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Open Culture
Bertrand Russell’s Message to People Living in the Year 2959: “Love is Wise, Hatred is Foolish” Bertrand Russell, the great British philosopher and social critic, appeared on the BBC program...
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Bertrand Russell, the great British philosopher and social critic, appeared on the BBC program Face-to-Face in 1959 and was asked a closing question: What would you tell a generation living 1,000 years from now about the life you’ve lived and the lessons you’ve learned? His...
lcamtuf’s thing
The serious science of trolling LLMs The internet's oldest pastime finally has a purpose -- and it's more serious than AI companies would...
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The internet's oldest pastime finally has a purpose -- and it's more serious than AI companies would like to admit.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
AI Takes Over Because of Human Hype, Not Machine Intelligence Geoff, in his recent blog post “Damn the AI Torpedos”: The idea that businesses are already waging...
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Geoff, in his recent blog post “Damn the AI Torpedos”: The idea that businesses are already waging an “AI arms race”…that one those very companies, Microsoft, can invest $11 billion into OpenAI while laying off the folks responsible for keeping AI, um, responsible…that real...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of OS/2 Getting a Divorce
a year ago
The Marginalian
On Change and Denial "It’s strange to feel change coming. It’s easy to ignore. An underlying restlessness seems to...
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"It’s strange to feel change coming. It’s easy to ignore. An underlying restlessness seems to accompany it like birds flocking before a storm."
Max Countryman
People-First Leadership Investment in people is absolutely essential to building a business that's not just getting by but...
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Investment in people is absolutely essential to building a business that's not just getting by but actively thriving. People-first leadership offers an approach which consistently cultivates an environment where folks can show up and do their best work, propelling the business...
The Great Discontent...
Demar Matthews Emergence Issue: TGD’s fifth issue features a dynamic group of 15 creators who are deeply committed...
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Emergence Issue: TGD’s fifth issue features a dynamic group of 15 creators who are deeply committed to addressing systematic challenges in their communities through creativity and emerging ideologies. Buy Now How do you explain your work?   I am specifically interested in...
The personal website...
The Role of Doubt in Design At a recent happy hour, I struck up a conversation with a product manager. I told him I was a...
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At a recent happy hour, I struck up a conversation with a product manager. I told him I was a product designer, and he asked “one of the good ones, or one of the bad ones?” A designer on his team — a “bad one” — asked too many questions. Questions like “Why are we building this...
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The next twenty years are going to make this last twenty years just pale If we were sent back with a time machine, even 20 years, and reported to people what we have right...
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If we were sent back with a time machine, even 20 years, and reported to people what we have right now and describe what we were going to…
sbensu
The Perfectionists (book) A great book that covers the ideas and people behind modern industry.
5 months ago
TheCollector
What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance undefined
11 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Gleams Like a Warm Homestead Light' Here is epigram 1.33 by Marcus Valerius Martialis (c. 38-102 A.D.), better known in English as...
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Here is epigram 1.33 by Marcus Valerius Martialis (c. 38-102 A.D.), better known in English as Martial:  “In private she mourns not the late-lamented; If someone’s by, her tears leap forth on call. Sorrow, my dear, is not so easily rented. They are true tears that without witness...
Data Boutique
Stop Scraping H&M (And Other Things Live on Data Boutique) Web Scraped Data Catalog June 2023
a year ago
diamond geezer
Revisiting Northwall Road Yesterday was one of the ten busiest days ever on this blog. Almost ten thousand people turned...
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Yesterday was one of the ten busiest days ever on this blog. Almost ten thousand people turned up. • When an American website got excited about the location of pylons in London they linked to something I'd written 4 days earlier. That was my 3rd best ever day. American website...
Marian's Blog
Procedural pixelart generator I made a procedural pixelart generator that is inspired by the art style of the upcoming space...
over a year ago
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I made a procedural pixelart generator that is inspired by the art style of the upcoming space adventure game No Man’s Sky. Check it out and generate your own pixelart: https://marian42.github.io/proceduralart/ The art generator is written in javascript and uses noise functions...
The Pragmatic...
