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Louwrentius
Getting the Sitecom AC600 Wi-Fi adapter running on Linux TL;DR Yes it works with some modifications of the driver source. A USB Wi-Fi adapter I used with a...
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TL;DR Yes it works with some modifications of the driver source. A USB Wi-Fi adapter I used with a Raspberry Pi broke as I dropped it on the floor, so I had to replace it. I just went to a local shop and bought the Sitecom AC600 adapter as that's what they had available (with...
essay – snarfed.org
Possible futures for Bridgy Fed Tomorrowland / Walt Disney People regularly ask me whether Bridgy Fed is ready to scale and support...
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Tomorrowland / Walt Disney People regularly ask me whether Bridgy Fed is ready to scale and support more users. It’s a technical question, but their underlying motivation is usually broader: they believe in the social web, and the fediverse(s), and they want them to connect...
Both Are True
good word / bad word - issue 1 because some words are good and others are bad
9 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
The Social Media Dilemma Australia is planning a total ban on social media for children under 16 years old. Prime Minister...
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Australia is planning a total ban on social media for children under 16 years old. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese argues that it is the only way to protect vulnerable children from the demonstrable harm that social media can do. This has sparked another round of debates about...
McMansion Hell
2007-core nostalgia extravaganza Quick PSA: someone on Facebook is apparently impersonating me using an account called “McMansion...
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Quick PSA: someone on Facebook is apparently impersonating me using an account called “McMansion Hell 2.0” – If you see it, please report! Thanks! Howdy folks! I hope if you were born between 1995 and 2001 you’re ready for some indelible pre-recession vibes because I think this...
Words and Buttons...
Sine and cosine Interactive mnemonics and changeable snippets.TL&DR: Sine is like S and cosine is like C. You can...
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Interactive mnemonics and changeable snippets.TL&DR: Sine is like S and cosine is like C. You can make things like O or 8 by using them both.
Matt Mazur
Introducing Preceden’s new AI-Powered Timeline Generator For the past few months I’ve been heads down building an AI-powered timeline generator tool for...
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For the past few months I’ve been heads down building an AI-powered timeline generator tool for Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker software: The tool – which is free to use and available on Preceden’s homepage – lets you type in a topic or detailed description of a timeline and it...
Working Theorys
Placeholders for Life Life is not a dress rehearsal
9 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
How Humans Can Adapt to Space My recent article on settling Mars has generated a lot of discussion, some of it around the basic...
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My recent article on settling Mars has generated a lot of discussion, some of it around the basic concept of how difficult it is for humans to live anywhere but a thin envelope of air hugging the surface of the Earth. This is undoubtedly true, as I have discussed before – we...
Mind Mine
Discussing King, Warrior, Magician, Lover with Co-Author Douglas Gillette masculine archetypes, understanding our shadow, and how we can raise the collective consciousness
2 weeks ago
Spoon & Tamago
Death Fes in Shibuya Asks Visitor to Embrace Their End images courtesy Death Fes April 14th is the unofficial “day of good death” in Japan. The date 4-1-4...
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8 months ago
images courtesy Death Fes April 14th is the unofficial “day of good death” in Japan. The date 4-1-4 can be pronounced yo-i-shi, or good death, making today the perfect day to kick-off the Death Fes, an event aimed at encouraging people to think and talk about their inevitable...
TheCollector
Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous? undefined
5 months ago
Irrational...
Culture vs systems. Recently, I had a chat with a friend who was frustrated by their company culture. They’d been...
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Recently, I had a chat with a friend who was frustrated by their company culture. They’d been pushing the company to operate with more urgency, but didn’t feel like it was landing. “How do we,” they wondered, “get the team to recognize that urgency is essential to our success?”...
TheCollector
Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction undefined
3 months ago
Push to Prod
One Key Aspect of Optimizing Computational Throughput When optimizing throughput, think carefully about how many CPUs you have when adding threads or...
3 months ago
Tony Finch's blog
On "the OSI deprogrammer" Back in December, George Michaelson posted an item on the APNIC blog titled “That OSI model refuses...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Back in December, George Michaelson posted an item on the APNIC blog titled “That OSI model refuses to die”, in reaction to Robert Graham’s “OSI Deprogrammer” published in September. I had discussed the OSI Deprogrammer on Lobsters, and George’s blog post prompted me to write an...
Londonist
A Map Of Westminster Place Names And Where They Come From From Maida Vale to Covent Garden.
8 months ago
Cheese and Biscuits
Maresco, Soho Shall we get the inevitable comparisons out of the way first? Yes, there's more than a little...
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Shall we get the inevitable comparisons out of the way first? Yes, there's more than a little influence from the Hart Bros' Barrafina group of restaurants on display here at Maresco, a bright and bustling new arrival on the streets of Soho. There's a raw bar groaning with...
devonzuegel.com
Field notes: Panamá, SEZs, & biotech I just spent a week in Panamá City, and figured I'd share my observations in case they're useful to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I just spent a week in Panamá City, and figured I'd share my observations in case they're useful to anyone else interested in similar questions. The purpose of the trip was to research locations for a gene therapy/stem cell clinic that my friend is planning to start. I also...
Mazdak
Netflix Discontinues Basic Plan in Canada Netflix has stopped offering its Basic subscription plan in Canada. The company has not said if it...
a year ago
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Netflix has stopped offering its Basic subscription plan in Canada. The company has not said if it plans to discontinue the plan altogether, but it is no longer available to new or rejoining members. The Basic plan was the most affordable option for Netflix subscribers in Canada,...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 10 Highlights TinyPilot has its first official office space. I tried a marketing experiment that...
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Highlights TinyPilot has its first official office space. I tried a marketing experiment that flopped. Designing IT infrastructure for a new office is fun. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those...
Londonist
12 Marvellous Day Trips From London: September 2023 Charming events within easy reach of London.
a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify 2021-01-19 It’s no secret that I’m passionate about open...
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Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify 2021-01-19 It’s no secret that I’m passionate about open source software, but I’m also extremely adamant about protecting the privacy of all users across the web. So when I decided to implement analytics on my own personal website, I ended...
TheCollector
Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments? undefined
4 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'You Have to Read the Words' “Tolstoy was so much better than any other writer who ever lived that you couldn’t even remotely...
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“Tolstoy was so much better than any other writer who ever lived that you couldn’t even remotely compare anyone to him.”  I first read War and Peace in the eighth grade in a paperback abridgement. I remember reading it in science class, half-heartedly hiding the book behind the...
Math Is Still...
