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TheCollector
Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots undefined
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
7 New Attractions in California Travelers Should Know About
10 months ago
Arduino Blog
Arduino partners with RS/OKdo strategically to further expand the China Market Arduino is excited to announce a strategic new partnership with RS/OKdo, a prominent leader in the...
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a month ago
Arduino is excited to announce a strategic new partnership with RS/OKdo, a prominent leader in the distribution of industrial and electronic equipment. This collaboration marks a significant step forward in bringing Arduino’s technology closer to China’s thriving maker community...
Epic Web Dev
Use Isolation to Solve Complex Problems (tip) When faced with a complex problem, try isolating it by creating a minimal example in a temporary...
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
The open source gift exchange I love writing and sharing code as open source, but it's not an abstract act of pure altruism. The...
a year ago
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a year ago
I love writing and sharing code as open source, but it's not an abstract act of pure altruism. The first recipients of these programming gifts are almost always myself and my company. It's an intentionally selfish drive first, then a broader benefit second. But, ironically, this...
Joel on Software
Strange and maddening rules There's this popular idea among developers that when you face a problem with code, you should get...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There's this popular idea among developers that when you face a problem with code, you should get out a rubber duck and explain, to the duck, exactly how your code was supposed to work. Read more "Strange and maddening rules"
mtlynch.io
A Beginner's Guide to Mining Siacoin This guide is out of date. This post describes mining Sia with a desktop graphics card (GPU), but...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This guide is out of date. This post describes mining Sia with a desktop graphics card (GPU), but custom mining hardware is now available for Sia. The custom hardware has made Sia GPU mining non-viable. This guide will still work, but you may never reach payout, even with a...
Wuthering...
Books I Read in September 2023 Despite all evidence I hope to wrap up the Greek philosophy project within the next couple of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Despite all evidence I hope to wrap up the Greek philosophy project within the next couple of weeks.  A medical deadline approaches.  That will help. As usual, I read good books.   PHILOSOPHY & SELF-HELP Letters from a Stoic (c. 60), Seneca - good timing for some...
The Honest Broker
How Musicians Invented Stand-Up Comedy Even today rhythm makes a joke funnier
a year ago
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Bringing markers back to UI design Many designers know: the best design tool is a marker. Not Figma, not Sketch and no, not a pencil....
over a year ago
The Rational Walk
The Digest #158 Claude Shannon's mighty mouse, Ben Graham's father, Doomberg quits Twitter, FASB segment disclosure...
a year ago
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a year ago
Claude Shannon's mighty mouse, Ben Graham's father, Doomberg quits Twitter, FASB segment disclosure rules, Podcasts on old annual reports, Henry Ford's road trips, Jony Ive, Sal Kahn
balajis.com
#1 - Vitalik Buterin on Starting New Countries, Upgrading Ethereum, and Improving Yourself Listen now (118 min) | A discussion between Vitalik Buterin and Balaji Srinivasan on starting new...
a year ago
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a year ago
Listen now (118 min) | A discussion between Vitalik Buterin and Balaji Srinivasan on starting new countries, improving yourself, and upgrading Ethereum. OUTLINE 00:00 - Introduction 01:27 - A brief history of Ethereum 16:54 - The DAO hack 20:32 - The Devcon 2 attack 33:24 - The...
Retail Design Blog
Maison Ferrand Porte Noire cognac by Studio Minerva Introducing Porte Noire cognac, a luxurious creation in partnership with Idris Elba crafted to...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Introducing Porte Noire cognac, a luxurious creation in partnership with Idris Elba crafted to redefine elegance and sustainability in the...
brr
Frost Everyday objects, but cold.
a year ago
Louwrentius
Using iSCSI with time machine and Super Duper In the past, as a Mac user, I've used separate external drives for Time Machine backups and Super...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In the past, as a Mac user, I've used separate external drives for Time Machine backups and Super Duper clones but I'm not happy with that. External hard drives make noise and create clutter. I'd like to move away all my storage from my living room (or home office) and put it in...
Retail Design Blog
Bershka flagship store by Castel Estudio Part of the Inditex empire, fast-fashion brand Bershka specifically targets a young demographic with...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Part of the Inditex empire, fast-fashion brand Bershka specifically targets a young demographic with on-trend streetwear styles. In Spain, its...
Jonas Hietala
ghc 8.8.3 cannot find cabal 3.0.0.0 packages I’ve been using cabal to manage my Haskell dependencies for years, but when I last updated my system...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been using cabal to manage my Haskell dependencies for years, but when I last updated my system it suddenly stopped working. I installed my dependencies with cabal install xmonad, and checked that it’s installed under ~/.cabal: $ ls .cabal/bin/ xmonad@ But still when I...
Joel Gascoigne
6 things I do to be consistently happy * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Now that it’s...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Now that it’s almost two years since I first had the idea for Buffer [http://bufferapp.com], and with the year and a half before that which I worked on my previous startup, I’ve started to notice...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
My Guest Appearance on ShopTalk Show #605 Here’s the link: https://shoptalkshow.com/605/ I sat down (again) with Chris and Dave to talk all...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Here’s the link: https://shoptalkshow.com/605/ I sat down (again) with Chris and Dave to talk all things web. The conversation was fun and casual, mostly around topics I’ve written about recently — which is good, since those are topics I should (presumably) be able to speak on at...
diamond geezer
Rugby Gadabout: RUGBY Rugby is the easternmost town in Warwickshire, not far from Coventry, and the site...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Gadabout: RUGBY Rugby is the easternmost town in Warwickshire, not far from Coventry, and the site of an important railway junction. It's big in cement, was big in electronics and has been a market town since medieval times. But it's best known worldwide for its school and the...
Musings on Maps
Swing States, Battleground States and Hot Spots Are the maps of President Trump's 2024 electoral evidence of a sudden shift or deep undercurrents of...
a month ago
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a month ago
Are the maps of President Trump's 2024 electoral evidence of a sudden shift or deep undercurrents of disaffection? The sudden partisan shift of voting maps suggest a dark undercurrents in American politics. Continue reading →
Retail Design Blog
Aesop Suzhou Cangjie Store by Offhand Practice Aesop Suzhou Cangjie: A Fusion of Ancient Charm and Modern Poetry – As the first soft rays of dawn...
a month ago
TheCollector
The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights undefined
11 months ago
Londonist
When A Plague Of Millions Of Rats Gnawed Its Way Through Central London They even ate the window frames...
a year ago
The Ruffian
In Praise of Slow Learners How the Tortoise Beats the Hare
9 months ago
mtlynch.io
What I've Been Doing Since Quitting My Job I worked as a software engineer for Google from 2014 to 2018. On February 1st, I quit my job and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I worked as a software engineer for Google from 2014 to 2018. On February 1st, I quit my job and formed my own single-person software company. That was four months ago, so I thought I’d share an update on how things are going. What’s it like not having a job? That’s the most...