Mentoring software engineers or engineering leaders Great mentors are useful for professional growth, and have benefitted both informal and formal...
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Great mentors are useful for professional growth, and have benefitted both informal and formal mentorship from experienced engineers and managers. A collection of free and paid resources where you can find mentors to help with your professional growth.
symmetry magazine
Physics fashion and collider couture Symmetry is back with more physics-themed Halloween costumes.
a year ago
Open Culture
How Choose Your Own Adventure Books Became Beloved Among Generations of Readers We’ve all read plenty of literature written in the first person, and plenty of literature written in...
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We’ve all read plenty of literature written in the first person, and plenty of literature written in the third person. The second person, with its main subject of neither “I” nor “he” or “she” but “you,” is considerably harder to come by, and the writers who take it up tend to be...
Stephen Diehl
Currency in the Age of Digitization
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
Rethinking the Sports-Industrial Complex School sports can have some valuable outputs: And yet, many schools act as if all they have is a...
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School sports can have some valuable outputs: And yet, many schools act as if all they have is a trophy shortage. They bench kids who might not (yet) have the physical attributes necessary to win, or they build huge stadiums, go on long road trips, berate students that make an...
Common Edge
When Is Architectural Symbolism Hypocrisy? Like or loathe it, symbolism over substance has a long tradition.
8 months ago
Posts on Made of...
Fun with the preprocessor: CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION hacks in Linux About two months ago, Linux saw CVE-2010-0307, which was a trival denial-of-service attack that...
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About two months ago, Linux saw CVE-2010-0307, which was a trival denial-of-service attack that could crash essentially any 64-bit Linux machine with 32-bit compatibility enabled. LWN has an excellent writeup of the bug, which turns out to be a subtle error related to the details...
Society's Backend
Meet Devansh: Lessons Learned While Building a Community of 193,000 Subscribers Content creation and networking lessons from a wildly successful freelance tech writer
a year ago
somenice
Cake Hole Whistler Mountain Often inviting. This terrain just off the Whistler peak road can be an enticing sun-swept run of...
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Often inviting. This terrain just off the Whistler peak road can be an enticing sun-swept run of untouched powder.Understanding that you need to come back up the same way you go down, can make you question if it’s really worth it.Know before you go. Cake Hole by Andrew...
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Best Things to Do in Abu Dhabi
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998
over a year ago
diamond geezer
Bakerloo 40 Happy 40th Birthday to the Bakerloo line. that's 118, but the current extent of the line with...
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Happy 40th Birthday to the Bakerloo line. that's 118, but the current extent of the line with trains operating between Harrow & Wealdstone and Elephant & Castle. Elephant's been the southern terminus since 1906, despite umpteen attempts at an extension. But the northern terminus...
Anecdotal Evidence
'How Much Can Be Accomplished' Cleveland is traditionally divided between East Side and West Side. I’m a West-Sider, though I...
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Cleveland is traditionally divided between East Side and West Side. I’m a West-Sider, though I haven’t lived in the city since 1977. The designation suggests working-class neighborhoods, many of them Slavic. Ethnicity was important, and not usually in the sense of bigotry. I was...
TheCollector
Who Were the Axis Powers? undefined
a year ago
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Inland Northwest, Day 4 (Lewis & Clark Country) We were now officially between races. A day earlier I ran a half-marathon in Pendleton, Oregon and I...
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We were now officially between races. A day earlier I ran a half-marathon in Pendleton, Oregon and I had to do it again in Clarkston, Washington the following day. So this was the rest day, or at least it was for me. Most participants in the Mainly Marathons Northwest series...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Finding your North Star metric and why it matters Successful products need actionable metrics and for many businesses this starts with identifying...
over a year ago
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Successful products need actionable metrics and for many businesses this starts with identifying what many refer to as a 'North Star' metric. This…
Josh Thompson
Act a Fool, or: Motion vs. Action If you’ve started reading this article, but have only two minutes, don’t read what I’m writing. Go...
over a year ago
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If you’ve started reading this article, but have only two minutes, don’t read what I’m writing. Go read this article by James clear. It’s called “ The Mistake Smart People Make: Being In Motion vs. Taking Action”. I’ve linked it a third time here. Go read it. James starts with...
