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Calculated Risk
Lawler: Some Observations on the Federal Reserve’s Balance Sheet Wind-Down and Reinvestment... From housing economist Tom Lawler: Click on table for larger image. Given the significant declines...
3 months ago
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Lawler: Some Observations on the Federal Reserve’s Balance Sheet Wind-Down and Reinvestment “Strategy” (Still in Quantitative Easing Mode, Just Less So)

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3 months ago
From housing economist Tom Lawler: Click on table for larger image. Given the significant declines in Federal Reserve holdings of Treasuries and Agency MBS since early 2022, the uninformed (such as Treasury Secretary Bessent) might conclude that the Federal Reserve has been a big...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Cultivation As a Proficient Amateur' Perhaps the most interesting and even important person in Montaigne’s life – especially for...
4 weeks ago
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'Cultivation As a Proficient Amateur'

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

4 weeks ago
Perhaps the most interesting and even important person in Montaigne’s life – especially for his readers -- was not his wife nor his friend Étienne de La Boétie, whose death in 1563 left him bereft, but Marie de Gournay (1565-1645), the model of an autodidact, who taught herself...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Beautiful Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Just to be clear, I was dunking on humans and...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Beautiful

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

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Just to be clear, I was dunking on humans and praising AI *before* it was a terrifying nearterm concern. Today's News:
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Joel on Software
Announcing Stack Overflow for Teams New product: Stack Overflow for Teams lets you direct questions to members of your own team,...
over a year ago
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Announcing Stack Overflow for Teams

from Joel on Software [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
New product: Stack Overflow for Teams lets you direct questions to members of your own team, company, or organization. Read more "Announcing Stack Overflow for Teams"
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mtlynch.io
Notes from Simon Willison's Interview on Software Misadventures I just finished listening to Simon Willison’s interview on the Software Misadventures podcast. I...
a month ago
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Notes from Simon Willison's Interview on Software Misadventures

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a month ago
I just finished listening to Simon Willison’s interview on the Software Misadventures podcast. I learned a lot from the interview, so I wrote up my notes. This is not a summary of the whole interview, just the parts that were new to me or that I’d like to remember. Simon Willison...
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TokyoDev
Discount coupons for babysitters in Japan via a government subsidy In 2016, the government started giving [financial support to parents who use...
over a year ago
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Discount coupons for babysitters in Japan via a government subsidy

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
In 2016, the government started giving [financial support to parents who use babysitters](https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/headline/taikijido/pdf/h28yosan_sankou5.pdf). Babysitters are very expensive in Japan for most families, so it’s usually not an option for many parents. But at...
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Stephen Wolfram...
Useful to the Point of Being Revolutionary: Introducing Wolfram Notebook Assistant Note: As of today, copies of Wolfram Version 14.1 are being auto-updated to allow subscription...
6 months ago
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Useful to the Point of Being Revolutionary: Introducing Wolfram Notebook Assistant

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

6 months ago
Note: As of today, copies of Wolfram Version 14.1 are being auto-updated to allow subscription access to the capabilities described here. [For additional installation information see here.] Just Say What You Want! Turning Words into Computation Nearly a year and a half ago—just a...
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The Marginalian
Nobel-Winning Poet Joseph Brodsky on the Remedy for Existential Boredom "Try to stay passionate, leave your cool to constellations. Passion, above all, is a remedy against...
a year ago
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Nobel-Winning Poet Joseph Brodsky on the Remedy for Existential Boredom

from The Marginalian [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
"Try to stay passionate, leave your cool to constellations. Passion, above all, is a remedy against boredom. Another one, of course, is pain... passion's frequent aftermath."
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Gwern.net Newsletter
March 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter 2 major new site features: 'popins' and recursive Wikipedia popups
over a year ago
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March 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter

from Gwern.net Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
2 major new site features: 'popins' and recursive Wikipedia popups
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Res Obscura
The leading AI models are now very good historians Three case studies with GPT-4o, o1, and Claude Sonnet 3.5, and what they mean
5 months ago
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The leading AI models are now very good historians

from Res Obscura [alt+shift+b] in history

5 months ago
Three case studies with GPT-4o, o1, and Claude Sonnet 3.5, and what they mean
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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Summary of changes for June

from Hundred Rabbits [alt+shift+b] in history

over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
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Common Edge
L.A.’s Cultural Crescent and the Land That Draws People to It The City of Angels is that rare metropolis where landscape shapes ways of being.
5 months ago
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L.A.’s Cultural Crescent and the Land That Draws People to It

from Common Edge [alt+shift+b] in architecture

5 months ago
The City of Angels is that rare metropolis where landscape shapes ways of being.
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Ben Borgers
The real reason for my multiple majors
over a year ago
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The real reason for my multiple majors

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over a year ago
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Retail Design Blog
Simple Art Museum by HAS design and research In the early 21st century, China witnessed a remarkable surge in museum construction. Cities...
8 months ago
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Simple Art Museum by HAS design and research

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

8 months ago
In the early 21st century, China witnessed a remarkable surge in museum construction. Cities blossomed under the banner of cultural...
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Mazdak
Sam Altman's Potential Return to OpenAI In a surprising turn of events, high-level discussions are underway to bring Sam Altman back to...
a year ago
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Sam Altman's Potential Return to OpenAI

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
In a surprising turn of events, high-level discussions are underway to bring Sam Altman back to OpenAI, not just as an investor or advisor, but as the company's CEO once again. This development comes just days after Altman's abrupt departure from the position, which sent...
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Hundred Rabbits
hello fujisan It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and...
over a year ago
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hello fujisan

from Hundred Rabbits [alt+shift+b] in history

over a year ago
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
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Rest of World -...
2023 Impact Report The global reach and impact of our journalism in 2023
a year ago
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2023 Impact Report

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a year ago
The global reach and impact of our journalism in 2023
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Yale e360
Bill McKibben on Climate Activism in the Age of Trump 2.0 Activist Bill McKibben says Americans upset by the Trump administration’s gutting of U.S. climate...
4 months ago
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Bill McKibben on Climate Activism in the Age of Trump 2.0

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

4 months ago
Activist Bill McKibben says Americans upset by the Trump administration’s gutting of U.S. climate efforts need to move beyond despair. In an interview with e360, he talks about rethinking the role of protest, the global push on clean energy, and why he sees reason for hope. Read...
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Ben Borgers
Winter break project list [2024]
6 months ago
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Winter break project list [2024]

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6 months ago
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David Heinemeier...
The curing value of creation It's hard not to see your spirits lifted when you're part of bringing something to life. Be that a...
a year ago
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The curing value of creation

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
It's hard not to see your spirits lifted when you're part of bringing something to life. Be that a product, an organization, or a community, or all three at once. Like exercise, it's one of those rare avenues of human endeavor that almost invariably will make anyone feel better....
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Seth's Blog
New decisions based on new information More than ever, we’re pushed to have certainty. Strong opinions, tightly held and loudly proclaimed....
over a year ago
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New decisions based on new information

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

over a year ago
More than ever, we’re pushed to have certainty. Strong opinions, tightly held and loudly proclaimed. And then, when reality intervenes, it can be stressful. The software stack, business model, career, candidate, policy, or even the social network habits that we had as part of our...
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Common Edge
After the Ashes in LA: “The Future Is Right in Front of You” Rebuilding doesn’t have to mean sterile development. Just look at the innovative and resilient ways...
2 months ago
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After the Ashes in LA: “The Future Is Right in Front of You”

from Common Edge [alt+shift+b] in architecture

2 months ago
Rebuilding doesn’t have to mean sterile development. Just look at the innovative and resilient ways people are already doing it.
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Tony Finch's blog
Where does "where does my computer get the time from?" come from? I am pleased that so many people enjoyed my talk about time at RIPE86. I thought I would write a few...
over a year ago
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Where does "where does my computer get the time from?" come from?

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

over a year ago
I am pleased that so many people enjoyed my talk about time at RIPE86. I thought I would write a few notes on some of the things I left out. genesis Essen & Markowitz Galileo zones BIH irony genesis There were a couple of things that I thought would make a fun talk: Just how many...
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Blog posts of...
Why Lean Startup sucks for startups. If you go to Lean Startup events you will find first time founders, consultants, accelerator...
over a year ago
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Why Lean Startup sucks for startups.

from Blog posts of Andreas Klinger [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
If you go to Lean Startup events you will find first time founders, consultants, accelerator managers, r&d people, enterprise intr...
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Interaction Magic -...
Engineering beneath the ice sheet Living in Greenland, deploying electronic beacons deep beneath the ice.
7 months ago
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Engineering beneath the ice sheet

from Interaction Magic - George Cave [alt+shift+b] in science

7 months ago
Living in Greenland, deploying electronic beacons deep beneath the ice.
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watchTowr Labs
Exploitation Walkthrough and Techniques - Ivanti Connect Secure RCE (CVE-2025-0282) As we saw in our previous blogpost, we fully analyzed Ivanti’s most recent unauthenticated Remote...
5 months ago
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Exploitation Walkthrough and Techniques - Ivanti Connect Secure RCE (CVE-2025-0282)

from watchTowr Labs [alt+shift+b] in technology

5 months ago
As we saw in our previous blogpost, we fully analyzed Ivanti’s most recent unauthenticated Remote Code Execution vulnerability in their Connect Secure (VPN) appliance. Specifically, we analyzed CVE-2025-0282. Today, we’re going to walk through exploitation. Once again, however,...
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GeoCurrents
From Continents to the World Regional Model Despite my harsh criticisms of the continental model expressed in the preceding posts, I do think...
2 months ago
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From Continents to the World Regional Model

from GeoCurrents [alt+shift+b] in cartography

2 months ago
Despite my harsh criticisms of the continental model expressed in the preceding posts, I do think that it should be taught to young students. In my ideal scenario, first-graders would be shown, ideally by examining a globe, that there are six very large masses of land that are...
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TheCollector
Before Newton: How the Islamic Golden Age Shaped the Physics We Know The rise of Islam across India, the Middle East, and Spain kindled intellectual achievements that...
a month ago
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Before Newton: How the Islamic Golden Age Shaped the Physics We Know

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

a month ago
The rise of Islam across India, the Middle East, and Spain kindled intellectual achievements that are still relevant today. The Islamic Golden Age, lasting some five hundred years from the 8th to 14th centuries, saw important discoveries – especially in physics.   What Was the...
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elementary Blog
New Features For Mail, A More Personal Lock Screen, And System Settings Improvements This should be the last monthly update before OS 7.1 and it’s a good one! We have new releases of...
a year ago
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New Features For Mail, A More Personal Lock Screen, And System Settings Improvements

from elementary Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
This should be the last monthly update before OS 7.1 and it’s a good one! We have new releases of our office productivity apps, including several new features in Mail, a much more personal Login & Lock Screen experience with improved accessibility, and a couple of large redesigns...
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Rest of World -...
Buy-now-pay-later plans lead to rampant scams and bad debt across Southeast Asia From Thailand to Vietnam, a loophole in buy-now-pay-later schemes that allows users to get cash is...
10 months ago
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Buy-now-pay-later plans lead to rampant scams and bad debt across Southeast Asia

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

10 months ago
From Thailand to Vietnam, a loophole in buy-now-pay-later schemes that allows users to get cash is raising concerns.
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Data Boutique
Network Effects: When Value Comes from Others Joining in ... and Data Boutique Partnership Program launch
a year ago
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Network Effects: When Value Comes from Others Joining in

from Data Boutique [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
... and Data Boutique Partnership Program launch
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Quanta Magazine
How the Ancient Art of Eclipse Prediction Became an Exact Science The timing of the total eclipse on April 8, 2024, will be known to within a second, thousands of...
a year ago
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How the Ancient Art of Eclipse Prediction Became an Exact Science

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
The timing of the total eclipse on April 8, 2024, will be known to within a second, thousands of years after fearful humans first started trying to anticipate these cosmic events. The post How the Ancient Art of Eclipse Prediction Became an Exact Science first...
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Astral Codex Ten
Try The 2025 ACX/Metaculus Forecasting Contest ...
5 months ago
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Try The 2025 ACX/Metaculus Forecasting Contest

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5 months ago
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Tech and Tea
Creating Space: A 6-Week Journaling Course Announcing a journaling course in collaboration with Buster Benson at 750 Words — designed to help...
3 weeks ago
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Creating Space: A 6-Week Journaling Course

from Tech and Tea [alt+shift+b] in life

3 weeks ago
Announcing a journaling course in collaboration with Buster Benson at 750 Words — designed to help you step back, breathe, and reconnect with what truly matters. Join us!
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lcamtuf’s thing
UI is hell: four-function calculators One of the simplest and best-known computing devices on the planet is a fascinating study in...
5 months ago
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UI is hell: four-function calculators

from lcamtuf’s thing [alt+shift+b] in technology

5 months ago
One of the simplest and best-known computing devices on the planet is a fascinating study in interface design.
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Basta’s Notes
Don't make me read your PR description I started using Github Copilot a month or two ago for my personal projects. I can’t say that it’s...
over a year ago
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Don't make me read your PR description

