the mercurial master’s good graces — was the possibility of his designing a house for you. Such was the fortune of his fourth child David Samuel Wright, a Phoenix...
Josh Thompson
Back in the saddle (of writing) Background It’s been a hell of a year. I’ve got about 10,000 things I’ve wanted to write about, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Background It’s been a hell of a year. I’ve got about 10,000 things I’ve wanted to write about, and have not gotten around to any of them. Here’s my various top-level reasons for not writing: what I want to write about feels too complicated to express easily/coherently I feel...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Improving my productivity in 2018 2017 was a really good year for me. I did a lot of freelance work, improved my financial situation,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
2017 was a really good year for me. I did a lot of freelance work, improved my financial situation, built this site and started blogging…
Copper • A blog...
Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years ago: @solvaholic: Sorry I missed your comment of many months ago. I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood. The hours are long, the pay sucks, and there’s...
SatPost by Trung...
Psychology of Apple Packaging Steve Jobs and Jony Ive prioritized packaging, which they said could be "theatre".
11 months ago
The American Scholar
Born to Be Wild One founding family’s centuries-long journey The post Born to Be Wild appeared first on The American...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
One founding family’s centuries-long journey The post Born to Be Wild appeared first on The American Scholar.
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Dead Wall or a Thick Mist' Reading occasionally reveals a pleasing convergence of thought between one writer, separated by...
a year ago
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a year ago
Reading occasionally reveals a pleasing convergence of thought between one writer, separated by centuries and continents, and another. The happy reader is their ambassador and beneficiary. I was again reading Nabokov’s brief, death-haunted novel from 1972, Transparent Things. Its...
Map of the Week
Ice Flows in Greenland The Atlas of the Invisible was published a few years ago. The maps show trends in the earth’s...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
The Atlas of the Invisible was published a few years ago. The maps show trends in the earth’s climate and demographics that are largely hidden to the naked eye. I never got a chance to review it but was recently struck by this visualization. A detailed description of the...
CONTEMPORIST
A Waterfront A-frame House Renovated With Contemporary Finishes Joe Herrin, Principal at Heliotrope Architects, has shared photos of an A-Frame cabin he completed...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Joe Herrin, Principal at Heliotrope Architects, has shared photos of an A-Frame cabin he completed as an idyllic little home on Orcas Island, set within the San Juan Island Archipelago of Washington state. The cabin structure is a modest late-60’s era kit A-frame, built by the...
Paul Graham: Essays
What Doesn't Seem Like Work?
over a year ago
Londonist
Things To Do In The Borough Of Bexley Sound baths, Pre-Raphaelites and a gorgeous sewage pumping station.
10 months ago
MMapped blog
Effective Rust canisters
over a year ago
Construction Physics
Building Fast and Slow: The Empire State Building and the World Trade Center (Part I) The Empire State Building was completed in 1931. At a height of 1250 feet [0], it was the world's...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The Empire State Building was completed in 1931. At a height of 1250 feet [0], it was the world's tallest building, exceeding the recently completed Chrysler building by 202 feet. It would hold that title for the next 39 years, until 1970 when it was surpassed in height by...
Contemporist...
Pitched Roofs Cover This Dark And Moody Farmhouse Atlas Architects has shared photos of a modern house on the Mornington Peninsula, Australia, that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Atlas Architects has shared photos of a modern house on the Mornington Peninsula, Australia, that was once a brown-brick, pitched-roof farmhouse built in the 1980s.
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro undefined
5 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Playroom Inside This Hotel Was Designed With A Desert Theme Sarit Shani Hay Design Studio has shared photos of a modern playroom they designed for a boutique...
a year ago
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a year ago
Sarit Shani Hay Design Studio has shared photos of a modern playroom they designed for a boutique hotel in Israel. Inspired by the unique topography of the desert landscape, the ‘Grow with Six Senses’ playroom emulates the natural features of the surrounding scenery, transforming...
