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Anecdotal Evidence
'When We Have Excellent Books, They Sell' “People tell us all the time that civilization is finished, that the world is coming to an end. But...
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“People tell us all the time that civilization is finished, that the world is coming to an end. But then we look at our sales details and we smile.”  John Byron Kuhner posts a rare dispatch of hope from the world of books, the beating heart of what remains of our civilization. In...
HTMHell
Misleading Icons: Icon-Only-Buttons and Their Impact on Screen Readers by Alexander Muzenhardt Introduction Imagine you’re tasked with building a cool new feature for a...
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2 weeks ago
by Alexander Muzenhardt Introduction Imagine you’re tasked with building a cool new feature for a product. You dive into the work with full energy, and just before the deadline, you manage to finish it. Everyone loves your work, and the feature is set to go live the next...
Noahpinion
What just happened in San Francisco politics? A guest post by Armand Domalewski
10 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Burial Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: They must've felt so in tune with their...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: They must've felt so in tune with their environment. Today's News: Next Tuesday!
Anecdotal Evidence
'About As Approachable As a Porcupine' The large bay window facing the garden in front of our house is better than television....
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2 months ago
The large bay window facing the garden in front of our house is better than television. No commercials, no dependency on internet whims, no bills to pay. That’s where I do most of my reading (best lighting in the house). From the couch I watch the show in the garden. Butterflies,...
Louwrentius
'Syslog: the hidden security risk' People sometimes forget that there are also a number of UDP-based services that may pose a threat to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
People sometimes forget that there are also a number of UDP-based services that may pose a threat to the security of your systems. SNMP is a well-known service, notorious for being configured with a default password (or community string). But there is another service that is...
journal – Winnie Lim
from creativity to activity I started making websites and dabbling in photoshop when I first got my computer at 15. I never felt...
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10 months ago
I started making websites and dabbling in photoshop when I first got my computer at 15. I never felt particularly creative as a child and I hated art classes so when that...
Tony Finch's blog
nsnotifyd-2.3 released D’oh, I lost track of a bug report that should have been fixed in nsnotifyd-2.2. Thus, hot on the...
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a month ago
D’oh, I lost track of a bug report that should have been fixed in nsnotifyd-2.2. Thus, hot on the heels of [the previous release][prev], here’s nsnotifyd-2.3. Sorry for causing extra work to my uncountably many users! The nsnotifyd daemon monitors a set of DNS zones and runs a...
Open Culture
The Scene That Reveals the Beauty of Classic Hollywood Cinema 1939 is widely considered the greatest year in Hollywood history. Back then, writes 1939: The Year...
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a week ago
1939 is widely considered the greatest year in Hollywood history. Back then, writes 1939: The Year in Movies author Tom Flannery, the so-called “Big Eight” major American studios “had a combined 590 actors, 114 directors and 340 writers under contract, each of whom worked an...
The Elysian
Hint #3 I'm publishing a new print collection in one week.
4 months ago
Noahpinion
Western leftists have lost the plot Gleeful support for the massacre of innocents is simply inhumane.
a year ago
Probably...
PMFs and PDFs It’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
It’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous installments are available from the Data Q&A landing page. If you get this post by email, the formatting is not good — you might want to read it on the site. pmf_and_pdf PMFs and PDFs¶ Here’s...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Up Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I wonder how many miracles get boring if you just...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I wonder how many miracles get boring if you just grant god an extra dimension? Today's News:
bunnie's blog
The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen Some might remember a book I released in 2016, “The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen”. A...
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a year ago
Some might remember a book I released in 2016, “The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen”. A lot has changed in the world since then, and Shenzhen is no exception. There’s a new maintainer of the guide, Naomi Wu (@realsexycyborg), and she is crowdfunding an updated, new...
The Codist
How To Know When It's Time To Go I retired in 2021 at 63.5 after about four decades as a programmer. What made me do this was not...
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6 months ago
I retired in 2021 at 63.5 after about four decades as a programmer. What made me do this was not failing ability in any way, but after a year of consideration, I realized I didn't care to do it anymore. Everyone will eventually reach a point at
Noahpinion
Heterodox vs. mainstream macroeconomics If you're skeptical of one, you should be skeptical of the other too.
a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Teleportation teleportation does exist from OR to recovery room I left something behind not quite a part of...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
teleportation does exist from OR to recovery room I left something behind not quite a part of myself —unwelcome guests poisoning me from the inside no longer welcome
swyx's site RSS Feed
Make your own Dev.to CMS livestream - Part 1 Livecoding my own Dev.to CMS with Next.js + Preact + TypeScript + Tailwind UI
over a year ago
TheCollector
8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History undefined
3 months ago
Louwrentius
HP Proliant Microserver N40L is a great NAS or Router Update 2012-12-11: It seems that a new and faster version is on the horizon. Update 2012-12-21:...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Update 2012-12-11: It seems that a new and faster version is on the horizon. Update 2012-12-21: Yes, the new model G7 N54L is out. Some products seem almost too good to be true and I think the HP Proliant Microserver N40L is one of them. If you are into the market for a very...