Liz Denys
Introducing Loose Leaf Security, and our first episode: Securing your online account passwords I just launched a new project with Geoffrey Thomas: Loose Leaf Security, a podcast about making good...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I just launched a new project with Geoffrey Thomas: Loose Leaf Security, a podcast about making good computer security for everyone. We believe you don't need to be a software engineer or security professional to understand how to keep your devices and data safe. In every...
Willem's Blog
Creating the ultimate commuter bike Creating the ultimate commuter bike by upgrading the Sensa Cintura belt drive bike.
over a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
gyeongju, the city of beautiful tombs Spent a few days in gyeongju. I knew there were going to be tombs, but what I didn’t expect was them...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Spent a few days in gyeongju. I knew there were going to be tombs, but what I didn’t expect was them to be everywhere, not just concentrated in one area. I didn’t...
TheCollector
James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust undefined
5 months ago
Seth's Blog
Did you see it in the theater? We’re in the middle of a huge and unusual shift. The magazine publisher acted like the best sales...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
We’re in the middle of a huge and unusual shift. The magazine publisher acted like the best sales were newsstand sales, even though the profit came from subscriptions and most people simply visited the website. Book publishers and editors seem to focus on selling copies on paper,...
Seldo.com
What is good code?
over a year ago
Grow With Less
The 27 tools I use to grow my online business People often ask me what tools I use to build and grow French Together so I thought I would put...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
People often ask me what tools I use to build and grow French Together so I thought I would put together a list of my favorites. These are not necessarily the best and trendiest tools, some may even be considered old-fasshioned. But they are the tools that help me build and grow...
devonzuegel.com
The new city in California A new city has been proposed in California, and the plan is going to a vote in Solano County’s...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
A new city has been proposed in California, and the plan is going to a vote in Solano County’s November election. The proposed location is in Solano County, about halfway between San Francisco and Sacramento, and the group behind the proposal is named California Forever. As a...
Seth's Blog
Silence vs noise When a group comes together, noise is easy. Just a few people have to make a commotion for noise to...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
When a group comes together, noise is easy. Just a few people have to make a commotion for noise to happen. But silence requires everyone to be in sync.
Mazdak
RRSP vs TFSA: Making the Right Choice for Your Financial Future Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs) and Tax-Free Savings Accounts (TFSAs) are two powerful...
a month ago
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a month ago
Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs) and Tax-Free Savings Accounts (TFSAs) are two powerful investment vehicles available to Canadians.
Maps Mania
A Map of the World That Is Gone
a year ago
Wuthering...
Plato's Republic - justice, fantasy and censorship - We'll ask Homer not to be angry I had ambitions to write about Plato’s Republic with some thoroughness, but I guess I will just...
a year ago
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a year ago
I had ambitions to write about Plato’s Republic with some thoroughness, but I guess I will just pursue one point.  Good enough. I have been separating Socrates from Plato, an imaginative exercise based on circular criteria.  The more Socratic of the Socratic dialogues are...
TheCollector
Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams? undefined
7 months ago
Transit Maps
Submission – Unofficial Map: Brussels S-Train by Elliot H Submitted by Elliot, who says: I’ve come across this blog a couple of months ago, and have been...
a year ago
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a year ago
Submitted by Elliot, who says: I’ve come across this blog a couple of months ago, and have been lurking ever since. I’ve always wanted to try my hand at designing a trasit diagram, and having gotten some free time, I decided to redesign the S-Train diagram for Brussels. So here...
Flashbak
President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a...
a month ago
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a month ago
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
Noahpinion
Here...comes...INDIA!!! The world has a new largest country, and it's on the move.
a year ago
Londonist
45+ Fantastic Things To Do In London This Month: November 2023 Vintage cars, new exhibitions and the all-important Christmas light switch-ons.
a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
How to sell your SaaS to Enterprise Customers This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […] The post How to sell your SaaS to Enterprise Customers appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Maps Mania
Who Speaks Your Language?
a year ago
The Turn Signal RSS...
The Rise of Touch Screens in Cars Explained Touch screens in cars are not new. In fact, the first production car fitted with a touch screen was...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Touch screens in cars are not new. In fact, the first production car fitted with a touch screen was the 1986 Buick Riviera.   The CRT…
Cheese and Biscuits
The Counter, Tunbridge Wells As much as I try to travel as far and wide as possible for a meal, there are certain parts of the...
a month ago
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a month ago
As much as I try to travel as far and wide as possible for a meal, there are certain parts of the world that are somewhat better-represented on these pages than others. Obviously as I live in London, and it's the best food city on the planet, that's the main focus of this blog....
Tinloof - Blog
Why most CMSes suck We're in 2023, and you mainly have 3 CMS options to build and manage your website: Monolithic CMS...
a year ago
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a year ago
We're in 2023, and you mainly have 3 CMS options to build and manage your website: Monolithic CMS (e.g. WordPress, Hubspot) Modern website builder (e.g. Framer, Webflow)
James Vaughan's blog
Wifi without internet on a Southwest flight
a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance? undefined
3 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
Christopher Butler
What Eyes Want South of the Border. These signs are impossible to miss. Today, over 175 South of the Border signs...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
South of the Border. These signs are impossible to miss. Today, over 175 South of the Border signs remain along the interstate; when I was a child making a two-day road trip from Boston to Florida, there were more than 250. Spotting them, reading them, and counting them made...
Map of the Week
Parking Lot Map The Parking Lot Map is a project of the Parking Reform Project, an organization dedicated to climate...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Parking Lot Map is a project of the Parking Reform Project, an organization dedicated to climate action, safer streets and housing affordability. The map explores how much land in the central area of the major cities of the United States is dedicated to parking. On average...
TheCollector
Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled) undefined
a year ago
Stat Significant
What Are the Most Commonly Used Movie Clichés? A Statistical Analysis Exploring the cliché phrases that dominate movies.
4 days ago
Computer Ads from...
Bomb Squad Peripherals' BLOWGUN It Could Have Been a Lot Worse - His Data is BLOWGUN Protected!
6 months ago
The American Scholar
Double Exposure On our first memories The post Double Exposure appeared first on The American Scholar.
2 weeks ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Discover Lake Como's Epic Hikes & Cuisine
a year ago
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, October 2024 The Ware for October 2024 is shown below. This one should be a smidge easier to guess than last...
a month ago
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a month ago
The Ware for October 2024 is shown below. This one should be a smidge easier to guess than last month’s ware. The main reason I liked this ware is actually the board shown below with the prominent star-routing. It’s such traditional hand-routing work, I love craftsmanship like...
TheCollector
The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story undefined
3 weeks ago
xkcd.com
Effect Size
a year ago
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The future of self-driving Modern self-driving technology still has a way to go before it becomes generally safe, and useful...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Modern self-driving technology still has a way to go before it becomes generally safe, and useful enough for broader adoption. While I do believe that at some point in my lifetime I'll be able to hail an eTaxi, it'll really depend on where I am, the road infrastructure, and the...
