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Out-of-Pocket Blog
How should physicians get paid? | Out-Of-Pocket Should money and care be separate?
a year ago
Florian Bellmann |...
How to strategically approach technical improvements It's hard to make the right technical decisions in an active project. Particularly improvements...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
It's hard to make the right technical decisions in an active project. Particularly improvements without direct business value are difficult to manage. In this post, we discuss some learnings from the battlefield on how improvements can be approached.
Spoon & Tamago
Japan’s Jimi ‘Mundane’ Halloween Costumes of 2023 Ah, it’s Halloween weekend. And that means it’s time for our favorite Japanese festival Jimi...
a year ago
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a year ago
Ah, it’s Halloween weekend. And that means it’s time for our favorite Japanese festival Jimi Halloween, where people dress up in costumes so mundane they have to be explained. The tradition was started in 2014 by a group of adults at Daily Portal Z who “kind of wanted to...
CONTEMPORIST
The Surrounding Desert Was Blended Into This Modern Home Photography by Stetson Ybarra Multi-disciplinary design studio Daniel Joseph Chenin, Ltd. has shared...
a year ago
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a year ago
Photography by Stetson Ybarra Multi-disciplinary design studio Daniel Joseph Chenin, Ltd. has shared photos of a modern home they completed on the edge of the Las Vegas Valley that has views of Red Rock Canyon. Photography by Stetson Ybarra Commissioned for a family embracing an...
Seth's Blog
The next one When asked what his favorite composition was, Duke Ellington said, “the next one.” This is the...
a year ago
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a year ago
When asked what his favorite composition was, Duke Ellington said, “the next one.” This is the essence of the artistic process. When we’re in the liminal space between now and what is about to come, we’re fully alive.
Roberto Vitillo's...
Spark best practices Spark execution model Spark's simplicity makes it all too easy to ignore its execution model, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Spark execution model Spark's simplicity makes it all too easy to ignore its execution model, and still manage to write jobs that eventually…
42!
Does your SaaS actually save your customers from doing more work? A recent conversation on Twitter with a colleague has reminded of this dilemma that we faced in our...
a year ago
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a year ago
A recent conversation on Twitter with a colleague has reminded of this dilemma that we faced in our early days of launching my SaaS. You see, In 25 years of consulting to small businesses, I had learned that business owners and managers were faced with the challenge of recording...
Common Edge
Climate Lessons From the Floating Villages of Cambodia Social and cultural values may be as important as hard (and expensive) infrastructure.
a year ago
Blog posts of...
How i make investment decisions 🏝 The goal of this article is to break down how i make investment decisions in the hope that it helps...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The goal of this article is to break down how i make investment decisions in the hope that it helps founders to see their fundraising effort from the “other side”.
The DESK Magazine
Breaking the algorithm The world wants to tell you what to think about, what to be interested in, what to learn, what to...
a year ago
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a year ago
The world wants to tell you what to think about, what to be interested in, what to learn, what to pursue, what to worry about. And it's easier to let it.
xkcd.com
Bad Map Projection: ABS(Longitude)
a year ago
The Modern House
TV presenter Will Best's space-smart Hackney home for three
6 months ago
This Space
39 Books: 2017 The list of books piles up, thirty-three now, and I'm reading fewer and fewer novels. Not through...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
The list of books piles up, thirty-three now, and I'm reading fewer and fewer novels. Not through choice, but so little of what's new appeals. Instead, this year I read and reread books like Peter Handke's To Duration and Once Again for Thucydides, both of which escape helpful...
Stoic Simple
What Does it Mean to be a Stoic? Using Christianity to Explain Stoicism by Tanner Campbell What does it mean to be a Stoic? I think Christianity can be used as a...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Tanner Campbell What does it mean to be a Stoic? I think Christianity can be used as a quasi-parallel to help answer this question. What does it mean to be a Christian? I think the base-line of the faith is the belief that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior.  In Stoicism that...
Passing Time
What's the Least Impactful Way to Spend $300 Million? Buying status is as close to bad as a good act can be.
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Deleuze for developers: deterritorialization
over a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
testing positive Today is the 9th day of my covid infection. I wanted to write something much earlier, but couldn’t...
a year ago
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a year ago
Today is the 9th day of my covid infection. I wanted to write something much earlier, but couldn’t find it in me to do so. I guess after writing several times here...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Never Forgive Them In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried...
6 days ago
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6 days ago
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest&
alexwlchan
flapi.sh: a tiny command-line tool for experimenting with the Flickr API → I use the Flickr API pretty much every day in my day job. Within the first week, I bashed together a...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I use the Flickr API pretty much every day in my day job. Within the first week, I bashed together a couple of command-line tools to make a simple tool for exploring the API. They’re not meant for building “proper” apps, more for quick experiments and seeing what API responses...
The Modern House
Why deli and wine bar Lulu’s is winning the hearts of locals in Herne Hill
a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Improve UX and Security with Time-based One Time Passwords (TOTPs) (tip) Watch Kent show you the improved user experience, security, and the implementation of Time-based One...
a year ago
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a year ago
Watch Kent show you the improved user experience, security, and the implementation of Time-based One Time Passwords in the Epic Stack.
The Oatmeal - Comics...
I posted some new animations I've posted a couple of new animated cartoons about microwaves, cuddling, and wombats. View on my...
a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
Before & After – A 1960s House Transformed Into A Modern Home For A Growing Family Floisand Studio Architects has designed the remodel of a 1960s home in Seattle, Washington, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Floisand Studio Architects has designed the remodel of a 1960s home in Seattle, Washington, and transformed it into a modern house for a growing family. This remodel sits on the same basement and foundation as its predecessor, but that’s where the similarities end. Here’s what...
TheCollector
What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom? undefined
8 months ago
TokyoDev
Calculating your growth ceiling When you have a business where customers subscribe to a monthly plan, and you have new customers...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When you have a business where customers subscribe to a monthly plan, and you have new customers signing up every month, it feels like your revenue will keep growing forever. However, as customers will also cancel their subscriptions (churn), eventually your growth will...
Blog - Bitfield...
Type parameters in Go Now that generics have come to Go, let's take a look at the new syntax for type parameters. We’ll...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Now that generics have come to Go, let's take a look at the new syntax for type parameters. We’ll find out why we need type parameters, how we write them, and how we can use them to create generic functions in Go.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Connection Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Time for a factory reset. Today's News: Thank you!
a month ago
Arduino Blog
Hey Google! Meet Arduino Cloud We’re excited to announce that the Arduino Cloud now supports Google Home™! This means you can now...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
We’re excited to announce that the Arduino Cloud now supports Google Home™! This means you can now interact with your devices, simply through your Google Home Assistant: use voice commands, the Google Home app, or create new routines integrating Arduino solutions.  This new...
Internal Tech Emails
Jeff Bezos on acquiring Ring To be clear, my view here is that we're buying market position – not technology.
over a year ago
Wuthering...
The Assemblywomen by Aristophanes - Octopus tunnyfish dogfish and skate The Assemblywomen by Aristophanes – or The Parliament of Women, or several other titles – was...
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over a year ago
The Assemblywomen by Aristophanes – or The Parliament of Women, or several other titles – was performed in 392 BCE, thirteen years after The Frogs.  In the interval many things had changed.  Athens had been conquered; democracy was overthrown but restored; one endless war ended...
Math Is Still...