TheCollector
What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work? undefined
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Our Instinctual Taste for Periodicity and Return' I got a kick out of Damian at A Sunday of Liberty reveling in a rhyme that seems...
a year ago
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a year ago
I got a kick out of Damian at A Sunday of Liberty reveling in a rhyme that seems genetically implanted in American kids, regardless of age or geography:  “Greasy, grimy gopher guts! Little dirty birdie feet!”   As in any folk tradition, variants abound. This is the version I grew...
Wrong Side of...
Your favourite half-British president We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
2 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Facts Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: He finds inner peace by creating outer...
7 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
In Defense of Bitcoin Maximalism
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Our new objective: Nail Self Serve The longer your strategy gets, the more useless it becomes. That's why, at PostHog, we communicate...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The longer your strategy gets, the more useless it becomes. That's why, at PostHog, we communicate strategy as 'Nail X', where X is the thing we need…
Notes on software...
Finishing up a FreeBSD experiment I've been using FreeBSD as my daily driver at work since December. I've successfully done my job and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've been using FreeBSD as my daily driver at work since December. I've successfully done my job and I've learned a hell of a lot forcing myself on CURRENT... But there's been a number of issues with it that have made it difficult to keep using, so I replaced it with Arch Linux...
A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on uploads Uploads management is a concept I've always struggled with in Postleaf, but it's a necessary evil....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Uploads management is a concept I've always struggled with in Postleaf, but it's a necessary evil. Users have to be able to view and delete files they upload; but at the same time, I've never felt that it should be an integral part of the app. Last night I had to face the fact...
Notes on software...
Starting a minimal Common Lisp project If you've only vaguely heard of Lisp before or studied Scheme in school, Common Lisp is nothing like...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you've only vaguely heard of Lisp before or studied Scheme in school, Common Lisp is nothing like what you'd expect. While functional programming is all the rage in Scheme, Common Lisp was "expressly designed to be a real-world engineering language rather than a theoretically...
TheCollector
5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know undefined
a year ago
mtlynch.io
Pursuing a Business I'll Love Highlights Zestful had its biggest month ever, with $3,936 in revenue. Is It Keto also had its best...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Highlights Zestful had its biggest month ever, with $3,936 in revenue. Is It Keto also had its best month ever, at $393 in revenue. After lots of research and customer interviews, I gave up on my idea for creating sheet metal software. I published my first version of an app for...
./techtipsy
I've reached the self-hosting endgame Setup After I had a perfectly functional, quiet and performant server up and running, I fell victim...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Setup After I had a perfectly functional, quiet and performant server up and running, I fell victim to my imagination and completely changed my self-hosting setup. Again. Here it is, in all its glory: Well, at least that’s what’s on the table. This machine is a true all-in-one:...
Seth's Blog
Learning from the Amazon gift card snafu Millions of people got this email last night: It’s legitimate, but it’s a mistake. A mistake...
a year ago
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a year ago
Millions of people got this email last night: It’s legitimate, but it’s a mistake. A mistake because: We can learn a lot about what not to do from this. First, if you make a mistake by email, fix it. Fix it by email AND fix it on your site. Let everyone who got the wrong […]
Asterisk
The EA-Progress Studies War is Here, and It’s a Constructive Dialogue! We’re hoping Marc Andreessen doesn’t read this and polarize everyone again.
6 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Twitter's White Terror era The Vibe Shift comes to Britain
14 hours ago
Steven Scrawls
The Controversial Aftermath of the 777Linguine Interview The Controversial Aftermath of the 777Linguine Interview Longtime fans of popular EDM “angststep”...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The Controversial Aftermath of the 777Linguine Interview Longtime fans of popular EDM “angststep” artist 777Linguine are “shocked” and “betrayed” after his polarizing statements yesterday that his latest album, NOMORETEARS2CRY, was written and recorded in a time of “profound...
Maps Mania
The 46 States of America & Each State Flower
7 months ago
Working Theorys
Weekend Theorys No. 2 Crypto social games, work "trials," and meeting your creations in the wild.
11 months ago
TokyoDev
The "No, I Don't Live In Tokyo" Series: Developing in Kansai There’s more to Japan than Tokyo and its Kanto region! Would you consider living and working in...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
There’s more to Japan than Tokyo and its Kanto region! Would you consider living and working in Kansai instead? The Kansai region of Japan most famously encompasses the prefectures of Osaka, Kyoto, and Nara—Osaka being Japan’s second-largest city after Tokyo, and Kyoto and Nara...