Cheese and Biscuits
The Barn at Moor Hall, Ormskirk In restaurants that offer both an A La Carte and parallel set menu I often play a bit of a thought...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
In restaurants that offer both an A La Carte and parallel set menu I often play a bit of a thought experiment. If there was no such separation of options, and if all the dishes available were priced evenly on the same list, which would I end up going for? Set menus (usually,...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Some lessons learned Note: Google was kind enough to invite me to give a short talk at their Zeitgeist conference earlier...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Note: Google was kind enough to invite me to give a short talk at their Zeitgeist conference earlier this week. It was a really interesting…
Liz Denys
Black coiled planter with attached drip tray, 2024 Heavily grogged black stoneware, coil-built, denim satin glaze
10 months ago
History Today Feed
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain JamesHoare Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
a month ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
The importance of dogfooding - Why product managers should use their product as much as their users Product testing is essential, but your testing won’t always pick up the small sources of friction...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Product testing is essential, but your testing won’t always pick up the small sources of friction which build up over time and frustrate your users…
Quentin Santos
On-Die ECC This article will be pretty short. When I built my new desktop computer, I considered ECC memory....
a month ago
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a month ago
This article will be pretty short. When I built my new desktop computer, I considered ECC memory. So, I looked around for DDR5 ECC memory. Surprisingly, DDR5 memory sticks that mentioned ECC was not significantly more expensive than other DDR5 memory sticks. Sometimes, they were...
TheCollector
Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy? undefined
4 months ago
Open Culture
How Henri Matisse Scandalized the Art Establishment with His Daring Use of Color Even those of us not particularly well-versed in art history have heard of a painting style called...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Even those of us not particularly well-versed in art history have heard of a painting style called fauvism — and probably have never considered what it has to do with fauve, the French word for a wild beast. In fact, the two have everything to do with one another, at least in the...
History Today Feed
The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels JamesHoare Wed, 09/18/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
Arduino Blog
KiPneu makes soft robotic biomimetics accessible to STEAM students Biomimicry, which is a method for developing new technology inspired by nature, has been one of...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Biomimicry, which is a method for developing new technology inspired by nature, has been one of humanity’s greatest assets. But systems reliant on soft tissue, such as an octopus’s tentacles, have been notoriously difficult to reproduce in the robotics world. To give STEAM...
Notes on software...
Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 2. binary expressions and WHERE filters Previously in database basics: 1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL 3. indexes 4. a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Previously in database basics: 1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL 3. indexes 4. a database/sql driver In this post, we'll extend gosql to support binary expressions and very simple filtering on SELECT results via WHERE. We'll introduce a general mechanism...
Liz Denys
Slack doesn't listen to its users. In a rush of hubris, Slack published a full page ad taunting Microsoft Teams in the New York...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In a rush of hubris, Slack published a full page ad taunting Microsoft Teams in the New York Times: That feeling when you think "we should buy a full page in the Times and publish an open letter," and then you do. 💫 pic.twitter.com/BQiEawRA6d — Stewart Butterfield (@stewart)...
blag
Recurse Center Day 14: NoSQL Transactions I learned how using MongoDB was fatal for a startup
over a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
How a Delayed Flight Can Still Arrive on Time
a year ago
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Law & Order Contributed by Nick Sherman License: All Rights Reserved. Law & Order is a US television series...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Contributed by Nick Sherman License: All Rights Reserved. Law & Order is a US television series set in New York City that first aired 30 years ago today, on September 13, 1990, and ran for 20 seasons until its final episode in 2010. Each episode is split into two segments:...
swyx's site RSS Feed
$120k in Infoproduct Sales - How to Extend the Long Tail *This post originated as [an AMA on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
*This post originated as [an AMA on IndieHackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/post/made-121-326-since-launching-my-book-last-july-63-of-it-after-launch-month-ama-about-long-tail-infoproducts-41b55f5670)*
Rest of World -...
How Singapore became the ideal testing ground for self-driving cars The tiny country has embraced autonomous vehicles as a way to overcome labor shortages and use its...
3 weeks ago
Contemporist...
A New Building In Shanghai Inspired By A Forest Of Trees Koichi Takada Architects has designed a retail building in Shanghai, China, that's described as an...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Koichi Takada Architects has designed a retail building in Shanghai, China, that's described as an 'architectural forest' of 32 trees.
diamond geezer
Eden Dock You know how when you come out of Canary Wharf tube station, main entrance, there's always been a...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
You know how when you come out of Canary Wharf tube station, main entrance, there's always been a big empty dock in front of you? Well, not any more. yesterday and is really very impressive. So long as you don't read anything about it. island. Unsurprisingly it's already...
Marco.org
Overcast 5: Watch, Siri, search, and redesign! I apologize for the low battery level. Busy day. It all started with the watchOS volume...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I apologize for the low battery level. Busy day. It all started with the watchOS volume widget. You see, Overcast’s previous Apple Watch app really sucked. I did my best with the capabilities of watchOS 1–4, but I couldn’t give people what they really wanted: Standalone podcast...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
The “je ne sais quoi” of TikTok Note: When I originally wrote this post, TikTok oEmbeds did not auto-play. I recommend pausing them...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Note: When I originally wrote this post, TikTok oEmbeds did not auto-play. I recommend pausing them and pressing play when ready to view…
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 042: sama drama November 24, 2023.
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Building products from improvised user behaviors For a long time, there were niche communities of “lo-fi” camera enthusiasts: people who shared...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For a long time, there were niche communities of “lo-fi” camera enthusiasts: people who shared photos taken on old cameras that had…
How to Be a Stoic
How to make progress with your Stoic practice (or learn to drive a car), Epictetus style There are different ways to understand and practice Stoic philosophy, and this is true not just for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There are different ways to understand and practice Stoic philosophy, and this is true not just for the differences between ancient and modern Stoicism, but even within ancient Stoicism itself. After all, the philosophy evolved over a course of more than five centuries from Zeno...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Kept Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sure he's on an unrendered background but the angle...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sure he's on an unrendered background but the angle on the shoes is perfect. Today's News: Stretch goals are being revealed faster than I had expected and I should've planned more!!
Words and Buttons...
Complex numbers and conformal mapping This explains the geometry of complex numbers. Explains conformal transformations, introduces...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This explains the geometry of complex numbers. Explains conformal transformations, introduces analytic functions, and shows that analytic complex functions are conformal. And using the connection between the geometry and the analysis explains it all in just some five minutes.
TheCollector
The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding undefined
a month ago
Old Structures...
Almost Unrecognizeable Most of the 1950s Angelo Rizzuto photos I’ve been discussing recently can be quickly located even if...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Most of the 1950s Angelo Rizzuto photos I’ve been discussing recently can be quickly located even if their descriptions don’t say were they were taken. The 1957 picture above threw me. We’re looking towards midtown – the Empire State Building makes that obvious – but from what...
Classical Wisdom
No Women Allowed? Greek Theater and Gender
3 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
See Randomness
over a year ago
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security episode: Two-factor authentication and account recovery The second episode of Loose Leaf Security came out today, about two-factor authentication and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The second episode of Loose Leaf Security came out today, about two-factor authentication and account recovery: Two-factor authentication and account recovery Last time we talked about strong passwords, but what if there was a better way to secure your account? We look at options...