Old Structures...
Different Types of Commercial Use From 1880, a view of Broadway looking north from Morris Street to Trinity Church. Given how deserted...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
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...
Irrational...
Talks
6 months ago
Copper • A blog...
Making my own sharpening blocks When I started wood carving, the only sharpening method I remembered was from seeing my mother use...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
When I started wood carving, the only sharpening method I remembered was from seeing my mother use some kind of smooth broken stone that she passed over the length of the knife blade before sacrificing a chicken. I also remember seeing my father use a very coarse stone wheel...
Steve Klabnik
I'm joining Cloudflare
over a year ago
Moneyness
The lower limit to silver's usefulness in coinage A detectorist in Suffolk, England recently found a beautiful halfpenny minted some time between...
a year ago
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a year ago
A detectorist in Suffolk, England recently found a beautiful halfpenny minted some time between 1625-1649, during the reign of King Charles I. This coin, captured in the video below, illustrates an important feature of coinage: the lower limit to silver's usefulness as a monetary...
Old Structures...
The Inspiration The 14th Street station on the Eighth Avenue subway has an art installation by Tom Otterness called...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
The 14th Street station on the Eighth Avenue subway has an art installation by Tom Otterness called “Life Underground” It consists of a series of brass figures, both human and animal, engaged in various pursuits. Everyone always focuses on the alligator climbing out of a sewer to...
Essays - Benedict...
AI and the automation of work ChatGPT and generative AI will change how we work, but how different is this to all the other...
a year ago
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a year ago
ChatGPT and generative AI will change how we work, but how different is this to all the other waves of automation of the last 200 years? What does it mean for employment? Disruption? Coal consumption?
Rest of World -...
Online extremism linked to rise in school shootings in Brazil, researchers find After a rise in shootings, an all-woman group is advising the new Brazilian government on how to...
a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Will AI Make Work Redundant? Artificial Intelligence (AI) is coming for your job. This, at least, is increasingly conventional...
a year ago
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a year ago
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is coming for your job. This, at least, is increasingly conventional wisdom, but I’m not so sure. In a recent interview, Elon Musk predicted that AI would “make paid work redundant.” I encountered the same opinion watching the latest season of...
Vitalik Buterin's...
The Most Important Scarce Resource is Legitimacy
over a year ago
Weighty Thoughts
One Definite Sign of a Bad Startup Idea If you can’t tell anyone about your startup idea, it's not a good idea
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
The new way of work Amazon is the last one. They are probably the last huge company where hundreds of thousands of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Amazon is the last one. They are probably the last huge company where hundreds of thousands of people will be surveilled, measured and ordered to follow the rule book. The pandemic didn’t create distributed work, the laptop did. Human interaction is critical, but the office isn’t...
Retail Design Blog
Kurasu café by Kousou Exploring the tension between order and disorder When Kurasu, the specialty coffee brand from Kyoto,...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Exploring the tension between order and disorder When Kurasu, the specialty coffee brand from Kyoto, entered Indonesia, its first home...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Friends They May Become To-morrow' “New books can have few associations. They may reach us on the best deckle-edged Whatman paper, in...
a month ago
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a month ago
“New books can have few associations. They may reach us on the best deckle-edged Whatman paper, in the newest types of famous presses, with backs of embossed vellum, with tasteful tasselled strings,--and yet be no more to us than the constrained and uneasy acquaintances of...
macwright.com
codemirror-continue by Wrote and released codemirror-continue today. When you’re writing a block comment in TypeScript and...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
Wrote and released codemirror-continue today. When you’re writing a block comment in TypeScript and you hit “Enter”, this intelligently adds a * on the next line. Most likely, your good editor (Neovim, VS Code) already has this behavior and you miss it in CodeMirror. So I wrote...
