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Vitalik Buterin's...
Simplifying the L1
2 months ago
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Simplifying the L1

from Vitalik Buterin's website [alt+shift+b] in technology

2 months ago
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Old Structures...
Nothing New For the end of the year, we’ve been doing some file reorganization – all digital, as our paper files...
6 months ago
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Nothing New

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

6 months ago
For the end of the year, we’ve been doing some file reorganization – all digital, as our paper files are only a memory – and it’s worth remembering that issues of logisitics and organization are nothing new. One of the sources for our filing system is the 1917 file classification...
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Arduino Blog
Synjets provide non-contact haptic feedback If the COVID pandemic showed us anything, it is that our public spaces are overflowing with...
a year ago
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Synjets provide non-contact haptic feedback

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

a year ago
If the COVID pandemic showed us anything, it is that our public spaces are overflowing with opportunity for germ transmission. In 2019, most people didn’t think twice about touching a gas pump handle or an ATM touchscreen, but it quickly became apparent that such contact presents...
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Citation Needed
Guilty or coerced? Ryan Salame’s last interviews before prison Unpacking my conversation with FTX executive Ryan Salame, where we discussed his claims that he’s...
8 months ago
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Guilty or coerced? Ryan Salame’s last interviews before prison

from Citation Needed [alt+shift+b] in finance

8 months ago
Unpacking my conversation with FTX executive Ryan Salame, where we discussed his claims that he’s innocent of the charges for which he’s now serving seven and a half years in prison.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Every Word Is a World' When someone had eaten his fill and couldn’t take another bite, my maternal grandmother, born the...
2 months ago
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'Every Word Is a World'

from Anecdotal Evidence [alt+shift+b] in literature

2 months ago
When someone had eaten his fill and couldn’t take another bite, my maternal grandmother, born the same year as T.S. Eliot, would say, “His sufficiency is suffonsified.” I’ve never heard another person utter those words. For most of my life I assumed the fourth word in that...
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Marian's Blog
3D Printed Mechanical Digital Clock This post is about building a 3D printed, mechanical digital clock, made out of seven-segment...
3 months ago
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3D Printed Mechanical Digital Clock

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

3 months ago
This post is about building a 3D printed, mechanical digital clock, made out of seven-segment displays. The project was inspired by a video by Lukas Deem, who built a clock with seven-segment displays where the segments slide in and out when they change their state. In his...
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Julia Evans
Using `make` to compile C programs (for non-C-programmers) I have never been a C programmer but every so often I need to compile a C/C++ program from source....
a month ago
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Using `make` to compile C programs (for non-C-programmers)

from Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

a month ago
I have never been a C programmer but every so often I need to compile a C/C++ program from source. This has been kind of a struggle for me: for a long time, my approach was basically “install the dependencies, run make, if it doesn’t work, either try to find a binary someone has...
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Maps Mania
Snakes on a Plane(t)
2 months ago
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Snakes on a Plane(t)

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2 months ago
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TheCollector
10 Ancient Maya Ruins You Can Visit The Maya civilization, one of the most sophisticated pre-Columbian cultures, flourished across...
3 months ago
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10 Ancient Maya Ruins You Can Visit

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
The Maya civilization, one of the most sophisticated pre-Columbian cultures, flourished across present-day Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador for thousands of years. Emerging around 2000 BCE, the Maya developed advanced writing, mathematics, astronomy, and...
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Machine Learning for...
ML for SWEs 4: Waymo is the Perfect Example of ML Engineering, Gemini 2.5 Pro is #1, and GPT-4o... Machine learning for software engineers 3-28-25
3 months ago
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ML for SWEs 4: Waymo is the Perfect Example of ML Engineering, Gemini 2.5 Pro is #1, and GPT-4o Image Generation

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3 months ago
Machine learning for software engineers 3-28-25
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Don't Worry About...
OpenAI #12: Battle of the Board Redux Back when the OpenAI board attempted and failed to fire Sam Altman, we faced a highly hostile...
3 months ago
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OpenAI #12: Battle of the Board Redux

from Don't Worry About the Vase [alt+shift+b] in AI

3 months ago
Back when the OpenAI board attempted and failed to fire Sam Altman, we faced a highly hostile information environment.
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diamond geezer
Northampton Square 45 45 Squared 21) NORTHAMPTON SQUARE, EC1 Borough of Islington, 70m×60m square at the quieter end of...
4 weeks ago
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Northampton Square

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

4 weeks ago
45 45 Squared 21) NORTHAMPTON SQUARE, EC1 Borough of Islington, 70m×60m square at the quieter end of Clerkenwell, half of it old and half new, and all a bit on the wonk. It's tucked away in the slice of streets between St John's Road and Goswell Road, somewhere between Angel and...
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Bits about Money
The Long Shadow of Checks A lot of more modern financial infrastructure follows the paths blazed by checks, at least in the...
a year ago
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The Long Shadow of Checks

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a year ago
A lot of more modern financial infrastructure follows the paths blazed by checks, at least in the U.S.
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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Summary of changes for June

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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
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Odds and Ends of...
5 questions about the "AI opportunities action plan" What the lobby should have asked.
5 months ago
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5 questions about the "AI opportunities action plan"

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

5 months ago
What the lobby should have asked.
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Vadim Kravcenko
How to promote your SaaS without being an ass? There’s several things to remember when promoting your SaaS without coming off as an ass: Always...
over a year ago
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How to promote your SaaS without being an ass?

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

over a year ago
There’s several things to remember when promoting your SaaS without coming off as an ass: Always provide value when promoting. […] The post How to promote your SaaS without being an ass? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Trying to Understand...
Their Enemies The Russians But what about the rest of us?
over a year ago
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Their Enemies The Russians

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over a year ago
But what about the rest of us?
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The Codist
If You Don't Give A Crap, This Is the Shit That You Get Being retired after four decades as a programmer, there is nothing more irritating than seeing...
a year ago
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If You Don't Give A Crap, This Is the Shit That You Get

from The Codist [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Being retired after four decades as a programmer, there is nothing more irritating than seeing broken or poor functionality in web and mobile apps. I always cared about what we were putting out, even if it was sometimes unimportant to my employer. When I see things that are easy...
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One Useful Thing
One sentence. Prompting for maximum impact (and why that is a bad idea)
over a year ago
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One sentence.

from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
Prompting for maximum impact (and why that is a bad idea)
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Society's Backend:...
Clarifying DEI What makes DEI important and where it fails
a year ago
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Clarifying DEI

from Society's Backend: Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

a year ago
What makes DEI important and where it fails
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Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Cal Russell I'm an artist living in Edinburgh working mainly in papercutting and linocut printmaking. I studied...
over a year ago
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Meet the Maker: Cal Russell

from Handprinted - Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

over a year ago
I'm an artist living in Edinburgh working mainly in papercutting and linocut printmaking. I studied Illustration at Falmouth School of Art and did a Masters in Contemporary Art at the Edinburgh College of Art. I mostly work independently and sell my prints and originals online or...
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Working Theorys
Untitled Future, 1 a short story serial
5 months ago
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Untitled Future, 1

from Working Theorys [alt+shift+b] in startups

5 months ago
a short story serial
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bt RSS Feed
The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode The Lazy Developer’s Dark Mode 2021-04-12 After recently jumping back to Jekyll for my personal...
over a year ago
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The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
The Lazy Developer’s Dark Mode 2021-04-12 After recently jumping back to Jekyll for my personal blog, I decided to take a closer look at how I was supporting dark mode for my visitors. I was using the proper CSS query to target those who had system-wide dark mode enabled, but I...
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xkcd.com
Organ Meanings
11 months ago
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Organ Meanings

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11 months ago
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Calculated Risk
Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims Decrease to 219,000 The DOL reported: seasonally adjusted initial claims was 219,000, a decrease of 1,000 from the...
6 months ago
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Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims Decrease to 219,000

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

6 months ago
The DOL reported: seasonally adjusted initial claims was 219,000, a decrease of 1,000 from the previous week's unrevised level of 220,000. The 4-week moving average was 226,500, an increase of 1,000 from the previous week's unrevised average of 225,500. emphasis added The...
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Calculated Risk
Asking Rents Mostly Unchanged Year-over-year Today, in the Real Estate Newsletter: Asking Rents Mostly Unchanged Year-over-year Brief excerpt:...
6 months ago
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Asking Rents Mostly Unchanged Year-over-year

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

6 months ago
Today, in the Real Estate Newsletter: Asking Rents Mostly Unchanged Year-over-year Brief excerpt: Another monthly update on rents. Welcome to the January 2025 Apartment List National Rent Report. The national median monthly rent closed out 2024 at $1,373 in December, after...
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Devmoh
Programming transforms your brain. Here's how. Knowing how to program has a multitude of positive effects on the brain.
a year ago
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Programming transforms your brain. Here's how.

from Devmoh [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
Knowing how to program has a multitude of positive effects on the brain.
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Seth's Blog
Benign vs. normal We evolved to be wary of change. Our attention is limited, new things can be a threat and the status...
a year ago
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Benign vs. normal

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a year ago
We evolved to be wary of change. Our attention is limited, new things can be a threat and the status quo feels comfortable. As a result, we spend a lot of time and energy being afraid (and arguing about) the upcoming changes in our lives, but almost no time at all thinking about...
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Rest of World -...
The rise and fall of Koo, India’s once-thriving Twitter alternative The microblogging platform — India’s first in over 10 languages — went from booming international...
a year ago
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The rise and fall of Koo, India’s once-thriving Twitter alternative

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a year ago
The microblogging platform — India’s first in over 10 languages — went from booming international expansion to near closure in just four years.
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Wrong Side of...
Educated rage American polarisation: part 2
8 months ago
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Educated rage

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8 months ago
American polarisation: part 2
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Construction Physics
Reading List for 05/31/2025 Wind wars, ALARA, power plant water use, grassroots opposition to data centers, and more.
a month ago
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Reading List for 05/31/2025

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a month ago
Wind wars, ALARA, power plant water use, grassroots opposition to data centers, and more.
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Joel Gascoigne
How my co-founder and I structure ourselves as CEO and COO * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For the first...
over a year ago
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How my co-founder and I structure ourselves as CEO and COO

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For the first two years of Buffer we didn’t use C-level titles [https://soundcloud.com/joelgascoigne/thoughts-on-cxo-titles-in]. In February last year it started to make much more sense for me to...
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ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The Great Scrape Scraper bots are destroying the commons to feed the machine
3 months ago
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The Great Scrape

from ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 months ago
Scraper bots are destroying the commons to feed the machine
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Calculated Risk
February Vehicle Forecast: Sales Increase to 15.9 million SAAR, Up 1.5% YoY From WardsAuto: February U.S. Light-Vehicle Sales Maintain Growth; Inventory Resumes Gains (pay...
4 months ago
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February Vehicle Forecast: Sales Increase to 15.9 million SAAR, Up 1.5% YoY

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

4 months ago
From WardsAuto: February U.S. Light-Vehicle Sales Maintain Growth; Inventory Resumes Gains (pay content).  Brief excerpt: Sales are recording solid gains, but production slowdowns capping dealer stock in a growth market – a market that ostensibly still is climbing out of the...
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Making software...
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? 2018-10-18 I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and...
over a year ago
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What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs?