The American Scholar
A Forgotten Turner Classic Who was George Eyser, the one-legged German-American gymnast who astounded at the Olympic Games? The...
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Who was George Eyser, the one-legged German-American gymnast who astounded at the Olympic Games? The post A Forgotten Turner Classic appeared first on The American Scholar.
Spoon & Tamago
The Conran Shop, A New Chapter For Hillside Terrace by Keiji Ashizawa Design All images courtesy of Keiji Ashizawa Design Since opening its London flagship in 1973, The Conran...
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All images courtesy of Keiji Ashizawa Design Since opening its London flagship in 1973, The Conran Shop has been a go-to destination for all things contemporary design. And in their latest chapter, the curated shop welcomes you to its new space in Hillside Terrace, a relaxing...
David Gerrells
A lazy dark mode A fast simple way of drop in dark mode support using nextjs and react.
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
The most important goal in designing software is understandability When you're designing a piece of software, the single most important thing to design for is...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
When you're designing a piece of software, the single most important thing to design for is understandability. Security, performance, and correctness are all important, but they come after understandability. Don't get me wrong, all of those are important. Software that isn't...
Maps Mania
The 2024 US Election Maps
2 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Profile on Livecycle.io Devx Project I was interviewed for Livecycle's DevX interview series here. Reproducing for posterity.
over a year ago
History Today Feed
Death of a Samurai Legend Death of a Samurai Legend JamesHoare Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
7 months ago
blag
Errata in Hekaton MVCC paper Hekaton MVCC Paper contains a publication error. After reviewing the paper, I confirmed the error...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hekaton MVCC Paper contains a publication error. After reviewing the paper, I confirmed the error with one of the authors. This blog post explains the mistake, the implications and the fix.
Wuthering...
What books am I reading this summer in the Greek philosophy readalong? Some details. Now that we are almost done with Plato, the bulkiest figure in my little Greek philosophy readalong,...
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Now that we are almost done with Plato, the bulkiest figure in my little Greek philosophy readalong, I thought it would be a good idea to revisit, clarify, and puzzle over the texts that will take us to the end of the project, now that I have given the matter a little more...
Rest of World -...
Brazil is the first stop in the Latin American electric motorcycle market Vammo, an electric mobility company for delivery workers, chose to launch in the country because 85%...
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Vammo, an electric mobility company for delivery workers, chose to launch in the country because 85% of its electric grid runs on renewable energy.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Cleaner ways to build dynamic JS arrays Building dynamic arrays in JS is often messy. It goes like this: you have a default array, and you...
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Building dynamic arrays in JS is often messy. It goes like this: you have a default array, and you need some items to appear based on a condition. So you add an if (condition) array.push(item). Then you need to shuffle things around and bring in an unshift or two, and maybe even...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Half the Pleasure of Reading New Books' “[M]ost American boys are hurried into active life so early, that even the few who have the...
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“[M]ost American boys are hurried into active life so early, that even the few who have the possibility of developing literary taste have scarcely time to do so. Unless they read the great English classics in high school and in college, they never find time to read them.”  In...
TheCollector
A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam undefined
8 months ago
Blog posts of...
The simplest and most important dashboard for early stage startups. This blogpost is part of a small series of posts that cover the basics of startup metrics. My...
over a year ago
Noahpinion
If Trump loses the election, our nation can finally rest Let's not bring back the wacky 2010s.
2 months ago
Louwrentius
How to build an energy efficient computer for home use In short: Buy whatever you fucking want. Turn the fucking thing off when you're not using...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In short: Buy whatever you fucking want. Turn the fucking thing off when you're not using it. Long: People are spending a lot of time building an energy efficient home computer, that can act as an HTPC, NAS, or whatever. It must consume as little power as possible, because it it...
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 23-24 March 2024 Charity gigs, a glamorous speakeasy, and a boat race on the river.
9 months ago
TheCollector
Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form undefined
5 months ago
Old Structures...
The Personal Connection A 1958 or 59 view of 200 East 42nd Street under construction: It’s a fairly boring steel-frame,...