IEEE Spectrum
The Battle for Better, Broader, More Inclusive AI AI’s inclusivity problem is no secret. According to the ACLU, AI systems can perpetuate housing...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
AI’s inclusivity problem is no secret. According to the ACLU, AI systems can perpetuate housing discrimination and bias in the justice system, among other harms. Bias in the data an AI model relies on is reproduced in its results. Large Language Models (LLMs) share this problem;...
Archinect - Features
What Europe Can (and Can’t) Tell the US About Architectural Licensure In the third part of Archinect In-Depth: Licensure, we reflect on what the United States can learn...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
In the third part of Archinect In-Depth: Licensure, we reflect on what the United States can learn from the architecture licensure models of other nations. While doing so, we speak with Peggy Deamer, Professor Emerita of Yale University's School of Architecture, whose book...
The Berkeley...
Koala: A Dialogue Model for Academic Research In this post, we introduce Koala, a chatbot trained by fine-tuning Meta’s LLaMA on dialogue data...
a year ago
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a year ago
In this post, we introduce Koala, a chatbot trained by fine-tuning Meta’s LLaMA on dialogue data gathered from the web. We describe the dataset curation and training process of our model, and also present the results of a user study that compares our model to ChatGPT and...
Lighthouse Blog
Updates March 22
9 months ago
Max Rozen
Guidelines for developing Custom Hooks in React You've just gotten over the fact we call them 'Hooks', but how do you stop repeating the same code...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You've just gotten over the fact we call them 'Hooks', but how do you stop repeating the same code everywhere? Let's learn about Custom Hooks.
One Useful Thing
What people ask me most. Also, some answers. A FAQ of sorts
a year ago
Mazdak
RRSP vs TFSA: Making the Right Choice for Your Financial Future Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs) and Tax-Free Savings Accounts (TFSAs) are two powerful...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs) and Tax-Free Savings Accounts (TFSAs) are two powerful investment vehicles available to Canadians.
Musings on Maps
Swing States, Battleground States and Hot Spots Are the maps of President Trump's 2024 electoral evidence of a sudden shift or deep undercurrents of...
a month ago
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a month ago
Are the maps of President Trump's 2024 electoral evidence of a sudden shift or deep undercurrents of disaffection? The sudden partisan shift of voting maps suggest a dark undercurrents in American politics. Continue reading →
TheCollector
Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal undefined
7 months ago
diamond geezer
Counties visited Now that my blog is really old, I thought it might be interesting from time to time to go back and...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Now that my blog is really old, I thought it might be interesting from time to time to go back and revisit a post from 20 years ago. Ideally exactly 20 years ago, which in this case would be 8th February 2004. When I asked this.  Sunday, February 08, 2004   I've visited the...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#44) Poland vs. China; smartphones; basic income; the soft landing; wages and automation; software and...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Poland vs. China; smartphones; basic income; the soft landing; wages and automation; software and inequality; immigrant doctors
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Plutarch and Pleasure
a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole 2021-10-28 After seeing Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole 2021-10-28 After seeing Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 for Families mentioned on the front page of HackerNews, I thought it might be helpful to show those currently using a pi-hole device how to include 1.1.1.1 alongside it. Keeping Things...
Noahpinion
Why rabbits? Towards a better, floofier world.
a year ago
The Rational Walk
Warren Buffett on Inflation — Part 3 During periods of high inflation, capital-light businesses have important advantages. See's Candies...
a year ago
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a year ago
During periods of high inflation, capital-light businesses have important advantages. See's Candies during the Great Inflation of the 1970s and early 1980s is a perfect case study.
Maps Mania
Mapping the Big Map Index
6 months ago
TheCollector
American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87 undefined
8 months ago
Math Is Still...
Deep Beneath Earth’s Surface, Clues to Life’s Origins Last spring, scientists retrieved a trove of mantle rocks from underneath the Atlantic seafloor — a...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
Last spring, scientists retrieved a trove of mantle rocks from underneath the Atlantic seafloor — a bounty that could help write the first chapter of life's story on Earth. The post Deep Beneath Earth’s Surface, Clues to Life’s Origins first appeared on Quanta...