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? 2018-10-18 I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and their grandmother was running a personal blog. And I mean personal - not hosted on some side platform or a tacked-on addition to the rest of their website. Nowadays companies and...
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Stat Significant
Which Car Brands are Frequently Featured in Popular Music? A Statistical Analysis Which car brands are a fixture of song lyrics?
2 months ago
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Which Car Brands are Frequently Featured in Popular Music? A Statistical Analysis

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2 months ago
Which car brands are a fixture of song lyrics?
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journal – Winnie Lim
osaka, and thoughts on travel blogging We were surprised to discover that Osaka has quite a number of outdoor dining options. Our first...
a year ago
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osaka, and thoughts on travel blogging

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

a year ago
We were surprised to discover that Osaka has quite a number of outdoor dining options. Our first meal was okonomiyaki of course, and my partner found a okonomiyaki restaurant with outdoor seating:...
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Rozado’s Visual...
Mentions of Political Extremism in English Wikipedia A data-driven exploration uncovers disparities. Are they shaped by editorial choices or broader...
6 months ago
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Mentions of Political Extremism in English Wikipedia

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6 months ago
A data-driven exploration uncovers disparities. Are they shaped by editorial choices or broader societal/historical dynamics?
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Calculated Risk
Q1 GDP Tracking: Near Zero Growth From BofA: Since our last publication, our 1Q GDP tracking has remained unchanged at 0.4% q/q...
2 months ago
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Q1 GDP Tracking: Near Zero Growth

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

2 months ago
From BofA: Since our last publication, our 1Q GDP tracking has remained unchanged at 0.4% q/q saar. [Apr 11th estimate] emphasis added From Goldman: We left our Q1 GDP tracking estimate unchanged at +0.3% (quarter-over-quarter annualized). [Apr 3rd estimate] And from the...
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Bits about Money
Anatomy of a credit card rewards program Credit card rewards are mostly funded out of interchange, a fee paid by businesses to accept cards.
a year ago
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Anatomy of a credit card rewards program

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a year ago
Credit card rewards are mostly funded out of interchange, a fee paid by businesses to accept cards.
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Cheese and Biscuits
Camille, Borough Market Some restaurants just make it look so easy, don't they? The menu at Camille is so enticing, with...
9 months ago
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Camille, Borough Market

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

9 months ago
Some restaurants just make it look so easy, don't they? The menu at Camille is so enticing, with unusual eye-catching ingredients prepared in exciting and distinctive ways, that it's almost enough to spoil any other dining experience by default, and it makes you wonder if they...
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Herbert Lui
Slow is smooth and smooth is fast In the industrial era, the people that did more stuff—faster—added more value to the world....
4 months ago
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Slow is smooth and smooth is fast

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

4 months ago
In the industrial era, the people that did more stuff—faster—added more value to the world. Efficiency was the buzzword. That’s no longer the case. Now, slow is smooth, and smooth is fast. We are already bumping up on the limits of how fast we can do our work—and we will never...
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Diaries of Note
More of London’s madness! Born in South Africa in 1934, Gordon Forbes was a seasoned tennis professional who clinched his...
over a year ago
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More of London’s madness!

from Diaries of Note [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
Born in South Africa in 1934, Gordon Forbes was a seasoned tennis professional who clinched his first junior title at the tender age of twelve, initiating a stellar career among the tennis elite. Forbes and his doubles partner, Abe Segal, formed an unstoppable force in the...
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Retail Design Blog
phenom israel Phenom is a global HR technology company that delivers a single-platform solution and...
a year ago
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phenom israel

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

a year ago
Phenom is a global HR technology company that delivers a single-platform solution and hyper-personalized experiences for candidates, recruiters, and employees....
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Computer Ads from...
Bomb Squad Peripherals' BLOWGUN It Could Have Been a Lot Worse - His Data is BLOWGUN Protected!
a year ago
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Bomb Squad Peripherals' BLOWGUN

from Computer Ads from the Past [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
It Could Have Been a Lot Worse - His Data is BLOWGUN Protected!
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Paul Cudenec
A decade of dissent: Zionism and the criminocracy In the latest part of my retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit, I look back on...
3 months ago
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A decade of dissent: Zionism and the criminocracy

from Paul Cudenec [alt+shift+b] in life

3 months ago
In the latest part of my retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit, I look back on its content in 2024.
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Escaping Flatland
Talking to part of a friend Finding an authentic connection based on who you are now, not who you were in the past
a year ago
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Talking to part of a friend

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a year ago
Finding an authentic connection based on who you are now, not who you were in the past
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Don't Rush to Simplicity Expertise in a subject often goes in a bell curve of simple → complex → simple. Can we skip the...
over a year ago
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Don't Rush to Simplicity

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

over a year ago
Expertise in a subject often goes in a bell curve of simple → complex → simple. Can we skip the complexity?
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Joel Gascoigne
Ways to bootstrap a startup: "working in waves" * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve spent the...
over a year ago
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Ways to bootstrap a startup: "working in waves"

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve spent the last year and a half after graduating from the University of Warwick juggling working on startups and working as a contract web developer. I’d like to share some of my reflections...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - News Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: My comics are probably the most enjoyable...
4 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - News

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

4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: My comics are probably the most enjoyable non-fiction. Today's News:
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Custom Elements, At Minimum, Only Need End With a Hyphen Scott Jehl reached out to help me resolve a conundrum in my post about what constitutes a valid...
a year ago
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Custom Elements, At Minimum, Only Need End With a Hyphen

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

a year ago
Scott Jehl reached out to help me resolve a conundrum in my post about what constitutes a valid custom element tag. The spec says you can have custom elements with emojis in them. For example: <emotion-😍></emotion-😍> But for some reason the Codepen where I tested this wasn’t...
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sbensu
Default blind In a software business, it is hard to even know what is going on.
9 months ago
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Default blind

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9 months ago
In a software business, it is hard to even know what is going on.
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Retail Design Blog
DJI flagship store by Various Associates Chinese interior studio Various Associates has completed an irregular pyramid-shaped flagship store...
5 months ago
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DJI flagship store by Various Associates

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5 months ago
Chinese interior studio Various Associates has completed an irregular pyramid-shaped flagship store for drone brand DJI in Shenzhen, China. Located...
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
The 2020 Simulator Let’s say you could load 2020 into a simulation that you could replay on your computer over and...
over a year ago
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The 2020 Simulator

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over a year ago
Let’s say you could load 2020 into a simulation that you could replay on your computer over and over. I know that sounds like torture but stick with me.
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Maggie Appleton
Why You Own an iPad and Still Can't Draw The failure of drawing materials without mediums and meat
over a year ago
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Why You Own an iPad and Still Can't Draw

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over a year ago
The failure of drawing materials without mediums and meat
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Not Boring by Packy...
Weekly Dose of Optimism #141 Building Civilizations, Nuclear Moon, Physical Intelligence, Argentina, Creatine
2 months ago
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #141

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2 months ago
Building Civilizations, Nuclear Moon, Physical Intelligence, Argentina, Creatine
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bookbear express
grace discernment without judgment
2 months ago
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grace

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2 months ago
discernment without judgment
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Charlie Becker
How I Make Room for the Year The first of a three part series marking the transition from 2024 to 2025
5 months ago
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How I Make Room for the Year

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5 months ago
The first of a three part series marking the transition from 2024 to 2025
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swyx's site RSS Feed
How To Name Things > There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1...
over a year ago
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How To Name Things

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

over a year ago
> There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. - [Leon Bambrick](https://twitter.com/secretgeek/status/7269997868?lang=en)
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Notes on software...
What's the big deal about Deterministic Simulation Testing? Bugs in distributed systems are hard to find, largely because systems interact in chaotic ways. And...
10 months ago
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What's the big deal about Deterministic Simulation Testing?

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

10 months ago
Bugs in distributed systems are hard to find, largely because systems interact in chaotic ways. And even once you've found a bug, it can be anywhere from simple to impossible to reproduce it. It's about as far away as you can get from the ideal test environment: property...
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The Pragmatic...
Inside Agoda’s Private Cloud - Exclusive An overview of the hardware the company uses inside its private cloud, a summary of their cloud...
over a year ago
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Inside Agoda’s Private Cloud - Exclusive

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over a year ago
An overview of the hardware the company uses inside its private cloud, a summary of their cloud strategy, and whether or not to onboard to the cloud.
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Home on Erik...
coin2dice Here's a problem that I used to give to candidates. I stopped using it seriously a long time ago...
over a year ago
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coin2dice

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Here's a problem that I used to give to candidates. I stopped using it seriously a long time ago since I don't believe in puzzles, but I think it's kind of fun. Let's say you have a function that simulates a random coin flip.
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Essays - Benedict...
Leaving Twitter I was on Twitter since 2007, and built a meaningful part of my career on it, and I won’t be...
a year ago
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Leaving Twitter

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a year ago
I was on Twitter since 2007, and built a meaningful part of my career on it, and I won’t be posting at all for the foreseeable future
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devonzuegel.com
Uncharted waters: what startups can learn from pirates about compensation Pirate crews developed a surprisingly similar approach to compensation in the 17th century. Just...
over a year ago
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Uncharted waters: what startups can learn from pirates about compensation

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over a year ago
Pirate crews developed a surprisingly similar approach to compensation in the 17th century. Just like many startups, they also balanced equity incentives with other mechanisms that would be familiar to a startup employee today, such as bonuses. These surprising similarities...
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Sometimes It Works...
A Web App Store That Makes The Web Safer Maintaining security & privacy without the loss of convenience The Price of Security Enter OpenID &...
over a year ago
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A Web App Store That Makes The Web Safer

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over a year ago
Maintaining security & privacy without the loss of convenience The Price of Security Enter OpenID & OAuth Unnecessary Access The Idea Why would they pay? Potential Stumbling Blocks Can you really sleep safe on all those passwords? Image "Sweet Dreams…" by pulpoluxA Platform to...
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oftwominds-Charles...
Housing: The Foundations of the Middle Class Are Crumbling Bottom line: with the loss of predictability, we've also lost any sense of future financial...
4 months ago
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Housing: The Foundations of the Middle Class Are Crumbling

from oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith [alt+shift+b] in finance

4 months ago
Bottom line: with the loss of predictability, we've also lost any sense of future financial security. Home ownership has been the foundation of middle-class stability and security for so long that it defines middle-class status as much as income. From the end of World War...
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African History...
On the spread of Traditional African religions during the pre-colonial period. Among the corpus of terracotta figurines discovered in the Greco-Egyptian city of Alexandria dating...
5 months ago
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On the spread of Traditional African religions during the pre-colonial period.

from African History Extra [alt+shift+b] in history

5 months ago
Among the corpus of terracotta figurines discovered in the Greco-Egyptian city of Alexandria dating back to the 2nd century BC is a fine clay vessel in the form of a Nubian priestess of Isis of Philae, who is depicted in a kneeling position while performing a Greek-type mortuary...
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Old Structures...
Finding Something Nice To Say Howe trusses look backwards to me. Structural logic generally says that compression members should...
7 months ago
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Finding Something Nice To Say

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7 months ago
Howe trusses look backwards to me. Structural logic generally says that compression members should be stockier than tension members because, while the gross stresses are the same (force divided by cross-sectional area), compression members may buckle and tension members will not....
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Blog - Guerrilla...
Shelter of Man With the publication of Shelter of Man in Guerrila Cartography’s forthcoming Shelter: An Atlas, I...
over a year ago
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Shelter of Man

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
With the publication of Shelter of Man in Guerrila Cartography’s forthcoming Shelter: An Atlas, I can officially call myself a guerrilla cartographer. I’m not just an artist anymore. My relationship with cartography developed while studying architecture in Australia. I might have...
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Classical Wisdom
St. Nicholas The Saint behind Santa
6 months ago
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St. Nicholas

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6 months ago
The Saint behind Santa
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Rest of World -...
The workers at the frontlines of the AI revolution The global labor force of outsourced and contract workers are early adopters of generative AI — and...
a year ago
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The workers at the frontlines of the AI revolution

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

a year ago
The global labor force of outsourced and contract workers are early adopters of generative AI — and the most at risk.
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Josh Comeau's blog
The styled-components Happy Path styled-components is a wonderfully powerful styling library for React, and over the years I've...
over a year ago
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The styled-components Happy Path

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
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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Christopher Butler
sketchbook – 2024 March 24 - March 30 If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance much less.
a year ago
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sketchbook – 2024 March 24 - March 30

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a year ago
If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance much less.
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Retail Design Blog
ChloeMonique Atelier by Adrian Condina Often seen as the more polished of Australia‘s two biggest cities, Melbourne has a wide array of...
7 months ago
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ChloeMonique Atelier by Adrian Condina

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7 months ago
Often seen as the more polished of Australia‘s two biggest cities, Melbourne has a wide array of addresses where a...
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Eric Bailey
The case for adding validation state to your design tokens .verbal-token { border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-radius: 0.5rem; ...
over a year ago
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The case for adding validation state to your design tokens

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

over a year ago
.verbal-token { border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-radius: 0.5rem; padding: 0.15rem 0.5rem; } Naming things is hard. One way to go about naming things is via topology, the practice of classifying things by way of their visual characteristics. It is...
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Mazdak
The Future of TikTok in the U.S.: What Happens on January 19? The fate of TikTok in the United States hangs in the balance as we approach January 19.
5 months ago
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The Future of TikTok in the U.S.: What Happens on January 19?