Both Are True
What's the one thing we all hate but can't stop doing? achieving ourselves to death within the social media industrial complex
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Matraz Gin by MABA A floral bottle. Matraz is the new concept of this premium gin with 13 botanicals and five...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
A floral bottle. Matraz is the new concept of this premium gin with 13 botanicals and five distillations, bottled in...
computers are bad
2023-06-02 the reinvention of owens lake Programming note: In an effort to introduce an exciting new social aspect to Computers Are Bad (a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Programming note: In an effort to introduce an exciting new social aspect to Computers Are Bad (a functional necessity to appease early-stage investor demands for "engagement")¸ I am launching a Matrix room for CAB readers. You can join it! Do whatever you do to join rooms in...
Platformer
Extremely Hardcore: Our New York magazine cover story Twitter’s staff spent years trying to protect the platform against impulsive ranting billionaires —...
a year ago
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a year ago
Twitter’s staff spent years trying to protect the platform against impulsive ranting billionaires — then one made himself the CEO
The Modern House
The trials and triumphs of a tropical-inspired new-build in Bristol
a year ago
Matt Mullenweg
GPL Clarification A quick followup on my prior conversation with Theo. During that chat, I talked briefly about a...
a month ago
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a month ago
A quick followup on my prior conversation with Theo. During that chat, I talked briefly about a trademark infringer that was also distributing nulled plugins. I said “Not illegal. Legal under the GPL. But they weren’t changing the names. They were selling their customers Pro...
mtlynch.io
How to Grow Quickly and Never Turn a Profit Early last year, I launched a nutrition site called Is It Keto. From November 2018 until March 2019,...
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over a year ago
Early last year, I launched a nutrition site called Is It Keto. From November 2018 until March 2019, the site was my full-time focus. Every month, visitors increased by 50% to 150%, an exhilarating growth rate that far outpaced any of my previous projects. There was only one...
Tech + Economics +...
The eternal victimhood of the right-wing mind. The right-wing has become obsessed with what they term the 'Victimhood Olympics.' Conservative...
a year ago
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I’ve been involved with 4 startups over the last 10 years or so, 3 as a co-founder. I’m a follower of Paul Graham and the YC camp of startup wisdom. There’s now a great deal of literature laying out the unbreakable rules for startups. Despite studying this literature, I’ve...
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My Best Month Ever: $23,109 revenue (+ November 2021 updates) Hello everyone! This is Tony 👋 I just had my best month ever in my entire indie hacking journey,...
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Hello everyone! This is Tony 👋 I just had my best month ever in my entire indie hacking journey, and I’m excited to share it with you all! 🤑 I made $23K in November 2021 as a solo dev Here is the full breakdown: Revenue: $23,109.02 Sales Tax: $1,726.13
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I designed my own keyboard and it’s freely available! I’m calling it the Caldera, and it’s basically my dream wireless split keyboard. I’ve been using it for months, and I love it. Video overview If you’re a visual person, I made a fun little video showcasing the...
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The only reason we need to go into detail about our resume, the details of our new idea or the features of a product is to cause action to happen. And action is the result of tension, status or affiliation, and these are based on trust. There are many ways to build that trust,...
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After 25 years of running this blog under various names — all of which can be lumped under the "Archidose" monicker — I've decided to shut it down, moving this hobby, this labor of love, to Substack, which I have used since mid-2021 and where I will continue to send out weekly...
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Newton's method is probably one of the most popular algorithm for finding the roots of a function through successive numeric approximations. In less cryptic words, if you have an opaque function f(x), and you need to solve f(x)=0 (finding where the function crosses the x-axis),...
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You can build an accidental culture, or a purposeful culture. Take action to build a culture of empathy, and reap the rewards.
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Edgar Allan Poe achieved almost instant fame during his lifetime after the publication of The Raven (1845), but he never felt that he received the recognition he deserved. In some respects, he was right. He was, after all, paid only nine dollars for the poem, and he struggled...
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I’m an artist, illustrator and printmaker. Having left London after a decade of city life I now live and work in The New Forest, squeezing in drawing and printing around caring for a three year old. How and where did you learn to print? I did my foundation at KIAD (formerly...
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If you know a bit about public key cryptography, you probably know that you don’t directly encrypt a message with a public key encryption algorithm like RSA. This is for many reasons, one of which being that it is incredibly slow. Instead you do what’s called hybrid encryption:...
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Zig is a new, open-source programming language designed to replace C. I’m still a Zig beginner, so I’m trying to learn the language by using Zig to rewrite parts of existing C applications. One of the first challenges I encountered with Zig is understanding strings. I couldn’t...
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So I was on math stackexchange the other day, and I saw a cute post looking for a book which lists, for many many integers, facts that Ramanujan could have told Hardy if he’d taken a cab other than 1729. A few days ago OP answered their own question, saying that the book in...
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Global funding in the cultured meat industry dropped by 75% in the last year. Singapore sees its chance to become a world leader, backing local and international firms.
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What does it mean for AI to be “safe”? Right now there is a lot of debate about AI safety. But people often end up talking past each other because they’re not using the same definitions or standards. For the sake of productive debates, let me propose some distinctions to add...
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On a splendid morning, I got down from the bus, greeted by the enchanting allure of Nemathanpetti near Karaikudi. Gopichettan was waiting...
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I started programming seriously during a gap year after high school. I’d read Turing’s Computing Machinery and Intelligence, and was inspired by the notion of writing code that could understand something that I, as the code’s author, did not. I started writing a chatbot — how...
bt RSS Feed
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charity.wtf
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I recently wrote a twitter thread on the proper role of architects, or as I put it, tongue-in-cheek-ily, whether or not architect is a “bullshit role”. It got a LOT of reactions (2.5 weeks later, the thread is still going!!), which I would sort into roughly three camps: “OMG this...
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The paradigm flip Paradigm shifts are appealing but rarely well executed. A paradigm is our mental model of the world....
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Paradigm shifts are appealing but rarely well executed. A paradigm is our mental model of the world. We’re surrounded by people who share a similar model, and as long as the model is working, we live our lives without thinking much about it. If you lived in a space station, the...
Classical Wisdom
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They say it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert at a chosen field. We've been building Semplice for nearly 10 years.
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Cancer treatment has come a long way in recent decades. But finding the best course of treatment for each case of this diverse, dynamic disease remains a challenge. In this episode, co-host Steven Strogatz speaks with computational biologist Franziska Michor about how math,...
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If you’d like to come along, I’ve got a discount code that will get you a cool $100 off the ticket price. Just use the code AEAPARM to redeem at the checkout. I make no secret that speaking at An Event Apart is one of the highlights of my year. I still feel incredibly lucky […]
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The month of May seems a little while ago, so I’d better get on and write it up. This will be quick. The big news in the UK was Rishi Sunak, the outgoing PM, calling a general election for 4 July. Independence-from-the-Tories Day. May was also the month that u-turner/blowharder...