Will AI Ever Have Common Sense? Common sense has been viewed as one of the hardest challenges in AI. That said, ChatGPT4 has...
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Common sense has been viewed as one of the hardest challenges in AI. That said, ChatGPT4 has acquired what some believe is an impressive sense of humanity. How is this possible? Listen to this week’s “The Joy of Why” with co-host Steven Strogatz. The post Will AI Ever...
Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sirens The Original Femme Fatales?
a year ago
Seth's Blog
“What should I do now?” We’ve forgotten how often society had an answer for that question. Perhaps our shift away from a...
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We’ve forgotten how often society had an answer for that question. Perhaps our shift away from a dictated answer not only gives us freedom, it also creates ennui and fear. The culture of a generation or two ago told you where to study, what to study, how to cut your hair, what to...
Charles Chen
Mastodon is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media — in a Good Way How Mastodon and the Fediverse are shifting the landscape of social media -- for the better.
a year ago
xkcd.com
Late Cenozoic
2 months ago
TheCollector
Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith? undefined
6 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
OpenAI’s DevDay: The biggest announcements New models, new products, and new pricing.
a year ago
csvbase blog
Caching secrets of the HTTP elders, part 1 ETags - an elegant weapon, for a more civilised age
8 months ago
TheCollector
Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey? undefined
a year ago
computers are bad
2023-11-04 nuclear safety Nuclear weapons are complex in many ways. The basic problem of achieving criticality is difficult on...
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Nuclear weapons are complex in many ways. The basic problem of achieving criticality is difficult on its own, but deploying nuclear weapons as operational military assets involves yet more challenges. Nuclear weapons must be safe and reliable, even with the rough handling and...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Building a GUI for Insphex <![CDATA[I added a GUI to Insphex, the hex dump tool I'm writing in Common Lisp on the Medley...
6 months ago
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<![CDATA[I added a GUI to Insphex, the hex dump tool I'm writing in Common Lisp on the Medley Interlisp environment. The initial version printed the hex dump only to the standard output, now optionally to a separate TEdit window with a command menu. The menu has items for...
The Map is Mostly...
Small Spaces notes on building blocks
9 months ago
Society's Backend
What Makes Machine Learning so Hard for Software Engineers How decades of learning a mindset makes adapting difficult
4 months ago
Liz Denys
Save Congestion Pricing! Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced an intention to "indefinitely pause" the scheduled rollout of...
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Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced an intention to "indefinitely pause" the scheduled rollout of congestion pricing on June 30. Your voice is urgently needed to stand up for a funded MTA with increased accessibility, a healthy planet, and good government in New York. Stop a $15...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Such a Touchy, Testy, Pleasant Fellow' One of the curses of a good memory is the inability to forget stupid, hurtful things we said in the...
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One of the curses of a good memory is the inability to forget stupid, hurtful things we said in the past, and sometimes last week. Years ago I wrecked a friendship with a glib remark, a wisecrack that I didn’t even believe but had convinced myself was funny (it was, in fact, but...
Anecdotal Evidence
'With Squeaky Wit the Light, Improper Verse' Without context or other clue, who do you think might have written this tart...
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Without context or other clue, who do you think might have written this tart little couplet?:  “With squeaky wit the light, improper verse Falls on the heavy lunch and makes it worse.”   I first encountered him in the eighth grade, in English class. He was sold to us as the “poet...
AVC
AIVC I was approached by a company this week that has trained a large language model on all of the blog...
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I was approached by a company this week that has trained a large language model on all of the blog posts I have written here at AVC. There are 9059 of them for those that are counting. They wanted to offer me a chat bot called “ask Fred.” I told them no thanks. Let me […]
Probably...
Multiple Regression with StatsModels This is the third is a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science which available from...
2 weeks ago
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This is the third is a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science which available from Lulu.com and online booksellers. It’s from Chapter 10, which is about multiple regression. You can read the complete chapter here, or run the Jupyter notebook on Colab. In the previous...
Old Structures...
Gotcha! There are times I feel sorry for the people who run the huge online archives that we use for...
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There are times I feel sorry for the people who run the huge online archives that we use for research. They have to deal with thousands (or tens of thousands, or more) resources – usually individual files in multiple formats – on hundreds or thousands of topics. And if they make...
macwright.com
Playing with ActivityPub ActivityPub, WebFinger, and Mastodon are getting some attention because of chaos at Twitter. It’s...
over a year ago
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ActivityPub, WebFinger, and Mastodon are getting some attention because of chaos at Twitter. It’s anyone’s guess how this all shakes out. As an active user of Twitter, it’ll be sad if it goes away. But in the meantime, let’s have some fun with ActivityPub. ActivityPub Under the...
IEEE Spectrum
The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the...
8 months ago
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A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the end of the long tail. if you look on 3M’s own website, you will see no mention of this legacy—it’s a firm that sells abrasive materials, adhesive tapes, filters, films, personal...
Nelson's Weblog
Trump's plans for his second presidency The Trump campaign and his braintrust have been very clear and open about their planning for a...
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The Trump campaign and his braintrust have been very clear and open about their planning for a second presidency, mostly under the umbrella of Project 2025. There’s been a lot of good journalism about it. Some examples: Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside...
TheCollector
Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power? undefined
3 months ago
Nelson's Weblog
Noom is exploitative I tried out Noom, the weight loss and cognitive behavioral therapy program. The app is more like CBT...
a year ago
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I tried out Noom, the weight loss and cognitive behavioral therapy program. The app is more like CBT for upselling customers than CBT for weight loss. Now I’m hoping they’ll delete my sensitive medical data and refund the $3 they tricked me out of. (They did, quickly in...
Irrational...
The Engineering executive’s role in hiring. Everyone in an engineering organization contributes to the hiring process. As an engineer, you may...
a year ago
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a year ago
Everyone in an engineering organization contributes to the hiring process. As an engineer, you may have taken pride in being an effective interviewer. As an engineering manager, you may have prioritized becoming a strong closer, convincing candidates to join your team. As a more...
Posts on Nikita...
Inside New Query Engine of MongoDB Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in version 7.0. I was one of the people working on this engine during my 2 years in MongoDB and I would like to share some technical details about it. Disclaimer: Prior to writing this...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Lit Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Written after enjoying Children's Fantasy...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Written after enjoying Children's Fantasy Literature, by Levy and Menlesohn. Today's News:
diamond geezer
Far From Super Loop On bus shelters across London TfL are keenly advertising the Superloop. The poster shows a bus, a...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
On bus shelters across London TfL are keenly advertising the Superloop. The poster shows a bus, a rainbow burst of pastel colours and the legend The Superloop Is Coming. The given date is Spring 2024 and it's described as a commitment by the Mayor to improve public transport in...