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5 months ago
The fate of TikTok in the United States hangs in the balance as we approach January 19.
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Jonas Hietala
Game Design Analysis: World of Goo Introduction This is the second essay for the course Game Design and this thime I will be analysing...
over a year ago
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Game Design Analysis: World of Goo

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Introduction This is the second essay for the course Game Design and this thime I will be analysing the game World of Goo a bit. The first level The game is very simple. You begin with a structure and a few Goo balls, the charming balls bobbing around there, which you can drag...
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Articles
The cure
over a year ago
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The cure

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over a year ago
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Retail Design Blog
Dior flagship store by Peter Marino Iconic French fashion house Dior has had a standalone store in Vienna since 2014, but now, little...
3 months ago
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Dior flagship store by Peter Marino

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3 months ago
Iconic French fashion house Dior has had a standalone store in Vienna since 2014, but now, little over a decade,...
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Retail Design Blog
The Department of Bed Intentions by Blurr Bureau The Department of Bed Intentions is the world’s first fully sustainable microbiome-friendly...
2 months ago
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The Department of Bed Intentions by Blurr Bureau

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2 months ago
The Department of Bed Intentions is the world’s first fully sustainable microbiome-friendly prebiotic personal lubricant. The brand shakes up the...
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elementary Blog
Big Feature Updates for Accessibility, Privacy, Security, and More As promised, this month brings a bunch of new features including a big new accessibility feature and...
over a year ago
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Big Feature Updates for Accessibility, Privacy, Security, and More

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over a year ago
As promised, this month brings a bunch of new features including a big new accessibility feature and a major platform improvement. Enjoy this month’s contributions to the upcoming OS 7.1! AppCenter As we work towards our continual goal of better supporting alternative app stores,...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Green Roof Covers This Unique Vehicle Charging Station Architecture firm ADEPT has shared photos of Norlys Charging Park Drejebaenken, a contemporary...
9 months ago
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A Green Roof Covers This Unique Vehicle Charging Station

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9 months ago
Architecture firm ADEPT has shared photos of Norlys Charging Park Drejebaenken, a contemporary charging station in Odense, Denmark. The charging park design consists of easily recognizable details and elements that can be adapted to different geographical locations and sizes. The...
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IEEE Spectrum
The Lost Story of Alan Turing’s Secret “Delilah” Project It was 8 May 1945, Victory in Europe Day. With the German military’s unconditional surrender, the...
5 months ago
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The Lost Story of Alan Turing’s Secret “Delilah” Project

from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in science

5 months ago
It was 8 May 1945, Victory in Europe Day. With the German military’s unconditional surrender, the European part of World War II came to an end. Alan Turing and his assistant Donald Bayley celebrated victory in their quiet English way, by taking a long walk together. They had been...
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Healthcare in India | Out-Of-Pocket From the eyes of someone on the ground
a year ago
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Healthcare in India | Out-Of-Pocket

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a year ago
From the eyes of someone on the ground
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Seldo.com
AI's effects on programming jobs
3 months ago
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AI's effects on programming jobs

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3 months ago
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Applied Cartography
Order, Tailwind, DRY (Order in the CSS rule sense, not the metaphysical sense.) The time has come to begin exfiltrating...
6 months ago
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Order, Tailwind, DRY

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

6 months ago
(Order in the CSS rule sense, not the metaphysical sense.) The time has come to begin exfiltrating some higher-traffic, higher-leverage parts of Buttondown's admin UI away from the autogenerated Django admin and into some more bespoke components. Take, for instance, this rather...
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The American Scholar
“how i got ovah” by Carolyn Rodgers Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “how i got ovah” by Carolyn Rodgers appeared first on The...
7 months ago
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“how i got ovah” by Carolyn Rodgers

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7 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “how i got ovah” by Carolyn Rodgers appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Wuthering...
Books I Read in June 2023 If only I had the will to write something.  But I can read. PHILOSOPHY Fragments or Sayings or...
over a year ago
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Books I Read in June 2023

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

over a year ago
If only I had the will to write something.  But I can read. PHILOSOPHY Fragments or Sayings or Tall Tales (4th C. BCE), Diogenes the Cynic, tr. Guy Davenport Cynics (2008), William Desmond - for an entry in a series aimed at students, surprisingly well written.  It helps that...
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Luxagraf:...
Gone Fishin&#x27; Every morning when I step outside I am greeted by a chorus of ospreys circling in the glint of the...
over a year ago
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Gone Fishin&#x27;

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

over a year ago
Every morning when I step outside I am greeted by a chorus of ospreys circling in the glint of the rising sun. There are between four and six of them, depending on the day. They spend their days fishing, building nests, and fighting. Every evening, sitting out by the fire as dusk...
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Ink & Switch
Patchwork 08 · History and diffs with Automerge Version control capabilities like history, branching, and diffs are enabled by the Automerge CRDT...
a year ago
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Patchwork 08 · History and diffs with Automerge

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a year ago
Version control capabilities like history, branching, and diffs are enabled by the Automerge CRDT library.
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The Ruffian
Seven Features Of Post-Literate Politics Inspired By Walter Ong's Classic Book, 'Orality and Literacy'
2 months ago
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Seven Features Of Post-Literate Politics

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2 months ago
Inspired By Walter Ong's Classic Book, 'Orality and Literacy'
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The Works in...
Upzoning New Zealand How a small country started building a lot of homes
a year ago
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Upzoning New Zealand

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a year ago
How a small country started building a lot of homes
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Old Structures...
Look Closely For A Surprise This 1900 map of Manhattan looks, at first glance to be simply another detailed map with building...
a year ago
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Look Closely For A Surprise

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

a year ago
This 1900 map of Manhattan looks, at first glance to be simply another detailed map with building outlines shown: But there’s a surprise when you zoom in: The buildings are little isometric drawings rather than just outlines. They’re not particularly accurate drawings – I...
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Left To Write
Stoicism: The Philosophy I Use To Guide Me Through Life Last week, I had a Zoom call with someone from Daniel Vassallo’s Small Bets community. The person —...
over a year ago
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Stoicism: The Philosophy I Use To Guide Me Through Life

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over a year ago
Last week, I had a Zoom call with someone from Daniel Vassallo’s Small Bets community. The person — let’s call him B — was leaving a cushy tech job and wanted to give the whole solopreneur thing a try. So given my background, B wanted insights into how I deal with uncertainty.
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Prolost
Jurassic Punk If you’re reading this blog, you probably know the story — at least, you think you do. As Steven...
over a year ago
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Jurassic Punk

from Prolost [alt+shift+b] in creative

over a year ago
If you’re reading this blog, you probably know the story — at least, you think you do. As Steven Spielberg began production on 1993’s Jurassic Park, he and Industrial Light and Magic’s Dennis Muren planned to execute the all-important visual effects component of the film’s...
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The Codist
My Address Doesn't Fit, And Other Complaints So today, I decided to renew my driver's license online, like any modern person would. I started the...
a year ago
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My Address Doesn't Fit, And Other Complaints

from The Codist [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
So today, I decided to renew my driver's license online, like any modern person would. I started the process by going to my state's driver's license website. The first page is to verify my home and mail addresses. Since nothing changed, I hit "
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Nothing Human
Against Positive-Sum Thinking why conflict is necessary
over a year ago
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Against Positive-Sum Thinking

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over a year ago
why conflict is necessary
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Steve Klabnik
Why is Clojure so stable?
over a year ago
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Why is Clojure so stable?

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over a year ago
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Rest of World -...
The role of trust in building fintech for Africa Yanmo Omorogbe of Nigerian wealth management firm Bamboo talks about navigating government...
12 months ago
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The role of trust in building fintech for Africa

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

12 months ago
Yanmo Omorogbe of Nigerian wealth management firm Bamboo talks about navigating government regulations and the role of longevity.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
What You Can Do with Netlify Build Plugins Netlify Build Plugins are here! Here's a smattering of thoughts on what you can do with them.
over a year ago
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What You Can Do with Netlify Build Plugins

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

over a year ago
Netlify Build Plugins are here! Here's a smattering of thoughts on what you can do with them.
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bookbear express
no exit love is the best kind of trap
4 months ago
10

no exit

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4 months ago
love is the best kind of trap
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The American Scholar
Crystal Ball The post Crystal Ball appeared first on The American Scholar.
2 weeks ago
11

Crystal Ball

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2 weeks ago
The post Crystal Ball appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Old Vintage...
Let's give PRO/VENIX a barely adequate, pre-C89 TCP/IP stack (featuring Slirp-CK) TCP/IP Illustrated (what would now be called the first edition prior to the 2011 update) for a...
2 months ago
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Let's give PRO/VENIX a barely adequate, pre-C89 TCP/IP stack (featuring Slirp-CK)

from Old Vintage Computing Research [alt+shift+b] in technology

2 months ago
TCP/IP Illustrated (what would now be called the first edition prior to the 2011 update) for a hundred-odd bucks on sale which has now sat on my bookshelf, encased in its original shrinkwrap, for at least twenty years. It would be fun to put up the 4.4BSD data structures poster...
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Neil Panchal
Dear JetBrains. Don't mess with your UI. So we have yet a new UI overhaul. This time, bringing consumer-grade UI practices to the world of...
over a year ago
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Dear JetBrains. Don't mess with your UI.

from Neil Panchal [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
So we have yet a new UI overhaul. This time, bringing consumer-grade UI practices to the world of professionals. Announcement: https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2022/05/take-part-in-the-new-ui-preview-for-your-jetbrains-ide/ New Jet Brains interface We're professionals. We can...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Get You Some Practical Accessibility Sara has been working on a new course titled Practical Accessibility and it is available for...
over a year ago
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Get You Some Practical Accessibility

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

over a year ago
Sara has been working on a new course titled Practical Accessibility and it is available for pre-order right now. I’ve never met Sara in person, but have been an online follower for some time. She is one of those people who has the discipline and eye to make everything they...
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THE ARCHITECTURAL...
I’d rather live in a nostalgic Disneyland than a modernist wasteland Critics often dismiss traditional or historicizing architecture as mere “Disneyland” — a fake,...
3 weeks ago
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I’d rather live in a nostalgic Disneyland than a modernist wasteland

from THE ARCHITECTURAL UPRISING [alt+shift+b] in architecture

3 weeks ago
Critics often dismiss traditional or historicizing architecture as mere “Disneyland” — a fake, nostalgic fantasy out of step with modern life. But millions visit Disney’s Main Street every year, drawn to something they rarely find in real cities: beautiful, human-scaled streets...
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Chris Grossack's...
Finiteness in Sheaf Topoi The notion of “finiteness” is constructively subtle in ways that can be tricky for people new to...
10 months ago
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Finiteness in Sheaf Topoi

from Chris Grossack's Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

10 months ago
The notion of “finiteness” is constructively subtle in ways that can be tricky for people new to the subject to understand. For a while now I’ve wanted to figure out what’s going on with the different versions of “finite” in a way that felt concrete and obvious (I mentioned...
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Paul Cudenec
The truth about Davos Monday January 20 sees the start of the World Economic Forum’s 2025 meeting at Davos, Switzerland.
5 months ago
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The truth about Davos

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5 months ago
Monday January 20 sees the start of the World Economic Forum’s 2025 meeting at Davos, Switzerland.
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Wait But Why
SpaceX’s Big Freaking Rocket – The Full Story (G-Rated Version) It's not a small rocket. The post SpaceX’s Big Freaking Rocket – The Full Story (G-Rated Version)...
over a year ago
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SpaceX’s Big Freaking Rocket – The Full Story (G-Rated Version)

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over a year ago
It's not a small rocket. The post SpaceX’s Big Freaking Rocket – The Full Story (G-Rated Version) appeared first on Wait But Why.
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Automating a software company with GitHub Actions When developing software, there's no shortage of work: building new features, fixing bugs,...
over a year ago
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Automating a software company with GitHub Actions

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

over a year ago
When developing software, there's no shortage of work: building new features, fixing bugs, maintaining infrastructure, launching new systems, phasing…
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Tinloof - Blog
Guide to fast Next.js Insights into how Tinloof measures website speed with best practices to make faster websites.
a year ago
37

Guide to fast Next.js

from Tinloof - Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Insights into how Tinloof measures website speed with best practices to make faster websites.
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Notes on software...
The limitations of LLMs, or why are we doing RAG? This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
a year ago
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The limitations of LLMs, or why are we doing RAG?