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I started using Github Copilot a month or two ago for my personal projects. I can’t say that it’s been a net positive. There are more than a handful of problems that make me slower: Sometimes it suggests a closing quote or paren that isn’t needed. Removing the duplicate character...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Ten million users is the new one million users Entrepreneurs and investors have been enamored with consumer internet startups for the last few...
over a year ago
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Ten million users is the new one million users

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

over a year ago
Entrepreneurs and investors have been enamored with consumer internet startups for the last few years. But there are signs this is ending…
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Diaries of Note
The newspapers are having a field day Few broadcasters have left as indelible a mark on the hearts and minds of the British public as Sir...
over a year ago
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The newspapers are having a field day

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

over a year ago
Few broadcasters have left as indelible a mark on the hearts and minds of the British public as Sir Terry Wogan. A consummate professional, Wogan’s wit, warmth, and engaging personality endeared him to audiences throughout his long and successful career in radio and television....
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bt RSS Feed
Vertical Tabs in Safari Vertical Tabs in Safari 2024-09-26 I use Firefox as my main browser (specifically the Nightly build)...
9 months ago
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Vertical Tabs in Safari

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

9 months ago
Vertical Tabs in Safari 2024-09-26 I use Firefox as my main browser (specifically the Nightly build) which has vertical tabs built-in. There are instances where I need to use Safari, such as debugging or testing iOS devices, and in those instances I prefer to have a similar...
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James Vaughan's blog
Custom iPhone text tones
7 months ago
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Custom iPhone text tones

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7 months ago
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Quanta Magazine
Evolution: Fast or Slow? Lizards Help Resolve a Paradox. Why does natural selection appear to happen slowly on long timescales and quickly on short ones? A...
a year ago
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Evolution: Fast or Slow? Lizards Help Resolve a Paradox.

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Why does natural selection appear to happen slowly on long timescales and quickly on short ones? A multigenerational study of four lizard species addresses biology’s “paradox of stasis.” The post Evolution: Fast or Slow? Lizards Help Resolve a Paradox. first appeared...
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Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Rhetoric The Power of Persuasion
11 months ago
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Aristotle's Rhetoric

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11 months ago
The Power of Persuasion
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Fonts In Use – Blog...
The Mystery of the Dune Font Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.worthpoint.com License: All Rights Reserved....
over a year ago
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The Mystery of the Dune Font

from Fonts In Use – Blog Only [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.worthpoint.com License: All Rights Reserved. In the six decades since the publication of the original Dune novel in 1965, the science fiction franchise has gone through many different typographic identities. Notable examples...
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David Crawshaw
Compiler Bomb main[-1u]={1}; codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/69189/build-a-compiler-bomb/69193#69193
over a year ago
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Compiler Bomb

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over a year ago
main[-1u]={1}; codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/69189/build-a-compiler-bomb/69193#69193
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Arduino Blog
ardEEG is an Arduino UNO R4 WiFi shield for measuring biosignals The secrets to most of the mind’s mysteries may still elude us, but we’ve made a tremendous amount...
a year ago
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ardEEG is an Arduino UNO R4 WiFi shield for measuring biosignals

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

a year ago
The secrets to most of the mind’s mysteries may still elude us, but we’ve made a tremendous amount of progress in reading signals produced by the brain. We may not understand exactly what is going on, but we can see the result and utilize it. And now you can start...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Green Roof Covers This Unique Vehicle Charging Station Architecture firm ADEPT has shared photos of Norlys Charging Park Drejebaenken, a contemporary...
9 months ago
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A Green Roof Covers This Unique Vehicle Charging Station

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

9 months ago
Architecture firm ADEPT has shared photos of Norlys Charging Park Drejebaenken, a contemporary charging station in Odense, Denmark. The charging park design consists of easily recognizable details and elements that can be adapted to different geographical locations and sizes. The...
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The Pragmatic...
Speakers for Amsterdam / Netherlands Tech Events I (Gergely) sometimes get reachouts to do talks at events in Amsterdam (where I am based,) the...
10 months ago
74

Speakers for Amsterdam / Netherlands Tech Events

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

10 months ago
I (Gergely) sometimes get reachouts to do talks at events in Amsterdam (where I am based,) the Netherlands, or somewhere in Europe. Unfortunately, rarely do talks – I do one conference per year. However, I asked around in the community about tech professionals who do paid talks...
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Noahpinion
The positive case for Joe Biden It's not just about being anti-Trump.
a year ago
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The positive case for Joe Biden

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a year ago
It's not just about being anti-Trump.
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Rozado’s Visual...
Artificial Intelligence and Portraits of 17th Century Physicists The case for customizable AI systems as an alternative to one-size-fits-all AI systems
a year ago
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Artificial Intelligence and Portraits of 17th Century Physicists

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The case for customizable AI systems as an alternative to one-size-fits-all AI systems
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
Color Theory Scams, Exposing How Designers Manipulate You With Color I am here to give you permission to call them out next time you hear color jargon. It is time...
over a year ago
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Color Theory Scams, Exposing How Designers Manipulate You With Color

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over a year ago
I am here to give you permission to call them out next time you hear color jargon. It is time someone exposed the babble for what it is, manipulation.
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Charles Chen
Mastodon is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media — in a Good Way How Mastodon and the Fediverse are shifting the landscape of social media -- for the better.
a year ago
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Mastodon is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media — in a Good Way

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a year ago
How Mastodon and the Fediverse are shifting the landscape of social media -- for the better.
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The Diff
Economic Lessons from the Last Few Singularities Plus! Conflicts and Confluence; Bonds; Empire Building; China; The Capital and Talent Cycle
6 months ago
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Economic Lessons from the Last Few Singularities

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6 months ago
Plus! Conflicts and Confluence; Bonds; Empire Building; China; The Capital and Talent Cycle
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Retail Design Blog
Liquor packaging by BXL Packaging Design A bottle of good is like a work of art The packaging design of this liquor is inspired by the...
11 months ago
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Liquor packaging by BXL Packaging Design

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11 months ago
A bottle of good is like a work of art The packaging design of this liquor is inspired by the...
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Patient Messaging Conundrum pt. 2 | Out-Of-Pocket Some thoughts from an academic, a behavioral scientist, a patient, and more
a year ago
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Patient Messaging Conundrum pt. 2 | Out-Of-Pocket

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a year ago
Some thoughts from an academic, a behavioral scientist, a patient, and more
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Home on Erik...
3D Andy Sloane decided to call my 2D visualization and raise it to 3D. (Looks a little weird in the...
over a year ago
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3D

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over a year ago
Andy Sloane decided to call my 2D visualization and raise it to 3D. (Looks a little weird in the iframe but check out the link). It's based on a LDA model with 200 topics, so the artists tend to stick to clusters where each cluster is a topic.
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Londonist
Ayyy! The Fonz Is Coming To London In June Happy days.
a year ago
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Ayyy! The Fonz Is Coming To London In June

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a year ago
Happy days.
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TheCollector
7 Warrior Women (Onna-Bugeisha) of Feudal Japan Medieval Japanese culture, influenced by Confucian ideals, imposed strict gender roles. While...
3 months ago
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7 Warrior Women (Onna-Bugeisha) of Feudal Japan

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3 months ago
Medieval Japanese culture, influenced by Confucian ideals, imposed strict gender roles. While Japanese women had more power than their European counterparts, they were still expected to be homemakers, subservient to men. Although soldiering was a predominately male profession,...
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The Elysian
Week 6: Examples of Pitches
a year ago
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Week 6: Examples of Pitches

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Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ The Phone As Disruptive My phone doesn't follow me everywhere. It occupies the last place I left it. This happens when I...
10 months ago
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✏️ The Phone As Disruptive

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10 months ago
My phone doesn't follow me everywhere. It occupies the last place I left it. This happens when I leave to go for a run, sometimes when I run errands, and often hours go by without it. This is occurring more and more. It feels light. I feel light. The literal weight of the phone...
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ The Last Times During our trip this year, looking at my mother, the reality suddenly hit me. She's 75. I visit my...
6 months ago
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✏️ The Last Times

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6 months ago
During our trip this year, looking at my mother, the reality suddenly hit me. She's 75. I visit my family in Malaysia once a year, and if she lives to 90, that means just 15 more visits together. The realization shook me. When my father passed in 2017, I hadn't considered how...
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Steve Blank
Is a $100 Million Enough? Capitalism has been good to me. After serving in the military during Vietnam, I came home and had a...
a year ago
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Is a $100 Million Enough?

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a year ago
Capitalism has been good to me. After serving in the military during Vietnam, I came home and had a career in eight startups. I got to retire when I was 45. Over the last quarter century, in my third career, I helped create the methods entrepreneurs use to build new startups,...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Engaged Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Panels 3 and 4 are the last 10 years of Internet...
over a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Engaged

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over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Panels 3 and 4 are the last 10 years of Internet summarized. Today's News: For the three of you who read this blog, we're doing a livechat about Bea Wolf in 30 minutes on instagram!
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Home on Erik...
NYC subway math Apparently MTA (the company running the NYC subway) has a real-time API. My fascination for the...
over a year ago
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NYC subway math

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

over a year ago
Apparently MTA (the company running the NYC subway) has a real-time API. My fascination for the subway takes autistic proportions and so obviously I had to analyze some of the data. The documentation is somewhat terrible, but here's some relevant code for how to use the API:
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Flashbak
Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
a year ago
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK

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a year ago
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
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Opsbros
IBM M13 Trackpoint USB Converter Me, never not on the lookout for an opportunity to design something, whether needed or not, worked...
over a year ago
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IBM M13 Trackpoint USB Converter

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over a year ago
Me, never not on the lookout for an opportunity to design something, whether needed or not, worked with @micon to design a module that could fit snugly in the keyboard, and provide a USB-C interface directly into the Keyboard/Mouse module.
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Charlie Becker
To Discard, To Preserve, To Bury, To Build | Friday Footnotes #2 Friday Footnotes is a weekly newsletter where reflection meets real life.
3 months ago
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To Discard, To Preserve, To Bury, To Build | Friday Footnotes #2

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3 months ago
Friday Footnotes is a weekly newsletter where reflection meets real life.
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Remains of the Day
My first podcast appearance A few months ago David Perell emailed and asked if I'd like to be on his podcast, The North Star. He...
over a year ago
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My first podcast appearance

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over a year ago
A few months ago David Perell emailed and asked if I'd like to be on his podcast, The North Star. He mentioned some of the other people he'd had on, so many of whom I admire, and I thought he had emailed the wrong person. But no, he had done his research and knew a lot about my...
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TheCollector
Lucas Horenbout: The Highest Paid Artist at the Court of Henry VIII Lucas Horenbout, also known as Lucas Hornebolt, was a Flemish painter who worked in England as the...
a month ago
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Lucas Horenbout: The Highest Paid Artist at the Court of Henry VIII

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a month ago
Lucas Horenbout, also known as Lucas Hornebolt, was a Flemish painter who worked in England as the king’s painter. He was taught to illuminate manuscripts and paint miniatures by his father, alongside his sister, who also became an artist at the English court. Lucas Horenbout...
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Blog of Simple...
Google delays cookie phase-out once again
a year ago
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Google delays cookie phase-out once again

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a year ago
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Mind Mine
transformations surrender & renew
6 months ago
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transformations

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6 months ago
surrender & renew
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The Marginalian
Darwin on How to Evolve Your Imagination The year the young Charles Darwin (February 12, 1809–April 19, 1882) boarded The Beagle, Mary...
5 months ago
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Darwin on How to Evolve Your Imagination

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5 months ago
The year the young Charles Darwin (February 12, 1809–April 19, 1882) boarded The Beagle, Mary Shelley contemplated the nature of the imagination in her preface to the most famous edition of Frankenstein, concluding that creativity “does not consist in creating out of void, but...
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Alex Meub
About the Apple Captive Network Assistant Heads up! This post is no longer current. Check out the WBA’s Captive Network Portal Behavior site...
over a year ago
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About the Apple Captive Network Assistant

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over a year ago
Heads up! This post is no longer current. Check out the WBA’s Captive Network Portal Behavior site for a better resource on the Captive Network Assistant. If you’re a mac user, you likely have seen a strange popup window appear on your computer when you try to connect to the...
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Basta’s Notes
25 terrible engineer interview questions Ones that you should never ask
over a year ago
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25 terrible engineer interview questions

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over a year ago
Ones that you should never ask
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Common Edge
Consider the 15 mph City It’s time to expand our vision to include slower, more human-scaled speeds of transportation.
over a year ago
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Consider the 15 mph City

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over a year ago
It’s time to expand our vision to include slower, more human-scaled speeds of transportation.
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AFAR Media - Travel...
The 10 Best U.S. National Parks to Visit with Kids
a year ago
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The 10 Best U.S. National Parks to Visit with Kids

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a year ago
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Willem's Blog
Realtime service uptime monitoring Downtime happens and it is nothing to be ashamed of, just make sure that you set yourself up to...
over a year ago
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Realtime service uptime monitoring

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over a year ago
Downtime happens and it is nothing to be ashamed of, just make sure that you set yourself up to discover problems as soon as possible! Know about problems before your customers do!
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TheCollector
What Did Karl Marx Say About Climate Change? Karl Marx didn’t say anything specific about climate change yet in many ways predicted it. Living...
a month ago
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What Did Karl Marx Say About Climate Change?