Wuthering...
Jon Fosse's Septology - art "can only say something while keeping silent about what it actually... Jon Fosse’s Septology (2019-21) is a long stream-of-consciousness novel about a Norwegian painter...
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Jon Fosse’s Septology (2019-21) is a long stream-of-consciousness novel about a Norwegian painter trying to understand one of his paintings.  Each of the novel’s seven sections begins with Asle looking at the painting: AND I SEE MYSELF STANDING and looking at the picture...
Contemporist...
The Dining Table Becomes Part Of The Stairs Inside This Eclectic House Mag Arquitectes together with Clara Lleal INTERIORISTA has shared photos of a home they designed in...
a year ago
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Mag Arquitectes together with Clara Lleal INTERIORISTA has shared photos of a home they designed in Catalunya, Spain, that showcases a unique dining area.
Diaries of Note
Our worst fears are realized On 2nd June 1854, following a failed rescue attempt at the courthouse, huge numbers of angry...
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On 2nd June 1854, following a failed rescue attempt at the courthouse, huge numbers of angry protesters lined the streets of Boston as hundreds of federal soldiers led twenty-year-old Anthony Burns to the harbour where he was to be shipped to Virginia, back to the life of slavery...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we designed the PostHog mascot Creating mascots goes beyond just putting iPencil to iPad. It’s a long, confusing, and sometimes...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Creating mascots goes beyond just putting iPencil to iPad. It’s a long, confusing, and sometimes frustrating process which requires a lot of patience…
Raw Thought (from...
Look at yourself objectively
over a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Half the Pleasure of Reading New Books' “[M]ost American boys are hurried into active life so early, that even the few who have the...
a year ago
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a year ago
“[M]ost American boys are hurried into active life so early, that even the few who have the possibility of developing literary taste have scarcely time to do so. Unless they read the great English classics in high school and in college, they never find time to read them.”  In...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Explore the Arctic's Beauty and Wildlife on a Luxury Cruise
3 months ago
The Architectural...
6 Reasons Why Today’s Architecture Is Unsustainable The so-called sustainable buildings of today often fall short of genuine sustainability. Instead,...
a year ago
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a year ago
The so-called sustainable buildings of today often fall short of genuine sustainability. Instead, the concept is reduced to mere clichés and greenwashing. In this article, we delve deeper into the underlying factors concealed behind the sometimes eco-friendly exteriors of...
Math Is Still...
Physicists Observe ‘Unobservable’ Quantum Phase Transition Measurement and entanglement both have a “spooky” nonlocal flavor to them. Now physicists are...
a year ago
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a year ago
Measurement and entanglement both have a “spooky” nonlocal flavor to them. Now physicists are harnessing that nonlocality to probe the spread of quantum information and control it. The post Physicists Observe ‘Unobservable’ Quantum Phase Transition first appeared on...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Does Marcus Matter?
11 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
Lofty Timber Vaulted Ceilings And Sandstone Details For This Sydney Building Photography by Brett Boardman Multidisciplinary architectural practice fjcstudio, has completed a...
a week ago
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a week ago
Photography by Brett Boardman Multidisciplinary architectural practice fjcstudio, has completed a building in Sydney, Australia, that includes colonial stone masonry, lofty geometric forms, and a layered tapestry of handcrafted materials. Photography by Brett Boardman Photography...
James Cheshire
COVID inquiry heard Boris Johnson ‘struggled’ with graphs – if you do too, here are some tips James Cheshire, UCL and Rob Davidson, UCL In March 2020, the UK government’s chief scientific...
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a year ago
James Cheshire, UCL and Rob Davidson, UCL In March 2020, the UK government’s chief scientific adviser, Patrick Vallance, presented to the nation a graph showing “the shape of an epidemic”. The red line depicting the number of predicted COVID cases rose to a steep peak before...
Society's Backend
Taking the AI to Consumers The Google Pixel 8 Pro is a much bigger deal than you think
a year ago
Dustin Curtis
It is link winter on X We do not know how, why, or when the X algorithm devalues posts with links, but it does—without...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
We do not know how, why, or when the X algorithm devalues posts with links, but it does—without telling you, and by a lot—and it makes the experience there worse. Without links, information on X is headlines without stories, commentary without context, magic without the...
Platformer
How the Brazil riots change Facebook's Trump equation After a new string of riots against democracy, let's game out whether Meta should restore the former...
a year ago
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a year ago
After a new string of riots against democracy, let's game out whether Meta should restore the former president's account
Paul Graham: Essays
What Languages Fix
over a year ago
Willem's Blog
Hello, stranger "Discover the transformative power of simple conversations in our tech-dominated world, as one...
a year ago
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a year ago
"Discover the transformative power of simple conversations in our tech-dominated world, as one individual delves into the lost art of talking to strangers and the profound connections it can forge."
Posts on Nikita...
Orange-Website-Proofing My Blog Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Over the course of one year this website is deployed, I did...
a year ago
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a year ago
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Over the course of one year this website is deployed, I did not pay a penny for hosting it. Sure, I pay for renting the domain itself, but everything else is free and quite honestly I like it this way. So when I woke up to a 10$ bill from...
A Beautiful Site
Getting proportionally-resized dimensions of an image This is extremely useful when you need to scale down an image within a certain pair of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is extremely useful when you need to scale down an image within a certain pair of dimensions. get_resized_dimensions() # Parameters # $width - The width of the image to be resized $height - The height of the image to be resized $max_width - The maximum allowed width of the...
Notes on software...
Experimenting with column- and row-oriented datastructures This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
Pay what you want It’s a fascinating payment model. For digital goods and other transactions where the marginal cost...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s a fascinating payment model. For digital goods and other transactions where the marginal cost of one more sale approaches zero, “pay what you want” exposes how complicated the story we tell about money can be. When we add in the charity component, it becomes even more...
Maps Mania
The 2nd 1 Hour AI Map Challenge
11 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Swipe Files Strategy for Part Time Creators Swipe Files are underrated, passively compounding sources of personal leverage for your creator...
over a year ago
TokyoDev
Renaming an Active Record has_one_attached Attachment: A Step-by-Step Guide Recently, we had a piece of code that looked something like this: ~~~ has_one_attached...
a year ago
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a year ago
Recently, we had a piece of code that looked something like this: ~~~ has_one_attached :resumee ~~~ Does it look a little off to you? I’m sure you’ve seen (or even perpetrated) a scenario like this before, where you name something and when you revisit the code later you...