Old Structures...
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...
Willem's Blog
Realtime human pose recognition through computer vision For an exciting new project I have been experimenting with TensorFlow, enabling realtime pose...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For an exciting new project I have been experimenting with TensorFlow, enabling realtime pose detection using PoseNet.
Julia Evans
Lima: a nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac Hello! Here’s a new entry in the “cool software julia likes” section. A little while ago I started...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hello! Here’s a new entry in the “cool software julia likes” section. A little while ago I started using a Mac, and one of my biggest frustrations with it is that often I need to run Linux-specific software. For example, the nginx playground I posted about the other day only...
TheCollector
Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism undefined
6 months ago
The American Scholar
“To David, About His Education” by Howard Nemerov Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “To David, About His Education” by Howard Nemerov appeared...
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2 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “To David, About His Education” by Howard Nemerov appeared first on The American Scholar.
TheCollector
From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace? undefined
8 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Break it down Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: A little Adderall wouldn't hurt either. Today's...
8 months ago
Old Structures...
Other People’s Perception Every once in a while, something slightly out of the ordinary reminds me of how our work looks to...
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Every once in a while, something slightly out of the ordinary reminds me of how our work looks to people not in the AEC world. Yesterday morning I was walking up Thames Street from Trinity to Broadway and took this photo: That block of Thames is a great illustration of why the...
Construction Physics
How I Write Posts I sometimes get asked what my process is for researching and writing Substack posts. I always enjoy...
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10 months ago
I sometimes get asked what my process is for researching and writing Substack posts. I always enjoy reading other people’s discussions of their writing process, so I thought it would be worthwhile to explain mine. First, some background. In school I was a competent but...
Anecdotal Evidence
'In Constant Repair' “In the streets I saw two men meet after a long separation, it was plain. They came forward with a...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
“In the streets I saw two men meet after a long separation, it was plain. They came forward with a little run and LEAPED at each other’s hands. You never saw such bright eyes as they both had. It put one in a good humour to see it.” Yet again I’ve heard the small-minded slur that...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Solve CORS once and for all with Netlify Dev _Published on [Alligator.io](https://alligator.io/nodejs/solve-cors-once-and-for-all-netlify-dev/)_
over a year ago
Willem's Blog
Swimming and cycling with Apple Watch This month I tested the newest watchOS while swimming and cycling.
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
What’s trending on Spotify in Africa? Jocelyne Muhutu-Remy talks about the most surprising user behavior on the music streaming app.
7 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes from “Weathering Software Winter” by Devine Lu Linvega I watched this talk[1] where the presenter details their experience trying to use modern digital...
a year ago
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a year ago
I watched this talk[1] where the presenter details their experience trying to use modern digital devices while living on a boat with little to zero connectivity. It soon became obvious that all the technology [we planned to use] was not designed to leave the western world. It was...
Josh Collinsworth
A New Headless Site with Gridsome A lengthy write-up diving into what headless means, its advantages and disadvantages, some of the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A lengthy write-up diving into what headless means, its advantages and disadvantages, some of the techniques and gotchas involved, and, finally, the new design of this site specifically.
Paolo Amoroso's...
Exploring Medley as a Common Lisp development environment <![CDATA[Since encountering Medley I gained considerable experience with Interlisp. Medley Interlisp...
a year ago
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a year ago
<![CDATA[Since encountering Medley I gained considerable experience with Interlisp. Medley Interlisp is a project for preserving, reviving, and modernizing the Interlisp-D software development environment of the Lisp Machines Xerox created at PARC. Nine months later I know...
Blog - Guerrilla...
Bangalore's Disappearing Lakes In an area of pronounced water scarcity high on the Deccan plateau, at an altitude removed from...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In an area of pronounced water scarcity high on the Deccan plateau, at an altitude removed from river-water and of water extraction from the ground, despite being historically nourished by monsoons, Bangalore's current population faces deep inequities of access to water which are...
The Honest Broker
My 10 Most Popular Articles of 2023 Number one will surprise you
a year ago
Wuthering...
The Nicomachean Ethics - moderate Aristotle - clarity within the limits of the subject matter I will borrow the quotation from Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics I found on p. 186 of Gary Paul...
a year ago
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I will borrow the quotation from Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics I found on p. 186 of Gary Paul Morson’s extraordinary new study of the ethics if Russian literature: Our discussion will be adequate if it achieves clarity within the limits of the subject matter.  For precision...
the singularity is...
choose your own adventure In about 15 years, a desktop computer will be able to do everything a human can. In 25, a mobile...
a year ago
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a year ago
In about 15 years, a desktop computer will be able to do everything a human can. In 25, a mobile phone. Barring a catastrophe, these are facts. What does the future look like for humanity? The only reason we killed all the animals is because the Earth is small. The longest...
diamond geezer
The great Banksy cover-up I visited the new Banksy on Hornsey Road on Day 3, which proved the optimal time. Days 1 and 2 it...