Moneyness
Your finances are being snooped on. Here's how We all have a pretty good idea that our finances are being snooped on, but most of us aren't quite...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
We all have a pretty good idea that our finances are being snooped on, but most of us aren't quite able to articulate how. We know that we're being snooped on by two groups, corporations and the government. This post will focus on how the government snoops on our transactions,...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The 9 best GDPR-compliant analytics tools The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) places significant restrictions on how you can use...
a year ago
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a year ago
The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) places significant restrictions on how you can use tools like Google Analytics to track and collect user…
TheCollector
Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships? undefined
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
How to fine-tune ChatGPT No GPU cluster required.
a year ago
Josh Thompson
Mythical Creatures: Refactoring wizard.rb Preparing for Turing Series Index What follows is an eight-part series that will help you pick up...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Preparing for Turing Series Index What follows is an eight-part series that will help you pick up useful information about a number of topics related to Ruby, specifically geared for students learning the Ruby programming language, as part of the Turing School’s Backend Software...
Arduino Blog
Using Arduino with gaming It’s not surprising that the Arduino community is packed to the brim with examples of gaming-related...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
It’s not surprising that the Arduino community is packed to the brim with examples of gaming-related projects. Both activities tend to attract people with a love for problem-solving, technology, and getting immersed in one challenging activity for hours at a time. The result is...
PostHog's RSS Feed
What we built at our sun-kissed Aruba hackathon Every year, Team PostHog congregates for our annual all-company offsite . In previous years we've...
a year ago
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a year ago
Every year, Team PostHog congregates for our annual all-company offsite . In previous years we've been to Italy, Portugal and Iceland. This year, we…
Daniel Miessler
News & Analysis | NO. 352
over a year ago
Willem's Blog
For the love of mini The iPhone Mini has intangible greatness that most folks don't know about: read along for the love...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The iPhone Mini has intangible greatness that most folks don't know about: read along for the love of mini!
Anecdotal Evidence
'And in the Darkness Comes the Light' Chard Powers Smith (1894-1977) was a latecomer to the protracted Era of American Writers with Three...
a year ago
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a year ago
Chard Powers Smith (1894-1977) was a latecomer to the protracted Era of American Writers with Three Names, coming decades after John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell and William Dean Howells. Smith is probably more thoroughly forgotten than the others, though in 1939 he...
Seth's Blog
“What’s the catch?” It’s an important question. Lots of opportunities come with one, and going in with your eyes open...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
It’s an important question. Lots of opportunities come with one, and going in with your eyes open helps avoid problems later. Two challenges: Sometimes, a really good opportunity doesn’t actually have a catch. And spending a lot of time looking for one keeps us from the work we...
davidyat.es
Advent of Code 2024: Days 1–5
2 weeks ago
Good Enough
Having Trouble Getting Started? Pair Up! A body at rest tends to stay at rest, and a body in motion tends to stay in motion, unless acted on...
a year ago
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a year ago
A body at rest tends to stay at rest, and a body in motion tends to stay in motion, unless acted on by a net external force. Sir Isaac Newton I often find that just getting started is the hardest part of doing something. This is especially true when the project is large or...
Louwrentius
Raspberry Pi as a router using a single network interface Introduction Disclaimer: this article is intended for consumers and hobbyists. If you want to run...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction Disclaimer: this article is intended for consumers and hobbyists. If you want to run your own router at home, the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B1 can be an excelent hardware choice: it's fairly cheap it's fast enough it can saturate it's gigabit network port it is...
Quentin Santos
Upgrading to Debian Trixie I had been running Bookworm for quite a while. It has now been stable for more than a year. In other...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I had been running Bookworm for quite a while. It has now been stable for more than a year. In other words, Trixie has now been testing for more than a year, and will most likely become the new stable in less than a year. In the past, I encountered a few surprises with unstable …...