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Why I do not use ZFS as a file system for my NAS Many people have asked me why I do not use ZFS for my NAS storage box. This is a good question and I...
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Many people have asked me why I do not use ZFS for my NAS storage box. This is a good question and I have multpile reasons why I do not use ZFS and probably never will. ** A lot has changed since this article was first published. I do now recommend using ZFS. I've also based my...
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During my time at Spotify, I've reviewed thousands of resumes and interviewed hundreds of people. Lots of them were rejected but lots of them also got offers. Finally, I've also had my share of offers rejected by the candidate.
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Monero has once again changed the POW to brick ASICs following confirmation that 85% of Monero’s hashrate were ASICs. Recurring hard forks to brick ASICs is a very dangerous game and what better to illustrate this than with an xkcd-style plot? You’re safe on the edges but how do...
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ChatGPT and Wolfram|Alpha It’s always amazing when things suddenly “just work”. It happened to us with Wolfram|Alpha back in 2009. It happened with our Physics Project in 2020. And it’s happening now with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. I’ve been tracking neural net technology for a long time...
TheCollector
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Get the text of an uploaded file in Remix by () This took way too long to figure out. The File polyfill in Remix has the fresh new .stream() and...
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This took way too long to figure out. The File polyfill in Remix has the fresh new .stream() and .arrayBuffer() methods, which aren’t mentioned on MDN. So, assuming you’re in an action and the argument is args, you can get the body like: const body = await...
Good Enough
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I had to figure out how to run browser-based tests in Rails again. In part that meant working around my lack of Chrome. Rails System Tests with Safari. I also had some problems with Rails Turbo Drive taking over EVERYTHING, which required me to figure out how to deal with a Rails...
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Overall, this was an interesting read, but I found it hard to apply the lessons to my product. The book contains compelling case studies and ideas from the field of meta-learning, but most of the ideas were either too theoretical or too specific to large companies.
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So you’ve written an awesome online game that works perfectly in the test environment, but when real users are playing the game server doesn’t work properly. Now what?!? I was reading an article by Mike Perham called Debugging with Thread Dumps and wanted to share a related...
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The union.bistro project combines functionality, aesthetics, and an atmosphere inspired by culinary art. Its design integrates materials, colors, textures, and...
Seth's Blog
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Childlike involves wonder. It’s the ability to see the world with fresh eyes and create magic. Childish, on the other hand, is living as if there are no consequences. Over time, we’ve gotten very good at meauring the long and short-term consequences of our actions. And good at...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Based on a conversation I had with two different astronomers recently, in which I was informed Jupiter is unable to clear its orbit. They weren't willing to say Jupiter is a dwarf planet but *I* am. Today's News:
Arduino Blog
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Recently, we announced the exciting new Image widget for Arduino Cloud. This powerful feature opens up a world of possibilities for enhancing your IoT dashboards. But the true potential of the Image widget lies in the applications that you create. Today, we’re excited to dive...
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Notes on The Psychology of Money A review and reflection of Morgan Housel's bestselling collection of essays on personal/behavioral...
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Because tree seedlings don’t grow as well when close to their parents, more tree species can be packed into tropical forests. The post ‘Species Repulsion’ Enables High Biodiversity in Tropical Trees first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Research suggests that psychedelic drugs can reopen critical periods of brain development to create opportunities for re-learning and psychological healing. In this episode, co-host Janna Levin speaks with Gül Dölen, a neuroscientist studying the therapeutic potential of...
Posts on Made of...
Fun with the preprocessor: CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION hacks in Linux About two months ago, Linux saw CVE-2010-0307, which was a trival denial-of-service attack that...
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About two months ago, Linux saw CVE-2010-0307, which was a trival denial-of-service attack that could crash essentially any 64-bit Linux machine with 32-bit compatibility enabled. LWN has an excellent writeup of the bug, which turns out to be a subtle error related to the details...
Noahpinion
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a year ago
Remains of the Day
Catch up It has been some time since I posted here. Outside of lots of meetings around the country and some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It has been some time since I posted here. Outside of lots of meetings around the country and some trips with family and friends, a few creative projects have stolen the lion's share of my free time. While I won't publish some Medium screed on how spending less time on social...
Seeking Wisdom
From Linear to Logistic – Sigmoid Curve and Log Loss Can we predict the likelihood of heart disease from sleep and exercise? This is my fourth post on my...
a year ago
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a year ago
Can we predict the likelihood of heart disease from sleep and exercise? This is my fourth post on my journey to build a toy GPT. I’d recommend checking out my previous posts before diving into this one. Let’s train a model to predict heart disease using sleep and exercise data....
Retail Design Blog
BDO TEL-AVIV BDO is an international network of public accounting, tax and advisory firms which perform...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
BDO is an international network of public accounting, tax and advisory firms which perform professional services under the name BDO....
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
JavaScript Is Enabled by Default in Web Browsers It’s easy to talk bad about JavaScript (or at least its abuse) like it’s some kind of malware. But...
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a year ago
It’s easy to talk bad about JavaScript (or at least its abuse) like it’s some kind of malware. But it’s worth remembering that JavaScript is enabled by default in web browsers. JavaScript is not so terrible, so harmful, so taboo, so something you shouldn’t use that it’s turned...
TheCollector
Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference? undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe? undefined
11 months ago
Math Is Still...
How This Marine Worm Can Tell Moonglow From Sunbeams For the first time, scientists have decoded the molecular structure of a protein that helps to sync...
a year ago
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a year ago
For the first time, scientists have decoded the molecular structure of a protein that helps to sync a biological clock to the phases of the moon. The post How This Marine Worm Can Tell Moonglow From Sunbeams first appeared on Quanta Magazine
ntietz.com blog
Why I kept my startup job for seven years (and counting) Software engineers typically don't stay anywhere for very long. If you're not moving, you're losing...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Software engineers typically don't stay anywhere for very long. If you're not moving, you're losing out on opportunities1. And yet, I've made the choice to join and stay at one company for seven years. That's more than half my career to date. Why did I do that? And would I do it...
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security episode: Digital photos and privacy Making sure your digital photos aren't leaking your location or other information is one of the most...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Making sure your digital photos aren't leaking your location or other information is one of the most important technology-related privacy issues influencing your physical safety, so make sure to catch the latest episode of Loose Leaf Security: Digital photos and privacy Digital...
samwho.dev
I finally figured out how to take notes! I’ve never been good at taking notes. I’ve tried. Oh boy, have I tried. Name a piece of note taking...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve never been good at taking notes. I’ve tried. Oh boy, have I tried. Name a piece of note taking software, odds are I’ve tried it. I’ve even tried going old school with pen and paper. Nothing sticks. Until recently. Some time ago, I learned about Apple’s Shortcuts app. It’s...
Making software...