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a month ago
Karl Marx didn’t say anything specific about climate change yet in many ways predicted it. Living through the rise of the Industrial Revolution, he witnessed the emerging ecological consequences of rapid industrialization. In this context, he believed that the exploitation of...
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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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When tech says ‘no’

from Essays - Benedict Evans [alt+shift+b] in startups

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...
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David Perell
Zena Hitz: Liberal Arts Thinking My guest today is Zena Hitz, a tutor at St John’s and the author of an excellent book called Lost in...
over a year ago
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Zena Hitz: Liberal Arts Thinking

from David Perell [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
My guest today is Zena Hitz, a tutor at St John’s and the author of an excellent book called Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life. Her book explores the meaning and the value of learning for its own sake, through images and stories of bookworms,...
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The Elysian
Idea Labs! An open thread for collaborative worldbuilding Let's brainstorm the future together.
a year ago
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Idea Labs! An open thread for collaborative worldbuilding

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a year ago
Let's brainstorm the future together.
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Yale e360
Lightning Strikes the Arctic: What Will It Mean for the Far North? A warmer world is expected to bring more thunderstorms, especially at higher latitudes. Scientists...
2 weeks ago
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Lightning Strikes the Arctic: What Will It Mean for the Far North?

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2 weeks ago
A warmer world is expected to bring more thunderstorms, especially at higher latitudes. Scientists are now reporting a dramatic surge in lightning in the Far North and are scrambling to parse how this could affect wildfires, the chemistry of the atmosphere, and Arctic...
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Quantum Frontiers
Ten lessons I learned from John Preskill Last August, Toronto’s Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control (CQIQC) gave me 35 minutes...
5 months ago
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Ten lessons I learned from John Preskill

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5 months ago
Last August, Toronto’s Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control (CQIQC) gave me 35 minutes to make fun of John Preskill in public. CQIQC was hosting its biannual conference, also called CQIQC, in Toronto. The conference features the awarding of … Continue reading →
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Ben Borgers
I Keep Rewriting My Personal Website
over a year ago
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I Keep Rewriting My Personal Website

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over a year ago
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Open Culture
Meet Fanny, the First Female Rock Band to Top the Charts: “They Were Just Colossal and Wonderful,... When the Beatles upended popular music, thousands of wannabe beat groups were born all over the...
a year ago
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Meet Fanny, the First Female Rock Band to Top the Charts: “They Were Just Colossal and Wonderful, and Nobody’s Ever Mentioned Them”

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

a year ago
When the Beatles upended popular music, thousands of wannabe beat groups were born all over the world, and many of them–for the first time ever, really–were all-female groups. This Amoeba Records article has a fairly exhaustive list of these girl bands, with names like The...
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The Ruffian
Lessons In How Not To Lead From the Dept. of What Were They Thinking
a year ago
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Lessons In How Not To Lead

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a year ago
From the Dept. of What Were They Thinking
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 When bats were wiped out, more human babies died, a study found. Here's why. Researchers find infant deaths increased after farmers used more pesticides to compensate for rise...
9 months ago
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🔗 When bats were wiped out, more human babies died, a study found. Here's why.

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9 months ago
Researchers find infant deaths increased after farmers used more pesticides to compensate for rise of pests. Visit original link → or View on nazhamid.com →
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Meaningless Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Cosmos 4,982,112 was trash but 4,982,113 is going...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Meaningless

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Cosmos 4,982,112 was trash but 4,982,113 is going to get things perfect, I'm sure. Today's News:
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Birchtree
We do this same thing with AI bots and human blogs Giles Thomas writing on his personal blog, which he’s been writing since 2006: It's Still Worth...
4 months ago
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We do this same thing with AI bots and human blogs

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4 months ago
Giles Thomas writing on his personal blog, which he’s been writing since 2006: It's Still Worth Blogging in the Age of AI If you want to blog to make a name for yourself, then you're going to have a hard time. Here's
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Instant GraphQL with OneGraph Here's a recorded screenshare chat I had with Sean Grove (https://twitter.com/sgrove), Cofounder of...
over a year ago
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Instant GraphQL with OneGraph

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

over a year ago
Here's a recorded screenshare chat I had with Sean Grove (https://twitter.com/sgrove), Cofounder of OneGraph! We swapped out the Next.js API Routes that I manually set up in my livestreaming, to the premade GraphQL integration that OneGraph has with Dev.to. As a bonus, this takes...
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The Changelog
Dead USB Drives Are Fine: Building a Reliable Sneakernet “OK,” you’re probably thinking. “John, you talk a lot about things like Gopher and personal radios,...
over a year ago
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Dead USB Drives Are Fine: Building a Reliable Sneakernet

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over a year ago
“OK,” you’re probably thinking. “John, you talk a lot about things like Gopher and personal radios, and now you want to talk about building a reliable network out of… USB drives?” Well, yes. In fact, I’ve already done it. What is sneakernet? Normally, “sneakernet” is a sort of...
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Julia Evans
Importing a frontend Javascript library without a build system I like writing Javascript without a build system and for the millionth time yesterday I ran into a...
7 months ago
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Importing a frontend Javascript library without a build system

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7 months ago
I like writing Javascript without a build system and for the millionth time yesterday I ran into a problem where I needed to figure out how to import a Javascript library in my code without using a build system, and it took FOREVER to figure out how to import it because...
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The Honest Broker
The State of the Culture, 2024 Or a glimpse into post-entertainment society (it's not pretty)
a year ago
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The State of the Culture, 2024

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a year ago
Or a glimpse into post-entertainment society (it's not pretty)
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Computer Things
Solving a "Layton Puzzle" with Prolog I have a lot in the works for the this month's Logic for Programmers release. Among other things,...
2 months ago
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Solving a "Layton Puzzle" with Prolog

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 months ago
I have a lot in the works for the this month's Logic for Programmers release. Among other things, I'm completely rewriting the chapter on Logic Programming Languages. I originally showcased the paradigm with puzzle solvers, like eight queens or four-coloring. Lots of other demos...
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TheCollector
Justinian I’s Surprising Recapture of Rome: What Happened? The Byzantine Emperor Justinian I came close to uniting the former Roman Empire less than a century...
2 months ago
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Justinian I’s Surprising Recapture of Rome: What Happened?

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2 months ago
The Byzantine Emperor Justinian I came close to uniting the former Roman Empire less than a century after its fall. However, popular discontent, foreign war, and a plague all combined to bring his dream of reestablishing Roman glory to an end, despite remarkable successes.   Rome...
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Birchtree
Matt is a Mean Guy (hey!) Matt felt like bringing an intentionally controversial topic, Niléane refuses to admit she's created...
6 months ago
32

Matt is a Mean Guy (hey!)

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6 months ago
Matt felt like bringing an intentionally controversial topic, Niléane refuses to admit she's created a sticky note-based task manager, and everyone gives the iPad some much needed love. Or watch it on YouTube. Weekly Topics Raycast CleanShot X Final Cut Pro Google...
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Trying to Understand...
No End Of A Lesson. If we can only learn it.
9 months ago
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No End Of A Lesson.

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9 months ago
If we can only learn it.
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The Universe of...
XKCD game theory question (Source: XKCD “Exam numbers”.) This post is about the bottom center panel, “Game Theory final...
9 months ago
24

XKCD game theory question

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9 months ago
(Source: XKCD “Exam numbers”.) This post is about the bottom center panel, “Game Theory final exam”. I don't know much about game theory and I haven't seen any other discussion of this question. But I have a strategy I think is plausible and I'm somewhat pleased with. (I assume...
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Flashbak
Harold Lloyd’s Amazing Christmas Tree For American actor Harold Lloyd (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) Christmas was the time to...
6 months ago
68

Harold Lloyd’s Amazing Christmas Tree

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6 months ago
For American actor Harold Lloyd (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) Christmas was the time to illuminate his home in Beverly Hills, California, with a magnificent tree. His granddaughter Suzanne says preparation began around Thanksgiving (the fourth Thursday in November), when her...
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Yale e360
Lightning Strikes the Arctic: What Will It Mean for the Far North? A warmer world is expected to bring more thunderstorms, especially at higher latitudes. Scientists...
2 weeks ago
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Lightning Strikes the Arctic: What Will It Mean for the Far North?

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2 weeks ago
A warmer world is expected to bring more thunderstorms, especially at higher latitudes. Scientists are now reporting a dramatic surge in lightning in the far north and are scrambling to parse how this could affect wildfires, the chemistry of the atmosphere, and Arctic...
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xkcd.com
Local Group
a year ago
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Local Group

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a year ago
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Applied Cartography
Why can't you just...? Buried in a snarky thread about why Google Calendar doesn’t support calendar syncing is a long,...
a year ago
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Why can't you just...?

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

a year ago
Buried in a snarky thread about why Google Calendar doesn’t support calendar syncing is a long, detailed explanation of why shipping this sort of thing is hard: Designing a consent experience for the enterprise admin and enterprise end user Creating a special "read only" object...
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Platformer
The AI is eating itself Early notes on how generative AI is affecting the internet
over a year ago
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The AI is eating itself

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over a year ago
Early notes on how generative AI is affecting the internet
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Josh Comeau's blog
A Friendly Introduction to Spring Physics Of all the little tips and techniques I've picked up over the years about animation, spring physics...
over a year ago
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A Friendly Introduction to Spring Physics

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

over a year ago
Of all the little tips and techniques I've picked up over the years about animation, spring physics remains one of the most powerful and flexible. In this tutorial, we'll learn how to harness their power to build fluid, organic transitions.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'The War with What He Does Not Understand' “. . . I am closer to the ‘life of the spirit’ than you are. You are talking about the right of one...
a month ago
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'The War with What He Does Not Understand'

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a month ago
“. . . I am closer to the ‘life of the spirit’ than you are. You are talking about the right of one or another type of knowledge to exist, whereas I’m talking about peace, not rights. I want people not to see war where there isn’t any. Different branches of knowledge have always...
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Overcoming Bias
Fear Change Evolution in animals selects not only for static features, like claws, but also for behaviors that...
5 months ago
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Fear Change

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5 months ago
Evolution in animals selects not only for static features, like claws, but also for behaviors that change with context.
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Seth's Blog
ChatGPT for you AI is a mystery. To many, it’s a threat. It turns out that understanding a mystery not only makes it...
a year ago
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ChatGPT for you

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a year ago
AI is a mystery. To many, it’s a threat. It turns out that understanding a mystery not only makes it feel less like a threat, it gives us the confidence to make it into something better. I use ChatGPT4 just about every day, and I’m often surprised at how frequently it surprises...
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Maggie Appleton
Building VR Apps with React360 Illustrated notes on building VR web apps with React360
over a year ago
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Building VR Apps with React360

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over a year ago
Illustrated notes on building VR web apps with React360
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Paul Graham: Essays
Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas
over a year ago
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Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas

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over a year ago
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journal – Winnie Lim
messy thoughts while in hong kong I haven’t been well since my birth day. The very next day I woke up with elevated heart rate again –...
a year ago
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messy thoughts while in hong kong

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

a year ago
I haven’t been well since my birth day. The very next day I woke up with elevated heart rate again – I am more aware of this because I use a bunch...
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Paul Graham: Essays
Apple's Mistake
over a year ago
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Apple's Mistake

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over a year ago
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Odds and Ends of...
The new GOV.UK login system is the first step in a radical transformation of the British state A British "DOGE" (of sorts) is rearchitecting the government
4 months ago
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The new GOV.UK login system is the first step in a radical transformation of the British state

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4 months ago
A British "DOGE" (of sorts) is rearchitecting the government
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Notes on software...
How do databases execute expressions? Databases are fun. They sit at the confluence of Computer Science topics that might otherwise not...
a year ago
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How do databases execute expressions?