Open Culture
Take a Tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House, the Mansion That Has Appeared in Blade Runner, Twin... There are more than a few of us who’d enjoy the opportunity to live in a house that appears in Blade...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
There are more than a few of us who’d enjoy the opportunity to live in a house that appears in Blade Runner; there are rather few of us who would value that opportunity at $23 million, the asking price given in the 2019 Architectural Digest video on Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1924...
balajis.com
Prompts are Tiny Programs And prompt engineering is a subset of software engineering.
11 months ago
TheCollector
Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union undefined
6 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Latest Gallup Creationism Poll Surveys are always tricky because how you ask a question can have a dramatic impact on how people...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Surveys are always tricky because how you ask a question can have a dramatic impact on how people answer. But it is useful to ask the exact same question over a long period of time, because that can indicate how public attitudes are changing. This is one of the benefits of...
Notes on software...
Running SQL Server in a container on Github Actions This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Louis Pereira Lessons from building AudioPen to 600+ paid users to clinching #1 on Product Hunt
a year ago
AI Snake Oil
Generative AI companies must publish transparency reports The debate about the harms of AI is happening in a data vacuum
a year ago
Nadia Asparouhova
The New American University I had the pleasure of stumbling upon the work of Michael Crow, Arizona State University’s president,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I had the pleasure of stumbling upon the work of Michael Crow, Arizona State University’s president, earlier this year, and I so enjoyed his thoughts on knowledge production that I immediately wondered how his philosophy would translate to ASU as an organization. Turns out,...
Vadim Kravcenko
Asking questions the right way In the software development realm, asking questions isn’t just a right—it’s a downright necessity....
a year ago
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a year ago
In the software development realm, asking questions isn’t just a right—it’s a downright necessity. Let’s cut the crap and dive […] The post Asking questions the right way appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Neil Madden
A few programming language features I’d like to see I enjoyed Hillel Wayne’s recent newsletter about microfeatures they’d like to see in programming...
a year ago
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a year ago
I enjoyed Hillel Wayne’s recent newsletter about microfeatures they’d like to see in programming languages. A “microfeature” is essentially a small convenience that makes programming in that language a bit easier without fundamentally changing it. I love this idea. I’m partial to...
TheCollector
10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir undefined
10 months ago
Ink & Switch
Embark: Dynamic documents for making plans Gradually enriching a text outline with travel planning tools
a year ago
mtlynch.io
Key Mime Pi: Turn Your Raspberry Pi into a Remote Keyboard Recent versions of the Raspberry Pi support USB on-the-go (USB OTG), which allows them to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Recent versions of the Raspberry Pi support USB on-the-go (USB OTG), which allows them to impersonate USB devices such as keyboards, thumb drives, and microphones. To take advantage of this, I made an open-source web app that turns my Pi into a fake keyboard. I call it Key Mime...
Christopher Butler
Gestalt Principles of Design – Continuity Elements that are arranged on a line or curve are perceived as more related than elements that are...
a year ago
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a year ago
Elements that are arranged on a line or curve are perceived as more related than elements that are not. The Gestalt Principles of Design are a set of concepts and guidelines drawn from gestalt psychology, which theorizes that the mind tends to process organized groups of...
mtlynch.io
Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself For the past four years, I’ve worked as a software developer at Google. On February 1st, I quit. It...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For the past four years, I’ve worked as a software developer at Google. On February 1st, I quit. It was because they refused to buy me a Christmas present. Well, I guess it’s a little more complicated than that. The first two years Two years in, I loved Google. When the annual...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Attention Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The real endgame is when AI can just generate novel...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The real endgame is when AI can just generate novel cat videos inside your brain. Today's News:
Willem's Blog
Building a product platform Leverage platform capabilities to quickly launch new products, designing for reusability,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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by Winnie Bosibori Lists are one of the fundamental semantic HTML configurations that, when implemented appropriately can enhance accessibility. HTML Lists Refresher Whenever I visit any website, I have formed the habit of checking for any accessibility issues and delving deeper...