Computer Scientists Establish the Best Way to Traverse a Graph Dijkstra’s algorithm was long thought to be the most efficient way to find a graph’s best routes....
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a month ago
Dijkstra’s algorithm was long thought to be the most efficient way to find a graph’s best routes. Researchers have now proved that it’s “universally optimal.” The post Computer Scientists Establish the Best Way to Traverse a Graph first appeared on Quanta Magazine
One Useful Thing
On-boarding your AI Intern There's a somewhat weird alien who wants to work for free for you. You should probably get started.
a year ago
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a year ago
There's a somewhat weird alien who wants to work for free for you. You should probably get started.
The Forney Flyer
Flood Relief Flying You may remember that I mentioned in a previous blog post a few weeks ago, that there had been...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You may remember that I mentioned in a previous blog post a few weeks ago, that there had been severe floods in Western Uganda (and other parts of the country) in early-mid May. Well, several weeks later, we were given special permission by various authorities to fly relief...
Arduino Blog
This unique wall sconce welcomes you home with warm light Have you ever walked through your front door after a long day of work and realized that your home...
a week ago
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a week ago
Have you ever walked through your front door after a long day of work and realized that your home just isn’t as inviting as it seems like it should be? While it may not work miracles, some nice and welcoming lighting can make a big difference. That’s why Lauren Palazzi made this...
Joel Gascoigne
What can we do right now? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently there...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently there have been a few occasions at Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] where we’ve hesitated about next steps or thought about spending longer on certain tasks. As a result of my thinking...
Retail Design Blog
Lingyin Cultural and Creative Pavilion by Ondo Studio At the initial stage of design, upon seeing the original store, we were moved by the lush branches...
5 months ago
The Ruffian
Notes on Succession Life is not a story
a year ago
TheCollector
World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries undefined
3 weeks ago
Arduino Blog
Clone your IoT projects with Arduino Cloud Custom Templates Whether you are an IoT enthusiast, an enterprise developer or a high school teacher, we all know the...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Whether you are an IoT enthusiast, an enterprise developer or a high school teacher, we all know the thrill of bringing a new IoT project to life. But we also understand the frustration of repetitive setup processes and the time sink of configuring the same elements over and over...
Musings on Markets
Good (Bad) Banks and Good (Bad) Investments: At the right price... In my last post, I looked at banking as a business, and used  a simple banking framework to advance...
a year ago
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a year ago
In my last post, I looked at banking as a business, and used  a simple banking framework to advance the notion that the key ingredient tying together the banks that have failed so far in 2023 is an absence of stickiness in deposits, created partially by depositor and deposit...
Josh Collinsworth
New Site, New Theme for 2018 Building a WordPress theme (and a new brand) from scratch.
over a year ago
TheCollector
4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated undefined
3 months ago
Seth's Blog
The sportscar quadrants They apply to jobs, relationships, art projects and everything in between: The top right is the rare...
a year ago
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a year ago
They apply to jobs, relationships, art projects and everything in between: The top right is the rare one–a car that goes fast but doesn’t feel like it’s on the edge. The hot rod is a car that is actually pretty safe, precisely because it doesn’t feel that way. You don’t have to...
TheCollector
Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own undefined
5 months ago
Wanderingspace
COMET 67P/CG ANIMATED FROM ROSETTA STILLS COMET #67P/CHURYUMOV-GERASIMENKO INTERNATIONAL #ROSETTA MISSION Date 18 jul 2015 Distance to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
COMET #67P/CHURYUMOV-GERASIMENKO INTERNATIONAL #ROSETTA MISSION Date 18 jul 2015 Distance to Target 182 km Orange+Blue filtershttps://t.co/ZuYVehJOLx ESA/Rosetta/MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA/J. Roger pic.twitter.com/Fg8rNmjbNy — landru79 (@landru79) June 13, 2022 Hit...
The Map is Mostly...
A lot with a little Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest — The Fool,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest — The Fool, King Lear Some works are better for their brevity. Fan Ho needs very little: Most of the image is black, or blurry. You can scarcely tell what materials you’re looking at. But the...
TheCollector
8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity undefined
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Unity Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The header of the second panel really should be...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The header of the second panel really should be above most comic panels. Today's News: Oh God, is it 2024? And I'm still doing these
Seth's Blog
The new reality of old media Cable TV was a perfect storm. The number of channels that needed old movies and TV series to fill...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Cable TV was a perfect storm. The number of channels that needed old movies and TV series to fill airtime almost exactly matched the number of worthwhile shows that were available. Which meant that A Wonderful Life, The Wizard of Oz, Seinfeld and MASH could be cornerstones of the...
Acko.net
Reconcile All The Things Part 1: Climbing Mount Effect - Declarative Code and Effects Part 2: Reconcile All The Things -...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Part 1: Climbing Mount Effect - Declarative Code and Effects Part 2: Reconcile All The Things - Memoization, Data Flow and Reconciliation Part 3: Headless React - Live, Yeet Reduce, No-API, WebGPU Part 3: Headless React - Live, Yeet Reduce, No-API, WebGPU Memoization If you...
The Changelog
Distributed, Asynchronous Git Syncing with NNCP I have a problem. I have a directory that I use with org-mode and org-roam. I want it to be synced...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have a problem. I have a directory that I use with org-mode and org-roam. I want it to be synced across multiple machines. I also want to keep the history with git. And, I want to use end-to-end encryption (no storing a plain git repo on a remote server), have a serverless...
Product Identity
The Dumbification of our smart screens Re: Enshittification: How screens might become dumber
5 months ago
Making software...
Clickable Links Inside XML Clickable Links Inside XML 2022-06-20 With the recent patch to the Shinobi Website project, I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Clickable Links Inside XML 2022-06-20 With the recent patch to the Shinobi Website project, I thought it would be best to share my experience implementing clickable links inside a rendered XML RSS file directly through a browser. This is made possible thanks to the awesome power...
Rest of World -...
Nigerian tech workers are going remote, and pricing out locals in smaller cities Tech workers are leaving Lagos and Abuja — the country’s economic and political hubs, and flocking...
a year ago
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a year ago
Tech workers are leaving Lagos and Abuja — the country’s economic and political hubs, and flocking to cities like Ibadan, Jos, Benin City, Uyo, and Osogbo.
TheCollector
What Ere Iyaric and “I and I”? Rastafarian Resistance Through Language undefined
9 months ago
TheCollector
How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office? undefined
3 months ago
TokyoDev
Entry Level Jobs in Japan *Since writing this article, I've written [Getting your first programming job in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
*Since writing this article, I've written [Getting your first programming job in Japan](/articles/first-job-programmer-japan), which goes into a lot more detail than this one.* When I was first looking for a job in Japan, I was surprised by the lack of entry level positions....
Both Are True
Doing Crimes w my dad a true story
7 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome? undefined
10 months ago
Maps Mania
Why the Spanish Like Vertical Living
a year ago
HTMHell
A Theory of Web Relativity The rel attribute has the potential to take the Internet to the next level… and yet, we usually...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The rel attribute has the potential to take the Internet to the next level… and yet, we usually forget about it. Imagine a city where people guided themselves by the landmarks and the stores, where there were no directional signs, and where streets and neighborhoods had no names....
Julia Evans
How HEAD works in git Hello! The other day I ran a Mastodon poll asking people how confident they were that they...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Hello! The other day I ran a Mastodon poll asking people how confident they were that they understood how HEAD works in Git. The results (out of 1700 votes) were a little surprising to me: 10% “100%” 36% “pretty confident” 39% “somewhat confident?” 15% “literally no idea” I was...