RSS Hacks With XSLT RSS Hacks With XSLT 2022-05-23 In my spare time I've been further tinkering (hopefully for the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
RSS Hacks With XSLT 2022-05-23 In my spare time I've been further tinkering (hopefully for the better) with my humble Shinobi Website[^0] script. The most recent update in patch-1 came with a solid amount of QoL improvements. If you're interested, I wrote about it on the official...
macwright.com
The S&P 500 is largely a historical artifact I see the S&P 500 referenced pretty frequently as an vanilla index for people investing. This isn’t...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I see the S&P 500 referenced pretty frequently as an vanilla index for people investing. This isn’t totally wrong, which is why this post is short. But, if you have the goal of just “investing in the market,” there’s a better option for doing that: a total market index. For...
CONTEMPORIST
A Distinct Dining Area Was Created In This Home By Surrounding It With Cabinetry Toronto-based architecture and design practice Great Lake Studio has shared photos of a home they...
a year ago
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a year ago
Toronto-based architecture and design practice Great Lake Studio has shared photos of a home they designed, that’s clad in custom charred cedar and has a pitched roof. Inside, the main level of the home is the gathering place, with the living room, dining area, and kitchen all...
Musings on Markets
Data Update 5 for 2023: The Earnings Test As I have argued in all four of my posts, so far, about 2022, it was year when we saw a return to...
a year ago
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a year ago
As I have argued in all four of my posts, so far, about 2022, it was year when we saw a return to normalcy on many fronts, as treasury rates reverted back to pre-2008 levels, and risk capital discovered that risk has a downside. During the course of the year, investors also...
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French And some odds and ends.
5 months ago
Vadim Kravcenko
Mental Health in Software Engineering Question: Answer: The post Mental Health in Software Engineering appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
8 months ago
Laetitia@Work
The Future of Work & the Sandwich Generation Laetitia@Work #63
a year ago
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Creatively Bridge Hello! I’m Bridget. I'm a part time printmaker based on the south coast in Chichester. My love for...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hello! I’m Bridget. I'm a part time printmaker based on the south coast in Chichester. My love for printmaking was born in the print rooms of Bath School of Art and Design where I studied Graphic Communication. This is where I first got a taste for Screen Printing, Linocut,...
Essays - Benedict...
When tech says ‘no’ The tech industry always has a reason why any new laws or regulations are bad - indeed, so does...
a year ago
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a year ago
The tech industry always has a reason why any new laws or regulations are bad - indeed, so does any industry. They always say that! The trouble is, sometimes it’s true, and some laws are (or would be) disasters. So which is it? Well, there are three ways that people say...
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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2 months ago
“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...
Paul Graham: Essays
An NFT That Saves Lives
over a year ago
HTMHell
#15 letter by letter Bad code Letters are wrapped in divs to animate each letter with JavaScript. <h3> <div...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Bad code Letters are wrapped in divs to animate each letter with JavaScript. <h3> <div style="display: block; text-align: start; position: relative;" class="title"> <div style="position: relative; display: inline-block; transform: rotateX(90deg); transform-origin: 50% 50%...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Multiverse Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The reverse middle finger in the last panel is the...
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Your Site's Calling Card > Note: this tutorial is now out of date - I don't pre-generate og:image cards anymore as it added...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
> Note: this tutorial is now out of date - I don't pre-generate og:image cards anymore as it added too much time to my builds
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
Flashbak
François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926 These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François...
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3 weeks ago
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François Brunery (1849 – 1926), and used as the basis for his work as a painter of so-called “Cardinal Paintings”. His work depicting cardinals of the Catholic church in comical or embarrassing...
Flashbak
Emma Willard’s Time Maps “Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that...
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7 months ago
“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that community can be brought in to exercise the way.” – Emma Hart Willard   Emma Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was a trailblazing American educator who founded the first...
Paul Graham: Essays
Post-Medium Publishing
over a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953) Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today. Out of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today. Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Silly little rules in healthcare | Out-Of-Pocket The industry is chock full of ‘em, here's 3
6 months ago
Tony Finch's blog
More random floating point numbers I got some interesting comments about my previous notes on random floating point numbers on...
a year ago
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a year ago
I got some interesting comments about my previous notes on random floating point numbers on Lobsters, Dreamwidth, and from Pete Cawley on Twitter. Here’s an addendum about an alternative model of uniformity. There are 2^62 double precision floats between 0.0 and 1.0, but as...
TheCollector
5 Royals Who Behaved Badly undefined
5 months ago
ntietz.com blog
Paper Review: Architecture of a Database System Last week, I read "Architecture of a Database System" for a Red Book reading group. This is as...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Last week, I read "Architecture of a Database System" for a Red Book reading group. This is as massive paper: 119 pages. What surprised me is how approachable it is. I have relatively little background building database systems and more experience using them. Despite this, the...
AI Snake Oil
Is the future of AI open or closed? Watch today’s Princeton-Stanford workshop By Sayash Kapoor, Rishi Bommasani, Percy Liang, Arvind Narayanan Perhaps the biggest tech policy...
a year ago
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a year ago
By Sayash Kapoor, Rishi Bommasani, Percy Liang, Arvind Narayanan Perhaps the biggest tech policy debate today is about the future of AI, especially foundation models and generative AI. Will AI be open or closed? Will we be able to download and modify these models, or will a few...
Old Structures...
Subtle Design and Not Two buildings on a single block, separated by about 110 years and a huge difference in design...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Two buildings on a single block, separated by about 110 years and a huge difference in design philosophy… First up, how do you turn the corner from a busy avenue to a quiet side street? The one-story red-brick building on the far left is a modern replacement for an old commercial...
Flashbak
Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography “Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You see one earring. Walk slowly past the photograph so you are viewing it from gradually changing angles… The earring from one ear recedes from view while its twin [appears] in turn on...
Passing Time
Pave the 14ers We must democratize access to 14ers.
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
Thinking about jobs Since I was born, the planet has invented 6 billion jobs. Technology is said to threaten the...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Since I was born, the planet has invented 6 billion jobs. Technology is said to threaten the replacement of human labor, yet, somehow we’ve found useful activities for a rapidly growing population. Coordinated without a coordinator, people go to work each day, often doing...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Entropy Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We're in this really awkward stage where sapient...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We're in this really awkward stage where sapient life is possible, but it'll pass. Today's News:
Making software...
Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor 2023-03-03 For the longest time I've been using a Samsung...
a year ago
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a year ago
Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor 2023-03-03 For the longest time I've been using a Samsung 27" UHD monitor as my main display. This monitor was connected to my ThinkPad X260 (in clamshell mode) through the official Lenovo dock. It wasn't a bad setup, but I have since...
Trying to Understand...
Only Connect .... We are lost in a haunted wood.