Trying to Understand...
And Now for Something Completely Different. Am I me? Are You you? ?
a year ago
Nelson's Weblog
Relaxation Dynamics of a Lattice Spin System Way back in 1994 I wrote an undergraduate thesis for my math degree at Reed College. It was a fun...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Way back in 1994 I wrote an undergraduate thesis for my math degree at Reed College. It was a fun project, studying a discrete dynamic system that was an extension of the Ising model. Sort of cellular automata meets statistical mechanics. It's the only significant thing I've...
Andrew Fraknoi –...
Perseid Meteor Shower Aug 12-13, 2023 We make suggestions for how best to see the 2023 Perseid meteor shower. The post Perseid Meteor...
a year ago
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a year ago
We make suggestions for how best to see the 2023 Perseid meteor shower. The post Perseid Meteor Shower Aug 12-13, 2023 appeared first on Andrew Fraknoi - Astronomy Lectures - Astronomy Education Resources.
AFAR Media - Travel...
5 Great Destinations Around the World for Food-Lovers
a year ago
Epic Web Dev
AI Assistants (tutorial)
10 months ago
Computer Things
Why Not Comments Logic For Programmers v0.3 Now available! It's a light release as I learn more about formatting a...
3 months ago
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Logic For Programmers v0.3 Now available! It's a light release as I learn more about formatting a nice-looking book. You can see some of the differences between v2 and v3 here. Why Not Comments Code is written in a structured machine language, comments are written in an...
Anecdotal Evidence
'I Wish That He’d Arrived Much Sooner' I offended a reader by referring to Samuel Taylor Coleridge as “a brilliant windbag junkie.” Let’s...
a year ago
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a year ago
I offended a reader by referring to Samuel Taylor Coleridge as “a brilliant windbag junkie.” Let’s consider each part of the epithet. “Brilliant”? Without question. He wrote three incontestably good poems but Coleridge is an early specimen of the “public intellectual,” bristling...
Arduino Blog
Explore e-paper technology with Nano Matter and the new EPDK-Matter from Pervasive Displays We’re excited to share that Pervasive Displays has just launched the E-Paper Development Kit for...
a week ago
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We’re excited to share that Pervasive Displays has just launched the E-Paper Development Kit for Matter! This groundbreaking, self-contained kit is designed to revolutionize how smart home devices use e-paper displays, enhancing user experience while driving down energy...
TheCollector
What Is Populism? undefined
3 months ago
Maggie Appleton
Drawing the Invisible: React Explained in Five Visual Metaphors
over a year ago
alexwlchan
A Python function to iterate through an S3 Bucket Inventory For a couple of our S3 buckets at work, we use S3 Bucket Inventory to track their contents. Once a...
a year ago
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a year ago
For a couple of our S3 buckets at work, we use S3 Bucket Inventory to track their contents. Once a week, it creates an inventory; a collection of compressed CSV files that describe every object in the bucket. If we want to analyse everything in the bucket, reading this inventory...
Flashbak
The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat.  “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
Liz Denys
Why is it easier to teach girls to code than to teach ourselves to treat women well? When we ask ourselves "why aren't there more women in tech?", we're quick to discuss how the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When we ask ourselves "why aren't there more women in tech?", we're quick to discuss how the pipeline fails young women. I would be lying if I didn't think there's room for improvement here - I've written about my own negative experiences as a young programmer - and it's exciting...
Making software...
Stop Using Custom Web Fonts Stop Using Custom Web Fonts 2023-03-14 I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A...
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a year ago
Stop Using Custom Web Fonts 2023-03-14 I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A rant on web font licenses. I highly recommend you give it a read (it's relatively short) since Manu makes a solid argument against existing font licenses. After reading, I found...
HTMHell
The Gift You Do NOT Want: A Div in a Button's Clothing by Corina Murg With the right CSS makeup and a click event, almost anything can pretend to be a...
a week ago
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a week ago
by Corina Murg With the right CSS makeup and a click event, almost anything can pretend to be a button. In accessibility work, we spot these fakes and fix them, but teaching others why and how to do it is just as important. It’s not just about correcting a single mistake; it’s...
History Today Feed
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review ‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review JamesHoare Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
10 months ago
Society's Backend
AI Reading List 3: Meta's Self-Taught Evaluator, AI for Cancer Diagnosis, and a Technical... Society's Backend Reading List 10-21-2024
2 months ago
Flashbak
Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by German-American-French artist and founder of the Dada movement Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976). The book, which marks the beginning of his close friendship with French poet Paul...
Commoncog
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Goodhart's Law is useless. It tells you about a phenomenon, but it doesn't tell you how to solve it. We look at how organisations actually prevent Goodhart's Law, and illustrate this with Amazon's Weekly Business Review as an example.
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When playing golf, few things are as important as using the correct form when swinging, since even small deviations can be the difference between a hole-in-one and additional strokes. To improve his game, Concept Bytes has designed a small clip-on device called the “Club Master.”...
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It is never pleasant to be in the midst of a market correction, but a market correction does operate as a cleanser for excesses that enter into even the most disciplined investors' playbooks in the good times. This correction has been no exception, as the threat of losing...
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Back in January, Bloomberg News published a story quoting an obscure government official named Richard Trumka Jr. He works with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which regulates stuff like furniture and electronics and household appliances. Basically, the agency is supposed...
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The first step is to imagine what the people you serve want and care about it. The second is to figure out why they don’t have it yet. If you can help people get to where they seek to go, when they’re ready to get there, the stuff called marketing gets significantly easier.
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Permissions and projects in PostHog, explained So, you’ve installed your snippet and started tracking data in PostHog. What’s next? Before forging...
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Glasses and headsets and computers, oh my! Why the future continues to be all about adding computers to our lives, not replacing anything.
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I am happy to announce the third edition of Think Python, which will be published by O’Reilly Media later this year. You can read the online version of the book here. I’ve posted the Preface and the first four chapters — more on the way soon! You can read the Early Release and...
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Earlier this year, I purchased a 3D printer and it’s been a blast! I had no idea how easy it would be to create high-quality prints with such little effort. I’ve printed raspberry pi cases, kids’ toys, ceiling hooks, custom parts, electronics enclosures, curtain rod holders,...
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Join us for the final presentations of our two Stanford classes this Tuesday June 4th and Wednesday June 5th. Tuesday = Hacking for Defense Wednesday = Lean Launchpad The presentations just get better every year.  Attend in person or via Zoom. This year AI seems to be part of...