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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Simply Explained
Year in review: 2022 Every new year I reflect on the previous year and set new goals. I'm focusing primarily on my...
over a year ago
34

Year in review: 2022

from Simply Explained [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Every new year I reflect on the previous year and set new goals. I'm focusing primarily on my YouTube channel and newsletter, but there are personal reflections in here as well. Last year was an off year for me, and I'm gearing up to make up for lost time in 2023.
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Open Culture
A Rare Smile Captured in a 19th Century Photograph Just look at this photo. Just look at this young girl’s smile. We know her name: O‑o-dee. And we...
3 months ago
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A Rare Smile Captured in a 19th Century Photograph

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

3 months ago
Just look at this photo. Just look at this young girl’s smile. We know her name: O‑o-dee. And we know that she was a member of the Kiowa tribe in the Oklahoma Territory. And we know that the photo was taken in 1894. But that smile is like a time machine. O‑o-dee might just as […]
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Noahpinion
How tariffs on China could help the world Looking for the silver lining in a messy policy.
11 months ago
77

How tariffs on China could help the world

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11 months ago
Looking for the silver lining in a messy policy.
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Seth's Blog
What’s for breakfast? Peter Drucker didn’t say “culture eats strategy for breakfast,” but reality rarely gets in the way...
5 months ago
42

What’s for breakfast?

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5 months ago
Peter Drucker didn’t say “culture eats strategy for breakfast,” but reality rarely gets in the way of a good quote. But what does it mean? I think what ‘not Drucker’ meant was that MBA tactics will always be subverted by the power of systems, and that systems disguise themselves...
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Both Are True
TODAY 12PM: Write alongside other weirdos with almost zero talking about writing!!
2 months ago
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TODAY 12PM: Write alongside other weirdos

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2 months ago
with almost zero talking about writing!!
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Paul Graham: Essays
Why TV Lost
over a year ago
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Why TV Lost

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over a year ago
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Seth's Blog
The paradox of points Points aren’t just for games. Points are how we keep score and decide what to do next. Pick your...
8 months ago
52

The paradox of points

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

8 months ago
Points aren’t just for games. Points are how we keep score and decide what to do next. Pick your scorekeeping wisely. Too much focus on the score can bend us or break us, pushing us to engage with too much focus and without regard for balance. And our attachment to obvious points...
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Tyler Cipriani: blog
A case for stacked patches 📚 I’m wondering why you talk about “branches” at all. No such thing should exist. – Linus Torvalds,...
a year ago
25

A case for stacked patches 📚

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
I’m wondering why you talk about “branches” at all. No such thing should exist. – Linus Torvalds, 2005, git@vger.kernel.org Git branches are hard to think about. But “GitHub” forces you to think about branches. A lot. Instead of futzing with GitHub’s feature branches, many...
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Don't Worry About...
o3 Is a Lying Liar I love o3.
2 months ago
32

o3 Is a Lying Liar

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2 months ago
I love o3.
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Common Edge
NYC’s ‘City of Yes’ Proposal Is a Free Pass for Big Real Estate It won’t create affordable housing, but instead lead to continued gentrification and displacement.
10 months ago
71

NYC’s ‘City of Yes’ Proposal Is a Free Pass for Big Real Estate

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10 months ago
It won’t create affordable housing, but instead lead to continued gentrification and displacement.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Good Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Why does anything good happen to anyone? We're all...
a year ago
55

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Good

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

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Why does anything good happen to anyone? We're all dicks! Today's News:
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Flashbak
Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
a year ago
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
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MMapped blog
IC internals: the ICP ledger
over a year ago
24

IC internals: the ICP ledger

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over a year ago
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MMapped blog
The plan-execute pattern
a year ago
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The plan-execute pattern

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a year ago
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African History...
a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
a year ago
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a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora

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a year ago
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Frivolous Subjects?' “Frivolous subjects? Well, and thank God for it, not everybody can be writing about big,...
2 months ago
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'Frivolous Subjects?'

from Anecdotal Evidence [alt+shift+b] in literature

2 months ago
“Frivolous subjects? Well, and thank God for it, not everybody can be writing about big, so-called important issues: population, genes, semantics, sex, death. Surely there is value in anything that makes us laugh, that makes us understand ourselves more.”  These wise words are...
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TokyoDev
Announcing the 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey The 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey is now live! By taking this survey, you'll be...
over a year ago
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Announcing the 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
The 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey is now live! By taking this survey, you'll be helping other developers living here better understand the experience of their peers, and also help people considering making the move here understand what working here is actually...
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Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.05.23 - Superman New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
a month ago
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Comic for 2025.05.23 - Superman

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a month ago
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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The Honest Broker
A 2000-Year-Old Argument Over the Flute Is the Most Important Thing in Our Culture Right Now This bitter debate from ancient times helps us understand today's crisis in music and other creative...
11 months ago
71

A 2000-Year-Old Argument Over the Flute Is the Most Important Thing in Our Culture Right Now

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11 months ago
This bitter debate from ancient times helps us understand today's crisis in music and other creative fields
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Koos Looijesteijn -...
Why is open source software so badly designed? “It could have been so great, but why is it so ugly and difficult to use?” people trying open...
over a year ago
80

Why is open source software so badly designed?

from Koos Looijesteijn - Everything [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
“It could have been so great, but why is it so ugly and difficult to use?” people trying open source...
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Uncharted...
Final: So Where Should We Build Ten New Cities in the US? Final article in the series
5 months ago
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Final: So Where Should We Build Ten New Cities in the US?

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5 months ago
Final article in the series
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Artificial Ignorance
o3 is important, but not because of benchmarks OpenAI's new model offers a peek at the future of AI investment.
6 months ago
61

o3 is important, but not because of benchmarks

from Artificial Ignorance [alt+shift+b] in AI

6 months ago
OpenAI's new model offers a peek at the future of AI investment.
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There are two types...
Take Back The City On a recent episode of Billions, the New York Attorney General stands on the roof a car in the...
over a year ago
33

Take Back The City

from There are two types of architecture—good architecture, and the other kind [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
On a recent episode of Billions, the New York Attorney General stands on the roof a car in the middle of a New York City street with a bullhorn. Why? Vecause he’s positioned himself near a meeting on the Highline … Continue reading → The post Take Back The City appeared first on...
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Londonist
Stunning Light Trails And Illumination Festivals To See Near London This Winter Absolutely enchanting evenings out in south-east England.
a year ago
36

Stunning Light Trails And Illumination Festivals To See Near London This Winter

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a year ago
Absolutely enchanting evenings out in south-east England.
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Max Rozen
How I became a React developer On how I left a 'prestigious' consulting job to start from scratch as a React developer
over a year ago
119

How I became a React developer

from Max Rozen [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago
On how I left a 'prestigious' consulting job to start from scratch as a React developer
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Tony Finch's blog
Where does my computer get the time from? This week I was in Rotterdam for a RIPE meeting. On Friday morning I gave a lightning talk called...
over a year ago
24

Where does my computer get the time from?

from Tony Finch's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
This week I was in Rotterdam for a RIPE meeting. On Friday morning I gave a lightning talk called where does my computer get the time from? The RIPE meeting website has a copy of my slides and a video of the talk; this is a blogified low-res version of the slides with a rough and...
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Retail Design Blog
FREITAG store Following the opening in 2017 of FREITAG‘s first store Down Under, in collaboration with local...
9 months ago
50

FREITAG store

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

9 months ago
Following the opening in 2017 of FREITAG‘s first store Down Under, in collaboration with local retailer Keoma, the innovative Zurich-based...
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Herbert Lui
Where you work changes how you work My first internship was at Virtual Team Builders, a company that helped companies work remotely. I...
3 months ago
27

Where you work changes how you work

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

3 months ago
My first internship was at Virtual Team Builders, a company that helped companies work remotely. I had no idea this was even possible. I would go on to work remotely, or in a hybrid workplace, for most of my career. Working remotely doesn’t necessarily mean working from home....
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Blog of Simple...
What are your rights under the CCPA?
a year ago
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What are your rights under the CCPA?

from Blog of Simple Analytics [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
Ickiness Sensitivity I thought I found a solution to my social media problem last week. I am not great at interacting...
over a year ago
20

Ickiness Sensitivity

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

over a year ago
I thought I found a solution to my social media problem last week. I am not great at interacting with my followers or initiating conversations. It turns out that being social doesn't come easily for me online _or_ in real life. If only I could outsource the uncomfortable work.
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somethingaboutmaps
On the Practice of Wobbling We live in an era in which maps (and plenty of other graphics) are made with digital tools....
a year ago
136

On the Practice of Wobbling

from somethingaboutmaps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

a year ago
We live in an era in which maps (and plenty of other graphics) are made with digital tools. Workflows vary, but the end result is that a lot of us base our cartography entirely on clean vector shapes and neat raster grids. For example, I talked earlier this year about a map I...
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Jonas Hietala
Default audio card in linux There are a bunch of posts about making your audio work by default in Linux but none that just...
over a year ago
16

Default audio card in linux

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
There are a bunch of posts about making your audio work by default in Linux but none that just worked for me. I had three separate problems: Getting sound Playing sound from multiple sources at the same time Audio card getting different numbers on reboot Getting sound Here I...
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TheCollector
The First Independent US Intelligence Agency: What Was the OSS? The OSS, or Office of Strategic Services, came into being on President Roosevelt’s order on June 13,...
2 months ago
7

The First Independent US Intelligence Agency: What Was the OSS?

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago
The OSS, or Office of Strategic Services, came into being on President Roosevelt’s order on June 13, 1942, during World War II. The agency’s responsibilities included consolidating the nation’s intelligence efforts, collecting and analyzing strategic information, and conducting...
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Rest of World -...
Sing your way to learning a new language Unlike apps like Duolingo, Beelinguapp focuses on storytelling and song to engage its over 5 million...
a year ago
34

Sing your way to learning a new language

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

a year ago
Unlike apps like Duolingo, Beelinguapp focuses on storytelling and song to engage its over 5 million users.
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CONTEMPORIST
This Hurricane Proof House Was Built On Top Of 12-Foot Concrete Piers To Protect It From Flooding Studio PEEK|ANCONA has designed a hurricane-proof home in New Jersey, as a result of the homeowners...
over a year ago
92

This Hurricane Proof House Was Built On Top Of 12-Foot Concrete Piers To Protect It From Flooding

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
Studio PEEK|ANCONA has designed a hurricane-proof home in New Jersey, as a result of the homeowners losing their previous house to hurricanes Sandy and Irene. The architects mention that “the challenge was to build a high-strength home with an efficient construction schedule,...
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Seán Barry
Getting Started With Docker (Part 1) What is docker? Why do I need it? How do I use it? If you're asking any of these questions, this...
over a year ago
39

Getting Started With Docker (Part 1)

from Seán Barry [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
What is docker? Why do I need it? How do I use it? If you're asking any of these questions, this article is for you.
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Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
86

Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century

from Dr Alun Withey [alt+shift+b] in history

over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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The personal website...
The unexamined life Why ethics? The 2010s were a remarkable decade for technology. Day after day, tech lined the front...
over a year ago
16

The unexamined life

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

over a year ago
Why ethics? The 2010s were a remarkable decade for technology. Day after day, tech lined the front pages of major newspapers, the chyrons of broadcast news, and the glossy sheets of magazines. And in 2019, the trend took a turn: the stories became about the ethics of technology....
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Paul Graham: Essays
Being Popular
over a year ago
42

Being Popular

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over a year ago
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Both Are True
what do i do with my life? kill the trolls
a year ago
64

what do i do with my life?

from Both Are True [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
kill the trolls
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IEEE Spectrum
Tragedy Spurred the First Effective Land-Mine Detector Land mines have been around in one form or another for more than a thousand years. By now, you’d...
6 months ago
62

Tragedy Spurred the First Effective Land-Mine Detector

from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in science

6 months ago
Land mines have been around in one form or another for more than a thousand years. By now, you’d think a simple and safe way of locating and removing the devices would’ve been engineered. But that’s not the case. In fact, up until World War II, the most common method for finding...
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Londonist
Greenwich's Old Town Hall To Become Flats And Viewing Gallery Art deco landmark gets green light for regeneration.
a year ago
36