TheCollector
How Magnus Maximus’ Forgotten Son Contributed to the Arthurian Legends undefined
3 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...
Common Edge
Developers Are Dangerously in Control of New York City Urbanist Roberta Brandes Gratz’s remarks on receiving the Preservation Leadership Award.
8 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...
AI Snake Oil
I set up a ChatGPT voice interface for my 3-year old. Here’s how it went. Chatbots are likely to revive familiar debates about kids and apps
a year ago
Arduino Blog
This nature-inspired display reacts to ambient sounds We all need ways to calm down and relax, and few things are as effective as nature itself. Taking...
a week ago
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a week ago
We all need ways to calm down and relax, and few things are as effective as nature itself. Taking inspiration from organic patterns and smooth, flowing waves, dzeng on Instructables has built an LED wall light that responds in real-time to the sounds within a room. The project...
Noahpinion
Interview: Heather Boushey, economist and member of the Council of Economic Advisers In which we talk all about Bidenomics.
a year ago
xkcd.com
Beam of Light
5 months ago
Paolo Amoroso's...
Managing pure Common Lisp files on Medley <![CDATA[Managing Lisp code in the residential environment of Medley differs from similar tasks in...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
<![CDATA[Managing Lisp code in the residential environment of Medley differs from similar tasks in traditional file based Common Lisp systems. In a previous post I explained how the residential environment of Medley works, discussed some of its facilities and tools, and...
TheCollector
Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?” undefined
5 months ago
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware November 2022 The ware for November 2022 is a Keithley 2110-240. I’ll give Rodrigo F. the win, but I’m curious how...
a year ago
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a year ago
The ware for November 2022 is a Keithley 2110-240. I’ll give Rodrigo F. the win, but I’m curious how he knew it was the -240 version; I did not expect someone to discern the line voltage rating from the photos! Also, thank you Ian Mason for the lucid explanation of the exposed...
diamond geezer
W12W13W14 Over the weekend TfL withdrew bus route 549, extended route W13 and substantially restructured...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Over the weekend TfL withdrew bus route 549, extended route W13 and substantially restructured routes W12 and W14. I wrote about the changes last week, and how TfL's information strategy relied substantially on a very complicated map. I went back yesterday to see how the...
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
Moneyness
It's time to impose Iran-calibre sanctions on Russia Russia is sometimes described as the world's most sanctioned nation. And while that's true, the long...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Russia is sometimes described as the world's most sanctioned nation. And while that's true, the long list of sanctions that the G7 coalition has placed on Russia in response to its attack on Ukraine are surprisingly light compared to the fewer but far more-draconian sanctions...
Rest of World -...
The apps were designed for home security. They’re being used to watch and harass domestic workers Tiger Global-backed MyGate and Google-backed NoBrokerHood are digitizing social biases.
a year ago
TokyoDev
Tips for Interviewing at Japanese Tech Companies I've already talked about some [tips on how to land a job in...
a year ago
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a year ago
I've already talked about some [tips on how to land a job in Japan](https://medium.com/japonica-publication/tips-for-landing-a-job-in-japan-b1b94315f177), as well as some [job sites](https://todorokis.medium.com/job-hunting-websites-to-get-an-it-job-in-japan-c7516846ce5) that...
The Marginalian
2,000 Years of Kindness From Marcus Aurelius to Einstein, poets and philosophers on the deepest wellspring of our humanity.
a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 3: The Scourge
2 months ago
Tony Dinh's...
Oct 2021 Updates: Vietnam, DevUtils 1.12, and Magic Sidebar ✨ 👋 Hello everyone, it’s Tony again. Lots of things happened in October 2021. I released DevUtils...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
👋 Hello everyone, it’s Tony again. Lots of things happened in October 2021. I released DevUtils 1.12, worked on a new exciting feature for Black Magic, moved back to Vietnam, and other small updates. Just want to say this quickly: Thank you all so much for following my journey!...
Seth's Blog
The opposite of insubordination “Do as I say.” That’s industrial management in four words. If you don’t follow the instructions to...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
“Do as I say.” That’s industrial management in four words. If you don’t follow the instructions to the letter, you’re insubordinate. Not subordinate. Complete subordination might have been the goal in an industrial setting. But now, it’s dangerous, expensive and inefficent....
HTMHell
Smooth Multi-Page Experiences with Just a Few Lines of CSS by John Allsopp A single line of CSS can enable slick multi-page transitions for web applications...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
by John Allsopp A single line of CSS can enable slick multi-page transitions for web applications (and web sites for those who maintain there's a difference), opening up new possibilities for web app architectures, and website experiences. So let’s take a look at View...
Wuthering...
Lucian's satires - Frankly he's a blamed nuisance The great 2nd century satirist Lucian was a great shock to me at one point, twenty-five years ago...
a year ago
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a year ago
The great 2nd century satirist Lucian was a great shock to me at one point, twenty-five years ago when I got serious about classical literature.  I had never heard of him, partly because of the odd historical artifact where what he writes is called “Menippean satire” even though...
TheCollector
Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov undefined
2 months ago
Old Structures...
Odd One Out Two views of the Queensboro Bridge… First, a HAER photo I’ve used before: Second, a view from an...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Two views of the Queensboro Bridge… First, a HAER photo I’ve used before: Second, a view from an early 1900s edition of King’s Views of New York, showing a rendering of the bridge before it was completed (on top), paired with a photo of the just-completed Williamsburg Bridge...
bt RSS Feed
The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode The Lazy Developer’s Dark Mode 2021-04-12 After recently jumping back to Jekyll for my personal...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The Lazy Developer’s Dark Mode 2021-04-12 After recently jumping back to Jekyll for my personal blog, I decided to take a closer look at how I was supporting dark mode for my visitors. I was using the proper CSS query to target those who had system-wide dark mode enabled, but I...
A Smart Bear
The Elephant in the room: The myth of exponential hypergrowth Fast-growing startups are frequently described as “exponential,” especially when the product is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Fast-growing startups are frequently described as “exponential,” especially when the product is “viral.” Turns out, this is incorrect, even for Facebook and Slack. If you have an incorrect model, you don’t understand growth, which means you can’t control it, nor predict it. Here...
dthompson
Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 Summary The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 submission deadline has now passed and we are now in the rating...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 submission deadline has now passed and we are now in the rating period. I was a co-host of the jam alongside technomancy but he did all the real work setting everything up. There were 30 submissions this time around, which I believe is a new record...
One Useful Thing
On the necessity of a sin Why treating AI like a person is the future
8 months ago
Londonist
Dive Into This Free Exhibition About Billingsgate Fish Market Living the bream.
10 months ago
How to Be a Stoic
The evolution of ancient Stoicism, and why it matters today Modern Stoics are interested in picking up the ancient tradition while at the same time updating it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Modern Stoics are interested in picking up the ancient tradition while at the same time updating it and molding it to modern times. For some reason, this is often considered a controversial thing, with flying accusations of cherry picking and dire warnings about the result not...
The Gradient
Salmon in the Loop On fish counting – a complex sociotechnical problem in a field that is going through the process of...
a year ago
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a year ago
On fish counting – a complex sociotechnical problem in a field that is going through the process of digital transformation.