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

a year ago
Databases are fun. They sit at the confluence of Computer Science topics that might otherwise not seem practical in life as a developer. For example, every database with a query language is also a programming language implementation of some caliber. That doesn't include all...
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Musings on Maps
Putting out Fires and Ensuring Water Flow Before the mass firings of civil servants, members of government, and oversight by the Trump...
4 months ago
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Putting out Fires and Ensuring Water Flow

from Musings on Maps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

4 months ago
Before the mass firings of civil servants, members of government, and oversight by the Trump administration, we were already shocked by two major disruptions that suggest the danger of the new President’s reflexive knee-jerk responses from his over-sensitive gut. Both–the …...
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Seth's Blog
The swag is here To celebrate the new book, here are some limited edition swag options to benefit good causes and...
over a year ago
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The swag is here

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

over a year ago
To celebrate the new book, here are some limited edition swag options to benefit good causes and independent craftspeople. You can find them all at seths.store. I went to Brooklyn and worked with Dan at the Arm to create a set of five handmade letterpress posters. They’re 12...
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Liz Denys
Understanding GNU Screen's captions I love screen. I know all the cool kids are using tmux now, but screen keeps it simple and does...
over a year ago
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Understanding GNU Screen's captions

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I love screen. I know all the cool kids are using tmux now, but screen keeps it simple and does everything I really need. One of the things I (possibly mistakenly) want is lots of windows. The problem with having lots of windows is they quickly become hard to keep track of,...
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Rest of World -...
Behold, the world’s first 3D-printed temple Located in India, the Hindu temple’s layout follows ancient guidelines dating back to 1100 B.C.
9 months ago
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Behold, the world’s first 3D-printed temple

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

9 months ago
Located in India, the Hindu temple’s layout follows ancient guidelines dating back to 1100 B.C.
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xkcd.com
Research Account
a year ago
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Research Account

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a year ago
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Open Culture
Ernest Hemingway’s Favorite Hamburger Recipe Image via Wikimedia Commons In 2013, the food writer Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan stumbled across an article...
a year ago
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Ernest Hemingway’s Favorite Hamburger Recipe

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

a year ago
Image via Wikimedia Commons In 2013, the food writer Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan stumbled across an article in the Boston Globe describing a trove of digitized documents from Ernest Hemingway’s home in Cuba that had been recently donated to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and...
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Tony Finch's blog
Slower DNS name decompression In a previous entry, I wrote about making DNS name decompression faster by moving work left on this...
over a year ago
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Slower DNS name decompression

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

over a year ago
In a previous entry, I wrote about making DNS name decompression faster by moving work left on this diagram so that we do less of it: names < pointers < labels < bytes Last week I had a bright idea about that leftmost step, moving per-pointer work to per-name, using some...
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Transit Maps
Submission – Official Map: Long Island Rail Road Screen Maps at Grand Central Madison Submitted by Griffin, who says: I work upstairs in the old Grand Central and was every excited to...
over a year ago
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Submission – Official Map: Long Island Rail Road Screen Maps at Grand Central Madison

from Transit Maps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

over a year ago
Submitted by Griffin, who says: I work upstairs in the old Grand Central and was every excited to check out the new station this morning. Spotted this new map on the wall down there, thought you might find it interesting. Transit Maps says: Oh, I do like this. Graphically strong...
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UX Collective
A UX perspective on the geopolitical AI race Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
4 months ago
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A UX perspective on the geopolitical AI race

from UX Collective [alt+shift+b] in design

4 months ago
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Common Edge
Our Buildings, Our Selves, Featuring Michael Kimmelman and Kate Wagner Episode 2 of the Common Edge podcast explores the question: The age of the starchitect is over,...
3 months ago
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Our Buildings, Our Selves, Featuring Michael Kimmelman and Kate Wagner

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3 months ago
Episode 2 of the Common Edge podcast explores the question: The age of the starchitect is over, what’s next?
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The Marginalian
Kafka’s Creative Block and the Four Psychological Hindrances That Keep the Talented from Manifesting... The most paradoxical thing about creative work is that it is both a way in and a way out, that it...
8 months ago
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Kafka’s Creative Block and the Four Psychological Hindrances That Keep the Talented from Manifesting Their Talent

from The Marginalian [alt+shift+b] in literature

8 months ago
The most paradoxical thing about creative work is that it is both a way in and a way out, that it plunges you into the depths of your being and at the same time takes you out of yourself. Writing is the best instrument I have for metabolizing my experience and clarifying my own...
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Unpacked
IRS Direct Tax Filing: the end of Intuit's lobbying Thirty-eight years since the launch of e-filing, the IRS will pilot its own tax filing system ending...
a year ago
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IRS Direct Tax Filing: the end of Intuit's lobbying

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a year ago
Thirty-eight years since the launch of e-filing, the IRS will pilot its own tax filing system ending two decades of Intuit's regulatory capture of the tax software market
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Articles
Is ChatGPT the next big startup platform? The risks of building your startup on ChatGPT or other AI platforms
over a year ago
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Is ChatGPT the next big startup platform?

from Articles [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
The risks of building your startup on ChatGPT or other AI platforms
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Essential Greeks
a year ago
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Weekend Roundup

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a year ago
The Essential Greeks
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Paul Cudenec
The stench of the system: propaganda Something is smelling decidedly ‘off’ in today’s world, with nauseating levels of corruption, mass...
7 months ago
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The stench of the system: propaganda

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

7 months ago
Something is smelling decidedly ‘off’ in today’s world, with nauseating levels of corruption, mass murder, lies, hypocrisy and repression.
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TheCollector
Roman-Era Hermes Statue Found in Ancient City of Aspendos Turkish archaeologists unearthed an ancient statue of Hermes, the winged messenger of the gods, in...
4 months ago
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Roman-Era Hermes Statue Found in Ancient City of Aspendos

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

4 months ago
Turkish archaeologists unearthed an ancient statue of Hermes, the winged messenger of the gods, in the Greco-Roman city of Aspendos. It was found alongside objects associated with other major deities in Greek mythology.   Turkish Archaeologists Uncover Fragmented Hermes Statue  ...
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Arduino Blog
Can this tiny lawn mower robot cut it in the real world? We’re finally starting to see robotic lawn mowers gain a little bit of traction as prices come down...
a year ago
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Can this tiny lawn mower robot cut it in the real world?

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

a year ago
We’re finally starting to see robotic lawn mowers gain a little bit of traction as prices come down and consumer trust goes up. They work a bit like Roomba vacuums and pathfinding sophistication varies from one model to the next. But even the most basic models are still a lot...
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balajis.com
No Cap Fed-killed banks took $100B+ from BTFP to stay afloat, but who's counting?
over a year ago
27

No Cap

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over a year ago
Fed-killed banks took $100B+ from BTFP to stay afloat, but who's counting?
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The Works in...
Notes on Progress: Representation and human history Do shrunken heads belong in a museum?
over a year ago
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Notes on Progress: Representation and human history

from The Works in Progress Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
Do shrunken heads belong in a museum?
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Rubenerd
#Japan2025 Exploring Akiba and Kinshichō Those of you who remember when I used to blog things that weren’t about travel, rejoice! This was...
a month ago
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#Japan2025 Exploring Akiba and Kinshichō

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a month ago
Those of you who remember when I used to blog things that weren’t about travel, rejoice! This was our last full day in Japan before we travel back to Australia, with heavy hearts and significantly heavier baggage. I’m at our local Doutor having a coffee and thinking back to how...
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Flashbak
Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
a year ago
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd

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a year ago
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
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Yale e360
A Decade After a Lead Crisis, Flint Has At Last Replaced Its Pipes A decade after Flint, Michigan, was beset by widespread lead contamination, officials confirmed the...
22 hours ago
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A Decade After a Lead Crisis, Flint Has At Last Replaced Its Pipes

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

22 hours ago
A decade after Flint, Michigan, was beset by widespread lead contamination, officials confirmed the city has replaced its lead pipes, as ordered by a federal court. Read more on E360 →
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Astral Codex Ten
Open Thread 358 ...
7 months ago
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Open Thread 358

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7 months ago
...
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Society's Backend:...
Always Be Networking The things you should know about effective networking
a year ago
100

Always Be Networking

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

a year ago
The things you should know about effective networking
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Notes at 45 As I sit squarely in my mid-40s, I’ve gained valuable perspectives, learnings, and understandings....
over a year ago
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✏️ Notes at 45

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

over a year ago
As I sit squarely in my mid-40s, I’ve gained valuable perspectives, learnings, and understandings. Here are some of them: People > things. In our current society, the deepening pit of materialism, capitalism, and an insatiable desire for more has become all-consuming. However,...
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Seth's Blog
The right marketing question The wrong question is, “our project isn’t catching on, how do we promote it better?” The right...
over a year ago
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The right marketing question

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

over a year ago
The wrong question is, “our project isn’t catching on, how do we promote it better?” The right question is a little more nuanced and far more important, “We’re seeking to make a change in part of the world. How do we find the right people and tell them the right (true) story that...
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Articles
How many units can you sell?
over a year ago
7

How many units can you sell?

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over a year ago
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Business Brainstorms
No agenda cold emails, dealership visits as a service, prompt money, the doing game. Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
over a year ago
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No agenda cold emails, dealership visits as a service, prompt money, the doing game.

from Business Brainstorms [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities Prompt Base has a list of the
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Eric Bailey
What the Web Still Is
over a year ago
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What the Web Still Is

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over a year ago
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Pre-1968 Batman climbs a skyscraper: Apparently, the Singer Building. Here’s a view of its top circa 1920:...
8 months ago
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It Looked Familiar: Pre-1968

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

8 months ago
Batman climbs a skyscraper: Apparently, the Singer Building. Here’s a view of its top circa 1920: And in 1967, with some scaffolding in place to begin its demolition:
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Seth's Blog
When the media is ready (Bongo part 2) Media isn’t a magazine or a website. It’s a system. We can learn to see the system and contribute to...
7 months ago
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When the media is ready (Bongo part 2)

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

7 months ago
Media isn’t a magazine or a website. It’s a system. We can learn to see the system and contribute to it with leverage. There are three elements to consider in a media system that’s worth a professional creator’s time: Systems are changed by technology. When desktop publishing...
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Calculated Risk
Q1 GDP Tracking: Wide Range NOTE: An update to the gold adjusted GDPNow will be released on March 26th. Based on the previous...
3 months ago
22

Q1 GDP Tracking: Wide Range

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

3 months ago
NOTE: An update to the gold adjusted GDPNow will be released on March 26th. Based on the previous adjustment, it appears GDPNow (adjusted) is slightly positive for Q1. (For more on the gold adjustment, see For GDP Forecasters, Some Gold Doesn't Glitter Our 1Q GDP tracking...
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wingolog
needed-bits optimizations in guile Hey all, I had a fun bug this week and want to share it with you. First, though, some background. ...
9 months ago
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needed-bits optimizations in guile

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9 months ago
Hey all, I had a fun bug this week and want to share it with you. First, though, some background. Guile’s numeric operations are defined over the complex numbers, not over e.g. a finite field of integers. This is generally great when writing an algorithm, because you don’t have...
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Making software...
This Site is Now a Shinobi Website This Site is Now a Shinobi Website 2022-05-13 Update 2023: this website is now built with barf My...
over a year ago
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This Site is Now a Shinobi Website

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

over a year ago
This Site is Now a Shinobi Website 2022-05-13 Update 2023: this website is now built with barf My personal website is now an RSS-focused blog, generated from a collection of plain text files. But before we get into greater details about the switch, let me first introduce the...
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Strange Loop Canon
Vibe Governing using llms to set policy
2 months ago
25

Vibe Governing

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2 months ago
using llms to set policy
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PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: PostHog vs Mixpanel Want to know how PostHog and Mixpanel are different? If you remember nothing else, remember these...
over a year ago
34

In-depth: PostHog vs Mixpanel

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

over a year ago
Want to know how PostHog and Mixpanel are different? If you remember nothing else, remember these two points: Mixpanel is a product analytics tool…
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Willem's Blog
The best bike computer app: Cyclemeter Collect advanced bike ride data using your smartphone connected to external Bluetooth sensors and a...
over a year ago
20

The best bike computer app: Cyclemeter

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

over a year ago
Collect advanced bike ride data using your smartphone connected to external Bluetooth sensors and a steer mounted display.
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High Signal
The Ultimate Guide to Social Proof Social proof is a powerful concept in marketing. It's the idea that as consumers, we are influenced...
a year ago
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The Ultimate Guide to Social Proof

from High Signal [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

a year ago
Social proof is a powerful concept in marketing. It's the idea that as consumers, we are influenced by what others do, especially people we admire. If you have ever seen a website mention its number of users, a review from a customer, or company logos, you've
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ByteofDev
10 ways to speed up web font loading Font loading can slow page load times significantly. This article shows you how to reduce the...
over a year ago
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10 ways to speed up web font loading

from ByteofDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Font loading can slow page load times significantly. This article shows you how to reduce the impact.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Always Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also you would not BELIEVE what the out-group...
11 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Always

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11 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also you would not BELIEVE what the out-group did. Today's News:
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Trying to Understand...
Out Of Control. Fear the worst, hope for the best.
8 months ago
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Out Of Control.