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A 1958 or 59 view of 200 East 42nd Street under construction: It’s a fairly boring steel-frame, glass-facade office building, remarkable to me for the simple reason that I had my first more-or-less real engineering job there. Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton, later known as TAMS...
Spoon & Tamago
Kirie Artist Carves Playful Narratives Into Tree Leaves “Aquarium of Leaves” A 37-year old Japanese artist who goes by the name Lito has been living with...
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“Aquarium of Leaves” A 37-year old Japanese artist who goes by the name Lito has been living with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) his entire life. Lito had been searching for an outlet where he could channel his above-normal levels of concentration and...
abdz.do - Have you...
Stellar: A new home for the best freelance creatives Stellar: A new home for the best freelance creatives abduzeedo0203—23 ...
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Stellar: A new home for the best freelance creatives abduzeedo0203—23 Businesses are hiring freelancers now more than ever. But in the creative freelance industry, there are no platforms to find high-end, vetted talent. Most of the popular...
Rest of World -...
Online extremism linked to rise in school shootings in Brazil, researchers find After a rise in shootings, an all-woman group is advising the new Brazilian government on how to...
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Freethink Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: For the record, this was shot a while ago and my...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: For the record, this was shot a while ago and my hair is back to being gross. Today's News: Or click here if you prefer.
TheCollector
The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis undefined
a year ago
Drew Ex Machina
First Pictures: Color View of the Earth & A Tropical Depression from Space – October 5, 1954 While today we are inundated with color images of the Earth, our earliest views from space were...
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While today we are inundated with color images of the Earth, our earliest views from space were confined to monochromatic or black and white images (see […]
samwho.dev
Having a Baby During the pregnancy of our first child, I kept a journal. I don’t keep journals. I don’t feel like...
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During the pregnancy of our first child, I kept a journal. I don’t keep journals. I don’t feel like I have much to say in them. This was different. The whole experience was new, and there was a lot to learn. This post is a cleaning up and stitching together of that journal. It...
Open Culture
Jimi Hendrix Opens for The Monkees on a 1967 Tour; Then Flips Off the Crowd and Quits It’s easy to dismiss The Monkees. Critics and listeners have been doing it since the sixties,...
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It’s easy to dismiss The Monkees. Critics and listeners have been doing it since the sixties, although the band has also come in for its share of reappraisals, particularly for their psych-rock album Head. (That’s the soundtrack from the 1968 Jack Nicholson-directed art film of...
TheCollector
What Was the Hanseatic League? undefined
9 months ago
diamond geezer
I've been to see some art I've been to see some art. Art West: Serpentine Gallery Many's the time I've traipsed to the...
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I've been to see some art. Art West: Serpentine Gallery Many's the time I've traipsed to the middle of Kensington Gardens only to be underwhelmed. Thankfully this time it was well worth the effort. Yinka Shonibare CBE: Suspended States (until 1 September) Yinka did the...
Contemporist...
Before & After - The Complete Renovation Of A Small Loft Apartment New York City-based design studio beda (Brad Engelsman Design Architecture), has shared photos of a...
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New York City-based design studio beda (Brad Engelsman Design Architecture), has shared photos of a renovation project they completed of a small 500-square-foot (46 sqm) loft apartment.
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Metra tickets, 1990–1991 Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.c82.net C82 / Nicholas...
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Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.c82.net C82 / Nicholas Rougeux. License: All Rights Reserved. January 1990, ft. an unidentified rounded sans Source: www.c82.net C82 / Nicholas Rougeux. License: All Rights Reserved. February...
Birchtree
Matt is a Mean Guy (hey!) Matt felt like bringing an intentionally controversial topic, Niléane refuses to admit she's created...
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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...
A Beautiful Site
A Beautiful Site becomes "A Beautiful Site, LLC" Today has been an exciting day. I received documentation from the State of Florida stating that A...
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Today has been an exciting day. I received documentation from the State of Florida stating that A Beautiful Site, LLC. is officially a limited liability company. This marks the new beginning of a period of growth for ABS, which has been, until now, a sole proprietorship. In the...