The Elysian
Am I an anarchist? Letters to an anarchist, part seven.
a month ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
All of the main problems with US healthcare | Out-Of-Pocket let's get all of our problems out on the table
9 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we’re improving performance by combining persons and events In a previous product update we announced a beta for a substantial change to the way we handle...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In a previous product update we announced a beta for a substantial change to the way we handle persons and events on PostHog. Today, after gathering…
Explorations of an...
A Quest Nature Tours Adventure To Sulawesi The island of Sulawesi must be on the bucket list for any naturalist with a strong interest in...
a year ago
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a year ago
The island of Sulawesi must be on the bucket list for any naturalist with a strong interest in biogeography. Though Borneo is situated only a few hundred kilometers to the west, and the Moluccas are not far to the east, the species composition of Sulawesi is significantly...
somenice
CBC Spark with Nora Young Really upset to recently learn that Spark with Nora Young has been cancelled by the CBC, ending in...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Really upset to recently learn that Spark with Nora Young has been cancelled by the CBC, ending in June 2024. (Announcement episode) One of the most intelligent, progressive technology-in-society news shows in Canada or anywhere for that matter. Perhaps that it’s medium is radio...
diamond geezer
London's wind turbines I was in Dagenham and I saw this wind turbine and I wondered How many wind turbines are there in...
6 months ago
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I was in Dagenham and I saw this wind turbine and I wondered How many wind turbines are there in London? So I made a map using OpenStreetMap and OverpassTurbo. It produced a map showing 44 wind turbines in the Greater London area. Except I looked a bit closer and some of...
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Different Types of Commercial Use From 1880, a view of Broadway looking north from Morris Street to Trinity Church. Given how deserted...
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From 1880, a view of Broadway looking north from Morris Street to Trinity Church. Given how deserted it is, it’s either early in the morning on a weekend or a holiday. Wm. M Fleiss & Co, on the left, is at 47 Broadway. Broadway is lined with office and loft buildings which are...
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Externalizing Some Simple Topos Statements Hey all! It’s been a minute. I’ve been super busy with the UC strike and honestly I haven’t done...
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Hey all! It’s been a minute. I’ve been super busy with the UC strike and honestly I haven’t done math in any serious capacity for almost the past month. It’s been a lot of hard work trying to get fair contracts out of the UC, but I had a lot of travel plans this December to...
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Elon Musk has announced that his company, Neuralink, has implanted their first wireless computer chip into a human. The chip, which they plan on calling Telepathy (not sure how I feel about that) connects with 64 thin hair-like electrodes, is battery powered and can be recharged...
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There is an epidemic of people who bash Christianity but haven’t read the Bible. No matter where you stand on religion, if you don’t know what the Bible actually says, it’s time to change that.   The post The Book You Need to Read appeared first on David Perell.
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The top 10 seafood-consuming nations in the world, plus trends among the world’s richest countries. Seafood is a vital food group and form of income for millions of people around the world. The seafood industry has more than quadrupled in the last 50 years and is estimated to be...
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Just like no man steps into the same river twice, reading a worthwhile book multiple times continues to yield new insights over the years.
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The Sopranos is having a bit of a moment with the recent HBO documentary about David Chase. Illustrator Robert Sikoryak made a nice map to orient fans to the New Jersey landscape of the show. You can click above to see a larger version. I've only watched bits of the show so I...
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If the ferry is leaving in fifteen minutes, do you drive faster than normal to get to the dock on time? If someone is driving close behind you and pressuring you to turn when you don’t feel safe, are you more likely to go for it? We can do our work as fast as makes […]
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I cannot remember how long has it been that my mother has been making kueh lapis for the lunar new year every year. Kueh means cake, and lapis means layers, so kueh...
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Yesterday a 12 mile walk from Redhill to Epsom morphed abruptly into a 13 mile walk from Redhill to Leatherhead. And so I found myself blundering unexpectedly through Langley Vale, England's WW1 Centenary Wood. a mile to the south of Epsom racecourse. It's one of four Centenary...
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On March 27, 1905, Theodore Roosevelt had just started his second term as president of the United States when he wrote a letter to a little-known poet living in Boston:  Dear Mr. Robinson: I have enjoyed your poems especially The Children of the Night so much that I must write to...
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Failed Attempts to Install NixOS on the Raspberry Pi 4 In creating the tutorial, “Installing NixOS on Raspberry Pi 4,” I ran into a ton of paths that...
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In creating the tutorial, “Installing NixOS on Raspberry Pi 4,” I ran into a ton of paths that didn’t work. I’ve collected them here for the sake of saving others time retrying the same steps. The standard NixOS aarch64 image doesn’t work When I checked the NixOS download page, I...
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Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959) This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
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This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age. This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
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Using the Switch(true) Pattern in JavaScript The switch true pattern isn't well known but it is incredibly useful. It's not a JavaScript specific...
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The switch true pattern isn't well known but it is incredibly useful. It's not a JavaScript specific pattern, but I use it in almost every single project.
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Harness the power and connectivity of your Arduino UNO R4 WiFi with this IoT lamp It can be tough to get started with building an Internet of Things (IoT) project from the ground-up,...
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It can be tough to get started with building an Internet of Things (IoT) project from the ground-up, as getting connected, serving a webpage, and managing other devices can all be a challenge to a beginner. This is why the YouTuber known as “Mario’s Ideas” made an end-to-end...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is not smoke. And this isn’t a smoke stack (at least not the kind we normally think of). It serves a totally different purpose at a power plant than smoke stacks whose job is moving combustion products...
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An image interpolation that gives us a continuous and smooth image, where every interpolated value only depends on the four neighboring pixel values. The image becomes smooth, but sharp features remain sharp.
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After 2022, it’s hard to tell for sure. And going forward, public life is going to be even more rumor-driven than it is now. Any video, any voiceover, any photograph–we can’t be sure. If YouTube or the Wayback Machine shows us that it happened after 2022, bring some doubt. AI and...
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Hidden among the vast holdings of the New York Public Library is a set of 52 images of playing cards donated by William Barclay Parsons, arguably most famous for being the chief engineer of the Interborough Rapid Transit system, New York’s oldest subway. Each card has an...
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For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with. They would often pop out of nowhere, jab holes in the work I had done without understanding the tradeoffs, and then disappear when I wanted to explain my decisions. In those moments, I wished...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Who is kind - he that kicketh a man in the balls for no reason, or he that doeth not? Today's News:
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Toning Cyanotypes Did you know that Cyanotype prints don't always have to be blue? They can be toned and even bleached...
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Did you know that Cyanotype prints don't always have to be blue? They can be toned and even bleached to alter their colour. The key is to use anything with a high tannin content. Tannins are commonly found in the bark of trees, leaves, buds, stems, fruits, seeds, roots, and plant...
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Oscar Williams (1900-4) was a middling poet with a gift for compiling excellent anthologies, thirty of which he published during his lifetime. Early on, several of them were my primers, an inviting way to learning the poetic tradition in English on the cheap. One of them, the...
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22 ways PostHog makes it easier to build great products PostHog is a growing platform. We used to call ourselves a product analytics platform, but product...
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PostHog is a growing platform. We used to call ourselves a product analytics platform, but product analytics is just one feature among many these…
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The World’s Computer This was the tagline of Ethereum, and it’s really smart. Sadly, I feel they have lost their way with...
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This was the tagline of Ethereum, and it’s really smart. Sadly, I feel they have lost their way with Proof of Stake, and wish they would go back to focusing on building a reasonable world computer. In 2024, it’s still painfully annoying to stand up a database. This is the only...