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8 months ago
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
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Applied Cartography
Becoming Trader Joe (Shout out to Red Queen Podcast for introducing me to this book.) Becoming Trader Joe is, more than...
5 months ago
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Becoming Trader Joe

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

5 months ago
(Shout out to Red Queen Podcast for introducing me to this book.) Becoming Trader Joe is, more than any other business book (certainly any other business memoir), a turpentine book. There is interesting philosophy and retrospective here — and Coloumbe, whether through earnestness...
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Noahpinion
At least five interesting things: Japan Trip edition (#61) Trump and Social Security; San Francisco corruption; Phones making us dumb; Ukraine and drones;...
3 months ago
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At least five interesting things: Japan Trip edition (#61)

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

3 months ago
Trump and Social Security; San Francisco corruption; Phones making us dumb; Ukraine and drones; Abundance stuff; Indian industrial policy; Steve Glinert on CHIPS reform
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Bryan Braun - Blog
Links #10 How to Get on a Podcast - This is a short and invaluable post for anyone who wants to be a podcast...
11 months ago
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Links #10

from Bryan Braun - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

11 months ago
How to Get on a Podcast - This is a short and invaluable post for anyone who wants to be a podcast guest. It puts you in the shoes of a podcaster, showing you what they need, and how you can be a “sure thing” for them. As usual, there are no short cuts. You gotta do the work! A...
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Londonist
BBC's Desert Island Discs Announces Live Palladium Shows Celebrating 80 years of the hit radio programme.
a year ago
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BBC's Desert Island Discs Announces Live Palladium Shows

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a year ago
Celebrating 80 years of the hit radio programme.
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
Tighter than Scum A mile of scum clung to the edges of the grocery store aisles. Every night the machine that waxed...
over a year ago
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Tighter than Scum

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

over a year ago
A mile of scum clung to the edges of the grocery store aisles. Every night the machine that waxed the floor spit excess gunk onto the baseboards. Hal Smith pondered the mess from above, perched in a cloud of cigarette smoke, surveying his store from behind mirrored glass.
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Seth's Blog
Success is not an option In any creative endeavor, it’s possible to define success as the big win, the moment when your...
a year ago
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Success is not an option

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

a year ago
In any creative endeavor, it’s possible to define success as the big win, the moment when your dreams match reality. Success is the end of imposter syndrome, stability and finally making it to the other side. By this definition, it’s clear that success isn’t going to happen. It’s...
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Abstruse Goose
camera crazy
over a year ago
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camera crazy

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over a year ago
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Adventures In...
How to add mist to terrain in ArcGIS Online There are lots of reasons to cloak your terrain in a fluffy ephemeral layer of mist. It gives an...
over a year ago
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How to add mist to terrain in ArcGIS Online

from Adventures In Mapping [alt+shift+b] in cartography

over a year ago
There are lots of reasons to cloak your terrain in a fluffy ephemeral layer of mist. It gives an overall sense of the slope and elevation trends in your view, it showcases meandering river valleys in a charming realism, hilltops peak through with clarity and drama…and it just...
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./techtipsy
Recovering a password-protected ThinkPad T60 A couple of years ago, I worked on a ThinkPad T60. That ThinkPad had been in use by a family member...
over a year ago
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Recovering a password-protected ThinkPad T60

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
A couple of years ago, I worked on a ThinkPad T60. That ThinkPad had been in use by a family member before that, and I started its cleanup by disassembling the whole machine and making sure that it was pristine. However, once I put it all back together, I saw that it was password...
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Herbert Lui
Why applying to 100+ jobs doesn’t work When I was entering the job market in early 2023, I caught up with my friend Fadeke. She had just...
4 months ago
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Why applying to 100+ jobs doesn’t work

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

4 months ago
When I was entering the job market in early 2023, I caught up with my friend Fadeke. She had just started a really good job at DigitalOcean. She shared her process with me, and let me know that she did fewer than 20 job applications. This quantity was a really helpful anchor for...
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Open Culture
Ken Burns’ New Documentary on Leonardo da Vinci Streaming Online (in the US) for a Limited Time A quick heads up: The filmmaker Ken Burns has just released his new documentary on Leonardo da...
7 months ago
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Ken Burns’ New Documentary on Leonardo da Vinci Streaming Online (in the US) for a Limited Time

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

7 months ago
A quick heads up: The filmmaker Ken Burns has just released his new documentary on Leonardo da Vinci. Running nearly four hours, the film offers what The New York Times calls a “thorough and engrossing biography” of the 15th-century polymath. Currently airing on PBS, the film can...
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
Burst Damage Soundtrack: Masters of Reality - High Noon Amsterdam I have said almost everything in this piece in...
11 months ago
95

Burst Damage

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups

11 months ago
Soundtrack: Masters of Reality - High Noon Amsterdam I have said almost everything in this piece in every one of these articles for months. I am not upset, but just stating an obvious truth. The current state of affairs effectively pushes against the boundaries of good sense,...
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Chris Nicholas
Integrate Twitter newsletters with API Routes Last week newsletters started popping up on Twitter profiles, using their recently purchased...
over a year ago
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Integrate Twitter newsletters with API Routes

from Chris Nicholas [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Last week newsletters started popping up on Twitter profiles, using their recently purchased service, Revue.
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Ryan Hoover's...
2015, the year I fell in love with music
over a year ago
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2015, the year I fell in love with music

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over a year ago
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Flashbak
The Mystery Remains: Found Kodachrome Photos From 1960s San Francisco In 2020, David Gallagher, who runs SF Memory, opened a cabinet found abandoned in San Francisco’s...
3 months ago
30

The Mystery Remains: Found Kodachrome Photos From 1960s San Francisco

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
In 2020, David Gallagher, who runs SF Memory, opened a cabinet found abandoned in San Francisco’s Mission District, somewhere around Tiffany and Duncan streets. Inside were 920 Kodachrome slides by a then unknown photographer capturing life in the city throughout the 1960s. They...
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Anecdotal Evidence
"This, Books Can Do . . ." At age ten I attended the grand opening of the new public library in Parma Heights, Ohio, within...
4 months ago
27

"This, Books Can Do . . ."

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

4 months ago
At age ten I attended the grand opening of the new public library in Parma Heights, Ohio, within easy walking distance of our house. Next door was Yorktown Lanes, the bowling alley dedicated two years earlier. Across the road was the municipal swimming pool where my mother had...
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Seth's Blog
All species are invasive species Human beings as we know them have only been around for 70,000 years or so. Honeybees got to North...
a year ago
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All species are invasive species

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

a year ago
Human beings as we know them have only been around for 70,000 years or so. Honeybees got to North America around the time Columbus did. And the same is true for technologies and companies. Western Union was an interloper, telegrams were the scary new tech that was going to change...
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Not Boring by Packy...
Weekly Dose of Optimism #139 Dire Wolves, Base Power, ZBB Regulation, Zipline, Amca, Solano Shipyard
2 months ago
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #139

from Not Boring by Packy McCormick [alt+shift+b] in creative

2 months ago
Dire Wolves, Base Power, ZBB Regulation, Zipline, Amca, Solano Shipyard
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Ben Borgers
FileCopy
7 months ago
29

FileCopy

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7 months ago
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The personal website...
Intuition vs. data At a time when data is king, product designers should place more trust in their intuition. Recently...
over a year ago
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Intuition vs. data

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

over a year ago
At a time when data is king, product designers should place more trust in their intuition. Recently I attended Front, a product management conference in Salt Lake City. There, Maggie Crowley, product manager for a company called Drift, presented a case study in redesigning a...
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xkcd.com
Flatten the Planets
over a year ago
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Flatten the Planets

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over a year ago
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Ognjen Regoje •...
A review of the blog in 2023 2023 was a busy year so I did not spend a lot of time blogging, unfortunately. It was only in...
a year ago
28

A review of the blog in 2023

from Ognjen Regoje • ognjen.io [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
2023 was a busy year so I did not spend a lot of time blogging, unfortunately. It was only in December that I had meaningful time for writing. In the 2022 review I set a few targets for the blog in 2023: Targets for 2023 ❎ Publish at least 40 posts 14 ✅ Reach at least 150k...
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SOCKS
“I called them Ghosts”. Visual Poems and Sequences by George Wylesol George Wylesol is a Baltimore-based artist who primarily produces illustrations and comic-like...
a year ago
102

“I called them Ghosts”. Visual Poems and Sequences by George Wylesol

from SOCKS [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
George Wylesol is a Baltimore-based artist who primarily produces illustrations and comic-like sequences of drawings, often accompanied by written text in the form of short poems. His works blend mundane objects and settings with surreal plots and visual associations, resulting...
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Computer Ads from...
Gould Electronic's PowerNode 6000 The Firebreathers from Gould blast the competition into oblivion.
11 months ago
94

Gould Electronic's PowerNode 6000

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

11 months ago
The Firebreathers from Gould blast the competition into oblivion.
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Stat Significant
The Rise of Faith-Based Films: A Statistical Analysis The economics and origins of the faith-based film industry.
9 months ago
23

The Rise of Faith-Based Films: A Statistical Analysis

from Stat Significant [alt+shift+b] in creative

9 months ago
The economics and origins of the faith-based film industry.
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TheCollector
Who Was Leo Strauss? (Bio and Philosophy) Leo Strauss was not just an ordinary philosopher or political thinker; his influence spanned...
2 months ago
22

Who Was Leo Strauss? (Bio and Philosophy)

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago
Leo Strauss was not just an ordinary philosopher or political thinker; his influence spanned continents and still generates discussion long after he died in 1973. So, who exactly was Leo Strauss? By delving into his time at the University of Chicago, how he approached classic...
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Noahpinion
There's not that much wealth in the world A little-understood fact.
11 months ago
70

There's not that much wealth in the world

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11 months ago
A little-understood fact.
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xkcd.com
Paleontology Museum
over a year ago
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Paleontology Museum

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over a year ago
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TheCollector
How Did People Track Time Before Clocks? Humans’ age-old desire to tell time has helped propel the rise of more advanced time-telling tools....
a week ago
3

How Did People Track Time Before Clocks?

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

a week ago
Humans’ age-old desire to tell time has helped propel the rise of more advanced time-telling tools. The need to track the different parts of the day and night led people in ancient civilizations, such as those in Greece and Egypt, to develop water clocks, sundials, and other...
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Willem's Blog
Helping people with free software This week I helped a man with repairing and reinstalling his computer with Debian GNU/Linux.
over a year ago
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Helping people with free software

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

over a year ago
This week I helped a man with repairing and reinstalling his computer with Debian GNU/Linux.
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Rest of World -...
Indonesia, home to the world’s largest nickel reserves, struggles to achieve its EV dreams China’s growing involvement and the rapid shift to lithium batteries dissuade investors.
5 months ago
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Indonesia, home to the world’s largest nickel reserves, struggles to achieve its EV dreams

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

5 months ago
China’s growing involvement and the rapid shift to lithium batteries dissuade investors.
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The American Scholar
Caprock Adventures worth the silence The post Caprock appeared first on The American Scholar.
a year ago
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Caprock

from The American Scholar [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
Adventures worth the silence The post Caprock appeared first on The American Scholar.
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xkcd.com
Sail Physics
a month ago
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Sail Physics

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a month ago
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Herbert Lui
Micro-meditations When you make just a few seconds of space between stimulus and response, you create an option to...
3 months ago
27

Micro-meditations

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

3 months ago
When you make just a few seconds of space between stimulus and response, you create an option to respond intentionally. Imagine closing your eyes for as little as 15 to 30 seconds. Questlove calls this a micro-meditation, describing it in his book Creative Quest, “In some way, if...
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Jonas Hietala
Trying and returning the Eight Sleep Pod 4 I recently bought the Eight Sleep Pod 4—a smart mattress cover that tracks your heart rate, HRV,...
9 months ago
27

Trying and returning the Eight Sleep Pod 4

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

9 months ago
I recently bought the Eight Sleep Pod 4—a smart mattress cover that tracks your heart rate, HRV, snoring, and cools or warms the mattress during the night. There’s a lot to like about the mattress but in the end I opted to return it. This post describes my experience with the Pod...
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Citation Needed
Privacy, human rights, and Tornado Cash I am more worried about privacy than crypto crime.
a year ago
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Privacy, human rights, and Tornado Cash

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a year ago
I am more worried about privacy than crypto crime.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'And Then, Look Up!' Robert Conquest begins his poem “Nocturne” with a challenge to convention and cliché: “’Broad...
4 months ago
18

'And Then, Look Up!'

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

4 months ago
Robert Conquest begins his poem “Nocturne” with a challenge to convention and cliché: “’Broad Daylight’ – words you speak or write / Imputing narrowness to Night?’” Seven sections follow, including the second:  “Night’s only moonlit, starlit, yet See from that...
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Retail Design Blog
Factory Coffee HQ by TasteSpace Co., Ltd. Factory HQ
A Modern Industrial-Style Coffee Shop and Office Redefining Functional Aesthetics Design...
4 months ago
37

Factory Coffee HQ by TasteSpace Co., Ltd.