Greenwich's Old Town Hall To Become Flats And Viewing Gallery

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
Art deco landmark gets green light for regeneration.
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Rubenerd
Brolific R.L. Dane enquired about how one maintains a regular blogging habit, and counted my number of posts...
2 months ago
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Brolific

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2 months ago
R.L. Dane enquired about how one maintains a regular blogging habit, and counted my number of posts with a simple bash script. I wouldn’t say I have a specific recipe for a successful blog, though there are always a few points to keep in mind: Never write filler. People can tell...
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UX Collective
Figma and the cost of collaboration Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
11 months ago
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Figma and the cost of collaboration

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11 months ago
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Applied Cartography
Truncating timedeltas in Django Consider a fan-out-ish model that you want to aggregate a bunch of: likes on a post, for...
5 months ago
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Truncating timedeltas in Django

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5 months ago
Consider a fan-out-ish model that you want to aggregate a bunch of: likes on a post, for instance. class Post(models.Model): created_at = models.DateTimeField() class Event(models.Model): post = models.ForeignKey(Post, on_delete=models.CASCADE) created_at =...
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Probably...
Hazard and Survival Here’s a question from the Reddit statistics forum. If I have a tumor that I’ve been told has a...
7 months ago
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Hazard and Survival

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7 months ago
Here’s a question from the Reddit statistics forum. If I have a tumor that I’ve been told has a malignancy rate of 2% per year, does that compound? So after 5 years there’s a 10% chance it will turn malignant? This turns out to be an interesting question, because the answer...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Notion-like compact table of contents in JavaScript Large web pages, especially documentation, benefit from having a table of contents for navigating...
a week ago
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Notion-like compact table of contents in JavaScript

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

a week ago
Large web pages, especially documentation, benefit from having a table of contents for navigating within document. This article describes how I implemented a compact table of contents for documentation page for my Edna note taking application as well as for this very blog. I was...
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Noahpinion
MAGA doesn't build Instead of a "Fourth Turning", we got a backward-looking, destructive regime.
2 months ago
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MAGA doesn't build

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2 months ago
Instead of a "Fourth Turning", we got a backward-looking, destructive regime.
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Kagi Blog
Kagi raises $670K Kagi ( https://kagi.com ) has successfully raised $670K in a SAFE note investment round, marking our...
over a year ago
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Kagi raises $670K

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over a year ago
Kagi ( https://kagi.com ) has successfully raised $670K in a SAFE note investment round, marking our first external fundraise to date.
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42!
Does your SaaS actually save your customers from doing more work? A recent conversation on Twitter with a colleague has reminded of this dilemma that we faced in our...
over a year ago
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Does your SaaS actually save your customers from doing more work?

from 42! [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
A recent conversation on Twitter with a colleague has reminded of this dilemma that we faced in our early days of launching my SaaS. You see, In 25 years of consulting to small businesses, I had learned that business owners and managers were faced with the challenge of recording...
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Home on Erik...
Music recommendations using cover images (part 1) Scrolling through the Discover page on Spotify the other day it occurred to me that the album is in...
over a year ago
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Music recommendations using cover images (part 1)

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Scrolling through the Discover page on Spotify the other day it occurred to me that the album is in fact a fairly strong visual proxy for what kind of content you can expect from it. I started wondering if the album cover can in fact be used for recommendations.
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mtlynch.io
Is It Keto: Month 3 Prior to February 2019, I published all my retrospectives on Indie Hackers: Is It Keto Month 3:...
over a year ago
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Is It Keto: Month 3

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over a year ago
Prior to February 2019, I published all my retrospectives on Indie Hackers: Is It Keto Month 3: Returning to a Site that Grew without Me
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Calculated Risk
Real Estate Newsletter Articles this Week: "Home Prices Continue to Cool" At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week: Click on graph for larger image. Part 1:...
2 months ago
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Real Estate Newsletter Articles this Week: "Home Prices Continue to Cool"

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2 months ago
At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week: Click on graph for larger image. Part 1: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-April 2025 Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-April 2025 2nd Look at Local Housing Markets in...
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Passing Time
What My Friends Have to Say About Me A Japanese proverb states that if the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
over a year ago
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What My Friends Have to Say About Me

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over a year ago
A Japanese proverb states that if the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
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Krebs on Security
Pakistani Firm Shipped Fentanyl Analogs, Scams to US A Texas firm recently charged with conspiring to distribute synthetic opioids in the United States...
2 months ago
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Pakistani Firm Shipped Fentanyl Analogs, Scams to US

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2 months ago
A Texas firm recently charged with conspiring to distribute synthetic opioids in the United States is at the center of a vast network of companies in the U.S. and Pakistan whose employees are accused of using online ads to scam westerners seeking help with trademarks, book...
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Ruud van Asseldonk
A reasonable configuration language
a year ago
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A reasonable configuration language

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a year ago
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Passing Time
A Wednesday at Arapahoe Lakes Not because it's there, but, instead, to feel something
over a year ago
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A Wednesday at Arapahoe Lakes

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over a year ago
Not because it's there, but, instead, to feel something
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Old Structures...
Not Much Of A Mystery There floors of apartments over two floors of commercial space: If you’ve spent enough time in...
11 months ago
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Not Much Of A Mystery

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

11 months ago
There floors of apartments over two floors of commercial space: If you’ve spent enough time in Manhattan, the immediate thought is that this was a house with a stoop, and the extension to the front lot line is an alteration that removed the stoop and raised the basement to street...
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Weighty Thoughts
Review of AI in 2024 and Updates Guest Post in AI Supremacy
6 months ago
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Review of AI in 2024 and Updates

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6 months ago
Guest Post in AI Supremacy
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Paul Graham: Essays
See Randomness
over a year ago
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See Randomness

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over a year ago
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The Changelog
Joyful is the Dark “Joyful is the dark   coolness of the tomb, waiting for the wonder   of the morning. Never was that...
over a year ago
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Joyful is the Dark

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over a year ago
“Joyful is the dark   coolness of the tomb, waiting for the wonder   of the morning. Never was that midnight   touched by dread and gloom; darkness was the cradle   of the dawning.” – Brian Wren Most of us are not personally experiencing symptoms of a pandemic virus, but with all...
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 1, 2023 No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
a year ago
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Gap Week: December 1, 2023

from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
The Internet Economy We are living in an era of bundling. The big five consumer tech companies — Google, Apple, Facebook,...
over a year ago
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The Internet Economy

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

over a year ago
We are living in an era of bundling. The big five consumer tech companies — Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft — have moved far…
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Artificial Ignorance
Introducing the Model Memo Welcome to a new experiment - the first ever Model Memo!
4 months ago
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Introducing the Model Memo

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4 months ago
Welcome to a new experiment - the first ever Model Memo!
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Rest of World -...
India banned a Chinese app four years ago. Government agencies are still using it CamScanner was one of 59 Chinese apps the Indian government banned in 2020, amid a border conflict...
7 months ago
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India banned a Chinese app four years ago. Government agencies are still using it

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7 months ago
CamScanner was one of 59 Chinese apps the Indian government banned in 2020, amid a border conflict with China.
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Notes on software...
Compiling dynamic programming languages It can be difficult to disassociate the idea that dynamically typed programming languages are tied...
over a year ago
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Compiling dynamic programming languages

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over a year ago
It can be difficult to disassociate the idea that dynamically typed programming languages are tied to byte-code interpreters (e.g. YARV Ruby, CPython, V8, Zend Engine, etc.). But for many languages, a compiled implementation also exists. Cython, Chicken Scheme and SBCL are good...
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Artificial Ignorance
Tutorial: How to narrate video with Sora, GPT-Vision, and ElevenLabs The future of entertainment is going to be a wild ride.
a year ago
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Tutorial: How to narrate video with Sora, GPT-Vision, and ElevenLabs

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a year ago
The future of entertainment is going to be a wild ride.
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Common Edge
Life Advice: “You’ll Do Fine If You Believe, ‘I Do My Best.’” Author and educator Steven Heller’s commencement address to the School of Visual Arts’ Class of...
a month ago
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Life Advice: “You’ll Do Fine If You Believe, ‘I Do My Best.’”

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a month ago
Author and educator Steven Heller’s commencement address to the School of Visual Arts’ Class of 2025.
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Lighthouse Blog
Overview of content
a year ago
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Overview of content

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a year ago
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Josh Thompson
Focus: One Thing at a Time The pressure to be working on more than one thing at a time is enormous. This pressure comes from no...
over a year ago
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Focus: One Thing at a Time

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over a year ago
The pressure to be working on more than one thing at a time is enormous. This pressure comes from no one but me. And before I dismiss this tendency as “proof that I work too hard”, I must take another tact. It comes from a need to satisfy my ego. It is much easier to say “I did...
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Ploum.net
Dédicace à Trolls & Vélo et magie cycliste Dédicace à Trolls & Vélo et magie cycliste Je serai ce samedi 19 avril à Mons au festival Trolls &...
2 months ago
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Dédicace à Trolls & Vélo et magie cycliste

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2 months ago
Dédicace à Trolls & Vélo et magie cycliste Je serai ce samedi 19 avril à Mons au festival Trolls & Légende en dédicace au stand PVH. La star de la table sera sans conteste Sara Schneider, autrice fantasy de la saga des enfants d’Aliel et qui est toute auréolée du Prix SFFF Suisse...
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The American Scholar
The Murderer as Everyman Arthur Fleck’s rise and fall The post The Murderer as Everyman appeared first on The American...
4 months ago
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The Murderer as Everyman

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4 months ago
Arthur Fleck’s rise and fall The post The Murderer as Everyman appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Stephen Wolfram...
What Can We Learn about Engineering and Innovation from Half a Century of the Game of Life Cellular... Metaengineering and Laws of Innovation Things are invented. Things are discovered. And somehow...
3 months ago
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What Can We Learn about Engineering and Innovation from Half a Century of the Game of Life Cellular Automaton?

from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in science

3 months ago
Metaengineering and Laws of Innovation Things are invented. Things are discovered. And somehow there’s an arc of progress that’s formed. But are there what amount to “laws of innovation” that govern that arc of progress? There are some exponential and other laws that purport to...
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Seth's Blog
Real and apparent risk Roller coasters are one of the safest ways to travel (they end up where they begin, but that’s a...
over a year ago
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Real and apparent risk

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

over a year ago
Roller coasters are one of the safest ways to travel (they end up where they begin, but that’s a different story). People pay to ride on them because they feel risky, even if they’re not. Air travel is really safe, and the airlines work overtime to reduce the perception of risk...
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Seth's Blog
Getting it right the first time How unlikely is this? The artist who paints a masterpiece, from scratch, without hesitation. The...
a year ago
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Getting it right the first time

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

a year ago
How unlikely is this? The artist who paints a masterpiece, from scratch, without hesitation. The playwright who doesn’t need a workshop or a reading. The architect who designs a food hall that has a layout and vibe that works without one alteration… Evolution is powerful. It...
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Paul Cudenec
Primeval freedom, the anarch and the anarchist Have I, for the last 30 years, been mistakenly self-identifying as an anarchist?
7 months ago
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Primeval freedom, the anarch and the anarchist

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7 months ago
Have I, for the last 30 years, been mistakenly self-identifying as an anarchist?
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Abishek Muthian
Apple’s Chipnomics — How is apple chip faster than the rest From Tom’s guide review of iPhone 8 Many reviewers have shared benchmark results of the new A11...
over a year ago
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Apple’s Chipnomics — How is apple chip faster than the rest

from Abishek Muthian [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
From Tom’s guide review of iPhone 8 Many reviewers have shared benchmark results of the new A11 Bionic SoC (System on Chip) from latest Apple devices & this was not unexpected. I would like to introspect how Apple is managing to build better SoC’s than even traditional chip...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
A Note On Charity Through Marginal Price Discrimination
over a year ago
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A Note On Charity Through Marginal Price Discrimination

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over a year ago
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Mazdak
Protect Your iPhone: Apple Introduces Stolen Device Protection Apple is taking a stand against iPhone theft with a new security feature called Stolen Device...
a year ago
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Protect Your iPhone: Apple Introduces Stolen Device Protection