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When working with CSS transitions, the need to detect whether or not the browser supports them may arise.  It can be of particular use when working with the transitionend event, which won't fire in unsupportive browsers. After finding a number of questionable solutions, I came...
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I had a minor problem with the university library’s catalog. When I requested two books stored off-site in the Library Service Center I got this message: “No items can fulfill the submitted request.” That made no sense and I couldn’t figure out a way around the roadblock, so I...
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How do we know which food is best for us? We might start a low-carb diet. Then we switch to whole grains, or even go fully vegan—only to return to a low-carb diet yet again. We constantly change our minds. Even scientists keep revising their perspectives. Why is it so difficult...
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For the first post of the new calendar year, here are a few items that I thought were interesting: Here is a feature article in Science that talks about the experimental quest for detecting Majorana fermions in solid state systems, bookended by the story of Majorana's...
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Let's talk about our digital 'save for later' pile. You know what I'm talking about - that growing list of articles, videos, and podcasts we swear we'll get to eventually. It's like we're building our own little museum of cool stuff we'll explore 'one day.' When are you...
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JavaScript code is executed synchronously. In other words, from top to bottom and one line at a time. First, the code will execute the function and know what to return when getText() is called. Then it assigns the getText() function to the variable text.
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Design is hard. The path you follow from start to finish is never a straight line. If only there were a handful of clear diagrams to explain the process. This isn’t that:
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Dear friends, there is a tale, The oak one day said to the reed: You have good reason to curse nature — A simple sparrow for you is a heavy burden. The slightest wind that by chance Makes the face of the water ripple Forces you to lower your head. However my own forehead, Not...
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We will define one person of compute as 20 PFLOPS (64 A100s, or a single dense 42U A100 rack). We are in the era of the 1 rack person, consuming about 30kW to provide those 20 PFLOPS. LLaMA was trained on a cluster of 2048 A100s, with ~312 TFLOPS each. 2048 is currently the...
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A roadmap to the fulfilled belonging on the other side of "the great aloneness which knows not what is far and what is near, nor what is small nor great."
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A beautiful nebula in Cepheus. The middle bottom left of the image shows the “Elephant Trunk”,  but the whole nebula IC 1396 shows much impressive detail. A whole layer of dark nebulas overlaps everything, looking like a giant explosion frozen in time. Total exposure time: 18h...
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Learn how to create glassmorphism effects using the backdrop blur in Tailwind CSS and achieve realistic translucent credit card designs.
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There is an entire web site dedicated to #MapsintheWild - also a social media hashtag. On a recent trip to Nova Scotia, I found some very nice examples, including last week's post. Here are a few more.  There are many memorials throughout the province to the Acadians who were...
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We’ve been using Linear for a month or two at Val Town, and I think it has ‘stuck’ and we’ll keep using it. Here are some notes about it: The keyboard shortcuts are as good as people say they are: you can do things like hover your mouse over a row in a list, hit a keyboard...
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If you're using useEffect to fetch data, chances are you've either run into a race condition, or have one without realising it. Let's learn how to fix them in this article.
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by Chris Ferdinandi Web Components are a collection of technologies that you can use to create reusable custom elements, with built-in interactivity, automatically scoped (or encapsulated) from the rest of your code. They have a wide range of features and functionality (some...
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Ah, ref.current. Everybody knows that I love useRef — I've built custom useMemo with it, and I've used it instead of useState to optimize re-renders. But typing ref.current over and over is just annoying. Come on, Vladimir, startX.current is just the same as this.startX in a...
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You might think that the job of a PO is to please the internal stakeholders and be responsible for the […] The post 🎯 What does a Product Owner do all day? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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The great ragged Greek philosophy readalong ends with Plutarch, famous for his extraordinary Parallel Lives but also the innovative author of a large mass of essays and dialogues which picked up the title Moralia (late 1st C.) along the way.  Plutarch was hardly an original...
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I just made it to Sweden suffering from jet lag induced insomnia, but this blog post will not cover that. Instead, I will talk a little bit about technical debt. The concept of technical debt always resonated with me, partly because I always like the analogy with “real” debt.
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Uruguay Part 2: The Saffron-cowled Blackbird Search February 26, 2023 Laura and I left the hacienda behind and and headed southeast towards the coast....
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February 26, 2023 Laura and I left the hacienda behind and and headed southeast towards the coast. Our route was a meandering one and we took our time on the potholed roads. The countryside was birdy and we didn't mind the relaxed pace.  We had booked an AirBnB property in the...
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Wanding Juniors #10004 ✅ Oddities What the hell is wanding? Why does it need to be done to juniors? Who is the...
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#10004 ✅ Oddities What the hell is wanding? Why does it need to be done to juniors? Who is the creepy character on the left? Is that a grinning CCTV camera? And why does that teddy bear look so pleased? This is our surveillance society gone mad! young supporters of West Ham...
Londonist
Around London In 11 Fish Sculptures, puns and some actual real fish.
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Marco.org
The future of the App Store After the dust settles from the developer class-action settlement, the South Korean law, the JFTC...
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After the dust settles from the developer class-action settlement, the South Korean law, the JFTC announcement, and the Apple v. Epic decision, I think the most likely long-term outcome isn’t very different from the status quo — and that’s a good thing. Allowing external...
Seth's Blog
Unintended consequences …are still consequences. We’re all participants in the systems around us, and complicit in their...
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…are still consequences. We’re all participants in the systems around us, and complicit in their consequences even if we didn’t intend them. First, we need to see the systems, and then we have the opportunity to work to change them.
Alex MacCaw
The AI is coming May you live in interesting times, goes the ancient Chinese proverb. Recent developments in...
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May you live in interesting times, goes the ancient Chinese proverb. Recent developments in artificial-intelligence, especially image-generation, are putting that curse to the test. In the last year we’ve seen some incredible breakthroughs in image-generation with the release of...
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The inner workings of transformers, Machine Learning Q and AI, machine learning classifies harmful viruses, and more
Flashbak
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Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
David Perell
Intellectual Loneliness I have a confession to make: I leave most parties early because I’d rather read a book. That’s not...
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I have a confession to make: I leave most parties early because I’d rather read a book. That’s not what I tell people though. Usually, I make up an excuse. Something like “Oh, I have early plans in the morning.” I don’t like being deceptive, but there’s no socially acceptable way...
TheCollector
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The Rational Walk
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The Oresteia is a trilogy produced by Aeschylus in 458 BC. Trapped in a cycle of lawless savagery, mankind finds its way toward due process and justice.
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Automating Capacitive Buttons with a Modified Switchbot I’ve had a heater in my home office this winter and I’ve wished it could turn on/off automatically...