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

4 months ago
Factory HQ
A Modern Industrial-Style Coffee Shop and Office Redefining Functional Aesthetics Design Concept
Inspired by industrial factory aesthetics, Factory HQ seamlessly...
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Epic Web Dev
Let's talk about the future of Remix and react-router (tip) We go over the "Wake up, Remix!" article by the remix team and talk about their decisions moving...
a month ago
14

Let's talk about the future of Remix and react-router (tip)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

a month ago
We go over the "Wake up, Remix!" article by the remix team and talk about their decisions moving forward and also speculate on what is coming next.
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Yale e360
In a First, Chimps Found Sharing Fermented Fruit For the first time, wild chimpanzees have been caught on film sharing fermented fruit. The footage...
2 months ago
8

In a First, Chimps Found Sharing Fermented Fruit

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

2 months ago
For the first time, wild chimpanzees have been caught on film sharing fermented fruit. The footage comes from Cantanhez National Park in the West African nation of Guinea-Bissau, where camera traps recorded chimps eating fermented breadfruit together on 10 separate...
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Blog posts of...
How to use Gmail more efficiently I usually I blog about Angellist but I have shown this “lifehack” to so many people that I thought...
over a year ago
21

How to use Gmail more efficiently

from Blog posts of Andreas Klinger [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
I usually I blog about Angellist but I have shown this “lifehack” to so many people that I thought it’s worth it’s own blogpost...
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Matt Blewitt
7 Languages in 7 Weeks for 2025 It’s been over 14 years since the original 7 Languages in 7 Weeks was first published, giving a...
7 months ago
40

7 Languages in 7 Weeks for 2025

from Matt Blewitt [alt+shift+b] in technology

7 months ago
It’s been over 14 years since the original 7 Languages in 7 Weeks was first published, giving a hands on tour of Ruby, Clojure, Haskell, Io, Scala, Erlang and Prolog. Ruby achieved critical mass, to some degree so did Scala, with the others being popular within their specific...
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TheCollector
What Do We Actually Know about Hieronymus Bosch? Unlike some artists, Hieronymus Bosch was famous in his own time and inspired a generation of...
3 weeks ago
9

What Do We Actually Know about Hieronymus Bosch?

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 weeks ago
Unlike some artists, Hieronymus Bosch was famous in his own time and inspired a generation of artists with his groundbreaking style and unusual subject matter. Even in his pieces that seem more straightforward and less fantastical, Bosch often wove in nuanced layers of meaning,...
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Posts on Made of...
Lightweight Linux Kernel Development with KVM I don’t do a ton of Linux kernel development these days, but I’ve done a fair bit in the past, and...
over a year ago
13

Lightweight Linux Kernel Development with KVM

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

over a year ago
I don’t do a ton of Linux kernel development these days, but I’ve done a fair bit in the past, and picked up a number of useful techniques for doing kernel development in a relatively painless fashion. This blog post is a writeup of the tools and techniques I use when developing...
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A Beautiful Site
Generate random passwords in PHP Here is a function I wrote to generate a random string in PHP. It is probably most useful for...
over a year ago
37

Generate random passwords in PHP

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

over a year ago
Here is a function I wrote to generate a random string in PHP. It is probably most useful for generating passwords. You can specify the length of the resulting string, as well as what characters are allowed. The default length is eight and the default character set is...
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David Crawshaw
2014-07-28
over a year ago
12

2014-07-28

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over a year ago
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Flashbak
Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice “The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
a year ago
27

Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice

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a year ago
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin   Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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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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ghc 8.8.3 cannot find cabal 3.0.0.0 packages

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

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...
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bt RSS Feed
New Domain and Code Forge New Domain and Code Forge 2024-01-29 As you can clearly see, my site’s domain has switched over to...
a year ago
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New Domain and Code Forge

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

a year ago
New Domain and Code Forge 2024-01-29 As you can clearly see, my site’s domain has switched over to btxx.org. This post will go into details about the reason for this URL swap (spoilers: I’m a cheapskate) - but that isn’t all. I have moved my personal git repositories over to my...
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Retail Design Blog
Meng Du Hui Restaurant by Tanzo Space Design In December 2023, on the southern side of the Wanshou Hotel, Meng Du Hui: New Huizhou Cuisine...
7 months ago
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Meng Du Hui Restaurant by Tanzo Space Design

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

7 months ago
In December 2023, on the southern side of the Wanshou Hotel, Meng Du Hui: New Huizhou Cuisine welcomed its first...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Are Electric Vehicles Worth It One of the key components of the plan to get our civilization to net zero by 2050 is to transform...
a year ago
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Are Electric Vehicles Worth It

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
One of the key components of the plan to get our civilization to net zero by 2050 is to transform the motor vehicle fleet into all electric vehicles (EVs). This is a worthy goal, as it would eliminate burning gasoline for transportation. In fact it’s necessary if we want to get...
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Classical Wisdom
The Mysterious Phaistos Disk And the Palace where it was found...
over a year ago
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The Mysterious Phaistos Disk

from Classical Wisdom [alt+shift+b] in history

over a year ago
And the Palace where it was found...
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Society's Backend:...
Taking the AI to Consumers The Google Pixel 8 Pro is a much bigger deal than you think
a year ago
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Taking the AI to Consumers

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

a year ago
The Google Pixel 8 Pro is a much bigger deal than you think
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Wanderingspace
Eclipse 2024 from Space https://twitter.com/ThePlanetaryGuy
a year ago
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Eclipse 2024 from Space

from Wanderingspace [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
https://twitter.com/ThePlanetaryGuy
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Proving Binaries Heydon Pickering has an intriguing video dealing with the question: “Why is everything binary?” The...
3 months ago
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Proving Binaries

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

3 months ago
Heydon Pickering has an intriguing video dealing with the question: “Why is everything binary?” The gist of the video, to me, distills to this insight: The idea that [everything] belongs to one of two archetypes is seductive in its simplicity, so we base everything that we do and...
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alexwlchan
Tag your infrastructure-as-code resources with a link to their definitions The aspiration of infrastructure-as-code tools is that you use them to manage everything. You create...
a year ago
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Tag your infrastructure-as-code resources with a link to their definitions

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
The aspiration of infrastructure-as-code tools is that you use them to manage everything. You create all your resources by writing a file that defines them, and any time you change something, you update the definition in that file. It’s a nice idea, but easier said than...
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Both Are True
A link to my daily log as a person who is offline here it is
a year ago
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A link to my daily log as a person who is offline

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

a year ago
here it is
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Herman's blog
Forced to upgrade On finally having to upgrade my iPhone
7 months ago
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Forced to upgrade

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

7 months ago
On finally having to upgrade my iPhone
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Entrepreneur's Edge
Recommended Books A collection of books that have changed how I think about the world.
over a year ago
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Recommended Books

from Entrepreneur's Edge [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
A collection of books that have changed how I think about the world.
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Joel Gascoigne
Work and rest in a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’m writing this...
over a year ago
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Work and rest in a startup

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

over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’m writing this from Javea, Spain [http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=javea,+spain&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Javea,+Province+of+Alicante,+Valencia,+Spain&gl=uk&t=h&z=12] . I arrived here a couple of days...
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Rest of World -...
A changing tech landscape makes for weird birthdays online As social media as we know it crumbles around us, birthday greetings have become the province of...
over a year ago
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A changing tech landscape makes for weird birthdays online

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

over a year ago
As social media as we know it crumbles around us, birthday greetings have become the province of aunties and corporations.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - God Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is why He stopped answering prayers. Today's...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - God

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

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is why He stopped answering prayers. Today's News:
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Christopher Butler
What happens when the computers disappear? The computer has become a primary dependency of civilization without being nearly as enmeshed in...
over a year ago
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What happens when the computers disappear?

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

over a year ago
The computer has become a primary dependency of civilization without being nearly as enmeshed in daily life as it will be. What happens when the computers disappear? Not, of course, when there are no more computers, but when they are so ubiquitous and omnipresent that we can...
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bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, April 2023 The Ware for April 2023 is shown below. Another PCB with a funny shape, this time from a different...
over a year ago
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Name that Ware, April 2023

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

over a year ago
The Ware for April 2023 is shown below. Another PCB with a funny shape, this time from a different era…but what does it do? Thanks to artemb for contributing this ware!
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Should Social Determinants Come From Payers and Providers? | Out-Of-Pocket I've got some questions
a year ago
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Should Social Determinants Come From Payers and Providers? | Out-Of-Pocket

from Out-of-Pocket Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
I've got some questions
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
Nike's Two-Hour Marathon and the Source of Sensational Failure If Eliud Kipchoge's run had been one second per mile faster Eliud would be the man who did the...
over a year ago
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Nike's Two-Hour Marathon and the Source of Sensational Failure

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

over a year ago
If Eliud Kipchoge's run had been one second per mile faster Eliud would be the man who did the impossible. Instead, he is a loser. Or maybe we are the ones who are losing.
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Retail Design Blog
GUESS FLAGSHIP STORE – LAS VEGAS Located in the heart of Las Vegas at The Forum Shops within Caesars Palace, the 1,153 sqm Guess...
3 weeks ago
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GUESS FLAGSHIP STORE – LAS VEGAS

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

3 weeks ago
Located in the heart of Las Vegas at The Forum Shops within Caesars Palace, the 1,153 sqm Guess flagship store...
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Open Culture
George Harrison Explains Why Everyone Should Play the Ukulele George Harrison loved the ukulele, and really, what’s not to love? For its dainty size, the uke can...
8 months ago
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George Harrison Explains Why Everyone Should Play the Ukulele

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

8 months ago
George Harrison loved the ukulele, and really, what’s not to love? For its dainty size, the uke can make a powerfully cheerful sound, and it’s an instrument both beginners and expert players can learn and easily carry around. As Harrison’s old friend Joe Brown remarked, “You can...
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./techtipsy
LattePanda V1 - my experience with a Raspberry Pi alternative As with many homelab experiments around 2022/2023, it all started with Raspberry Pi-s being either...
over a year ago
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LattePanda V1 - my experience with a Raspberry Pi alternative

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
As with many homelab experiments around 2022/2023, it all started with Raspberry Pi-s being either out of stock or absurdly overpriced. I once noticed a listing for a LattePanda V1 on a local auction site. The price was reasonable at 45 EUR, and after I looked at the...
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Calculated Risk
MBA Survey: Share of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Decreases to 0.40% in January From the MBA: Share of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Decreases to 0.40% in January The Mortgage...
4 months ago
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MBA Survey: Share of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Decreases to 0.40% in January

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

4 months ago
From the MBA: Share of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Decreases to 0.40% in January The Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) monthly Loan Monitoring Survey revealed that the total number of loans now in forbearance decreased by 7 basis points from 0.47% of servicers’ portfolio...
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alexwlchan
Looking at images in a spreadsheet I’ve had a couple of projects recently where I needed to work with a list that involved images. For...
5 months ago
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Looking at images in a spreadsheet

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

5 months ago
I’ve had a couple of projects recently where I needed to work with a list that involved images. For example, choosing a series of photos to print, or making an inventory of Lego parts. I could write a simple text list, but it’s really helpful to be able to see the images as part...
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37signals Dev
Navigating personal information with care Accessing personal information from customers is a serious matter. With the launch of HEY in 2020,...
a year ago
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Navigating personal information with care

from 37signals Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Accessing personal information from customers is a serious matter. With the launch of HEY in 2020, we developed some technology and processes to support a very simple principle: employees shouldn’t have access — intentionally or unintentionally — to personal information from our...
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Rest of World -...
Africa fell in love with crypto. Now… it’s complicated Trust is fading, startups are shutting down, and Web3 workers are reconsidering their career...
over a year ago
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Africa fell in love with crypto. Now… it’s complicated

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

over a year ago
Trust is fading, startups are shutting down, and Web3 workers are reconsidering their career choices.
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Twelve Mile Circle –...
Costa Rica, Part 6 (Beyond the Beach) My flirtation with idleness ended. I simply couldn’t sit around Tamarindo another day doing nothing...
a year ago
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Costa Rica, Part 6 (Beyond the Beach)

from Twelve Mile Circle – An Appreciation of Unusual Places [alt+shift+b] in cartography

a year ago
My flirtation with idleness ended. I simply couldn’t sit around Tamarindo another day doing nothing or I’d grow increasingly frustrated. So the relaxation was fine for awhile but now I needed to find something else to do. Surfing lessons didn’t seem like a thing for me but plenty...
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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...
8 months ago
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The Counter, Tunbridge Wells

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

8 months 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....
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Joel Gascoigne
The Heartbeat Podcast with Claire Lew I recently the pleasure of being interviewed on the Heartbeat Podcast by Claire Lew. Listen above,...
over a year ago
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The Heartbeat Podcast with Claire Lew