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Floisand Studio Architects has sent us photos of a contemporary remodel of a 1970s home they completed that was originally designed by prominent Seattle Architect, Ralph Anderson. The 3-story home on Seattle’s Mercer Island was renovated and modernized, preserving what the...
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Mathematicians have illuminated what sets of points can look like if the distances between them are all whole numbers. The post Merging Fields, Mathematicians Go the Distance On Old Problem first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Naming your startup The Name Inspector has a good post today regarding 6 naming myths to ignore. I think it’s generally...
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The Name Inspector has a good post today regarding 6 naming myths to ignore. I think it’s generally right on.   Naming is so important and…
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I've never run my own mail server before. Before today I had no clue how email worked under the hood other than the very few times I've set up mail clients. I've heard no few times how hard it is to send mail from a self-hosted server (because of spam filters). But how hard can...
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Recent Stuff A few weeks ago we (fellow MAF pilot Andrew and I) landed at Amudat airstrip for the first time in a...
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A few weeks ago we (fellow MAF pilot Andrew and I) landed at Amudat airstrip for the first time in a very long time (below). Over the past year and a half quite a few of the upcountry airstrips in Uganda (especially in Karamoja) deteriorated so badly that we had to stop using...
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0. It’s Been a Long Time Sorry 4 the silence these past weeks. Life happened fast and furious. Barry’s daughters all had marching band, and he chaperoned 4 the parades. His eldest daughter also went and got a boyfriend. Shawn’s been feeling a little under the weather, and his two...
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Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of  cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too.   Raninet...
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In a prior role, I experienced friction with my sales team’s leadership: They emphasized the needs of the economic buyer and neglected the end-users. They withheld key performance indicators from prospects (i.e. pricing, number of customers, customer satisfaction). They demeaned...
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Here's a fun analysis that I did of the pitch (aka. frequency) of various languages. Certain languages are simply pronounced with lower or higher pitch. Whether this is a feature of the language or more a cultural thing is a good question, but there are some substantial...
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Obsession is a pretty powerful thing. It’s awesome how you can get obsessed with something and spend all your energy just being obsessed with that thing. Some of my favorite musicians are like that. Matt Bellamy from Muse would always talk about how he’s just been obsessed with...
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When a friend tells me they want to date someone, I ask them why. They always say “she’s pretty, funny, and kind”, or “he is handsome, funny, and cares for me”. Obviously. Have you ever wanted to date someone because they are ugly, boring, and mean? So, rather than asking more...
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For those of you who don't follow our company blog, we've just published another "tech porn" story on migrating a huge database from Linux to Windows with no downtime. Check it out. TL;DR: we spawned a Linux version of SQL Server and moved the database using "log-shipping"....
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They say it’s the mappiest day of the year, but here’s a short video we made for GIS Day way back at the mappiest place on earth (aka the Esri User Conference) back in July! November felt like forever away, but you know how all that goes. Thanks to Jo Ann Prichniewski for...
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In the annals of American history, few individuals have wielded influence over such diverse and critical industries as Elon Musk. His companies, spanning transportation, communication, artificial intelligence, and space exploration, stand as testaments to his audacious vision and...
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As science evolves, so does the Science Museum. The Secret Life of the Home. This much-loved corner of the basement, where the life of the domestic appliance is quirkily celebrated, closes forever on Sunday 2nd June. I went for a last look round with a wall-to-wall smile,...
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In September of 1978, the Grateful Dead traveled to Egypt and played three shows at the Great Pyramid of Giza, with the Great Sphinx looking over their shoulders. It wasn’t the first time a rock band played in an ancient setting. Pink Floyd performed songs in the middle of the...
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photos by Masashi Mizowaki and Takaharu Yagi Spending the night in jail is usually not a good thing. Unless of course you’re staying in Japan’s Nara Prison, a historic red-brick structure built in 1908 with western archways and onion domes that lend an air of castle more than...