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I’ve had a heater in my home office this winter and I’ve wished it could turn on/off automatically based on whether or not I was in the room. A smart outlet wouldn’t work for this because the heater has a manual switch. My next thought was to use my Switchbot smart button pusher,...
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Tracking where a WhatsApp user came from At Amal, we have an AI chat bot that works over WhatsApp — allowing our customers to speak to their...
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At Amal, we have an AI chat bot that works over WhatsApp — allowing our customers to speak to their bank account, asking questions like “What’s my balance” and “How much have I spent on Uber’s this month?”. A problem we faced really early on when connecting to WhatsApp was that...
computers are bad
2023-01-16 huff-duff We've talked a fair amount about HF radio recently, in the context of OTH radar. Recall that an...
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We've talked a fair amount about HF radio recently, in the context of OTH radar. Recall that an extremely useful property of HF radio here is that HF frequencies can reflect off of the upper layers of the atmosphere, causing them to rebound towards earth at a range much further...
TheCollector
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Holograms, light-leaks and how to build CSS-only shaders. "With mix-blend-mode finally gaining wide browser-support, we now have access to many of most common...
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"With mix-blend-mode finally gaining wide browser-support, we now have access to many of most common shading techniques in CSS. With some choice images and a bit of careful layering it’s possible to build some surprisingly high-quality effects without the need for introducing any...
Marine Madness
Book club: ‘Being Salmon Being Human’ by Martin Lee Mueller Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild Norwegian and Pacific Northwest salmon industries...
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Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild Norwegian and Pacific Northwest salmon industries remain largely overlooked and Martin Lee Mueller cleverly weaves the stories of artificially inseminated and reared salmon to highlight the long-standing notion of human...
TheCollector
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Chinese smartphone maker Transsion’s strategy to win hearts and wallets in small-town India After big successes in Africa, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, China's Transsion Holdings sets its sights...
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Steve Jobs single-handedly restructured the mobile industry With the introduction of the iPhone, Steve Jobs achieved something that might be unique in the...
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With the introduction of the iPhone, Steve Jobs achieved something that might be unique in the history of business: he single-handedly…
Rest of World -...
Why Silicon Valley’s biggest AI developers are hiring poets Training data companies are grabbing writers of fiction, drama, poetry, and also general humanities...
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Training data companies are grabbing writers of fiction, drama, poetry, and also general humanities experts to improve AI creative writing.
TheCollector
The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created? undefined
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”? undefined
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This Space
39 Books: 2007 When I chose the book for 2007, the constraint of the 39 Books series presented a problem: how can I...
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When I chose the book for 2007, the constraint of the 39 Books series presented a problem: how can I write about a 350-page novel last read 17 years ago without taking several days to reread it? Answer: not at all, so I started reading. What good fortune! How well Hugo Wilcken...
The Elysian
Elysian gatherings around the world Picnic with me in New Zealand, Australia, Japan, and San Francisco.
4 days ago
Aaron's Essays
There Are No (Absolute) Red Flags in Venture Capital Let’s accept, for the purposes of this essay, that founders and venture capitalists are engaged in a...
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Let’s accept, for the purposes of this essay, that founders and venture capitalists are engaged in a simple trade. Founders sell business risk for the cash they need to take bigger risks; venture capitalists buy that risk hoping it will one day transmute into reward. Each side...
Applied Cartography
Notes on Zed, revisited A little over six months ago, I wrote Notes on Zed. My conclusion at that time was that Zed made a...
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A little over six months ago, I wrote Notes on Zed. My conclusion at that time was that Zed made a lot of great choices and felt really good to use, but lacked parity with VS Code's feature/ecosystem to its detriment. Six months later, I spent a few days using it as my daily...
TheCollector
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Charles Chen
Cheap and Easy Way to Scrape Sites for LLM Processing If you need to extract text from websites to feed into LLMs, this easy solution will get you started...
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If you need to extract text from websites to feed into LLMs, this easy solution will get you started with just a few lines of code.
Calculated Risk
FOMC Preview: Fed to Cut Rates 25bp Most analysts expect the FOMC will cut the federal funds rate at the meeting this week by 25bp...
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Most analysts expect the FOMC will cut the federal funds rate at the meeting this week by 25bp lowering the target range to 4 1/4 to 4 1/2 percent.   However, most market participants now expect the FOMC to pause in January and are split on a rate cut at the March...
Rest of World -...
Instagram helps Brazilians dodge a national sales ban on vapes As Brazilian law clashes with Meta’s policies, illegal vapes flood social media and the streets.
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diamond geezer
Premature poppying We can all agree that the Royal British Legion does excellent work supporting ex-service personnel...
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a year ago
We can all agree that the Royal British Legion does excellent work supporting ex-service personnel and their families, and that their annual Poppy Appeal is an inspirational fund-raising exercise.    We can all agree that the Royal British Legion does excellent work supporting...
Noahpinion
How technology has changed the world since I was young A bit of future shock.
a year ago
The Modern House
Inside gallerist Peter Ibsen’s 1950s summer house in Rørvig, rural Denmark
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The Modern House
Harriet Verney on her camp interiors and life within a converted Bible factory in Dalston
a year ago
The Convivial...
What You Get Is the World The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 21
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Stephen Diehl
The Handwavy Technobabble Nothingburger
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essay – snarfed.org
Policing misinformation Unpopular opinion: I have deep reservations about policing misinformation. I’m a big believer in the...
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a year ago
Unpopular opinion: I have deep reservations about policing misinformation. I’m a big believer in the demarcation problem: in the general case, there’s no shortcut to determining objective truth. It’s similar to the halting problem in computer science: if we want to know whether a...
TheCollector
How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”? undefined
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Silent Conversation' “To talk and dispute are more the practices of the Platonic school than to read and meditate....
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“To talk and dispute are more the practices of the Platonic school than to read and meditate. Talkative men seldom read. This is among the few truths which appear the more strange the more we reflect upon them. For what is reading but silent conversation?”  This passage is...
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Steve Klabnik
Marx, anarchism, and web standards
over a year ago
diamond geezer
Hyperlocal news HYPERLOCAL HISTORY MONTH: Looking forward (I'm not sure things happening in September really count...
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HYPERLOCAL HISTORY MONTH: Looking forward (I'm not sure things happening in September really count as History, but they are Hyperlocal) Major roadworks at Bow Interchange announced temporary timetables are being introduced on bus routes 25, 205, 276, 277, 425 and D7 starting on...