Ben Borgers
Projects
3 months ago
Simply Explained
Integrate Home Assistant with Apple Reminders I recently integrated Home Assistant with Apple Reminders so that automations can create new todos....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently integrated Home Assistant with Apple Reminders so that automations can create new todos. This is trickier as it sounds, because Reminders has no API that can be accessed from Home Assistant. Here's how I worked around that problem with a script, input text helper and...
Vadim Kravcenko
Becoming a Real Business: Accounting, Taxes, and Automation Founders often get so overwhelmed finding funding sources and attracting the first few customers...
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Founders often get so overwhelmed finding funding sources and attracting the first few customers that they neglect actually running their […] The post Becoming a Real Business: Accounting, Taxes, and Automation appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
TheCollector
Who Was the First President to Live in the White House? undefined
3 months ago
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
How the internet became shit I recently replaced the battery on my iPhone 8 (it's the perfect smartphone; fight me) in an attempt...
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I recently replaced the battery on my iPhone 8 (it's the perfect smartphone; fight me) in an attempt to prolong its life by a few more years. However, the iStore service centre required that the phone be wiped to comply with the POPIA act prior to any kind of service work...
Wanderingspace
OSIRIS-REX Leaves Bennu The OSIRIS-REX mission in on a two year trajectory back to Earth after capturing fragments of the...
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The OSIRIS-REX mission in on a two year trajectory back to Earth after capturing fragments of the near Earth asteroid Bennu after successfully executing a sample touchdown last fall. [LINK] The sampling of of the asteroid’s surface is shown above.
Construction Physics
How to Build a 50,000 Ton Forging Press In the late 1940s and early 1950s, a revolution took place in American military aircraft design.
4 months ago
General Robots
Coming soon This is General Robots.
a year ago
csvbase blog
Parquet: more than just "Turbo CSV" Quicker, but also more convenient
a year ago
Old Structures...
Amusing Until It’s Not This story turns ugly rather quickly. From the New York Public Library scrapbook, The Hippotheatron...
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This story turns ugly rather quickly. From the New York Public Library scrapbook, The Hippotheatron and New York Cirque: That’s 14th Street between Irving Place and Third Avenue, with an out-chapel of Grace Church next door. As the name suggests, that weird building was a theater...
blag
An exploit on Gaana.com gave me access to their entire User Database In May, 2015 I found an exploit on Gaana.com, which let me access their entire User Database (more...
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In May, 2015 I found an exploit on Gaana.com, which let me access their entire User Database (more than 10 Million) which included all the user info.
Seth's Blog
The marketing department That’s the first part of the confusion. It’s a group of people who can’t decide what the thing they...
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9 months ago
That’s the first part of the confusion. It’s a group of people who can’t decide what the thing they do is supposed to be. Is it: Advertising Publicity Increasing retail distribution Direct and measured response SEO Making the logo pretty Wholesale and trade relationships...
Paul Graham: Essays
Billionaires Build
over a year ago
The Marginalian
Poetry as Prayer: The Great Russian Poet Marina Tsvetaeva on Reclaiming the Divine "In our age, to have the courage for direct speech to God (for prayer) we must either not know what...
6 months ago
bt RSS Feed
February 2022 Update February 2022 Update 2022-02-23 It’s been a little quiet around here lately and for good reason: my...
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February 2022 Update 2022-02-23 It’s been a little quiet around here lately and for good reason: my wife gave birth to our third child last Thursday. Her name is Harmony and she was born in the late afternoon weighing in at 7 pounds 8 ounces. Besides the lack of sleep, everything...
somenice
Merlin Bird Sound ID I’ve been really impressed with the Merlin App for Android Sound ID.There have been a few birds that...
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I’ve been really impressed with the Merlin App for Android Sound ID.There have been a few birds that I have not been able to spot or identify visually but using Sound ID I can quickly pull up and confirm which bird I’m hearing. The Pacific Wren has an amazing song and I noticed...
TheCollector
John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era undefined
a year ago
Liz Denys
Save Congestion Pricing! Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced an intention to "indefinitely pause" the scheduled rollout of...