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Scrollbar Shenanigans Styling scrollbars for my space on the Internet
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According to a traditional system of classification, "high frequency" or HF refers to the radio spectrum between 3 and 30 MHz. The label now seems anachronistic, as HF is among the lowest ranges of radio frequencies that see regular use. This setting of the goalposts in the early...
Christopher Butler
Attention Degrowth No one is entitled to anyone else’s attention. Sometimes I think that may be the most important...
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No one is entitled to anyone else’s attention. Sometimes I think that may be the most important insight beneath any design decision. Not to be combatted with manipulations, tricks, or just being a nuisance — but to be respected. The attention economy needs degrowth, too. We...
Dan Slimmon
Explaining the fire When the firefighters arrive at the blazing building, they don't need to explain the fire. They need...
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When the firefighters arrive at the blazing building, they don't need to explain the fire. They need to put it out. It doesn't matter whether a toaster malfunctioned, or a cat knocked over a candle, or a smoker fell asleep watching The Voice. But when PagerDuty blows up and we...
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Do you really need to set a theme color to color Safari's UI? When it was announced that websites can change the color of Safari’s UI, I was eager to try it...
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Noahpinion
A better way to build a downtown It's time to learn a Japanese word: "zakkyo".
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Platformer
Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining view count Inside Twitter 2.0, turmoil leaves employees stretched to the max
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Mole Rocket (1965) Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
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Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing. Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965. When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
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Why Britain's Elites Shun Highbrow Culture The Signal Has Flipped
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How Stoicism Can Help You Achieve Personal Growth Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for over 2000 years, yet its teachings are still...
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Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for over 2000 years, yet its teachings are still relevant today. In recent years, stoicism has gained popularity as a tool for personal growth. The principles of stoicism can help us develop emotional intelligence, resilience, and...
The Berkeley...
Generating 3D Molecular Conformers via Equivariant Coarse-Graining and Aggregated Attention --> Figure 1: CoarsenConf architecture. (I) The encoder $q_\phi(z| X, \mathcal{R})$ takes the...
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--> Figure 1: CoarsenConf architecture. (I) The encoder $q_\phi(z| X, \mathcal{R})$ takes the fine-grained (FG) ground truth conformer $X$, RDKit approximate conformer $\mathcal{R}$ , and coarse-grained (CG) conformer $\mathcal{C}$ as inputs (derived from $X$ and a predefined...
Bits about Money
Anatomy of a credit card rewards program Credit card rewards are mostly funded out of interchange, a fee paid by businesses to accept cards.
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Fortunately the people in the comic are only alive for the duration of this conversation. Today's News:
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Adaptability The building types that have had the most success in new York are the ones that are most-readily...
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The building types that have had the most success in new York are the ones that are most-readily adaptable. Rowhouses have been turned into apartment houses, churches, schools, museums, and offices; tenements have been upgraded to better apartments again and again and again. If...
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Improving Github's New Design 2020-07-07 Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their recent repository page redesign. In my mind it seems like a change just for the sake of change - the original UI worked perfectly fine. Sigh. I was planning on recreating the...
Asterisk
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How much can the way cities grow tell us about the economic trajectory of their countries? According to the father of modern sociology, quite a lot.
Platformer
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Serial Dependence Bias As I have discussed numerous times on this blog, our brains did not evolve to be optimal precise...
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As I have discussed numerous times on this blog, our brains did not evolve to be optimal precise perceivers and processors of information. Here is an infographic showing 188 documents cognitive biases. These biases are not all bad – they are tradeoffs. Evolutionary forces care...
Math Is Still...
How ‘Embeddings’ Encode What Words Mean — Sort Of Machines work with words by embedding their relationships with other words in a string of numbers. ...
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Machines work with words by embedding their relationships with other words in a string of numbers. The post How ‘Embeddings’ Encode What Words Mean — Sort Of first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Is the West falling behind in science? China is now the leader in applied physical sciences. How can the U.S. and its allies catch up?
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Starting Svelte Society Thoughts on how I am doing with 4 months of Svelte Society in the bag.
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So You Want To Do Robots: Part 7. Allright, you’re going to make a general purpose robot. Eventually it’s going to do all kinds of things. But right now it doesn’t do anything. What do you try first? In this post we’ll talk about the various pitfalls to avoid when choosing your...
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In the third part of Archinect In-Depth: Licensure, we reflect on what the United States can learn from the architecture licensure models of other nations. While doing so, we speak with Peggy Deamer, Professor Emerita of Yale University's School of Architecture, whose book...
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"This Key is Useless Now. Discard?" “This Key is Useless Now. Discard?” 2024-08-28 The title of this article probably triggers nostalgic...
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“This Key is Useless Now. Discard?” 2024-08-28 The title of this article probably triggers nostalgic memories for old school Resident Evil veterans like myself. My personal favourite in the series (not that anyone asked) was the original, 1998 version of Resident Evil 2 (RE2). I...
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Supervised Learning: Bayesian Inference Or, the unreasonable effectiveness of dumb rules
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Confessions of a...
Live Session: Live Coding a Bytecode Interpreter for Python We are due for our next live session.
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Epistemic Disclosure
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Last week, we looked at the early history of high-speed rail in the US. Though the US attempted to build its own high-speed rail routes soon after they debuted in Japan in 1964, these efforts were unsuccessful, outside of the popular-but-troubled Metroliner
Steve Blank
Before there was Oppenheimer there was Vannevar Bush I just saw the movie Oppenheimer.  A wonderful movie on multiple levels. But the Atomic Bomb story...
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I just saw the movie Oppenheimer.  A wonderful movie on multiple levels. But the Atomic Bomb story that starts at Los Alamos with Oppenheimer and General Grove misses the fact that from mid-1940 to mid-1942 it was Vannevar Bush (and his number 2, James Conant, the president of...
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Why we're removing the sessions page This blog post explains why we're removing the "Sessions" page in PostHog. This page used to contain...
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This blog post explains why we're removing the "Sessions" page in PostHog. This page used to contain a daily list of all sessions by your users…
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Swyx Interview on Daily Dev Tips I was interviewed by Chris Bongers on Daily Dev Tips, here are some extracts.
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Laetitia@Work
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Weightier Than All the Gear I’ll Carry' I was a lazy student of Latin in junior high school and gave it up after two years. What I...
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I was a lazy student of Latin in junior high school and gave it up after two years. What I retained was a lasting interest in mythology, Roman history and etymology. I probably learned more English words than Latin – celerity, pulchritude, jocular, spelunker, procrastination,...
diamond geezer
Hampton Water Works The square after Coventry Street on the Monopoly board is the Water Works. London has all kinds of...
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The square after Coventry Street on the Monopoly board is the Water Works. London has all kinds of water infrastructure, from sewage treatment works to reservoirs and ring mains, not to mention sewers, pumping stations and the Tideway Tunnel. But I thought I'd visit the largest...
McMansion Hell
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No, AI Is Not “Disrupting” Architecture In my latest column for The Nation, I take on the specter of AI and the idea that it is coming for architects’ jobs.
Sarah Parmenter
America, here is why I love you. I am proud to call America my second home, and I’ve toyed with living there permanently more times...