Tony Finch's blog
Some subtleties of keycaps There’s plenty of material online about the bewildering variety of keycaps, eg, eg, but I learned a...
a year ago
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a year ago
There’s plenty of material online about the bewildering variety of keycaps, eg, eg, but I learned a few things that surprised me when working on Keybird69. nightfox I found out that the remaining stock of Matteo Spinelli’s NightFox keyboards were being sold off cheap because of...
latest projects -...
3D Model Viewer Improvements [Software] Unlocking the embedded gimbals
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TheCollector
Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction undefined
6 months ago
Internal Tech Emails
Elon Musk's Twitter texts I'm not joining the board. This is a waste of time.
over a year ago
balajis.com
The Fiat Crisis This is not a financial crisis. It’s a fiat crisis.
a year ago
Tony Dinh's...
July 2022: Aftermath of a viral tweet I gained 1,500 new users, but how many will convert? And other updates in July 2022...
over a year ago
There are two types...
My Comments at the Midtown South Social Equity and Music Festival Fifty-one years ago, the Pennsylvania Railroad tragically tore down Pennsylvania Station. Not only...
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Fifty-one years ago, the Pennsylvania Railroad tragically tore down Pennsylvania Station. Not only is it the best building ever torn down in New York, but in the combined Penn Station and Madison Square Garden, we got the worst building in … Continue reading → The post My...
Epic Web Dev
Implicit Assertions (article) Have a better understanding about the explicit and implicit assertions now, and perhaps even have a...
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Have a better understanding about the explicit and implicit assertions now, and perhaps even have a test or two in mind to improve.
Beautiful Public...
Special Database 18: 3,248 Mugshots Used for Training Image Recognition Systems The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has maintained a dataset of mugshot photos...
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a year ago
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has maintained a dataset of mugshot photos of 1,573 people for decades, including 175 minors, until we asked about them.
The American Scholar
A Toothsome Tale Bill Schutt chomps through millennia to share the story of our pearly whites The post A Toothsome...
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Bill Schutt chomps through millennia to share the story of our pearly whites The post A Toothsome Tale appeared first on The American Scholar.
Louwrentius
The ZFS Event Daemon on Linux If something goes wrong with my zpool, I'd like to be notified by email. On Linux using MDADM, the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If something goes wrong with my zpool, I'd like to be notified by email. On Linux using MDADM, the MDADM daemon took care of that. With the release of ZoL 0.6.3, a brand new 'ZFS Event Daemon' or ZED has been introduced. I could not find much information about it, so consider...
Seth's Blog
How, why and hyperbole There are three trends in copywriting that have been so overused they should now be avoided. The...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
There are three trends in copywriting that have been so overused they should now be avoided. The first two: Headlines with “why” for articles that don’t actually explain why. Headlines with “how” that don’t really teach you how. Explaining why is difficult, which is where the...
Classical Wisdom
How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies? “Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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NeuroLogica Blog
New Generation of Electric Robots Boston Dynamics (now owned by Hyundai) has revealed its electric version of its Atlas robot. These...
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8 months ago
Boston Dynamics (now owned by Hyundai) has revealed its electric version of its Atlas robot. These robot videos always look impressive, but at the very least we know that we are seeing the best take. We don’t know how many times the robot failed to get the one great video. There...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Born Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I like to imagine an old woman among the...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I like to imagine an old woman among the groundlings, hearing the twist in Macbeth and immediately hurling rotten tomatoes and having to be dragged out of the Globe. Today's News:
alexwlchan
Filtering out bogus requests from Netlify Analytics I host this site on Netlify, and I pay for Netlify Analytics to monitor its performance. It’s...
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a year ago
I host this site on Netlify, and I pay for Netlify Analytics to monitor its performance. It’s essentially server-side logging with a dashboard on top, and it’s more than sufficient for the very limited analytics I want to do here. One of the dashboard panels is “resources not...
Maps Mania
John Snow's
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Kat Snyder
No, I don’t want to sign up for your newsletter — horrible uses of exit overlays When a user moves their mouse from the middle of the page toward the navigation bar — presumably...
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over a year ago
When a user moves their mouse from the middle of the page toward the navigation bar — presumably to abandon the page — there are...
TheCollector
John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era undefined
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Tech + Economics +...
The internet is broken. Here’s how we fix it. In 1971, Ray Tomlinson, an engineer working on the ARPANET project — the predecessor to the...
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a year ago
In 1971, Ray Tomlinson, an engineer working on the ARPANET project — the predecessor to the Internet — sent the first email. The message was nothing profound; it was a series of random characters that looked more like the utterance of a toddler on a typewriter than a...
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Vote for the Topic of the February 2024 Plus Post If you are a paid subscriber, voting is open for one week
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Aaron's Essays
Abundant Capital The venture capital industry was built on the premise that both capital and high quality companies...
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over a year ago
The venture capital industry was built on the premise that both capital and high quality companies are scarce. For most of the history of the industry, this has been true. I remember sitting at demo day in 2011 and marveling at the fact that the combined capital of all the VCs in...
Matt Mazur
Looking to sell Emergent Mind I currently have two products: Preceden, a SaaS timeline maker, and Emergent Mind, an AI news site...
a year ago
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a year ago
I currently have two products: Preceden, a SaaS timeline maker, and Emergent Mind, an AI news site and newsletter. Emergent Mind began last December as LearnGPT, a ChatGPT examples site, and I later renamed it to Emergent Mind and transitioned it the news site that it is today:...
bt RSS Feed
My Robotic Mower Woes My Robotic Mower Woes 2023-05-19 A Brief Background I’m no stranger to robotic lawnmowers. When my...
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My Robotic Mower Woes 2023-05-19 A Brief Background I’m no stranger to robotic lawnmowers. When my wife and I moved into our rural home just over five years ago, we picked up the Husqvarna 450X Automower since I was far too lazy to manually mow my property and the cost was equal...
Julia Evans
"Rules" that terminal programs follow Recently I’ve been thinking about how everything that happens in the terminal is some combination...
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Recently I’ve been thinking about how everything that happens in the terminal is some combination of: Your operating system’s job Your shell’s job Your terminal emulator’s job The job of whatever program you happen to be running (like top or vim or cat) The first three (your...
Josh Comeau's blog
Finding your first remote job As remote work becomes increasingly popular, I am frequently asked how to get started. This article...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As remote work becomes increasingly popular, I am frequently asked how to get started. This article shares everything I know about landing that first remote gig.
RhysTranter.com
Vivid Expression From distant Paris, Fr Huvelin offers spiritual advice to St Charles de Foucauld as he works as a...