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Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced an intention to "indefinitely pause" the scheduled rollout of congestion pricing on June 30. Your voice is urgently needed to stand up for a funded MTA with increased accessibility, a healthy planet, and good government in New York. Stop a $15...
Flashbak
42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61) The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
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The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
Steven Scrawls
Maybe your desires are delusional Maybe your desires are delusional The vast majority of my desires are not the reasonable desires...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Maybe your desires are delusional The vast majority of my desires are not the reasonable desires that I had once believed them to be. They’re actually completely delusional desires dressed up in shoddy “reasonable desire” costumes, and I’ve just been pretending not to notice. How...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Svelte as an Eleventy Template Engine Svelte is a really nice authoring format for HTML components. I wanted to explore if I could extend...
over a year ago
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Svelte is a really nice authoring format for HTML components. I wanted to explore if I could extend Eleventy to use it.
Alex Meub
The Holy Grail of IE Testing I have finally discovered a way to test old versions of Internet Explorer that doesn’t suck. This...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have finally discovered a way to test old versions of Internet Explorer that doesn’t suck. This setup allows you to test authentic versions of IE6, IE7, and IE8 without the need to boot up virtual machines. It also allows you to have a debug bar in each of these versions so...
AFAR Media - Travel...
10 Art Destinations in Italy: Itinerary for Art Lovers
7 months ago
The Marginalian
Wherever You Are, Stop What You’re Doing Nothing magnifies life — in the proper sense of the word, rooted in the Latin for “to make greater,...
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Nothing magnifies life — in the proper sense of the word, rooted in the Latin for “to make greater, to glorify” — more than the act of noticing its details, and nothing sanctifies it more: Kneeling to look at a lichen is a devotional act. We bless our own lives by recognizing and...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Some Could, Some Could Not, Shake Off Misery' Last week I wrote a post about the poet Bob Barth, the patrol he led as a 21-year-old...
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4 months ago
Last week I wrote a post about the poet Bob Barth, the patrol he led as a 21-year-old Marine Corporal in Vietnam, and the war correspondent who wrote a dispatch about him for a newspaper. Two days later, after learning that the stringer, Albert W. Vinson, soon took his own life,...
TheCollector
The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion? undefined
3 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Ryan Dahl Talks Deno on The Changelog Ryan Dahl was on The Changelog to talk about Deno 2 specifically and his work on JavaScript more...
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Ryan Dahl was on The Changelog to talk about Deno 2 specifically and his work on JavaScript more broadly. What follows are a few things that stood out to me. His Regrets From Node Are Now in Deno I think it’s interesting that Ryan’s famous talk 10 Things I Regret About Node.js...
Rest of World -...
The startup offering free toilets and coffee for delivery workers — in exchange for their data Argentine startup Nippy aggregates data from gig workers and sells it to companies like Mastercard...
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Argentine startup Nippy aggregates data from gig workers and sells it to companies like Mastercard and Movistar, who in turn offer workers their services.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Everything You Hate About Clubhouse Is Why It Will Win Understanding new social media is a *sociological* exercise, not a logical one.
over a year ago
Josh Thompson
How to Run Your Rails App in Profiling Mode Last time, I wrote about setting up DataDog for your Rails application. Even when “just” running the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Last time, I wrote about setting up DataDog for your Rails application. Even when “just” running the app locally, it is sending data to DataDog. This is super exciting, because I’m getting close to being able to glean good insights from DataDog’s Application Performance...
This Space
39 Books in one For anyone interested (you there in the phone box), here's a PDF of the 39 Books series. 39 Books:...
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For anyone interested (you there in the phone box), here's a PDF of the 39 Books series. 39 Books: PDF As the introduction explained, the books were chosen from those on my books-read lists that I hadn't written about before. I thought it might be instructive to contrast the...
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MORICO Café by Inrestudio MORICO is a renovation project for a café and restaurant located in the center of Ho Chi Minh City....
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MORICO is a renovation project for a café and restaurant located in the center of Ho Chi Minh City. The...