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

over a year ago
I recently the pleasure of being interviewed on the Heartbeat Podcast by Claire Lew. Listen above, and check out the full transcript.
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Don Melton
Sorry, we’re closed For reasons that will soon become obvious, I’m shutting the doors on this website. Everything will...
over a year ago
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Sorry, we’re closed

from Don Melton [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
For reasons that will soon become obvious, I’m shutting the doors on this website. Everything will remain online for now, but I don’t plan on returning to write anything new here. Not that I’ve added any content in almost two years anyway. I still have a passion for making...
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Diaries of Note
Art is local On 24th October 1967, American painter Raphael Soyer found himself standing amidst a lifetime of his...
a year ago
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Art is local

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

a year ago
On 24th October 1967, American painter Raphael Soyer found himself standing amidst a lifetime of his creations at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born in Russia in 1899, Soyer emigrated to the U.S. with his family in 1912, eventually becoming a prominent figure in the Social...
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blag
Snapshot Testing A smoll intro to snapshot testing
a year ago
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Snapshot Testing

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
A smoll intro to snapshot testing
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bt RSS Feed
Basic Gulp Build for Sass Basic Gulp Build for Sass 2019-01-15 Some designers might shy away from build tools when first...
over a year ago
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Basic Gulp Build for Sass

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

over a year ago
Basic Gulp Build for Sass 2019-01-15 Some designers might shy away from build tools when first starting out and I can understand the reasoning - task runners like gulp and grunt can seem daunting at first. So, I’ve decided to showcase my go-to setup for gulp and explain what the...
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Machine Learning for...
Weekly ML for SWEs #12: The easiest way to keep up with ML and AI research papers An AI reading list curated to make you a better engineer: 6-17-25
2 weeks ago
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Weekly ML for SWEs #12: The easiest way to keep up with ML and AI research papers

from Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

2 weeks ago
An AI reading list curated to make you a better engineer: 6-17-25
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Christopher Butler
object – Bedside Lamp It’s not smart, but it dims. We briefly dabbled with smart-bulbs in our house. It did not go...
over a year ago
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object – Bedside Lamp

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

over a year ago
It’s not smart, but it dims. We briefly dabbled with smart-bulbs in our house. It did not go well. Why we make these things, I do not know. Why is controlling a lamp with your phone better than with your hands? What I noticed after creating a smart light array in our house...
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Carl Barenbrug RSS...
12 Things to Live Without In 2018 I undertook a social experiment to see if I was self-disciplined and self-aware enough to...
over a year ago
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12 Things to Live Without

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

over a year ago
In 2018 I undertook a social experiment to see if I was self-disciplined and self-aware enough to live without 12 things. These 12 things would last just one month at a time between January–December, with the intention of identifying whether or not doing without these things...
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Nabeel S. Qureshi
Advice That Actually Worked For Me My contribution to the 'productivity advice' genre.
over a year ago
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Advice That Actually Worked For Me

from Nabeel S. Qureshi [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
My contribution to the 'productivity advice' genre.
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TheCollector
How Did Carl Jung Influence Creative Art Therapy? Painting, writing, and dancing are not only mediums of art, but also channels through which our...
3 months ago
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How Did Carl Jung Influence Creative Art Therapy?

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
Painting, writing, and dancing are not only mediums of art, but also channels through which our innermost self can speak. By the beginning of the 19th century, Carl Jung discovered that creative expression can uncover the unconscious activities of the mind. Based on his personal...
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bt RSS Feed
Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line 2022-09-20 Installing custom fonts is a...
over a year ago
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Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line

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

over a year ago
Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line 2022-09-20 Installing custom fonts is a fairly streamlined feature on operating systems like MacOS and Windows. Linux, on the other hand, struggles to make this workflow easy for everyday users. Many newcomers tend to get...
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Notes on software...
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 6. an x86 upgrade Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables ...
over a year ago
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Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 6. an x86 upgrade

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

over a year ago
Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables 3. LLVM 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci 5. LLVM system calls This post upgrades the ulisp x86 backend from using a limited set of registers (with no spilling...
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The Marginalian
Between Encyclopedia and Fairy Tale: The Wondrous Birds and Reptiles of 18th-Century Artist Dorothea... Imagine a world of constant wars and deadly plagues, a world without eyeglasses, bicycles, or...
9 months ago
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Between Encyclopedia and Fairy Tale: The Wondrous Birds and Reptiles of 18th-Century Artist Dorothea Graff

from The Marginalian [alt+shift+b] in literature

9 months ago
Imagine a world of constant wars and deadly plagues, a world without eyeglasses, bicycles, or sanitation. Imagine being a gifted child in that world, knowing you are born into a body that will never be granted the basic rights of citizenship in any country, into a mind that will...
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TheCollector
Nochlin’s “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”: A Summary When art dealer Richard Feigen asked Linda Nochlin in 1970, “Why are there no great women artists?”...
a month ago
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Nochlin’s “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”: A Summary

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

a month ago
When art dealer Richard Feigen asked Linda Nochlin in 1970, “Why are there no great women artists?” he inspired her groundbreaking essay with a similar title published in ARTnews in January 1971. Were women not capable of artistic greatness? Were there, in fact, great women...
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macwright.com
Recently Listening My friend Dave Infante has been busy – he launched his own beer-centric podcast, Taplines,...
over a year ago
80

Recently

from macwright.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Listening My friend Dave Infante has been busy – he launched his own beer-centric podcast, Taplines, and guest-starred on the enormous Chapo Trap House podcast. Reading It’s been a slow few weeks for books, but since I skipped Recently in May, I can still talk about Achieving...
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Liz Denys
On the Fearless Girl, what constitutes art, authorial intent, and the patriarchy A little over a month ago, Kristen Visbal's Fearless Girl statue was placed face to face with...
over a year ago
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On the Fearless Girl, what constitutes art, authorial intent, and the patriarchy

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
A little over a month ago, Kristen Visbal's Fearless Girl statue was placed face to face with Charging Bull statue in Manhattan's Financial District: Moody Man's photo of Fearless Girl Anthony Quintano's photo of Fearless Girl facing Charging Bull But she wasn't...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'All of Time is Cut in Two—Before and After' Rhina Espaillat writes the sonnet “How Like a Winter . . .” (And After All: Poems, 2018) in...
a month ago
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'All of Time is Cut in Two—Before and After'

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

a month ago
Rhina Espaillat writes the sonnet “How Like a Winter . . .” (And After All: Poems, 2018) in response to Shakespeare’s Sonnet 17:  “So Shakespeare describes absence. Yes—but no, since every winter ends, gentling to spring’s tentative yellows, then the green and blue and bolder...
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sbensu
Language thought-orientation You can tell a lot from somebody based on their speech patterns
5 months ago
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Language thought-orientation

from sbensu [alt+shift+b] in literature

5 months ago
You can tell a lot from somebody based on their speech patterns
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The Codist
I Am Happy Not To Be A Web Developer Anymore I wrote my first single-page web app in Javascript in 2005, right after learning about...
a year ago
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I Am Happy Not To Be A Web Developer Anymore

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

a year ago
I wrote my first single-page web app in Javascript in 2005, right after learning about XMLHttpRequest and before any serious frameworks existed. I left professional web development behind around 2009 (I started in 1997 with WebObjects) and spent the final decade of my career...
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Unpacked
Epic Games, Google and App Store Monopolies In a surprise win for the makers of Fortnite, a jury ruled that Google engaged in anti-competitive...
a year ago
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Epic Games, Google and App Store Monopolies

from Unpacked [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
In a surprise win for the makers of Fortnite, a jury ruled that Google engaged in anti-competitive conduct by suppressing other app stores and banning alternate payments
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Seth's Blog
Fire inspectors Running into a burning building is heroic work. Keeping buildings from burning down in the first...
10 months ago
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Fire inspectors

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

10 months ago
Running into a burning building is heroic work. Keeping buildings from burning down in the first place is actually just as important. And it scales more reliably.
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Construction Physics
The Grid, Part IV: The Hard and Soft Paths of Energy Strategy Today, the electrical grid has over 500,000 miles of high-voltage transmission lines and 5 million...
over a year ago
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The Grid, Part IV: The Hard and Soft Paths of Energy Strategy

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

over a year ago
Today, the electrical grid has over 500,000 miles of high-voltage transmission lines and 5 million miles of lower voltage distribution lines, which supply power from nearly 6,000 large power plants. Together, this system supplies more than 4 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity...
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Greater Still by...
Web3’s Mobile Moment In 2013, media & technology analyst Benedict Evans presented “Mobile is eating the world,” looking...
over a year ago
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Web3’s Mobile Moment

from Greater Still by Gaby Goldberg [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
In 2013, media & technology analyst Benedict Evans presented “Mobile is eating the world,” looking at how the unprecedented scale of mobile was beginning to change the Internet and the economy at large.
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Noahpinion
Some thoughts on where the war in Ukraine is headed And some perspective on what's happened already.
a year ago
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Some thoughts on where the war in Ukraine is headed

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a year ago
And some perspective on what's happened already.
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Diaries of Note
When I die I shall go to May British gardener Monty Don has been educating and inspiring the British public for decades through...
over a year ago
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When I die I shall go to May

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

over a year ago
British gardener Monty Don has been educating and inspiring the British public for decades through his love of nature, beginning in 1989 with a television debut that ultimately led to him presenting BBC’s much-loved Gardener’s World. It was shortly after he became a broadcaster...
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Chris Grossack's...
Talk -- What is Factorization Homology? I was recently invited to speak at the AMS Sectional in Tallahassee, Florida. In particular, at the...
a year ago
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Talk -- What is Factorization Homology?

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

a year ago
I was recently invited to speak at the AMS Sectional in Tallahassee, Florida. In particular, at the special session on Homotopy Theory and Category Theory in Interaction. The conference was this weekend, and I’m typing this up on my plane ride home. I had a great time, and...
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Seth's Blog
Use a lot of words Verbosity is the new brevity. Google felt like a miracle. We could type just a word or two (“blog“)...
a week ago
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Use a lot of words

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

a week ago
Verbosity is the new brevity. Google felt like a miracle. We could type just a word or two (“blog“) and it would magically guess what we wanted and take us there. This shortcut spread from Google to the search built into online shopping as well. How convenient. A few words and...
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Casey Handmer's blog
Why do we need a Department of Government Efficiency? President Trump’s recent sweeping electoral victory is a clear mandate for change. There is some...
7 months ago
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Why do we need a Department of Government Efficiency?

from Casey Handmer's blog [alt+shift+b] in science

7 months ago
President Trump’s recent sweeping electoral victory is a clear mandate for change. There is some urgency, and Trump has assembled the early stages of a team and coalition that can deliver it. It’s not exactly a mystery what Elon and Vivek plan for The Department of Government...
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 Probably Riding Hello. I’m probably riding my bike. Visit original link → or View on nazhamid.com →
11 months ago
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🔗 Probably Riding

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

11 months ago
Hello. I’m probably riding my bike. Visit original link → or View on nazhamid.com →
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./techtipsy
Things I've learned during my self-hosting adventure This is a list of lessons that I’ve learned while playing around with my computer setup during the...
over a year ago
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Things I've learned during my self-hosting adventure

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
This is a list of lessons that I’ve learned while playing around with my computer setup during the last 6-7 years or so. USB connected storage is a bad idea when you are using BTRFS. USB connected storage is still a bad idea when you are using ZFS, but it is at least much more...
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Internal Tech Emails
Google looks at acquiring YouTube can I get a quick analysis of the likely cost of acquiring youtube? Eric
over a year ago
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Google looks at acquiring YouTube

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over a year ago
can I get a quick analysis of the likely cost of acquiring youtube? Eric
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Unfiltered by Tim...
Being a High Performer Is Lonely as Hell It's also the best feeling in the world
8 months ago
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Being a High Performer Is Lonely as Hell

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8 months ago
It's also the best feeling in the world
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Abort Retry Fail
The History of the IBM 5100 IBM's First Personal Computer
a year ago
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The History of the IBM 5100

from Abort Retry Fail [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
IBM's First Personal Computer
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Tech + Economics +...
What are the conservatives going to do - talk to each other? The fundamental truth at the heart of right-wing communities: the satisfaction derived from...
a year ago
27

What are the conservatives going to do - talk to each other?