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From distant Paris, Fr Huvelin offers spiritual advice to St Charles de Foucauld as he works as a gardener in Nazareth
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.12.0 Shared dashboards, global annotations, retention table improvements and a metric ton of bug fixes....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Shared dashboards, global annotations, retention table improvements and a metric ton of bug fixes. This week's PostHog array has it all. If you're…
TheCollector
The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages undefined
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Arduino Blog
Project Hub’s new featured pages are your gateway to inspiration! Arduino’s Project Hub is more than just a platform; it’s a vibrant community where members share...
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Arduino’s Project Hub is more than just a platform; it’s a vibrant community where members share their ideas and achievements, contributing to our knowledge base and inspiring everyone to make, learn, and try something new. With close to 5,400 projects, including tutorials,...
Both Are True
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6 months ago
Seth's Blog
Productive assets and useful flows Assets are ownable. They are devices, skills, connections or properties that allow us to amplify our...
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a year ago
Assets are ownable. They are devices, skills, connections or properties that allow us to amplify our effort and do our work with more impact. A drill press is an asset, so is your law degree. The permission you have to talk with your customers, the benefit of the doubt you get...
Making software...
Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari's Default Dark Mode Link Color Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari's Default Dark Mode Link Color 2022-04-18 Supporting dark mode on the...
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over a year ago
Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari's Default Dark Mode Link Color 2022-04-18 Supporting dark mode on the modern web falls under the realm of accessibility and should not be ignored. It is important and helps keep the visual flow of your content to match that of your users' operating...
The Honest Broker
Stupidity: A Reading List You get smarter by studying foolishness—so here's how I'd teach a 12-week course on stupidity
7 months ago
Passing Time
Alpine Starts II Or: Thanksgiving in the Mountains
a year ago
Musings on Markets
Breach of Trust: Decoding the Banking Crisis In March 2023, the fall of Silicon Valley Bank shocked investors not only because it was unforeseen,...
a year ago
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a year ago
In March 2023, the fall of Silicon Valley Bank shocked investors not only because it was unforeseen, but also because of the speed with which it unfolded. That failure has had a domino effect, with Signature Bank falling soon after, followed by Credit Suisse in April 2023 and by...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Google should open source what actually matters: their search ranking algorithm Websites live or die based on how a small group of programmers at Google decide their sites should...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Websites live or die based on how a small group of programmers at Google decide their sites should rank in Google’s main search results.  As…
Common Edge
Letter from Tennessee: License for Civility in Uncivil Times Not all civil portent is writ as large. It sometimes comes in small places, hidden in plain sight.
a year ago
David Gerrells
thinking around a pen Codepen is a delightful app that I used over the years to practice my frontend skill. One thing that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Codepen is a delightful app that I used over the years to practice my frontend skill. One thing that has annoyed me was that over time they have limited features more and more behind a pay wall for a pro account...
Grow With Less
My SEO traffic collapsed so I built a SaaS (Early 2022 retrospective) Sometime last year, I decided to turn the French Together course (a self-study French course for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Sometime last year, I decided to turn the French Together course (a self-study French course for English speakers) into a language learning app. This was done in 3 steps: Learning how to code Building the French Together app Launching Here is how I went about each step and what I...
Bits about Money
KYC and AML: beyond the acronyms Know Your Customer policies at financial institutions have more nuance than you'd expect.
a year ago
Koos Looijesteijn -...
You're making me buy a new phone My iPhone SE 2016 is a good one. It’s easy to handle with one hand. The screen is more than...
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Practical approaches for more effective teamwork Give credit, take responsibility Get aligned on timeframes Insist on a spec, write one, improve it...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Give credit, take responsibility Get aligned on timeframes Insist on a spec, write one, improve it Agree on a budget Keep a calendar Don’t hold a grudge Speak up clearly and generously Show your work Share your fears Make promises and keep them Do the reading Talk about people...
TheCollector
The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons undefined
a month ago
Josh Collinsworth
Let's learn SvelteKit by building a static Markdown blog from scratch Learn the fundamentals of SvelteKit by building a statically generated blog from scratch, with...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Learn the fundamentals of SvelteKit by building a statically generated blog from scratch, with Markdown support, Sass, an API, and an RSS feed.
./techtipsy
Dell Latitude 5411: the Linux compatibility sweet spot Oh boy, here I go testing a new laptop again! Well, it was new back in 2020. You might remember my...
a year ago
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a year ago
Oh boy, here I go testing a new laptop again! Well, it was new back in 2020. You might remember my article on why I went back to a ThinkPad T430 in 2022. Or that other time when I got a new HP laptop for testing and got so frustrated that I wrote about it. Well, today I’m writing...
Map of the Week
30 Day Map Challenge 2023 Days 3 9 Here’s what I’ve been working on for the past week’s 30 Day Map Challenges with the prompts...
a year ago
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a year ago
Here’s what I’ve been working on for the past week’s 30 Day Map Challenges with the prompts listed. Day 3 - Polygons This is not exactly a hand made map, more having fun with cutting boards. My wife gave me the Pennsylvania board a few years ago and I used it in the 2021...
Cognitive...
Uploading CSV to DynamoDB with Node JS So I wanted to upload CSV to DynamoDB. Easy right? Not so fast. It turns out, you have to obey...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So I wanted to upload CSV to DynamoDB. Easy right? Not so fast. It turns out, you have to obey your provisioned write capacity. Unlike S3, "Simple Storage Service" where you simply upload a file, DynamoDB isn't "Simple". There's no "upload CSV" button. You have to write a...
Nat Eliason's...
You're Not Struggling Alone If you're worried you don't have to worry
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Dynamic Frame office by balbek bureau Dynamic Frame is the office of the eponymous film production company in the center of Zurich,...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Dynamic Frame is the office of the eponymous film production company in the center of Zurich, Switzerland. At the request...
Engineer’s Codex
A simple software engineering productivity trick: leave work unfinished to reach flow A breakdown of 4 simple software engineering and coding habits that improved my productivity. These...
a year ago
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a year ago
A breakdown of 4 simple software engineering and coding habits that improved my productivity. These include keyboard shortcuts, learning to say no, reaching flow state faster, and keeping a big book of commands handy.
brr
South Pole Arrival Flying to the bottom of the world!
over a year ago
nanoscale views
Condensed matter on the public stage, and not in a good way This week, condensed matter physics has been getting far more broad public attention than usual, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
This week, condensed matter physics has been getting far more broad public attention than usual, and while in the abstract I like our discipline getting noticed, this is definitely not how I’d have preferred it to happen. First, more fun re Ranga Dias.  Fresh off renewed...