2 months ago
diamond geezer
Bourneview London has eight public footpath level crossings, and today I'm going to walk you across another of...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
London has eight public footpath level crossings, and today I'm going to walk you across another of them. Bourneview (CR8 5AD) Kenley in the London borough of Croydon, a couple of miles southeast of Purley. Two railway lines wend down this dry chalk valley but we want the line...
diamond geezer
Beddington Farmlands A Nice Walk: Beddington Farmlands (1 mile) Sometimes you just want to go for a nice walk, nothing...
a month ago
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a month ago
A Nice Walk: Beddington Farmlands (1 mile) Sometimes you just want to go for a nice walk, nothing too taxing, a bit of a stroll, wildlife guaranteed, railway-adjacent, mostly dry underfoot, broad pylon vistas, binocular opportunities, possibility of lapwings, won't take long. So...
TheCollector
5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums undefined
2 months ago
The Elysian
Idea Labs! An open thread for collaborative worldbuilding Let's brainstorm the future together.
9 months ago
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 10-11 February 2024 Super Bowl Sunday, Chinese New Year, and half term happenings.
10 months ago
computers are bad
2024-09-14 the national warning system Previously on Deep Space Nine, we discussed the extensive and variable products that AT&T and...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Previously on Deep Space Nine, we discussed the extensive and variable products that AT&T and telephone operating companies sold as private lines. One of the interesting properties of private line systems is that they can be ordered as four-wire. Internally, the telephone network...
nanoscale views
Items of interest For the first post of the new calendar year, here are a few items that I thought were...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
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...
The Turn Signal RSS...
The eHMI: How Autonomous Cars Will Communicate With the Outside World Even if you may not be aware of it, a lot of non-verbal communication takes place when you walk down...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Even if you may not be aware of it, a lot of non-verbal communication takes place when you walk down the street. You observe the behavior…
Seth's Blog
What does the world owe us? This question is a trap. It’s based on scarcity and entitlement, and most of all, the world isn’t...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
This question is a trap. It’s based on scarcity and entitlement, and most of all, the world isn’t listening. When more and more people focus on this question, it simply pushes us apart. On the other hand, “what do I owe the world?” opens the door for endless opportunity. When...
AFAR Media - Travel...
JetBlue to End American Pact—What This Means for Travelers
a year ago
Oxide Computer...
Hubris and Humility When we started Oxide, we knew we were going to take a fresh look at the entire system. We knew, for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When we started Oxide, we knew we were going to take a fresh look at the entire system. We knew, for example, that we wanted to have a true hardware root of trust and that we wanted to revisit the traditional BMC. We knew, too, that we would have our own system software on each...
Irrational...
Developing domain expertise: get your hands dirty. Recently, I’ve been thinking about developing domain expertise, and wanted to collect my thoughts...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Recently, I’ve been thinking about developing domain expertise, and wanted to collect my thoughts here. Although I covered some parts of this in Your first 90 days as CTO (understanding product analytics, shadowing customer support, talking to customers, and talking with your...
The Thinking Cap
You Should Watch More Canceled TV Shows An argument against the Lindy Effect. How can we sample from the long tail?
over a year ago
Maps Mania
Warmer Stripes for 2023
7 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
YCombinator's AI boom is still going strong (W24) Combing through all 158 YC AI startups (65% of the batch).
8 months ago
The Universe of...
Look at what they tried to take from us When I was a kid, the Beatles’ seminal 1966 album Revolver was 20% shorter. The original release...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
When I was a kid, the Beatles’ seminal 1966 album Revolver was 20% shorter. The original release was not a long album: 14 tracks, totaling 34:45. But the version I grew up with had 11 tracks, totaling only 27:31. Three tracks, all by Lennon, were omitted by Capitol from the...
Left To Write
What I Learned In 1 Year of Writing A Newsletter Hey Friends, A year ago — in June 2022 — I started this newsletter. I had so many ideas of what I...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hey Friends, A year ago — in June 2022 — I started this newsletter. I had so many ideas of what I wanted this newsletter to be: copywriting and creativity, behavioural science, business, or personal essays. But after a year of writing Left to Write,
TheCollector
Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests undefined
a year ago
Archinect - Features
Archinect's Guide to Job Titles: Set Designer As we delve deeper into our exploration of key job titles within the intersection of architecture...
a year ago
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a year ago
As we delve deeper into our exploration of key job titles within the intersection of architecture and the broader world of design, we turn our attention to a role that plays a pivotal part in the realms of film, television, and theater: the Set Designer. This role, while...
Joel Gascoigne
Ways to bootstrap a startup: &quot;working in waves&quot; * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve spent the...
over a year ago
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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...
Mazdak
Binance CEO Steps Down and Pleads Guilty as Part of $4.3 Billion Settlement Binance is the world's largest crypto exchange, and CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao is the most powerful...
a year ago
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a year ago
Binance is the world's largest crypto exchange, and CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao is the most powerful player in the industry. This deal puts an end to a years-long investigation into Binance. The deal: CZ agreed to pay $50 million in fines and is prohibited from operating or managing...
Seth's Blog
The other choices The intentional, noticed choices are obvious. “Vanilla or chocolate?” But most of the choices we...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
The intentional, noticed choices are obvious. “Vanilla or chocolate?” But most of the choices we live with are unseen. They’re expensive, challenging and invisible. When we plan an event with an outdoor component, we’re choosing to be anxious about the weather in the week leading...
NeuroLogica Blog
Being Trans Is Not A Mental Illness On the current episode of the SGU, because it is pride month, we expressed our general support for...
a year ago
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a year ago
On the current episode of the SGU, because it is pride month, we expressed our general support for the LGBTQ community. I also opined about how important it is to respect individual liberty, the freedom to simply live your authentic life as you choose, and how ironic it is that...
Steve Klabnik
Redcarpet is awesome
over a year ago
Notes on software...
How to get better at recursion tldr; reimplement standard library functions in your favorite language without loops. Background For...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
tldr; reimplement standard library functions in your favorite language without loops. Background For a few years after college I spent a lot of free time doing projects in Standard ML and Scheme. As a result I got really comfortable doing recursion. The two big reasons for this...
Maps Mania
The Historical Movie Map
a year ago
Elad Blog
MegaCycles in Tech & Crypto Every 8-10 years, the technology industry used to go through a boom and bust cycle. A new technology...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Every 8-10 years, the technology industry used to go through a boom and bust cycle. A new technology or platform would emerge, there would be rampant investment and speculation, a few strong hypergrowth survivors would emerge and most of the rest of the new startups would...
Daniel Bourke
Superglue and milk We walked out of the movies and it was still daylight. I helped Dad get onto the escalators. He...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
We walked out of the movies and it was still daylight. I helped Dad get onto the escalators. He moves slower than most. It keeps me in check when I’m steaming along. Walking into the movies I looked at the time. We were late. Friday afternoon traffic. So
Both Are True
hello from the other side a record of my first two days away from the internet and social media and wow
a year ago
Contemporist...
A Small Laneway House Designed For A Narrow Property In Toronto Lanescape Architecture has shared photos of a laneway home they completed for a narrow 17-foot wide...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Lanescape Architecture has shared photos of a laneway home they completed for a narrow 17-foot wide lot in Toronto's Junction neighborhood.