from Tech + Economics + Humans [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
The fundamental truth at the heart of right-wing communities: the satisfaction derived from sharing their viewpoints and beliefs is intrinsically linked to the presence of a progressive adversary who will respond to them. It's not the platform that matters, nor the freedom...
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Oykun
2023 Letter with 10 Lessons Write I've been writing for years, however, I gave the focus it deserved in 2023 as I felt the urge...
a year ago
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2023 Letter with 10 Lessons

from Oykun [alt+shift+b] in design

a year ago
Write I've been writing for years, however, I gave the focus it deserved in 2023 as I felt the urge to express my ideas more in words than colours and shapes. I didn’t resist the urge and I have seen amazing benefits. Articulating my ideas, feelings,
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Business Brainstorms
A/B QR, how to run a business, airport rides, high-growth Asia-Pacific companies, lessons from Keith... Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
a year ago
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A/B QR, how to run a business, airport rides, high-growth Asia-Pacific companies, lessons from Keith Rabois

from Business Brainstorms [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “i want to go to a doctor that will run every single...
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Open Culture
Hear the Very First Adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 in a Radio Play Starring David Niven (1949) Since George Orwell published his landmark political fable 1984, each generation has found ample...
10 months ago
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Hear the Very First Adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 in a Radio Play Starring David Niven (1949)

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

10 months ago
Since George Orwell published his landmark political fable 1984, each generation has found ample reason to make reference to the grim near-future envisioned by the novel. Whether Orwell had some prophetic vision or was simply a very astute reader of the institutions of his...
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Articles
What raves and software have in common
over a year ago
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What raves and software have in common

from Articles [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
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Rest of World -...
Indian government gives itself the power to “fact-check” and delete social media posts Journalists, opposition parties, and advocacy groups are worried what this “absolute power” means...
over a year ago
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Indian government gives itself the power to “fact-check” and delete social media posts

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

over a year ago
Journalists, opposition parties, and advocacy groups are worried what this “absolute power” means for press freedom in India.
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Retail Design Blog
HIMACS sets the perfect scene for the artisanal excellence of La Pastisseria Barcelona La Pastisseria Barcelona, run by the award-winning artisan couple Josep Maria Rodríguez Guerola and...
4 months ago
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HIMACS sets the perfect scene for the artisanal excellence of La Pastisseria Barcelona

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

4 months ago
La Pastisseria Barcelona, run by the award-winning artisan couple Josep Maria Rodríguez Guerola and Ana Jarquín has been completely renovated....
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NeuroLogica Blog
GMOs May Save Florida Citrus Citrus greening (also called Huanglongbing or HLB) is an infectious disease affecting citrus trees...
3 weeks ago
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GMOs May Save Florida Citrus

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

3 weeks ago
Citrus greening (also called Huanglongbing or HLB) is an infectious disease affecting citrus trees in Florida. It is a bacterium, Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus, and spread by an invasive fly, the Asian citrus psyllid. Since 2004 it has caused a reduction in the Florida citrus...
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Flashbak
Street Style from 1970s and 80s London by Al Vandenberg American photographer Al Vandenberg (1932-2012) is arguably best known for his art direction of The...
2 months ago
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Street Style from 1970s and 80s London by Al Vandenberg

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago
American photographer Al Vandenberg (1932-2012) is arguably best known for his art direction of The Beatles’ album cover for Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. But here we look at his street photographs of 1970s London. Born in 1932 to Dutch parents, Vandenberg was raised in...
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Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country. A book review from the future.
11 months ago
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The Past Is Another Country.

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11 months ago
A book review from the future.
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Notes on software...
The limitations of LLMs, or why are we doing RAG? This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
a year ago
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The limitations of LLMs, or why are we doing RAG?

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

a year ago
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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Commoncog
Learning About Moats the Hard Way How even legendary conglomerator Henry Singleton got caught out by competitive arbitrage at the end...
a year ago
123

Learning About Moats the Hard Way

from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
How even legendary conglomerator Henry Singleton got caught out by competitive arbitrage at the end of his career.
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abdz.do - Have you...
An insight into redesigning the Midland Appliance logotype An insight into redesigning the Midland Appliance logotype abduzeedo0215—23 ...
over a year ago
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An insight into redesigning the Midland Appliance logotype

from abdz.do - Have you given up on being inspired? [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
An insight into redesigning the Midland Appliance logotype abduzeedo0215—23 When it comes to branding, one of the most important elements is the logo. It's the visual representation of your brand, and it's the first thing that customers see...
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Left To Write
№ 71: You Had A Sh*t Day But Tomorrow Is A New Day I didn’t have the greatest start to 2023. My emails were being ignored, offers rescinded, a bout of...
a year ago
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№ 71: You Had A Sh*t Day But Tomorrow Is A New Day

from Left To Write [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
I didn’t have the greatest start to 2023. My emails were being ignored, offers rescinded, a bout of writer’s block, and I struggled to complete any climbing projects. Pipe in a layer of never feeling enough, feeling behind, and financial struggles and what you’ve got is a...
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Fonts In Use – Blog...
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: www.worthpoint.com License: All Rights Reserved. On...
over a year ago
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What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?

from Fonts In Use – Blog Only [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: www.worthpoint.com License: All Rights Reserved. On July 5th, 1852 (168 years ago today) Frederick Douglass delivered a speech to 500–600 people in the Corinthian Hall of Rochester, New York. The speech, preceded by a reading of the...
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Classical Wisdom
The Greek Miracle? Podcast with Professor Reviel Netz
2 months ago
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The Greek Miracle?

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2 months ago
Podcast with Professor Reviel Netz
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journal – Winnie Lim
the answer I must seek My partner pitter patters around the house constantly, always looking for something to do, always...
10 months ago
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the answer I must seek

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

10 months ago
My partner pitter patters around the house constantly, always looking for something to do, always scheming up some new creative project of hers. Being with her is an ongoing lesson and reminder...
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Quanta Magazine
Extra-Long Blasts Challenge Our Theories of Cosmic Cataclysms Astronomers thought they had solved the mystery of gamma-ray bursts. A few recent events suggest...
a year ago
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Extra-Long Blasts Challenge Our Theories of Cosmic Cataclysms

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Astronomers thought they had solved the mystery of gamma-ray bursts. A few recent events suggest otherwise. The post Extra-Long Blasts Challenge Our Theories of Cosmic Cataclysms first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Krebs on Security
Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data A security architect with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleges that employees from Elon...
2 months ago
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Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data

from Krebs on Security [alt+shift+b] in technology

2 months ago
A security architect with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleges that employees from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) transferred gigabytes of sensitive data from agency case files in early March, using short-lived accounts configured to leave few...
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David Heinemeier...
The endangered state of normality When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, I had friends who were socially awkward nerds, friends who...
a year ago
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The endangered state of normality

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, I had friends who were socially awkward nerds, friends who were cool but didn't like school at all, friends who were good at school but couldn't muster the will to finish their math homework, and friends who were tomboys. None of these...
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
Zero-setup bundle size checker We all love keeping bundle size under control. There are many great tools that help you with that —...
over a year ago
22

Zero-setup bundle size checker

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
We all love keeping bundle size under control. There are many great tools that help you with that — webpack-bundle-analyzer, bundlesize, size-limit, what not. But sometimes you you're lazy, or you're stuck choosing the tool, or the project is too small to justify spending extra...
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The Marginalian
Love and Fear: A Stunning 17th-Century Poem About How to Live with the Transcendent Terror of Love "Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back."
over a year ago
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Love and Fear: A Stunning 17th-Century Poem About How to Live with the Transcendent Terror of Love

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over a year ago
"Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back."
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Retail Design Blog
FREITAG store Following the opening in 2017 of FREITAG‘s first store Down Under, in collaboration with local...
9 months ago
49

FREITAG store

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

9 months ago
Following the opening in 2017 of FREITAG‘s first store Down Under, in collaboration with local retailer Keoma, the innovative Zurich-based...
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Prolost
iPhone ProRes Log in Peru and Taiwan This is a blog post about a video, which is about new color-conversion LUTs for Apple Log footage...
a year ago
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iPhone ProRes Log in Peru and Taiwan

from Prolost [alt+shift+b] in creative

a year ago
This is a blog post about a video, which is about new color-conversion LUTs for Apple Log footage from the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max (updated from my first set). The video is also a mini-travelogue of my recent trips to Taiwan and Peru. This post dives a bit deeper into both the...
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TheCollector
The Battle of Red Cliffs: The Epic Clash That Defined The Three Kingdoms At the turn of the 3rd century CE, China descended into civil war as the court of the Han Dynasty...
3 months ago
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The Battle of Red Cliffs: The Epic Clash That Defined The Three Kingdoms

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
At the turn of the 3rd century CE, China descended into civil war as the court of the Han Dynasty was torn apart by factionalism. As central authority melted away, ambitious warlords competed for power in the name of a puppet emperor. By the time the last Han Emperor was forced...
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Calculated Risk
Q4 GDP Tracking: 2.3% to 3.0% Range From BofA: Since our last weekly publication, our 4Q GDP tracking estimate has moved up two-tenths...
5 months ago
38

Q4 GDP Tracking: 2.3% to 3.0% Range

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

5 months ago
From BofA: Since our last weekly publication, our 4Q GDP tracking estimate has moved up two-tenths to 2.3% q/q saar. [Jan 24th estimate] emphasis added From Goldman: We left our Q4 GDP tracking and domestic final sales estimates unchanged, each at +2.6% (quarter-over-quarter...
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Dominik Sobe's...
The journey of launching StorePreviewer PRO
over a year ago
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The journey of launching StorePreviewer PRO

from Dominik Sobe's Thoughts ツ [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago
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Commoncog
A Big Part of Being Data Driven is Will Not Skill What it's like being data driven in the restaurant business ... and what it tells us about becoming...
11 months ago
121

A Big Part of Being Data Driven is Will Not Skill

from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance

11 months ago
What it's like being data driven in the restaurant business ... and what it tells us about becoming data driven in business more broadly.
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
Screw Management, Point Yourself at Piles of Rubble I knew a guy who cashed in by matching odd jobs with cheap workers. There is good money to be made...
over a year ago
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Screw Management, Point Yourself at Piles of Rubble

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

over a year ago
I knew a guy who cashed in by matching odd jobs with cheap workers. There is good money to be made in convincing people to do subhuman work. I was an easy mark.
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Weighty Thoughts
Today’s AI critics don’t understand the history of technology But is AI different than other technologies?
a year ago
116

Today’s AI critics don’t understand the history of technology

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a year ago
But is AI different than other technologies?
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Platformer
Another whistleblower comes for Twitter Is the real threat the company's "God Mode" — or its trust and safety team?
over a year ago
42

Another whistleblower comes for Twitter

from Platformer [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
Is the real threat the company's "God Mode" — or its trust and safety team?
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Medical Machine Learning in 30 Seconds ---
over a year ago
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Medical Machine Learning in 30 Seconds

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over a year ago
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Ryan Hoover's...
Silicon Valley isn’t “Mainstream”
over a year ago
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Silicon Valley isn’t “Mainstream”

from Ryan Hoover's Writing [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
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The Elysian
Can we create a wise & enlightened citizenry? We'll need to address cognitive biases if we want to reach Plato's ideal.
a year ago
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Can we create a wise & enlightened citizenry?

from The Elysian [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
We'll need to address cognitive biases if we want to reach Plato's ideal.
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Open Culture
Discover the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual: A Timeless Guide to Subverting Any Organization... I’ve always admired people who can successfully navigate what I refer to as “Kafka’s Castle,” a term...
7 months ago
52

Discover the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual: A Timeless Guide to Subverting Any Organization with “Purposeful Stupidity” (1944)

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

7 months ago
I’ve always admired people who can successfully navigate what I refer to as “Kafka’s Castle,” a term of dread for the many government and corporate agencies that have an inordinate amount of power over our permanent records, and that seem as inscrutable and chillingly absurd as...
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Posts on Nikita...
EuroRust 2024 I had the pleasure to speak at EuroRust this year! This was my third and final talk about elfo, an...
6 months ago
59

EuroRust 2024

from Posts on Nikita Lapkov [alt+shift+b] in programming

6 months ago
I had the pleasure to speak at EuroRust this year! This was my third and final talk about elfo, an actor system written in Rust. As I’m no longer an active contributor to elfo, it feels a bit bittersweet to finish last thing related to the project. I wish maintainers of elfo well...
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The Honest Broker
I Do My First Video Interview in More Than a Year Here's my guest appearance on Rick Beato's video channel
a year ago
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I Do My First Video Interview in More Than a Year

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a year ago
Here's my guest appearance on Rick Beato's video channel
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Avestura's Blog
Explaining The Postgres Meme Have you seen this legendary SQL iceberg meme? Let's talk about it while wearing our PostgreSQL hat!
a year ago
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Explaining The Postgres Meme

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

a year ago
Have you seen this legendary SQL iceberg meme? Let's talk about it while wearing our PostgreSQL hat!
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Why Did Pausanias Write His Travel Guide to Ancient Greece? In the 2nd century CE, the Greek writer Pausanias spent decades traveling around ancient Greece,...
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Why Did Pausanias Write His Travel Guide to Ancient Greece?

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

a week ago
In the 2nd century CE, the Greek writer Pausanias spent decades traveling around ancient Greece, which was then part of the Roman Empire. He recorded what he saw and compiled a guide for other travelers called the Perigereis Hellados or Guide to Greece. Through his descriptions,...
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