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
Apple is taking a stand against iPhone theft with a new security feature called Stolen Device Protection, currently available to beta testers. This feature adds an extra layer of protection to your personal information and financial data, making it more difficult for thieves to...
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brr
McMurdo Postal Mail How to mail things to and from Antarctica!
over a year ago
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McMurdo Postal Mail

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over a year ago
How to mail things to and from Antarctica!
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The Diff
Two Models of Forward-Deployed Engineers Plus! Corporate VC; The New AI Model; The New AI Model, Continued; The Long But Volatile March;...
5 months ago
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Two Models of Forward-Deployed Engineers

from The Diff [alt+shift+b] in finance

5 months ago
Plus! Corporate VC; The New AI Model; The New AI Model, Continued; The Long But Volatile March; Post-IPO
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The Wandering...
Mapping Gottfried Merzbacher I’m wrapping up my work on Gottfried Merzbacher—a sort of back-burner project that’s been active and...
over a year ago
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Mapping Gottfried Merzbacher

from The Wandering Cartographer [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
I’m wrapping up my work on Gottfried Merzbacher—a sort of back-burner project that’s been active and then dormant, on and off, for about seven years. It’s been a pleasure to learn about places like the Bayumkol valley, the relationship between the Saryzhaz and Kum-erik Rivers,...
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Not Boring by Packy...
Weekly Dose of Optimism #142 Neuralink, Joby, Distributed AI, Diabetes Down Under, Hill & Valley
2 months ago
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #142

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2 months ago
Neuralink, Joby, Distributed AI, Diabetes Down Under, Hill & Valley
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Mark Manson
Everyone Is Mostly the Same… (And Why This Is Good News) I started my first blog in 2007. By 2011, writing and publishing online was my full-time job. By...
over a year ago
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Everyone Is Mostly the Same… (And Why This Is Good News)

from Mark Manson [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
I started my first blog in 2007. By 2011, writing and publishing online was my full-time job. By 2013, that writing was being read by over a million people each month. And while the exact number has fluctuated over the years, that still remains true. Early on in my career, as you...
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FIRE v London
Buy to let: RIP Last year was the end of an era. I sold the Modern Flat, after owning it for over 20 years. A bit of...
4 months ago
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Buy to let: RIP

from FIRE v London [alt+shift+b] in finance

4 months ago
Last year was the end of an era. I sold the Modern Flat, after owning it for over 20 years. A bit of history I ended up with my Modern Flat in that common way that many ‘accidental’ landlords have. It was my first rung on the property ownership ladder. Until it was time to…...
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Yale e360
I'm taking a sabbatical and attending Recurse Center! It's been almost a decade since I graduated from college. In that time, I've worked at three...
over a year ago
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I'm taking a sabbatical and attending Recurse Center!

from Yale e360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
It's been almost a decade since I graduated from college. In that time, I've worked at three startups, co-founded a non-profit immigration tech company, consulted for the United Nations, and noped out of grad school after one semester (twice!). I've also struggled with depression...
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Blog - Mac Pierce
Decreasing the F.Q. - A talk on Facial Recognition and the Opt Out Cap Links to a talk I gave on the Opt-Out cap and the state of surveillance via facial recognition.
over a year ago
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Decreasing the F.Q. - A talk on Facial Recognition and the Opt Out Cap

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over a year ago
Links to a talk I gave on the Opt-Out cap and the state of surveillance via facial recognition.
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A Beautiful Site
Testing Support for :focus-visible The new :focus-visible CSS selector lets us remove unsightly focus rings that often result in...
over a year ago
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Testing Support for :focus-visible

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

over a year ago
The new :focus-visible CSS selector lets us remove unsightly focus rings that often result in developers adding this to their stylesheets: /* Please don't do this */ button:focus { outline: none; } While unsightly to mouse users, a clear focus indicator is essential for proper...
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The Rational Walk
The Digest #221 Bezos on Media Bias, Marks on Asset Allocation, Moral Hazard, Meta's AI Prospects, Vision Pro:...
8 months ago
66

The Digest #221

from The Rational Walk [alt+shift+b] in finance

8 months ago
Bezos on Media Bias, Marks on Asset Allocation, Moral Hazard, Meta's AI Prospects, Vision Pro: Success or Failure?, Berkshire in the 1960s, Whole Foods, Black Diamond, Merck, Wormholes
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Citation Needed
Issue 78 – President on brink of bailout for bitcoin Trump tries to breathe life back into the crypto markets’ “Trump pump” while federal regulatory...
4 months ago
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Issue 78 – President on brink of bailout for bitcoin

from Citation Needed [alt+shift+b] in finance

4 months ago
Trump tries to breathe life back into the crypto markets’ “Trump pump” while federal regulatory agencies wash their hands of any crypto industry oversight
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devonzuegel.com
Digital vs analog error correction The purpose of this writeup was to summarize something interesting I learned recently, to make sure...
over a year ago
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Digital vs analog error correction

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

over a year ago
The purpose of this writeup was to summarize something interesting I learned recently, to make sure I understood it. I figured others might find it interesting, too. ~ ~ ~ Digital signal processing corrects for errors better than its analog counterpart. This is one of the...
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Koos Looijesteijn -...
A not so gentle intro to web3 Almost everything web3-related is a grift based on getting people to buy crypto. Although the...
over a year ago
58

A not so gentle intro to web3

from Koos Looijesteijn - Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
Almost everything web3-related is a grift based on getting people to buy crypto. Although the distributed part of blockchain technology...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Different types of layer 2s
a year ago
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Different types of layer 2s

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a year ago
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Atoms vs Bits
VERITAS Subsidies For Media Support media, better.
a month ago
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VERITAS Subsidies For Media

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a month ago
Support media, better.
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The Roots of...
Cellular reprogramming, pneumatic launch systems, and terraforming Mars In December, I went to the Foresight Institute’s Vision Weekend 2023 in San Francisco. I had a lot...
a year ago
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Cellular reprogramming, pneumatic launch systems, and terraforming Mars

from The Roots of Progress | Articles [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
In December, I went to the Foresight Institute’s Vision Weekend 2023 in San Francisco. I had a lot of fun talking to a bunch of weird and ambitious geeks about the glorious abundant technological future. Here are few things I learned about (with the caveat that this is mostly...
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Christopher Butler
How to Turn Good Design Direction into a Good System The discipline of design is the commitment to structuring and systematizing good ideas. Ideas...
over a year ago
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How to Turn Good Design Direction into a Good System

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

over a year ago
The discipline of design is the commitment to structuring and systematizing good ideas. Ideas don’t stand on their own. When a good idea turns into a good thing, it’s because structure and systems — ones that existed before the idea — made it happen. There’s this myth in...
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Open Culture
A 6‑Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno’s Music For Airports: Meditate, Relax, Study Writing in his 1995 diary about his seminal ambient album Music for Airports, Eno remembered his...
3 months ago
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A 6‑Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno’s Music For Airports: Meditate, Relax, Study

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3 months ago
Writing in his 1995 diary about his seminal ambient album Music for Airports, Eno remembered his initial thoughts going into it: “I want to make a kind of music that prepares you for dying–that doesn’t get all bright and cheerful and pretend you’re not a little apprehensive, but...
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Stephen Diehl
The Underlying Technology Shibboleth
over a year ago
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The Underlying Technology Shibboleth

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A Beautiful Site
Lessons from my 20s: a presentation by Ryan Allis Author and entrepreneur Ryan Allis shares 1,264 slides about life, entrepreneurship, and the...
over a year ago
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Lessons from my 20s: a presentation by Ryan Allis

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over a year ago
Author and entrepreneur Ryan Allis shares 1,264 slides about life, entrepreneurship, and the world. We all have goals, but sometimes they seem hard to reach. Really hard. Life happens and things get tough, but don't let it get you down. It's not impossible. It just means you'll...
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Simply Explained
Building a killer NAS with an old Rackable Server Like many others, I'm generating a lot of digital data. Constantly taking photos, writing scripts,...
over a year ago
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Building a killer NAS with an old Rackable Server

from Simply Explained [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Like many others, I'm generating a lot of digital data. Constantly taking photos, writing scripts, taking notes, coding projects, and making videos. I'm storing all these files on Google Drive, which has been very reliable but also a bit risky. What if Google closes my account?...
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Vadim Kravcenko
Software Development is very subjective Most of you are familiar with the feeling of joining a new company and have that urge to rewrite...
over a year ago
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Software Development is very subjective

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over a year ago
Most of you are familiar with the feeling of joining a new company and have that urge to rewrite everything. […] The post Software Development is very subjective appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Blog - Amy Goodchild
Generating The Alphabet My current generative artwork-in-progress includes text, but I don’t want to use a font. In browser...
a year ago
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Generating The Alphabet

from Blog - Amy Goodchild [alt+shift+b] in creative

a year ago
My current generative artwork-in-progress includes text, but I don’t want to use a font. In browser based art work, using a “web safe” font could produce inconsistent results, while including a font file would mean a large file size. Additionally, I don’t want a visual element of...
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The Rational Walk
Two Sides of the Same Coin Savings and consumption are joined at the hip. The more we consume during our working years, the...
a year ago
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Two Sides of the Same Coin

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a year ago
Savings and consumption are joined at the hip. The more we consume during our working years, the longer it will take to achieve financial independence.
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Old Structures...
Originality Is Not Easy, Part 2 A piece of a patent – number 612,365 to Willard Sears, applied for March 16, 1898, and awarded...
9 months ago
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Originality Is Not Easy, Part 2

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

9 months ago
A piece of a patent – number 612,365 to Willard Sears, applied for March 16, 1898, and awarded October 11, 1898 – titled “Construction of Buildings”: Like yesterday’s patent, this is a riff on the then-new concepts of skeleton-frame buildings, with the exterior walls supported on...
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Classical Wisdom
Does FIRST Matter Most? Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
over a year ago
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Does FIRST Matter Most?

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over a year ago
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
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Seth's Blog
Problems and the clover Systemic and existential problems dance their way through three circles: If it’s not solvable, we’ll...
a year ago
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Problems and the clover

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a year ago
Systemic and existential problems dance their way through three circles: If it’s not solvable, we’ll pretend it’s not a problem. If the cultural cost of solving the problem is too high, we’ll pretend there’s no solution. People don’t spend a lot of time planning for death because...
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The History of the...
Filling gaps with a polyfill In the early 2000s, Web 2.0 prompted new web standards, HTML5 and CSS3. Developers used 'shims' and...
a year ago
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Filling gaps with a polyfill

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
In the early 2000s, Web 2.0 prompted new web standards, HTML5 and CSS3. Developers used 'shims' and 'polyfills' for browser compatibility, fostering innovation. The post Filling gaps with a polyfill appeared first on The History of the Web.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Cost of Avoiding Annoyance tl;dr Living with annoying technological constraints might be less costly than maintaining the...
a year ago
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The Cost of Avoiding Annoyance

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a year ago
tl;dr Living with annoying technological constraints might be less costly than maintaining the sophisticated workarounds we create to avoid them. I really enjoyed this well-reasoned article explaining why htmx, the open-source hypermedia JS framework, does not have a build...
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The Changelog
How Gapped is Your Air? Sometimes we want better-than-firewall security for things. For instance: An industrial control...
a year ago
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How Gapped is Your Air?

from The Changelog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Sometimes we want better-than-firewall security for things. For instance: An industrial control system for a municipal water-treatment plant should never have data come in or out Or, a variant of the industrial control system: it should only permit telemetry and monitoring data...
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axio.ms
Axio.ms site refresh This is the obligatory “first post on new platform” post, coupled with a bit of “first post in 4...
over a year ago
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Axio.ms site refresh

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over a year ago
This is the obligatory “first post on new platform” post, coupled with a bit of “first post in 4 years, I’m still alive”. The original axio.ms site was a very HTML1.0 affair and while this was kind of intentional-tongue-in-cheek-chic, it was also a PITA to update. It wasn’t...
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Rest of World -...
This app makes sure dinner is halal The Indonesian app Momasa features recipes, cooking lessons, and restaurants that meet the standards...
9 months ago
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This app makes sure dinner is halal

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

9 months ago
The Indonesian app Momasa features recipes, cooking lessons, and restaurants that meet the standards of Islamic law.
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Seth's Blog
That might be the wrong question “Will it work?” Along the way, we’ve been pushed to load our decisions with a need for certainty....
3 months ago
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That might be the wrong question

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

3 months ago
“Will it work?” Along the way, we’ve been pushed to load our decisions with a need for certainty. It’s easier, it seems, to not try than it is to fail. But the question, “is it worth trying?” unlocks possibility. A surgeon in the middle of an operation should probably not...
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
If a manifesto is published on Medium and no one recommends it, does it make a sound? Anybody can write a manifesto and there is nothing that says it has to inspire anybody. But if you...
over a year ago
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If a manifesto is published on Medium and no one recommends it, does it make a sound?