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The once-tumultuous used car market, characterized by record-high prices and limited options, has begun to exhibit signs of a significant shift. Prices are now decelerating, presenting both challenges and opportunities for buyers. This article delves into the key factors driving...
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In one of the essential books published in the twentieth century, The Great Terror (1968; rev. 1990, 2008), Robert Conquest (1917-2015) writes matter-of-factly: “We are told in recent Soviet articles that on 12 December 1937 alone, Stalin and Molotov sanctioned 3,167 death...
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For the last year and a half I read short books, mostly, which was psychologically satisfying and anyway necessary to fit the available energy and concentration.  Now, though, back on my feet, I hope, I am ready to read long books again. Long, and I mean it, like Rebecca West’s...
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Born in Yorkshire in 1791, Anne Lister was a landowner famed for keeping detailed diaries that totalled over four million words, a sixth of which was written in a code she devised to conceal her sexuality and intimate encounters. Discovered and deciphered by a descendant in the...
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Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and pictures from that event.
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This eight-step process brought WP Engine from an idea to a Unicorn. While there are other roads to Product/Market Fit, consider copying some of these ideas.
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Please, let me monetize my hobbies. After all, what’s the point of doing something purely for fun when I could be making money off it? Please, let me turn my relaxing gaming sessions into high-pressure performances with commentary. Who wouldn’t enjoy transforming a leisurely...
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tsai Design has sent us photos of a micro-apartment they renovated in St. Kilda, Australia, that measures in at just 269 square feet (25m2), and features a unique and unexpected brass design element. Named ‘St Kilda Micro Sanctuary’, the small apartment has been designed for a...
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The development of attosecond pulses of light allowed researchers to explore the frame-by-frame movement of electrons. The post Physicists Who Explored Tiny Glimpses of Time Win Nobel Prize first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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The Double Kick [EPISODE] Watch a skate video today, and you’ll notice how similarly shaped the boards are. It’s called the...
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Watch a skate video today, and you’ll notice how similarly shaped the boards are. It’s called the “popsicle” design, because the deck is narrow in the middle and rounded off at both ends, like a popsicle stick. This may seem stupid simple, but that basic, clean popsicle shape is...
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Why you should study philosophy. 5 reasons why philosophy is useful. The post Why study Philosophy? appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is why smbc refuses to be about anything whatsoever, except maybe the idea that clowns are a species with interesting sexual customs. Today's News: Geeks of the UK! If you pre-order soon, you get a 20% discount on my new...
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Yesterday, Lettini took a chance and posted about Jelly on Hacker News, a discussion site notorious for it's mercurial population of tech-maybe-too-saavy experts. Jelly is a tough sell for some of them, those with the technical skill to pipe email at a low level through...
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Welcome to the sixth installment of Archinect's 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. Throughout the past month, several...
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The month of May seems a little while ago, so I’d better get on and write it up. This will be quick. The big news in the UK was Rishi Sunak, the outgoing PM, calling a general election for 4 July. Independence-from-the-Tories Day. May was also the month that u-turner/blowharder...
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At this point in my career, I’ve worked on at least three projects where performance was a defining characteristic: Livegrep, Taktician, and Sorbet (I discussed sorbet in particular last time, and livegrep in an earlier post). I’ve also done a lot of other performance work on the...
NeuroLogica Blog
Student Attitudes Toward AI in the Class Researchers recently published an extensive survey of almost 6,000 students across academic...
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Researchers recently published an extensive survey of almost 6,000 students across academic institution in Sweden. The results are not surprising, but they do give a snapshot of where we are with the recent introduction of large language model AIs. Most students, 56%, reported...
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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?
Paul Graham: Essays
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I’m still a Nix beginner, and one thing I couldn’t figure out until recently was how to keep parts of my configuration.nix file under source control. My goal I’d like for my Nix configuration files to be modular and reusable, so depending on the system or flake, I can pull in...