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I visited the new Banksy on Hornsey Road on Day 3, which proved the optimal time. Days 1 and 2 it had been rammed with people crowding round the railings, so getting a decent photo was difficult. Day 4 someone chucked white paint over part of the artwork closest to the road and...
Retail Design Blog
Eight Oaks Farm Distillery by Makers & Allies Eight Oaks Farm Distillery is so much more than whiskey. It’s a farm just as much as it is a...
a month ago
African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon. Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription...
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Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
Daniel Miessler
Napkin Ideas Around What Changes to Expect Post-ChatGPT Work Replacement Talent Magnification Solopreneuers AI Specialists Idea Dominance Use Cases Random...
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over a year ago
Work Replacement Talent Magnification Solopreneuers AI Specialists Idea Dominance Use Cases Random Thoughts If you’re reading this you already know the internet is on fire over the new  GPTChatBot from OpenAI. There are people using it to create full virtual machines, to be their...
The American Scholar
“I Have Had My Vision” Three prompts The post “I Have Had My Vision” appeared first on The American Scholar.
a month ago
Rest of World -...
Self-checkout is putting elderly grocery baggers out of work in Mexico Volunteer packers at stores like Walmart say they’re receiving 50% fewer tips than before the...
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Converting a URL Object to a Plain Object in JavaScript I needed to convert a URL object to a plain object yesterday. You might have used it before. It's...
a year ago
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I needed to convert a URL object to a plain object yesterday. You might have used it before. It's pretty handy for working with URLs! const url = new URL('https://example.com/'); console.log(url); // URL {origin: 'https://example.com', protocol: 'https:', username: '',...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Amsterdam Plans to Ban Large Cruise Ships: What to Expect
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
IE8 burns the Acid 2 test An internal build of IE8 is reported to have passed the Acid 2 test. This is great news, as...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
An internal build of IE8 is reported to have passed the Acid 2 test. This is great news, as Microsoft is showing more and more progress towards incorporating web standards into Internet Explorer, even though IE7 has remained dormant since it's release back in October 2006. The...
Anecdotal Evidence
'So Important That It Ought to Absorb Him' In his brief portrait of Joseph Conrad, Desmond MacCarthy tells us the novelist “felt himself...
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a month ago
In his brief portrait of Joseph Conrad, Desmond MacCarthy tells us the novelist “felt himself impelled to attempt an intenser vividness in description. Try, just try, so to describe something that the inattentive reader must see it, and the attentive one can never forget that he...
Josh Thompson
Hidden Damages of the Introvert vs. Extrovert "debate" Are you an introvert or an extrovert? Chances are good an answer pops to your mind. Of course you’re...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Are you an introvert or an extrovert? Chances are good an answer pops to your mind. Of course you’re right! You’ve taken internet tests! You’ve read Buzzfeed articles describing one aptitude or the other, and you feel like they speak to you! Stop. Right now. You’re speaking lies...
ToughSF
Thermal Decomposition of CO2 with Nuclear Heat A lot of effort must and will be put into combating climate change. We can however directly attack...
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over a year ago
A lot of effort must and will be put into combating climate change. We can however directly attack the root cause of it by reducing the amount of CO2 that we have released into the atmosphere. We can enlist the help of ultra-high-temperature nuclear reactors to do this rapidly...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bigger Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: A patreon subscriber asked why the speech bubbles...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: A patreon subscriber asked why the speech bubbles don't slowly become crabs and I'm kicking myself no. Today's News:
Maps Mania
The Vespa Map of Rome
7 months ago
TheCollector
Where Did Paul Cezanne Live? undefined
9 months ago
One from Nippon
Coffee in a Can Life’s inconveniences, when they happen to you and me, are just that. Inconveniences. When they...
a year ago
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a year ago
Life’s inconveniences, when they happen to you and me, are just that. Inconveniences. When they happen to some people though they end up becoming multi-billion dollar businesses. This is the story of Japan’s canned coffee. One finds at least one vending machine in almost every...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Chartjunk: What I've learned about data visualization For many people the first word that comes to mind when they think about statistical charts is...
a year ago
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a year ago
For many people the first word that comes to mind when they think about statistical charts is “lie.” – Edward R. Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information I wish we could all agree: pie charts should die. I know this is unreasonable. And pie charts are only part of...
A Weekly Dose of...