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I am proud to call America my second home, and I’ve toyed with living there permanently more times than I can count. On this day when emotions are running high, and sadness, anxiety, and trepidation is in the air for so many, I wanted to note down why I love America and what, as...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Meet Algo, the Boss-Guilt Absolver Today's News: Feel free to continue destroying my hand buy buying additional copes: https://www.smbc-comics.com/bea
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alexwlchan
The surprising utility of a Flickr URL parser &rarr; As part of my work at the Flickr Foundation, I wrote a little Python library that can be used to...
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As part of my work at the Flickr Foundation, I wrote a little Python library that can be used to parse Flickr URLs. For example: $ flickr_url_parser 'https://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/4727552068/' {"type": "single_photo", "photo_id": "4727552068"} This started...
Arduino Blog
You can now work in collaboration in Arduino Cloud In today’s busy world, getting students or engineers to work together is key to tackling complex IoT...
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In today’s busy world, getting students or engineers to work together is key to tackling complex IoT projects. Traditional code sharing and editing methods, like using offline IDEs or swapping files manually, often slow down projects and lead to mistakes. This can be a hassle and...
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Stripe Menu Dropdowns (CSS) Stripe Menu Dropdowns (CSS) 2020-03-31 In a previous article I wrote, Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menus, I...
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Stripe Menu Dropdowns (CSS) 2020-03-31 In a previous article I wrote, Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menus, I showed how you could create a basic menu dropdown with only 121 bytes of CSS. While this demo is great for simple text-based menu dropdowns, it doesn’t show just how complex (in a...
Making software...
Embracing Slow Tech Embracing Slow Tech 2022-11-22 I'm writing this post on my "new" X260 ThinkPad running Garuda Linux...
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Embracing Slow Tech 2022-11-22 I'm writing this post on my "new" X260 ThinkPad running Garuda Linux through Wayland/Sway and it is going well so far. Setting things up was much easier than I initially expected. There were only a few minor tweaks I had to make, such as setting vim...
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How to Explore Dallas’ Culturally Diverse Arts Scene
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One Useful Thing
The shape of the shadow of The Thing We can start to see, dimly, what the near future of AI looks like.
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NeuroLogica Blog
Biofrequency Gadgets are a Total Scam I was recently asked what I thought about the Solex AO Scan. The website for the product includes...
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10 months ago
I was recently asked what I thought about the Solex AO Scan. The website for the product includes this claim: AO Scan Technology by Solex is an elegant, yet simple-to-use frequency technology based on Tesla, Einstein, and other prominent scientists’ discoveries. It uses delicate...
TheCollector
World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific? undefined
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Joel Gascoigne
Reflecting on 10 years of building Buffer Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Today marks ten years since I launched the...
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Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Today marks ten years since I launched the first version of Buffer. What started as a landing page to gauge interest, and then a very basic product that I worked on alone, has become so much more. Buffer is now a
Retail Design Blog
Lynk & Co Club by Masquespacio Madrid, May 21, 2024 – Automotive brand Lynk & Co has opened its second Club in Madrid, located on...
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Madrid, May 21, 2024 – Automotive brand Lynk & Co has opened its second Club in Madrid, located on the...
TheCollector
10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses undefined
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Maggie Appleton
The Block-Paved Path to Structured Data
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Handprinted - Blog
Blind Embossing with Lino Blind embossing is a beautiful way in which to add light and shadow to your prints. Embossing adds...
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Blind embossing is a beautiful way in which to add light and shadow to your prints. Embossing adds subtle texture and interest. Emboss prints ‘blind’ (without ink) or combine with inked lino for a complex final print. Prepare the design. These white pencils are brilliant for...
CONTEMPORIST
Before + After – A New Garden Studio For A Writer MW Architects has shared photos of a new garden room in London, England, that replaced an old...
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9 months ago
MW Architects has shared photos of a new garden room in London, England, that replaced an old derelict wash house, that was in danger of slipping down a steep slope and existed at the back of an overgrown garden. Here’s what it looked like originally. The new studio, which has...
Nelson's Weblog
Goodreads lost all of my reviews Goodreads lost my entire account last week. Nine years as a user, some 600 books and 250 carefully...
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over a year ago
Goodreads lost my entire account last week. Nine years as a user, some 600 books and 250 carefully written reviews all deleted and unrecoverable. Their support has not been helpful. In 35 years of being online I've never encountered a company with such callous disregard for their...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 5 Highlights TinyPilot revenue grew 20% to $12k. I released a new high-end model of TinyPilot. I...
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over a year ago
Highlights TinyPilot revenue grew 20% to $12k. I released a new high-end model of TinyPilot. I launched my first ever paid course. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those goals: Release a high-end version of...
Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Major failure The left POM nut got ground down, making the bed fall down. After 600 hours, the printer met it’s...
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9 months ago
The left POM nut got ground down, making the bed fall down. After 600 hours, the printer met it’s first major failure. I know I earlier described how the extruder starter skipping in a big way, but that was just some filament getting stuck in the extruder. This time a part...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Link Preload as Image I’ve been playing with these fancy new view transitions and my experience thus far is that they work...
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a year ago
I’ve been playing with these fancy new view transitions and my experience thus far is that they work ok on localhost, but as soon as I push code to a preview branch on a remote server, the image loads between transitions are janky because of image loading. Granted, this stuff...
Arduino Blog
Machine-to-machine communication is easier than ever: Opta now supports OPC UA OPC Unified Architecture – OPC UA in short – is a cross-platform, open-source machine-to-machine...
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OPC Unified Architecture – OPC UA in short – is a cross-platform, open-source machine-to-machine communication protocol for industrial automation. It was developed by the Open Platform Communications (OPC) Foundation and is defined in detail in the IEC 62541 standard. With the...
Working Theorys
Notes on 'Founder Mode' Most founders are in “founder mode” — and most of them fail.
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CONTEMPORIST
A House That Blends Into The Color Palette Of The Surrounding Desert Design and development office Industry of All Nations has recently completed ‘The Landing House’, a...
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a year ago
Design and development office Industry of All Nations has recently completed ‘The Landing House’, a new modern home that’s integrated into the rugged natural landscape of the Mojave Desert, With a backdrop of California’s Joshua Tree National Park, the home has been designed as a...
Steve Blank
Quantum Computing – An Update In March 2022 I wrote a description of the Quantum Technology Ecosystem. I thought this would be a...
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In March 2022 I wrote a description of the Quantum Technology Ecosystem. I thought this would be a good time to check in on the progress of building a quantum computer and explain more of the basics. Just as a reminder, Quantum technologies are used in three very different and...
Maps Mania
The US Road Fatality Map
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The Pragmatic...
CircleCI’s unnoticed holiday security breach CircleCI customers returned from the holiday break to be told to urgently rotate their secrets,...
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a year ago
CircleCI customers returned from the holiday break to be told to urgently rotate their secrets, which were probably leaked. What does this leak mean for companies using a CI provider and how can you prepare for a CI vendor being compromised?
Kevin Chen
SIGCSE 2018 notes SIGCSE attendees from Columbia’s Computer Science department. Over the weekend, I attended SIGCSE...
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over a year ago
SIGCSE attendees from Columbia’s Computer Science department. Over the weekend, I attended SIGCSE — the ACM’s conference on computer science education — with the teaching staff of Columbia’s Advanced Programming course. We learned about everything from rubric design to...
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Always have 18 months of cash in the bank I was once told by an experienced entrepreneur (I can’t remember who) to always have at least 18...
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over a year ago
I was once told by an experienced entrepreneur (I can’t remember who) to always have at least 18 months of cash in the bank. The logic…
Seth's Blog
Glib One of the valid complaints about some AI systems is that they make stuff up, with confidence, and...