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

over a year ago
Anybody can write a manifesto and there is nothing that says it has to inspire anybody. But if you are going to fill space with corporate jargon, what are you hoping to accomplish? Why would you share it with the world if you have nothing new to contribute?
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Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.05.06 - Road Beer New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
2 months ago
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Comic for 2025.05.06 - Road Beer

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2 months ago
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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Retail Design Blog
Confidential Client Offices by Studio Deshi Studio Deshi‘s workspace design challenges conventions by prioritizing Vastu principles and...
6 months ago
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Confidential Client Offices by Studio Deshi

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

6 months ago
Studio Deshi‘s workspace design challenges conventions by prioritizing Vastu principles and personalized elements, offering a balanced, wellness-focused environment with custom...
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Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Phone Setup 2021 An annual review of the minimal phone setup sees it considerably different from last year, yet a lot...
over a year ago
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Phone Setup 2021

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

over a year ago
An annual review of the minimal phone setup sees it considerably different from last year, yet a lot has remained the same. I am still rocking the iPhone 11 with no immediate desire to upgrade. Don't get me wrong, I think the iPhone 12 is a far better design than the 11, but I...
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There are two types...
“Big Real Estate’s Continuing Stranglehold Over New York City” Recently, the Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman wrote in the New York Times about the causes of...
over a year ago
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“Big Real Estate’s Continuing Stranglehold Over New York City”

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over a year ago
Recently, the Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman wrote in the New York Times about the causes of unaffordable housing in New York City. He blamed the crisis on a few things, including a powerful financial “monoculture” in the city, NIMBYs, … Continue reading → The post “Big...
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
How I almost became a child millionaire By the time I was 16 I had either forgot the plan or realized it would never work. It was my first...
over a year ago
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How I almost became a child millionaire

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

over a year ago
By the time I was 16 I had either forgot the plan or realized it would never work. It was my first get-rich scheme but it wouldn’t be my last.
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Open Culture
Leonardo da Vinci’s Elegant Design for a Perpetual Motion Machine Is perpetual motion possible? In theory… I have no idea…. In practice, so far at least, the answer...
a month ago
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Leonardo da Vinci’s Elegant Design for a Perpetual Motion Machine

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a month ago
Is perpetual motion possible? In theory… I have no idea…. In practice, so far at least, the answer has been a perpetual no. As Nicholas Barrial writes at Makery, “in order to succeed,” a perpetual motion machine “should be free of friction, run in a vacuum chamber and be totally...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Branch Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: All I'm saying is that at least in the Copenhagen...
3 days ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Branch

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3 days ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: All I'm saying is that at least in the Copenhagen interpretation, Friendly Hitler isn't hanging out with Gandhi. Today's News:
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Applied Cartography
Keeping a technical edge Someone emailed me in response to Two years as an independent technologist, in which I wrote: I miss...
10 months ago
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Keeping a technical edge

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

10 months ago
Someone emailed me in response to Two years as an independent technologist, in which I wrote: I miss of being at a large company, which is dealing with deeply cutting-edge technical problems, but my ability to analyze information, make decisions, and perform at a high-level has...
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Is It Safe to Travel to Greece During a Heatwave?
a year ago
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Is It Safe to Travel to Greece During a Heatwave?

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a year ago
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The American Scholar
Such People The post Such People appeared first on The American Scholar.
4 months ago
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Such People

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4 months ago
The post Such People appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Christopher Butler
Link – David Sleight's personal website stuntbox.com is a beautifully-designed personal website. I especially love the simplicity and...
a year ago
40

Link – David Sleight's personal website

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

a year ago
stuntbox.com is a beautifully-designed personal website. I especially love the simplicity and readability of his article pages.
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Diaries of Note
Come ennui When he wrote the following diary entry in September of 1918, John Dos Passos was already a veteran...
a year ago
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Come ennui

from Diaries of Note [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
When he wrote the following diary entry in September of 1918, John Dos Passos was already a veteran of the ambulance service, having served in the battlefields of Verdun and Mort Homme in 1917, as well as on Italy’s Mt. Grappa. But he now found himself entangled in the...
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David Crawshaw
How I program with LLMs How I program with LLMs 2025-01-06 This document is a summary of my personal experiences using...
6 months ago
24

How I program with LLMs

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

6 months ago
How I program with LLMs 2025-01-06 This document is a summary of my personal experiences using generative models while programming over the past year. It has not been a passive process. I have intentionally sought ways to use LLMs while programming to learn about them. The result...
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Willem's Blog
Improve your sleep by blocking light I have been wearing a sleep mask in bed, blocking all light. It has been amazing for my sleep's...
over a year ago
16

Improve your sleep by blocking light

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

over a year ago
I have been wearing a sleep mask in bed, blocking all light. It has been amazing for my sleep's quality. Read along for my findings!
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African History...
A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900. Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies...
7 months ago
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A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.

from African History Extra [alt+shift+b] in history

7 months ago
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies across the continent during the bronze age.
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The Pragmatic...
Why my new audiobook “The Software Engineer's Guidebook” is everywhere except on Audible Currently, Audible’s position is hurting audiobook authors. My audiobook isn’t on Audible due to a...
7 months ago
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Why my new audiobook “The Software Engineer's Guidebook” is everywhere except on Audible

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in technology

7 months ago
Currently, Audible’s position is hurting audiobook authors. My audiobook isn’t on Audible due to a mix of their monopolistic pricing practices, and the company’s own complacency in how long they take to approve new titles.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Persisting State to localStorage in Recoil Across Browser Tabs I was working on a project using Recoil for state management in React. I needed to persist some...
8 months ago
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Persisting State to localStorage in Recoil Across Browser Tabs

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

8 months ago
I was working on a project using Recoil for state management in React. I needed to persist some state to localStorage, and there’s some info on how to do it in Recoil’s docs. That works; however it doesn’t respond to state changes from other instances of your app in multiple...
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Open Culture
Watch Hardware Wars, the Original Star Wars Parody, in HD (1978) This past May, YouTuber Jenny Nicholson set off waves of social-media discourse with “The...
12 months ago
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Watch Hardware Wars, the Original Star Wars Parody, in HD (1978)

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12 months ago
This past May, YouTuber Jenny Nicholson set off waves of social-media discourse with “The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel,” a four-hour-long video critique of Disney’s hugely expensive, now-shuttered Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser in Orlando, Florida. Having gone...
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Jonas Hietala
5 Years at Linköping's University I recently finished my master’s degree (civilingenjör or civil engineering) at Linköping’s...
over a year ago
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5 Years at Linköping's University

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
I recently finished my master’s degree (civilingenjör or civil engineering) at Linköping’s University. At first it felt like 5 years would be an eternity, but in hindsight it was over in a flash. my gut feeling is that I haven’t learnt or done anything of note, except you know...
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Noahpinion
If you think Americans are mad now, just wait a few months Some guesses as to how long it will take the real pain to arrive.
2 months ago
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If you think Americans are mad now, just wait a few months

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2 months ago
Some guesses as to how long it will take the real pain to arrive.
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 The cost of fueling my body I’ve become a bit obsessed with how much it costs to fuel my body during the working hours. — Dave...
11 months ago
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🔗 The cost of fueling my body

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

11 months ago
I’ve become a bit obsessed with how much it costs to fuel my body during the working hours. — Dave Rupert Visit original link → or View on nazhamid.com →
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TokyoDev
Job Hunting as a Junior Developer in Japan One word: satisfaction. This is how I could accurately describe my feelings when I achieved my dream...
a year ago
27

Job Hunting as a Junior Developer in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
One word: satisfaction. This is how I could accurately describe my feelings when I achieved my dream of finding a software engineering job in Japan. But my dream had almost turned into a nightmare, as I had faced countless rejections for almost a year. Throughout my experience, I...
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Flashbak
The Death of A New Jersey Shopping Mall There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next...
a year ago
58

The Death of A New Jersey Shopping Mall

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next few years as vacancy rates are increasing due to the pandemic, a slowed economy and increased online shopping. Photographer Phillip Buehler captured the death of the Wayne Hills mall...
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Yale e360
Antarctic Ice Sheet May Be Less Vulnerable Than Previously Thought A new study reveals the massive West Antarctic ice sheet did not completely collapse during the last...
5 months ago
4

Antarctic Ice Sheet May Be Less Vulnerable Than Previously Thought

from Yale e360 [alt+shift+b] in science

5 months ago
A new study reveals the massive West Antarctic ice sheet did not completely collapse during the last warm period, as prior modeling had suggested. The findings offer some hope for the future of the ice sheet as the planet heats up. Read more on E360 →
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Mazdak
The Future of Healthcare: Your AI Health Pod is Here! 🩺 Get ready for a revolution in healthcare! Say goodbye to long waits and crowded waiting rooms, and...
a year ago
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The Future of Healthcare: Your AI Health Pod is Here! 🩺

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
Get ready for a revolution in healthcare! Say goodbye to long waits and crowded waiting rooms, and hello to the CarePod, your self-contained doctor's office powered by artificial intelligence. Imagine: Stepping into a futuristic pod at your local mall, gym, or even office...
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 067: GPT-4o and Google I/O May 17, 2024.
a year ago
174

AI Roundup 067: GPT-4o and Google I/O

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a year ago
May 17, 2024.
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Rest of World -...
The politics of Africa’s TikTok bans TikTok was recently banned in Senegal and Somalia, and there have been efforts to do the same in...
a year ago
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The politics of Africa’s TikTok bans

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

a year ago
TikTok was recently banned in Senegal and Somalia, and there have been efforts to do the same in Kenya, Uganda, and Egypt.
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Articles
I wasted 4 years of my life doing this
over a year ago
7

I wasted 4 years of my life doing this

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Unfiltered by Tim...
What It Means to Be a Married Man in His 30s with Kids It's not what you think
4 months ago
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What It Means to Be a Married Man in His 30s with Kids

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It's not what you think
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Where to Hike, Bike, and Relax in San Luis Obispo
3 weeks ago
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Where to Hike, Bike, and Relax in San Luis Obispo

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Open Culture
What the World Will Look Like in 250 Million Years: Mapping the Distant Future Most of us now accept the idea that all of Earth’s continents were once part of a single, enormous...
2 months ago
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What the World Will Look Like in 250 Million Years: Mapping the Distant Future

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2 months ago
Most of us now accept the idea that all of Earth’s continents were once part of a single, enormous land mass. That wasn’t the case in the early nineteen-tens, when the geologist Alfred Wegener (1880–1930) first publicized his theory of not just the supercontinent Pangea, but also...
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alexwlchan
CSS formatting in the console I was poking around in Google Lens recently (which is Google’s magical reverse image lookup service)...
over a year ago
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CSS formatting in the console

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over a year ago
I was poking around in Google Lens recently (which is Google’s magical reverse image lookup service) and I was mildly surprised by what I saw in the developer tools console: Code that runs in the dev console can be very powerful, so I can understand why they want to...
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Commoncog
The Study of Asian Tycoons What can we learn from the study of Asian conglomerates, and the small group of tycoons that control...
5 months ago
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The Study of Asian Tycoons

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5 months ago
What can we learn from the study of Asian conglomerates, and the small group of tycoons that control them?
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Style over Substance
How I made HA-meural: a Meural Canvas integration for Home Assistant One of my 2020 lockdown projects I’m extremely proud of is HA-meural – a custom integration for the...
over a year ago
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How I made HA-meural: a Meural Canvas integration for Home Assistant

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over a year ago
One of my 2020 lockdown projects I’m extremely proud of is HA-meural – a custom integration for the Home Assistant home automation software that lets you control a NETGEAR Meural Canvas digital frame. It’s the result of a few months of work, lots of trial and error, and many...
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watchTowr Labs
Is The Sofistication In The Room With Us? - X-Forwarded-For and Ivanti Connect Secure... What's that Skippy? Another Ivanti Connect Secure vulnerability? At this point, regular readers will...
3 months ago
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Is The Sofistication In The Room With Us? - X-Forwarded-For and Ivanti Connect Secure (CVE-2025-22457)

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3 months ago
What's that Skippy? Another Ivanti Connect Secure vulnerability? At this point, regular readers will know all about Ivanti (and a handful of other vendors of the same class of devices), from our regular analysis. Do you know the fun things about these posts? We can copy text...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Learn Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sitting in detention for having done nothing wrong...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Learn

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sitting in detention for having done nothing wrong is, however, excellent training for service sector work. Today's News: Lovely review for Bea Wolf.
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Flashbak
Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973 Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
a year ago
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973

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a year ago
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
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The American Scholar
Something New in the West Kurt Beals on translating All Quiet on the Western Front The post Something New in the West appeared...
4 months ago
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Something New in the West

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4 months ago
Kurt Beals on translating All Quiet on the Western Front The post Something New in the West appeared first on The American Scholar.
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The Map is Mostly...
Start With Creation Not knowing what one is doing is no prohibition on doing it. We all grope ahead. — Anne Carson
over a year ago
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Start With Creation

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over a year ago
Not knowing what one is doing is no prohibition on doing it. We all grope ahead. — Anne Carson
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TheCollector
What Do Christian Baptists Believe? Contrary to popular belief, Baptists did not come from the 16th-century Anabaptist Movement. Rather,...
2 months ago
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What Do Christian Baptists Believe?