2023 in Architecture Books, So Far Life, they say, throws you curve balls, and that's just what happened last month, when a family...
a year ago
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a year ago
Life, they say, throws you curve balls, and that's just what happened last month, when a family emergency had me put this blog on hiatus. This post, appearing on a Friday instead of its regular Monday, does not mean regular weekly posts will resume, as I'll be dealing with said...
Asterisk
Lies, Damned Lies, and Manometer Readings America’s HVAC labor force is plagued by dishonesty and frequently incapable of meeting industry...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
America’s HVAC labor force is plagued by dishonesty and frequently incapable of meeting industry standards. Interventions in indoor air quality are the next frontier in pandemic prevention — but are they up to the task?
Josh Thompson
Save hundreds by being willing to spend $20 When you pack for a trip, you pack “just in case” items, right? Things that in a certain situation...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When you pack for a trip, you pack “just in case” items, right? Things that in a certain situation would be priceless. Think “umbrella” or “underpants”. But then you think of all the possible situations you might encounter, and you’ll find your “just in case” items quickly...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sleep Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks to many readers for telling me the story I...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks to many readers for telling me the story I was thinking for yesterday's comic, which was a myth about Narada and Krishna. Still can't remember where I heard it first, but thanks! Today's News:
TheCollector
5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World undefined
9 months ago
Noahpinion
Decoupling isn't phoney The global trading system is starting to rearrange itself, and it's mostly not Biden's doing.
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
What is Love? And From Where did it Come? All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
11 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Some thoughts on incumbents Reposted from Oct 7, 2010 from cdixon.posterous.com By “incumbents” I mean the big companies that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Reposted from Oct 7, 2010 from cdixon.posterous.com By “incumbents” I mean the big companies that are loosely competitive to your startup…
Josh Thompson
A Five-Hour Experiment Josh Kaufman wrote an excellent book called The First 20 Hours. In it, he carefully plots out a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Josh Kaufman wrote an excellent book called The First 20 Hours. In it, he carefully plots out a handful of experiments to acquire a reasonable amount of skill in a new thing in twenty hours. He studied yoga, windsurfing, programming, Colemak typing, a form of Chinese chess...
Commoncog
Members Preview: An Easier Way to Create XmR Charts Early access to some software we've built to make XmR charts more accessible.
10 months ago
Map of the Week
The Ferraris Atlas of Belgium While I was at the British Library in May, I spent much time admiring and puzzling over this...
3 months ago
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While I was at the British Library in May, I spent much time admiring and puzzling over this atlas. The Ferraris maps of the Austrian Netherlands (now Belgium) were created by Count (and cartographer) Joseph de Ferraris in the 1770's. He was commissioned by Austrian empress...
Ruud van Asseldonk
Building Elm with Stack
over a year ago
Made by Ollin
Acapella Extraction with ConvNets A working prototype
over a year 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...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Pivoting into a new corporate structure This hasn’t happened to me, but I keep hearing stories about situations like the following: 1)...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This hasn’t happened to me, but I keep hearing stories about situations like the following: 1) startup raises a seed financing round while…
markround.com
Disqus - An Apology Earlier today, I got an email alerting me to an angrier than usual comment on this website. It was a...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Earlier today, I got an email alerting me to an angrier than usual comment on this website. It was a proper keyboard warrior rant accusing me of all sorts of misdeads revolving around “forcing ads down people’s throats”. I replied saying that there had never been any ads on this...
TheCollector
Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View undefined
2 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Route Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The best one was actually Part 4 Part Two Part...
a month ago
African History...
The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE. The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone...
4 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
My Path to Developer Relations and Thoughts on the Future of DevRel Alex Lakatos interviewed me for the Devrel Advent calendar he put together
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Minecraft Server Hosting I play the phenomena that is Minecraft on and off. Sometimes the laid back building or the exploring...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I play the phenomena that is Minecraft on and off. Sometimes the laid back building or the exploring is just what I need. Sometimes I can challange myself to build cool complex stuff and I’m even an avid follower of Doc’M and Etho and the other mindcrackers over at the youtube....
TheCollector
11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine undefined
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Max Rozen
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later bean guy makes a fortune selling cans of beans with his label on them. People who hate him are 60% of his audience. He goes on to a university position in media studies. Today's News:
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Last Wednesday (August 28), the market waited with bated breath for Nvidia’s earning call, scheduled for after the market closed. That call, at first sight, contained exceptionally good news, with revenues and earnings coming in at stratospheric levels, and above expectations,...
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Pretty much every day now a major blog or newspaper writes an article asking whether we are experiencing another tech bubble (e.g. see today…
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Uber revamped its engineering levels in 2022. How did the levels evolve over time, why was it time to change, and what were they? I’ve collected details.
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The cake tilted precariously as I stumbled into my parents bedroom. Panic gripped me as I tried to steady the massive cake.