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Designed by Nara-based design studio A4, tumi-isi (積み石; ‘stacking stones’ in Japanese) are a set of 5 blocks individually hand bevelled into asymmetrical shapes by local artisans. No two sets are identical. These tactile objects are meant to nourish your sense of balance and...
Oxide Computer...
Benefits as a Reflection of Values “We offer the best health insurance we could find” is what we promise in our job postings. On paper,...
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“We offer the best health insurance we could find” is what we promise in our job postings. On paper, this is accurate: the health insurance Oxide offers is the best plan we can find that is offered to small businesses. What we left unsaid until now is that the best health...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
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The following is an extension of my notes from Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” including quotes from the author. More manpower !== more innovation. design innovation isn’t generally a question of team size but more about having the resources and freedom to experiment...
Good Enough
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FriendlyId is a helpful Ruby gem that streamlines creating permalinks and slugs for Rails applications. In Pika we're using it to help with generating permalinks for blog posts and pages as well as slugs for tags. When a customer wrote in with a request to modify the behavior of...
Interaction Magic -...
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Since early 2020, I've been teaching courses in Interaction Technologies and Prototyping. Switches, light, gesture, motion, sound, haptics: this is all about exploring life beyond the screen.
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A followup on my previous first impressions post, with an update on how the Glove80 ergonomic split keyboard has been after about six months of daily use.
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An exploit on Gaana.com gave me access to their entire User Database In May, 2015 I found an exploit on Gaana.com, which let me access their entire User Database (more...
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In May, 2015 I found an exploit on Gaana.com, which let me access their entire User Database (more than 10 Million) which included all the user info.
somethingaboutmaps
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Gentle readers, I have some exciting things to share with you. After several months of tinkering and toolmaking, I have created a series of posters of iconic peaks (and other terrain), illustrated in a sketch style inspired by old hachure drawings. There are 37 designs to choose...
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Today, I'd like to focus entirely on the projects I'm working on and the special deals we prepared for only this week as a way to say THANK YOU to our community.
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The introduction of line names on the Overground is sure to bring sightseers to Havering to see what the Liberty line is all about. So here's my tip-top tourist guide to help you find the finest places in the locality, some of which are actually rather fine. 10 things to see on...
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Last July, when we announced the beginning of the transition from Mbed to Zephyr, we promised to release the first beta by the end of 2024. Today, we are excited to announce the first release of Arduino cores with ZephyrOS in beta! ZephyrOS is an open-source, real-time operating...
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To get to the Kebab House Cafe, you’ll need to drive past a dozen fast food restaurants, restaurants you can find off just about any interstate. It’s certainly less convenient to go a few blocks off the beaten path, but the food and service and vibe might be worth it. The thing...
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The core concepts are simple. The implementation is borderline excessive. The post The TWA Hotel appeared first on David Perell.
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also rationality developed entirely to rationalize your own behavior. Its use in mathematics is incidental. Today's News:
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Mitchell + Corti Architects has designed a new rear ground floor extension for a home in England, that’s clad in cork. The architect mentions, “We chose to clad the extension in something a little different a dark patterned cork, in order to use a sustainable material and test...
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<p>Sort of without fail and unplanned, every year in December, I usually think of a word that I want to live by the upcoming year.</p> <p>Depending on what kind of year I have had, the&nbsp;Word for the upcoming one should represent the practical step ahead for...
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Harakado, opened on April 17, 2024 at the Jingumae intersection along Omotesando Street in central Tokyo. The shiny, brand new facility was designed by architect Akihisa Hirata, whose interest in tangled, organic structures, is on full display in his rendering of the facade and...
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For a while now we've seen that images in our Pika atom feeds were not displaying in some feed readers. In fact, they weren't displaying in my own feed reader, which routes through Feedly. I was sad. I spent a lot of time troubleshooting this. Compared our feed with a lot of atom...
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