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2 months ago
Contrary to popular belief, Baptists did not come from the 16th-century Anabaptist Movement. Rather, they grew from Puritanism in the Netherlands and England. As their name suggests, a key aspect of their faith is that baptism takes the form of immersion and only those capable of...
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Articles
Hiring developers
over a year ago
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Hiring developers

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The Marginalian
Winnicott on the Psychology of Democracy, the Most Dangerous Type of Person, and the Unconscious... In the late morning of the first day of August in 2023, exactly twenty summers after I arrived in...
9 months ago
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Winnicott on the Psychology of Democracy, the Most Dangerous Type of Person, and the Unconscious Root of Resisting Women Leaders

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9 months ago
In the late morning of the first day of August in 2023, exactly twenty summers after I arrived in Philadelphia as a lone teenager from a country thirteen centuries America’s senior, I experienced that wonderful capacity for self-surprise as tears came streaming down my face in a...
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Charlie Becker
Thought Bananas (Castles in the Sky) 24 The Thousand Griefs of a Left-Behind Place
over a year ago
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Thought Bananas (Castles in the Sky) 24

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over a year ago
The Thousand Griefs of a Left-Behind Place
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Global Inequality...
Do you want to be a synonym? I had a dinner with a friend tonight and we spoke of how the new era which has just begun makes lots...
3 months ago
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Do you want to be a synonym?

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3 months ago
I had a dinner with a friend tonight and we spoke of how the new era which has just begun makes lots of our knowledge, or the ways of thinking, about international relations, economic policies, poverty and wealth etc.
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Classical Wisdom
ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints New Cabins *NOW* Available
a year ago
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ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints

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a year ago
New Cabins *NOW* Available
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Drew Ex Machina
Apollo A-002: Testing the Limits of the Launch Escape System One of the more dangerous parts of a space mission is launch which is why almost all crewed...
7 months ago
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Apollo A-002: Testing the Limits of the Launch Escape System

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7 months ago
One of the more dangerous parts of a space mission is launch which is why almost all crewed spacecraft have had launch abort options to cover […]
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Ben Borgers
Not Developer Enough
over a year ago
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Not Developer Enough

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Yale e360
Building a demo of the Bleichenbacher RSA attack in Rust Recently while reading Real-World Cryptography, I got nerd sniped1 by the mention of...
a year ago
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Building a demo of the Bleichenbacher RSA attack in Rust

from Yale e360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Recently while reading Real-World Cryptography, I got nerd sniped1 by the mention of Bleichenbacher's attack on RSA. This is cool, how does it work? I had to understand, and to understand something, I usually have to build it. Well, friends, that is what I did. I implemented RSA...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Tesla Demonstrated its Optimus Robot At a recent event Tesla showcased the capabilities of its humanoid autonomous robot, Optimus. The...
8 months ago
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Tesla Demonstrated its Optimus Robot

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8 months ago
At a recent event Tesla showcased the capabilities of its humanoid autonomous robot, Optimus. The demonstration has come under some criticism, however, for not being fully transparent about the nature of the demonstration. We interviewed robotics expert, Christian Hubicki, on the...
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Marcus on AI
Sam Altman’s attitude problem What happened to the man who once told the US Senate “creators deserve control over how their...
2 months ago
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Sam Altman’s attitude problem

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2 months ago
What happened to the man who once told the US Senate “creators deserve control over how their creations are used”?
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Raptitude.com
Do Quests, Not Goals South Island, New Zealand, a.k.a. Middle-Earth If you were to make a list of what you want to get...
11 months ago
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Do Quests, Not Goals

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11 months ago
South Island, New Zealand, a.k.a. Middle-Earth If you were to make a list of what you want to get done this week, it would mostly consist of things you have to do. Get groceries. Book a hair appointment. Get back to so-and-so. Read that health and safety thing for work. If you...
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Internal Tech Emails
"I just need to decide if we're going to buy Instagram" We have this big issue right now because gaming is shifting from us to mobile platforms.
a year ago
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"I just need to decide if we're going to buy Instagram"

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a year ago
We have this big issue right now because gaming is shifting from us to mobile platforms.
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Asterisk
Golden States
a year ago
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Golden States

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a year ago
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Opsbros
WiFi Binary Clock Who doesn't love a classic Binary Clock? I remember getting one of these when I was in my 20's from...
over a year ago
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WiFi Binary Clock

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over a year ago
Who doesn't love a classic Binary Clock? I remember getting one of these when I was in my 20's from ThinkGeek, and it was pride of place on my desk. LED's are a thing of beauty.
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PostHog's RSS Feed
HogMail #15 Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
over a year ago
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HogMail #15

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over a year ago
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
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CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the... On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
7 months ago
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Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the Protests

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7 months ago
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the struggle for independence from Russian rule remains the chief force driving the popular mobilization that has been growing over the past several months. Yet today’s movement points to a...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Addict Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: A little microecon is okay. On weekends. Today's...
8 months ago
59

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Addict

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8 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: A little microecon is okay. On weekends. Today's News:
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Josh Thompson
Sidekiq and Background Jobs for Beginners I’ve recently had to learn more about background jobs (using Sidekiq, specifically) for some bugs I...
over a year ago
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Sidekiq and Background Jobs for Beginners

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over a year ago
I’ve recently had to learn more about background jobs (using Sidekiq, specifically) for some bugs I was working on. I learned a lot. Much of it was extremely basic. Anyone who knows much at all about Sidekiq will say “oh, duh, of course that’s true”, but at the time, it wasn’t...
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The Works in...
The secret liberalization of animal drugs The FDA should do something similar for humans
2 months ago
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The secret liberalization of animal drugs

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2 months ago
The FDA should do something similar for humans
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
I Don’t Like The Term “IC” Either I really liked Robin’s piece, “Stop calling yourself an IC”. I still remember the way I felt the...
11 months ago
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I Don’t Like The Term “IC” Either

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

11 months ago
I really liked Robin’s piece, “Stop calling yourself an IC”. I still remember the way I felt the first time I heard that term. It was used in a way where its connotations conveyed a kind of laziness via lack of ambition. And I thought, “But wait, I am an individual contributor —...
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The Marginalian
Do Not Spare Yourself The only thing more dangerous than wanting to save another person — a dangerous desire too often...
6 months ago
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Do Not Spare Yourself

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6 months ago
The only thing more dangerous than wanting to save another person — a dangerous desire too often mistaken for love — is wanting to save yourself, to spare yourself the disappointment and heartbreak and loss inseparable from being a creature with hopes and longings constantly...
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Yale e360
Tech salaries probably aren't dropping from remote work Not even a year ago, most software companies and software engineers were some form of remote work...
over a year ago
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Tech salaries probably aren't dropping from remote work

from Yale e360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Not even a year ago, most software companies and software engineers were some form of remote work skeptical. Remote work existed (I've been working remote for most of my admittedly short career!) but it was not widespread. When I talked to recruiters at big tech companies they...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
The bowling pin strategy A huge challenge for user-generated websites is overcoming the chicken-and-egg problem: attracting...
over a year ago
32

The bowling pin strategy

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over a year ago
A huge challenge for user-generated websites is overcoming the chicken-and-egg problem: attracting users and contributors when you are…
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TheCollector
Sports in the Ancient World Before the Greeks Today, when one thinks of the origin of sports and athletic competitions, the ancient Greeks often...
2 months ago
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Sports in the Ancient World Before the Greeks

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2 months ago
Today, when one thinks of the origin of sports and athletic competitions, the ancient Greeks often come to mind. Although many popular modern sports were inherited from the Greeks and Romans, the Greeks and Romans were influenced by earlier cultures. An examination of textual,...
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The Changelog
Building an Asynchronous, Internet-Optional Instant Messaging System I loaded up this title with buzzwords. The basic idea is that IM systems shouldn’t have to only use...
over a year ago
22

Building an Asynchronous, Internet-Optional Instant Messaging System

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over a year ago
I loaded up this title with buzzwords. The basic idea is that IM systems shouldn’t have to only use the Internet. Why not let them be carried across LoRa radios, USB sticks, local Wifi networks, and yes, the Internet? I’ll first discuss how, and then why. How do set it up I’ve...
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Articles
8 habits for a better day at work
over a year ago
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8 habits for a better day at work

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over a year ago
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The Codist
Using Xcode's AI Is Like Pair Programming With A Monkey I've never used any other AI "assistant," although I've talked with those who have, most of whom are...
4 months ago
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Using Xcode's AI Is Like Pair Programming With A Monkey

from The Codist [alt+shift+b] in programming

4 months ago
I've never used any other AI "assistant," although I've talked with those who have, most of whom are not very positive. My experience using Xcode's AI is that it occasionally offers a line of code that works, but you mostly get junk
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swyx's site RSS Feed
I'm Writing A Book! I'm writing a Dev Career Advice book... and I'm scared shitless!
over a year ago
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I'm Writing A Book!

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

over a year ago
I'm writing a Dev Career Advice book... and I'm scared shitless!
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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...
a year ago
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The Battle for Better, Broader, More Inclusive AI

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a year 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;...
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This Space
The Lascaux Notebooks by Jean-Luc Champerret Lascaux, a placename standing for the abyssal revelation of the cave paintings discovered there...
over a year ago
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The Lascaux Notebooks by Jean-Luc Champerret

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over a year ago
Lascaux, a placename standing for the abyssal revelation of the cave paintings discovered there after millennia in darkness, and Notebooks, suggesting a private endeavour, preparation, a work to come. While neither is secret as such, neither was meant for the light. Two intrigues...
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Posts on Made of...
Building personal software with Claude Earlier this month, I used Claude to port (parts of) an Emacs package into Rust, shrinking the...
5 months ago
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Building personal software with Claude

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

5 months ago
Earlier this month, I used Claude to port (parts of) an Emacs package into Rust, shrinking the execution time by a factor of 1000 or more (in one concrete case: from 90s to about 15ms). This is a variety of yak-shave that I do somewhat routinely, both professionally and in...
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Why the Restored Hotel del Coronado Feels Like a Movie Set
2 months ago
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Why the Restored Hotel del Coronado Feels Like a Movie Set

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2 months ago
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Willem's Blog
Clouds below my floor Building a little datacenter in my basement utilising a very fast internet connection.
over a year ago
22

Clouds below my floor

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over a year ago
Building a little datacenter in my basement utilising a very fast internet connection.
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Quanta Magazine
New Clues for What Will Happen When the Sun Eats the Earth Recent observations of an aging, alien planetary system are helping to answer the question: What...
a year ago
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New Clues for What Will Happen When the Sun Eats the Earth

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a year ago
Recent observations of an aging, alien planetary system are helping to answer the question: What will happen to our planet when the sun dies? The post New Clues for What Will Happen When the Sun Eats the Earth first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Maggie Appleton
What the Fork is Babel? Illustrated notes on how Babel works
over a year ago
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What the Fork is Babel?

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over a year ago
Illustrated notes on how Babel works
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