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I make a lot of personal software tools. One of these is "texttools.py", which is easiest to explain with an image: Paste text in the top box, choose a transform, output appears in the bottom box. I can already do most of these transformations in vim, or with one of the many...
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45 years ago today, the world was changed // hint: its not about frikkin piña coladas I can tell you that right now
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I’ve been having a lot of fun playing with Blender Geometry and Shader Nodes.Specifically here using Instances on Points. I started with a 60 x 60 grid of curves, made into spirals and animated with a Noise texture. This ended up creating 8.3 Million faces and took 12 hours to...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Suddenly wondering if THIS is the one that gets me that hatemail I've wanted all these years. Today's News:
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<![CDATA[A URL is associated with a WebCard card of type Web at creation time but it may later be necessary to change or take action on the URL. For example, to correct a typo or visit the URL again if its web browser tab was closed since an earlier visit. For such situations I...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks again, early buyers! It is a sincerely big deal to have all these preorders in place. Today's News: More info here. God bless the 3 of you still using RSS who actually read this thing.
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As we discussed previously, the search for UAP is often contextualized in terms of the events of 2017: the public revelation of the AATIP and alien-hunting efforts by Robert Bigelow and Tom DeLonge. While widely publicized, these programs seem to have lead to very little. I...
Artificial Ignorance
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In an effort to better understand how all this AI stuff works, I’ve been chipping away at Stephen Wolfram’s meticulous piece, “What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?”. As you likely know, ChatGPT works by guessing at the next word. Here’s Stephen: when ChatGPT does...
Cognitive...
Uploading CSV to DynamoDB with Node JS So I wanted to upload CSV to DynamoDB. Easy right? Not so fast. It turns out, you have to obey...
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So I wanted to upload CSV to DynamoDB. Easy right? Not so fast. It turns out, you have to obey your provisioned write capacity. Unlike S3, "Simple Storage Service" where you simply upload a file, DynamoDB isn't "Simple". There's no "upload CSV" button. You have to write a...
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We've written extensively comparing ClickHouse to other analytical databases, including Google BigQuery , Elastic , and Apache Druid . Most of…
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If you’re a liberal who’s interested in becoming a radical progressive, this is a good book for you. If you’re anyone else, you’re probably not the target audience.
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I first wrote this essay a few years ago. A founder mentioned it to me over the weekend, and so I decided to re-publish it here. One thing that's bothered me in the time since I wrote it is the way in which toys, which are meant to be harmless and fun can become companies capable...
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Over half a century later, our admiration for mid-century design shows no sign of slumping. As we crave a closer connection to our surroundings and distinct, mood-matching spaces throughout our homes – time and again, mid-century modern seems to satisfy our exacting demands....
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I had a bad feeling pulling out of Washburn. The bus had sat for nearly four months. The bus hates sitting. I had time to drive it to the upholstery shop and back and that was the extent of my test driving. I was hoping, whatever was going to break, would do it in a populous area...
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On bus shelters across London TfL are keenly advertising the Superloop. The poster shows a bus, a rainbow burst of pastel colours and the legend The Superloop Is Coming. The given date is Spring 2024 and it's described as a commitment by the Mayor to improve public transport in...
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Were you to google “Carl Jung and Nazism”—and I’m not suggesting that you do—you would find yourself hip-deep in the charges that Jung was an anti-Semite and a Nazi sympathizer. Many sites condemn or exonerate him; many others celebrate him as a blood and soil Aryan hero. It can...
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From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
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Experiments that test physics and philosophy "as a single whole" may be our only route to surefire knowledge about the universe. The post ‘Metaphysical Experiments’ Probe Our Hidden Assumptions About Reality first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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CSS variables (otherwise known as CSS custom properties) give previously impossible superpowers to CSS developers. This post covers what they are, how they work, and a couple of nifty ways you can implement them on your own website.
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The most recent episode of John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, featured a discussion of the UFO phenomenon. I’m always interested, and often disappointed, in how the mainstream media portrays skeptical topics. One interesting addition here is that Oliver actually referenced an SGU...
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but how will you afford a steak? Part 2 here Three questions, open book: 1.  Did Hipster Gerry get his money's worth from the University of Chicago, either $100k in future income or knowledge?  No. 2. Did society get their money's worth in sending him, i.e. by...
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Winner, Name that Ware May 2023 Last month’s ware is the Automatic AUT-450C “Connected Car Assistant” (OBD-II code scanner and GPS...
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Last month’s ware is the Automatic AUT-450C “Connected Car Assistant” (OBD-II code scanner and GPS tracker with cellular, WiFi, and Bluetooth connectivity). The company went out of business shortly after the start of the pandemic. Here’s some more views of the ware — I had left...
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Graphs It has become customary to use “graph” to refer to the underlying data structures at social networks...