Stoic Simple
Stoic Advice on Parenting & Children: Ask Marcus Aurelius Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from...
a year ago
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a year ago
Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from historical records, we created an AI digital personality that spoke with us about how to practice Stoicism in our modern world. This AI persona literally thinks that it's Marcus...
Nadia Asparouhova
How to do the jhanas The jhanas are a series of eight (or nine) altered mental states, which progress from euphoria, to...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The jhanas are a series of eight (or nine) altered mental states, which progress from euphoria, to calm, to dissolution of reality – culminating in cessation, or loss of consciousness. They are induced via sustained concentration, without any external stimuli or substances. This...
TheCollector
How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot? undefined
8 months ago
The Oatmeal - Comics...
Therapy is now horrible Intrusive thoughts and more. View on my website
5 months ago
Math Is Still...
Magnetism May Have Given Life Its Molecular Asymmetry The preferred “handedness” of biomolecules could have emerged from biased interactions between...
a year ago
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a year ago
The preferred “handedness” of biomolecules could have emerged from biased interactions between electrons and magnetic surfaces, new research suggests. The post Magnetism May Have Given Life Its Molecular Asymmetry first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The American Scholar
“The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry appeared first on...
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Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry appeared first on The American Scholar.
The American Scholar
“Guests” by Celia Thaxter  Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Guests” by Celia Thaxter  appeared first on The American...
5 days ago
Dustin Curtis
Building new worlds Earlier this summer, the New York Times published an opinion piece titled The World Is a Mess. We...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Earlier this summer, the New York Times published an opinion piece titled The World Is a Mess. We Need Fully Automated Luxury Communism, by Aaron Bastani: To say the present era is one of crisis borders on cliché. We inhabit a world of low growth, low productivity and low wages,...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things to start your week (#28) Cultural stagnation, pedestrian deaths, evidence on decoupling, the benefits of education, and why...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Cultural stagnation, pedestrian deaths, evidence on decoupling, the benefits of education, and why philosophers read the classics
On Test Automation
The test automation quadrant, or a different way to look at your tests Like many others working in software testing, and more specifically in automation, I have been...
a week ago
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a week ago
Like many others working in software testing, and more specifically in automation, I have been introduced to the concept of the test automation pyramid early on in my career. While this model has received its share of criticism in the testing community over the years, I still use...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The tragedy of the anticommons Seems very relevant to today’s music industry, and potentially relevant to the internet/software...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Seems very relevant to today’s music industry, and potentially relevant to the internet/software industry in the near future as patent…
Trying to Understand...
France Saves Europe. Again. In a manner of speaking.
9 months ago
The Rational Walk
Wealth vs. Income Early retirees are often misunderstood when it comes to their financial status. Being in a position...
a year ago
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a year ago
Early retirees are often misunderstood when it comes to their financial status. Being in a position to deal with "social debt" requires conservatism and a substantial financial reserve.
xkcd.com
Fossil
a year ago
The Marginalian
The Transcendent Brain: The Poetic Physicist Alan Lightman on Spirituality for the Science-Spirited A largehearted invitation to "stand on the precipice between the known and the unknown, without...
a year ago
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a year ago
A largehearted invitation to "stand on the precipice between the known and the unknown, without fear, without anxiety, but instead with awe and wonder at this strange and beautiful cosmos we find ourselves in."
Castles in the Sky
The Bookseller's Register #2 My favorite section in the bookstore
a year ago
Maggie Appleton
Douglas, Dirt, and Matter Out of Place
over a year ago
Louwrentius
Linux Iptables Firewall Script released on Google code I have released LIFS, the Linux Iptables Firewall Script. This script allows you to setup a firewall...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have released LIFS, the Linux Iptables Firewall Script. This script allows you to setup a firewall within minutes. It is easy to use, yet very powerful. It uses Iptables and even improves upon some limitations of Iptables. Every person who has to maintain some kind of...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Where Its Masters’ Love Is' The late D.G. Myers and I once talked about the tendency to pigeonhole writers according to some...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The late D.G. Myers and I once talked about the tendency to pigeonhole writers according to some aspect of their subject matter. Melville is your go-to cetology guy and Edith Wharton took care of sleds. Or, as Nabokov said of Hemingway’s books: “something about bells, balls and...
Neil Madden
When a KEM is not enough In my previous post, I described the KEM/DEM paradigm for hybrid encryption. The key encapsulation...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In my previous post, I described the KEM/DEM paradigm for hybrid encryption. The key encapsulation mechanism is given the recipient’s public key and outputs a fresh AES key and an encapsulation of that key that the recipient can decapsulate to recover the AES key. In this post I...
History Today Feed
Catching Nessie on Film Catching Nessie on Film JamesHoare Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
7 months ago
The Honest Broker
A Failed Rock Adaption of Dune Might Have Starred Mick Jagger, Orson Welles & Salvador Dalí (with... This gets the top spot on my list of never-made films I'd like to see
9 months ago
Home on Erik...
Developer experience as a competitive advantage I spent a ton of time looking at different software providers, both as a CTO, and as a nerd...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I spent a ton of time looking at different software providers, both as a CTO, and as a nerd “advanced” consumer who builds stuff in my spare time. In the last 10 years, there has been an order of magnitude more products that cater directly to developers, through APIs, SDKs, and...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Build Great Software By Repeatedly Encountering It Robin in “Vibe driven development” (which I took notes): the only way to build a great product is to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Robin in “Vibe driven development” (which I took notes): the only way to build a great product is to use it every day, to stare at it, to hold it in your hands to feel its lumps. The data and customers will lie to you but the product never will. Oof. That lands with me. As a...
IEEE Spectrum
Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back Tactile controls are back in vogue. Apple added two new buttons to the iPhone 16, home appliances...
a month ago
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a month ago
Tactile controls are back in vogue. Apple added two new buttons to the iPhone 16, home appliances like stoves and washing machines are returning to knobs, and several car manufacturers are reintroducing buttons and dials to dashboards and steering wheels. With this...
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The end of literature, part five "Stupid" and "a marketing exercise" were the first two descriptions I saw of the New York Times' 100...
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"Stupid" and "a marketing exercise" were the first two descriptions I saw of the New York Times' 100 Best Books of the 21st Century polled from hundreds of "literary luminaries" offering ten choices each, and while it is both of those things, "parochial" is the first word that...
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A Brief Introduction to termios If you’re a regular user of the terminal on a UNIX system, there are probably a large number of...
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If you’re a regular user of the terminal on a UNIX system, there are probably a large number of behaviors you take mostly for granted without really thinking about them. If you press ^C or ^Z it kills or stops the foreground program – unless it’s something like emacs or vim, in...
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How we raised $3M for an open source project Open source projects have long battled with how to finance themselves. PostHog is lucky to have...
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Open source projects have long battled with how to finance themselves. PostHog is lucky to have significant funding and wanted to share what we did…
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The only college major that matters If you want to work in venture capital focusing on internet/software companies, or start one of...
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If you want to work in venture capital focusing on internet/software companies, or start one of those companies, or work as an employee in…