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The Power Of Absent Things. It explains a lot about Ukraine.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Amid Tremendous History, New Pity' Oscar Williams (1900-4) was a middling poet with a gift for compiling excellent anthologies, thirty...
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Oscar Williams (1900-4) was a middling poet with a gift for compiling excellent anthologies, thirty of which he published during his lifetime. Early on, several of them were my primers, an inviting way to learning the poetic tradition in English on the cheap. One of them, the...
Beautiful Public...
Pilot Manual for a 1940's U.S. Navy Blimp This 122 page manual contains all of the operating instructions and technical details needed to...
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This 122 page manual contains all of the operating instructions and technical details needed to pilot this sleek, silver, 250 foot long, weaponized anti-submarine dirigible.
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The London Overground line names post The phased introduction of six new Overground line names has begun. Before we get into all that,...
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The phased introduction of six new Overground line names has begun. Before we get into all that, let's get the new names out of the way. we did all that back then. First important thing: If anyone posts any line name comments on any future post, I will shift them back to...
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“Ether is a necessary element — a fuel — for operating the distributed application platform… “Ether is a necessary element — a fuel — for operating the distributed application platform...
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The Solarchitecture...
Case study #1: The Solar Saltbox house A passive house for cold climates.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'You Must Start Rewriting in Your Head' “Rhythm is never effortless. To achieve it, you must start rewriting in your head and then continue...
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“Rhythm is never effortless. To achieve it, you must start rewriting in your head and then continue rewriting on the page. The hallmark of a seductive style is to extend natural speech rhythm over the distance of a complex sentence.” When I applied for my first job on a...
This Space
39 Books: 2022 "Hölderlin...asked only that we accept silence as the one meaningful syllable in the...
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"Hölderlin...asked only that we accept silence as the one meaningful syllable in the universe." This line from Paul Stubbs' remarkable essay collection The Return to Silence is not an epigram to Marjorie Perloff's Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics, but it might have...
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Going for Gold Joshua Prager on a forgotten Olympic gymnast whose 1904 record still hasn’t been beaten The post...
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Joshua Prager on a forgotten Olympic gymnast whose 1904 record still hasn’t been beaten The post Going for Gold appeared first on The American Scholar.
Stoic Simple
What’s the Difference Between Stoicism and Existentialism? Philosophy is a discipline that seeks to understand the nature of existence, reality, knowledge, and...
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Philosophy is a discipline that seeks to understand the nature of existence, reality, knowledge, and ethics. Two important philosophical schools of thought that have influenced Western intellectual tradition are Stoicism and Existentialism. Both of these philosophies share some...
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2023-11-04 nuclear safety Nuclear weapons are complex in many ways. The basic problem of achieving criticality is difficult on...
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Nuclear weapons are complex in many ways. The basic problem of achieving criticality is difficult on its own, but deploying nuclear weapons as operational military assets involves yet more challenges. Nuclear weapons must be safe and reliable, even with the rough handling and...
Old Structures...
A Simple Drawing For A Difficult Structure – Part 4 To catch up, here are links for part 1, part 2, and part 3. The Brooklyn Bridge caissons were much...
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To catch up, here are links for part 1, part 2, and part 3. The Brooklyn Bridge caissons were much bigger than the similar pneumatic caissons that had been used earlier. Their timber construction was based on a few ideas, all subject to engineering design or review. First, the...
Marian's Blog
No Man’s Starfield This is a shader I made that renders a flight through a starfield. It’s meant to look like the...
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This is a shader I made that renders a flight through a starfield. It’s meant to look like the galactic map that you can see in No Man’s Sky. Here is a link to the project on shadertoy: No Man’s Starfield The cool thing about this is that it runs inside a shader. A shader is a...
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Arduino Blog
Venderoo is an Arduino Mega-powered DIY vending machine For now-college student Joel Grayson, making something that combined his interests in mechanics,...
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For now-college student Joel Grayson, making something that combined his interests in mechanics, electronics, and programming while being simultaneously useful to those around him was a longtime goal. His recent Venderoo project is exactly that, as the creatively named vending...
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The Bridge To Somewhere In the middle of Burgess Park is an old and seemingly pointless bridge. It's red, it crosses nothing...