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It has become customary to use “graph” to refer to the underlying data structures at social networks like Facebook. (Computer scientists…
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It is difficult to brainstorm fresh, transformative ideas. Telling everyone that “no idea is a bad idea” isn’t enough of a prompt. These questions will stretch you beyond your daily experience; if you’re lucky, they could even lead to a unique business model and a long-term...
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Test score collapse, triumph of the vibes, U.S. dependence on China, the benefits of upzoning, immigrants and jobs, and a world at war
ntietz.com blog
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...
Diaries of Note
He has quite a husky voice and is a great mimic By the late 1860s, Charles Dickens had transcended the realm of mere literary fame to become a...
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By the late 1860s, Charles Dickens had transcended the realm of mere literary fame to become a theatrical sensation with his public reading tours. These performances, hundreds of which he staged during the final decade of his life, showcased his extraordinary talent for vocal...
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Why I Quit Drinking Alcohol After more than two decades of drinking, last summer, I decided to stop drinking alcohol for good....
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After more than two decades of drinking, last summer, I decided to stop drinking alcohol for good. There were a lot of reasons for this, and obviously, there were benefits—I lost some weight, slept better at night, and no more ungodly hangovers. But also some life changes...
Applied Cartography
Notes on ActivityPub By far the single most-fruitful tactic has been "just look at raw GET responses from Mastodon and...
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By far the single most-fruitful tactic has been "just look at raw GET responses from Mastodon and see what things are shaped like." I know that "ActivityPub is under-specified" is a bit of a meme, but it's wild how little prior art there is. Something that gives distinctly bad...
The Pragmatic...
The Pulse: VanMoof files for bankruptcy protection The electric bike company raised close to $200M, but now closed all its service points. For bike...
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The electric bike company raised close to $200M, but now closed all its service points. For bike owners, they could face the risk of their bikes being bricked if they don't take prompt action.
TheCollector
Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead undefined
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I've been getting into baking bread a lot lately instead of focusing more on the sweet and pastry side of things. While I've been enjoying making fresh sourdough from fresh sourdough starter and love the end results, I sometimes find that basic breads are a lot of kneading (read:...
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Serverless Functions are Stateful A reminder that serverless functions actually have a lot of state, and how the "function" analogy...
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A reminder that serverless functions actually have a lot of state, and how the "function" analogy breaks down when you look through the abstraction
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Turbo 8 is dropping TypeScript By all accounts, TypeScript has been a big success for Microsoft. I've seen loads of people sparkle...
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By all accounts, TypeScript has been a big success for Microsoft. I've seen loads of people sparkle with joy from dousing JavaScript with explicit types that can be checked by a compiler. But I've never been a fan. Not after giving it five minutes, not after giving it five years....
Moneyness
What does the recent ruling on the Emergencies Act mean for your banking rights? A Federal judge ruled last week that the emergency banking measures taken to end the Ottawa convoy...
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A Federal judge ruled last week that the emergency banking measures taken to end the Ottawa convoy protest in 2022 contravened the protestor's rights. In this post I want to provide my reading of this particular ruling and what is at stake for Canadians and their bank...
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Nov 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
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Hubris and Humility When we started Oxide, we knew we were going to take a fresh look at the entire system. We knew, for...
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When we started Oxide, we knew we were going to take a fresh look at the entire system. We knew, for example, that we wanted to have a true hardware root of trust and that we wanted to revisit the traditional BMC. We knew, too, that we would have our own system software on each...
The Modern House
A Modern Way to Live: our co-founder Matt Gibberd on space Since The Modern House launched in 2005, we’ve come to realise that beautifully designed homes share...
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Since The Modern House launched in 2005, we’ve come to realise that beautifully designed homes share the same timeless principles: space, light, materials, nature and decoration. These five tenets are not only the subject of our co-founder Matt Gibberd’s book, A Modern Way to...
Steve Blank
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SAVE THE DATE for the 5th Lean Innovation Educators Summit on The Role of Educators and the University in Building Sustainable and Innovative Ecosystems February 3rd, 2022 from 1 to 4pm EST, 10 to 1pm PST Join me, Jerry Engel, Pete Newell, and Steve Weinstein as well as educators...
Open Culture
The Complete Howard Stern Interview with Kamala Harris It’s hard to know where to start. This election comes down to whether or not we want to reward...
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It’s hard to know where to start. This election comes down to whether or not we want to reward someone who tried to subvert our democracy four years ago. Whether we want to preserve the alliances that have kept the peace since World War II. Whether women want to resist losing...
Mazdak
2024: A Roadmap for AI's Next Big Step 2023 was a whirlwind year for artificial intelligence (AI). ChatGPT wowed us with its ability to...