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5 months ago
One of the valid complaints about some AI systems is that they make stuff up, with confidence, and without sourcing, and then argue when challenged. Unsurprisingly, this sounds a lot like people. We often end up with what we are willing to tolerate. Show your work and ask for...
Retail Design Blog
Lei Ơi Cà Phê café by TRAN TRUNG Architects “Lei ơi cà phê” is situated in a dynamic residential area in the southeast of Da Nang City, on a...
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Maps Mania
Stack Overflown
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Explorations of an...
Borneo: Ridiculous Mothing At Trus Madi Entomology Camp When doing research on the few possible "lifer" birds that I could find on this trip to Sabah, and...
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When doing research on the few possible "lifer" birds that I could find on this trip to Sabah, and in particular, looking for sites to find the Bornean Frogmouth, I read about the Trus Madi Entomology Camp. This piqued my interest, as there is almost nothing I like more than...
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Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify. The story of Checkout X. ...
a year ago
ToughSF
How to Live on Other Planets: Uranus The weirdest of the planets. A blue giant, resting on its side. Could we find a home in...
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over a year ago
The weirdest of the planets. A blue giant, resting on its side. Could we find a home in the Uranian system? Description Uranus is the fourth-largest planet and the first ‘ice giant’. It orbits between 18.3 and 20.1 AU from the Sun, making it four times more distant than...
Seth's Blog
The Western Union trap When the telephone began to gain traction, the monopoly of the time, Western Union, decided to get...
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When the telephone began to gain traction, the monopoly of the time, Western Union, decided to get even better at sending telegrams.
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...
Maps Mania
The Newest Maps of Mars - in 3D
6 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Temporal - the iPhone of System Design Temporal ties Orchestration, Event Sourcing, and Workflows-as-Code in one distributed system and it...
over a year ago
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Temporal ties Orchestration, Event Sourcing, and Workflows-as-Code in one distributed system and it is eating the world.
TheCollector
Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain? undefined
a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
Exit. Selling your SaaS This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
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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 Exit. Selling your SaaS appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Moneyness
Why is Binance leaving Canada? Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, announced last month that it would be exiting Canada....
a year ago
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a year ago
Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, announced last month that it would be exiting Canada. At the time, it blamed "new guidance" issued by Canada's securities regulators. We now have an even more detailed explanation from Binance about the nature of this "new guidance."...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Routing Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Better than sociologists who propose by questioning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Better than sociologists who propose by questioning the role of the engagement ring in nuptial rituals. Today's News:
Anecdotal Evidence
'Favourable Enough for a Writer' Jules Renard writing in his journal on November 22, 1906:  “I am in no great hurry to see the...
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a year ago
Jules Renard writing in his journal on November 22, 1906:  “I am in no great hurry to see the society of the future – our own favourable enough for a writer. By its absurdities, its injustices, its vices, its stupidities, it nourishes a writer’s observations. The more men...
NeuroLogica Blog
Deepfake Doctor Endorsements This kind of abuse of deepfake endorsements was entirely predictable, so it’s not surprising that a...
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This kind of abuse of deepfake endorsements was entirely predictable, so it’s not surprising that a recent BMJ study documents the scale of this fraud. The study focused on the UK, detailing instances of deepfakes of celebrity doctors endorsing dubious products. For example,...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 084: Strawberry / o1 September 13, 2024.
3 months ago
Londonist
15 Delightful Day Trips From London: November 2023 Charming events within easy reach of London.
a year ago
Platformer
Meta's Nick Clegg on how AI is reshaping the feed A year after recommended posts caused a crisis at Instagram, the company's systems have improved —...
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a year ago
A year after recommended posts caused a crisis at Instagram, the company's systems have improved — and it's ready to talk about how they work
Farza's Newsletter
just used my car keys to lock my macbook wow 2021 is legit Was a busy week at ZipSchool! It’s interesting, we’re quickly moving more toward an experience that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Was a busy week at ZipSchool! It’s interesting, we’re quickly moving more toward an experience that the student themselves can control. This sounds kinda obvious in retrospect (as most things do). For basically the last 6 months the experience we’ve been building has been pretty...
Steve Klabnik
Hackety Hack v1.0
over a year ago
Style over Substance
How to use a Phase One H20 digital back on a medium format Hasselblad V camera (500EL/M) My newest purchase was a bit of a gamble. I bought a $500 Phase One H20 digital back for my...
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over a year ago
My newest purchase was a bit of a gamble. I bought a $500 Phase One H20 digital back for my Hasselblad 500EL/M medium format camera. Or, simply put, I bought an expensive old gadget for my even older analog camera, making it a digital camera. A gadget that was released in the...
MMapped blog
Tutorial: stable-structures
a year ago
Maps Mania
Mapping Loch Ness Monster Sightings
a year ago
Irrational...
Notes on How Big Things Get Done How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner is a fascinating look at why some...
a year ago
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a year ago
How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner is a fascinating look at why some megaprojects fail so resoundingly and why others succeed under budget and under schedule. It’s an exploration of planning methods, the role of expertise, the value of benchmarking similar...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Warp Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This happens roughly 4 times a week. Today's News:
4 months ago
diamond geezer
Bus of the day 187 Bus Route Of The Day 187: West Hampstead to Park Royal Quadrant: London northwest Length of journey:...
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5 months ago
Bus Route Of The Day 187: West Hampstead to Park Royal Quadrant: London northwest Length of journey: 8 miles, 60 minutes Because it's 18th July I've been out riding the 187, because that's the Bus Route Of The Day. It's no big hitter. twiddling round backstreets in an...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The myth of the Eureka moment I’ve been involved in the development of a number startups over the years, including three I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been involved in the development of a number startups over the years, including three I co-founded.   I have also observed the idea…
bunnie's blog
Non-Destructive Silicon Imaging (and Winner of Name that Ware December 2022) The ware for December 2022 is an AMD Radeon RX540 chip, part number 216-0905018. Congrats to SAM for...
a year ago
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a year ago
The ware for December 2022 is an AMD Radeon RX540 chip, part number 216-0905018. Congrats to SAM for guessing the ware; email me for your prize. The image is from Fritzchen Fritz’s Flickr feed; I recommend checking out his photos (or you can follow him on twitter). Even if you...
TheCollector
Who Was Vortigern? undefined
6 months ago
xkcd.com
Weather Station
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Kenya’s biggest protest in recent history played out on a walkie-talkie app More than 40,000 Kenyans have downloaded Zello since protests began against the government’s plan to...
5 months ago
Dan Quach Blog
The Unexpected $30,000 Benefit of the Pandemic: Haircuts During the early pandemic, a topic came up I never thought I would need to worry about. Who would...
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9 months ago
During the early pandemic, a topic came up I never thought I would need to worry about. Who would cut my hair? My Asian hair is a bit funky where it is similar to Wolverine in X-men. After a couple weeks the sides get really pointy and uncomfortable so I would go to the barber...
CONTEMPORIST
A Desk Designed To Hide Inside The Wall Architectural and interior design firm Sonya Lee Architect has shared photos of a 1930s home they...
a year ago
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a year ago
Architectural and interior design firm Sonya Lee Architect has shared photos of a 1930s home they renovated in Queens, New York, that includes an interesting design detail. As working from home has become much more popular, especially over the last few years, the designers...