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2023 was a whirlwind year for artificial intelligence (AI). ChatGPT wowed us with its ability to generate human-quality text, while chipmaker Nvidia pushed the boundaries of what's possible with graphics processing units (GPUs). But amidst the hype, there were also concerns about...
Farnam Street
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A lot of otherwise talented people are too pessimistic to actually do anything. They are paralyzed by risks that don’t exist and greatly exaggerate them where they do, preventing them from being one of the best. Consider this lightly edited excerpt from a conversation between...
Atoms vs Bits
Everything At Once Sometimes it feels like all your problems loop together.
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beep.blog
.io considered harmful The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their...
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The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their homeland. Here's the history and the facts.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Writing my first Security blogpost Today's fun emergency at work was a first - writing a security postmortem for a breach of an _open...
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Today's fun emergency at work was a first - writing a security postmortem for a breach of an _open source user_ (aka not a breach of us, which seems the norm).
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Wow Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Earlier he changed his name to Emperor but nobody...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Earlier he changed his name to Emperor but nobody was buying it. Today's News:
Anecdotal Evidence
'For Whom They Were Framed in Words' Louis MacNeice is startlingly prescient in “To Posterity,” originally published in Visitations...
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Louis MacNeice is startlingly prescient in “To Posterity,” originally published in Visitations (1957):  “When books have all seized up like the books in graveyards And reading and even speaking have been replaced By other, less difficult, media, we wonder if you Will find...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
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The Roots of...
Developing a technology with safety in mind If a technology may introduce catastrophic risks, how do you develop it? It occurred to me that the...
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If a technology may introduce catastrophic risks, how do you develop it? It occurred to me that the Wright Brothers’ approach to inventing the airplane might make a good case study. The catastrophic risk for them, of course, was dying in a crash. This is exactly what happened...
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Teaching tax in school On becoming an adult, one thing has stuck out to me as a huge oversight in the high school system is...
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On becoming an adult, one thing has stuck out to me as a huge oversight in the high school system is that we never learnt about tax. I'm constantly shocked by the lack of tax literacy in the broader population. I'm not even talking about the logistics of filing tax returns, but...
Dreams of Space -...
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A re-run-- Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures the spirit of doing it for yourself as Johnny and his friends build (and dream of) a spaceship for a journey from their backyard. It is pure fantasy but as you will see there is a...
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Bertrand Russell’s 10 Commandments for Living in a Healthy Democracy Image by J. F. Horrabin, via Wikimedia Commons Bertrand Russell saw the history of civilization as...
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Image by J. F. Horrabin, via Wikimedia Commons Bertrand Russell saw the history of civilization as being shaped by an unfortunate oscillation between two opposing evils: tyranny and anarchy, each of which contains the seed of the other. The best course for steering clear of...
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A Smart Bear
The practical application of "Rocks, Pebbles, Sand" You’ve probably seen this analogy before, but many real-world complications get in the way of...
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You’ve probably seen this analogy before, but many real-world complications get in the way of actually doing it. It’s not just about how big tasks are, but about using different frameworks to prioritize each, and following certain guidelines about how to construct sprints.
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A good idea, well executed Why isn’t this enough? There are plenty of good ideas, easy to learn from and copy. There are...
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Why isn’t this enough? There are plenty of good ideas, easy to learn from and copy. There are countless projects, well executed, with the steps on display. Any entrepreneur could find a local business and bring a version of it from over here to over there. And a social change...
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Citation Needed
Issue 45 – I'm the director now Rising bitcoin prices bring echoes of the crypto mania from years past, and an ambitious hacker...
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Rising bitcoin prices bring echoes of the crypto mania from years past, and an ambitious hacker decides to manifest a new job for themselves.
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It Looked Familiar: A Project Jessica Drew, in her Spider-Woman gear, visits Belvedere Castle. It’s reasonably clear that in the...
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Jessica Drew, in her Spider-Woman gear, visits Belvedere Castle. It’s reasonably clear that in the frame on the right she’s standing in the pavillion looking across to the main tower.
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am i actually autistic? Recently I chanced upon a tweet stating that highly sensitive persons (HSPs) are basically autistic...
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The photo above, from the NYPL digital archive, shows South William Street (AKA a block from our office) in the mid-1860s. We’re looking at, from left to right 9, 11, 13, 15, and 17 South William. Here’s a roughly similar view in 2014 (not current because there is now scaffolding...
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styled-components is a wonderfully powerful styling library for React, and over the years I've learned a lot about how to use it effectively. This article shares my personal “best practices”.
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I was doing some work on my library lookup tool recently, and I ran into an issue with mechanize, the Python library I use to simulate a web browser. I’d upgraded my version of Python and mechanize, and now I wasn’t able to connect to HTTPS sites. If I tried a simple...
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