Seth's Blog
Opening the pod bay door A brand new episode of Akimbo this week, all about artificial intelligence. Part one of of two on...
a year ago
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a year ago
A brand new episode of Akimbo this week, all about artificial intelligence. Part one of of two on mediocrity and the choices we’re going to need to make. And, a while in the making, an experimental AI chat bot that has been trained on all 5,000,000 words of this blog. You can...
Mark Manson
5 Ways to Get Rid of Anxiety We're living in an era where anxiety seems to be omnipresent, and everyone is struggling with it to...
a year ago
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a year ago
We're living in an era where anxiety seems to be omnipresent, and everyone is struggling with it to some degree. It's important to remember that the reasons behind our anxiety may not be as crucial as our reactions to it. In this guide, let's explore five comprehensive ways to...
Diaries of Note
The sea was alive with great hunchback whales On 28th February, seven years before his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes, was to appear in...
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a year ago
On 28th February, seven years before his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes, was to appear in print, Arthur Conan Doyle left Peterhead on S. S. Hope, a whaling ship led by Captain John Gray that was heading for the Arctic Ocean. Aged twenty and still studying medicine at...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Reverse Interview Investors I honestly never expected this to be a topic that was common enough to write up, however, it...
a year ago
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a year ago
I honestly never expected this to be a topic that was common enough to write up, however, it suddenly hit me today that it is the ultra niche topics that deserve writing up since it is the stuff that is outside the usual SERP riffraff.
A Smart Bear
Satisficing vs Maximizing Fast, or Best? Choose your decision-making goal wisely, especially if you're a natural...
a year ago
Sean Carroll
George B. Field, 1929-2024 George Field, brilliant theoretical astrophysicist and truly great human being, passed away on the...
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4 months ago
George Field, brilliant theoretical astrophysicist and truly great human being, passed away on the morning of July 31. He was my Ph.D. thesis advisor and one of my favorite people in the world. I often tell my own students that the two most important people in your life who you...
The Forney Flyer
Still Here... Again. Folks, I'm still alive! I don't just mean that figuratively, I mean it literally. It seem like I've...
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over a year ago
Folks, I'm still alive! I don't just mean that figuratively, I mean it literally. It seem like I've made a lot of excuses on this blog over the past year, for the chunks of time where I seem to disappear for a while. Well, this time I really had a good excuse!  Last October I...
Map of the Week
The Coaquannock Map I will begin Philadelphia month at an early stage, just before European settlement. via...
a year ago
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a year ago
I will begin Philadelphia month at an early stage, just before European settlement. via Historical Society of Pennsylvania This 1934 map showing the homeland of the Lenape people when the first white settlers arrived in Philadelphia, was funded by the Works Progress...
Londonist
TfL Is Closing Five Tube Lines This Weekend Planning on taking the tube this Saturday? Check before you travel!
a year ago
The Honest Broker
Can Songs Really Replace Philosophy? Nobody has told you this before, but our rationalistic STEM worldview originated in magical songs
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Idioms as Code This is silly. I wrote code depicting common idioms. You read the code and try to guess the...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
This is silly. I wrote code depicting common idioms. You read the code and try to guess the idiom. Answers are below the code (and, for clients viewing in supported readers, appear upside down like a children’s book). pen > sword >>> true The pen is mightier than the...
Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1982/08 Commodore Computing International Mag Time for some humor
5 months ago
Londonist
Short Courses At UAL: Learn Life-Changing Creative Skills How (And When) You Want Over 1,000 short courses to choose from.
a year ago
nanoscale views
Items of interest A couple of interesting papers that I came across this week: There is long been an interest in...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
A couple of interesting papers that I came across this week: There is long been an interest in purely electronic cooling techniques (no moving parts!) that would work at cryogenic temperatures.  You're familiar with ordinary evaporative cooling - that's what helps cool down...
ToughSF
The Lofstrom Loop: A Bridge to Space Imagine you could take a train ride to space. Tracks that slope up into the sky, higher and higher,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Imagine you could take a train ride to space. Tracks that slope up into the sky, higher and higher, until you reach a plateau above the planet where it’s a straight line up to orbital velocity. That’s what’s possible with a Lofstrom Loop. But sending you into orbit is just one...
Steve Blank
Even the Smartest VCs Sometimes Get it Wrong – Bill Gurley and Regulated Markets Bill Gurley was one of Silicon Valley’s smartest and most successful VCs. He recently gave a talk at...
a year ago
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a year ago
Bill Gurley was one of Silicon Valley’s smartest and most successful VCs. He recently gave a talk at the All-In Summit that was really two talks in one. The first part was railing against the consequences of regulatory capture on innovation and a second part, about the...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #182 Passive Investing, Low Trust Societies, Greg Abel in the spotlight, Capital allocation at Berkshire,...
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12 months ago
Passive Investing, Low Trust Societies, Greg Abel in the spotlight, Capital allocation at Berkshire, Better habits for 2024, Amusing CPA stories, Ben Graham, Charlie Munger, Pernod Ricard
Josh Collinsworth
The Five Things I Wish Somebody Had Told Me as a Design Student Your worst instructor as a design student will lay out clear goals and expectations which will not...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Your worst instructor as a design student will lay out clear goals and expectations which will not change; this is not a given with clients.
Math Is Still...
A Rosetta Stone for Mathematics In 1940 André Weil wrote a letter to his sister, Simone, outlining his vision for translating...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
In 1940 André Weil wrote a letter to his sister, Simone, outlining his vision for translating between three distinct areas of mathematics. Eighty years later, it still animates many of the most exciting developments in the field. The post A Rosetta Stone for...
Neil Panchal
Berkeley Mono February Update Hey Gang! First of all, thank you to everyone that participated in the Beta program. Feedback is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hey Gang! First of all, thank you to everyone that participated in the Beta program. Feedback is very much appreciated. Here is a quick update on the progress: Website - Berkeleygraphics.com It is already up: https://berkeleygraphics.com but does not have the Berkeley Mono pages...
charity.wtf
How to Throw A Company Offsite In A “Post-COVID” World Earlier this month we had our first Honeycomb all-hands offsite in three years … our first one since...
a year ago
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a year ago
Earlier this month we had our first Honeycomb all-hands offsite in three years … our first one since February of 2020, before the plague. It was wonderful and glorious and silly and energizing and so, so SO much fun. It was a potent reminder of the reality that no virtual...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Deaf Unto the Suggestions of Tale-bearers' “Though the Quickness of thine Ear were able to reach the noise of the Moon, which some think it...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
“Though the Quickness of thine Ear were able to reach the noise of the Moon, which some think it maketh in it rapid revolution; though the number of thy Ears should equal Argus his Eyes . . .”  The first surgery on my left ear was fifty years ago, prompted by a perpetually...
Noahpinion
The reverse OPEC maneuver Pricing power in the oil industry is shifting, and will shift more.
a year ago
Maps Mania
Tree Maps of the World
a year ago
Many Worlds
All Six Element Needed For Life as We Know It Have Now Been Found in The Watery Plumes of Enceladus The elements needed for life as we know it are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen sulfur and...
a year ago
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a year ago
The elements needed for life as we know it are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen sulfur and phosphorus. Before today, planetary scientists could say that five of those crucial elements had been found in the watery spray that spurts out of the Saturn’s moon, Enceladus.  All that...
SatPost by Trung...
Gathering seeds My most popular posts and tweets for 1H 2023.
a year ago