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In the middle of Burgess Park is an old and seemingly pointless bridge. It's red, it crosses nothing worse than a footpath and you can walk/scoot/cycle past at ground level alongside its entire length. It need not be here and yet it is, and what's more it's just been repaired,...
Matt Blewitt
Control Loops and Rice Cookers Rice cookers are fascinating machines. I’ve owned one for years, as rice is a significant part of my...
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Rice cookers are fascinating machines. I’ve owned one for years, as rice is a significant part of my regular diet, and it completely removes the stress of preparing rice. They also operate on a simple principle that can help us operate cloud infrastructure – the control loop.
diamond geezer
Bow Street BOW STREET £160   London's Monopoly Streets BOW STREET Colour group: orange Purchase price:...
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BOW STREET £160   London's Monopoly Streets BOW STREET Colour group: orange Purchase price: £180 Rent: £14 Length: 200m Borough: Westminster Postcode: WC2 n.b. This is Bow Street in Covent Garden which is nowhere near Bow Road in Bow, nor close to the church of St-Mary-le-Bow...
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CSS Custom Property Fallbacks in Shorthand Values CSS Custom Properties are incredibly versatile and have become especially useful as customizable...
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CSS Custom Properties are incredibly versatile and have become especially useful as customizable props in common layout and component style patterns. Here's an example derived from the SmolCSS site: .grid { --min: 15ch; --gap: 1rem; display: grid; gap: var(--gap); ...
Castles in the Sky
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We can Terraform the American West Why is there almost nothing on the left hand side of the USA? Water scarcity! We’re missing 300...
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Why is there almost nothing on the left hand side of the USA? Water scarcity! We’re missing 300 million Americans. We’re missing  30 global cities west of 100 degrees longitude. We should do something about it! The western US is a parched opportunity to create millions of acres...
Matt Mullenweg
RIP Quincy Jones Quincy Jones had such an impact on the culture that it’s impossible to summarize. His discography is...
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Quincy Jones had such an impact on the culture that it’s impossible to summarize. His discography is amazing. I feel so lucky to have met him in 2012 when I was much earlier in my career, and he didn’t have any reason to give me time, but he treated everyone as if they were...
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Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
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The internet is broken. Here’s how we fix it. In 1971, Ray Tomlinson, an engineer working on the ARPANET project — the predecessor to the...
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In 1971, Ray Tomlinson, an engineer working on the ARPANET project — the predecessor to the Internet — sent the first email. The message was nothing profound; it was a series of random characters that looked more like the utterance of a toddler on a typewriter than a...
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Typo Donuts I end each of my Saturday stories with two words of encouragement. _Stay creative._ Why? Because...
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I end each of my Saturday stories with two words of encouragement. _Stay creative._ Why? Because your creativity is under attack. Tell me you don’t feel it. It takes tremendous determination to defend your best ideas day after day. Isn’t it tempting to take the easy path, to...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pain Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: That one guy is actually a robot designed to look...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: That one guy is actually a robot designed to look like a human, so it's cool. Today's News:
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Personal Security: erase your computer or phone before repair Computer nerds are self sufficient when it comes to fixing their computer. Non-computer experts have...
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Computer nerds are self sufficient when it comes to fixing their computer. Non-computer experts have to find some other person with greater computer knowledge to repair their computer or phone. That person will then be able to access all data stored on their computer or phone. By...
A Beautiful Site
Smoothly scroll to an element without a jQuery plugin You know that special effect where you click on a link and your browser smoothly scrolls down to the...
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You know that special effect where you click on a link and your browser smoothly scrolls down to the appropriate section of the page? Pretty slick, right? Here are a couple snippets so you can do the same thing on your own website. Scroll to a specific element # Here's how to...
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Podcast submission notes Getting started Web stuff & RSS Podcasts are distributed via RSS feeds that people can subscribe to....
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Getting started Web stuff & RSS Podcasts are distributed via RSS feeds that people can subscribe to. You need to generate podcast-specific RSS: start by reading Apple's requirements and looking at the RSS feeds of other podcasts. Some specific RSS fields <itunes:type>: You need...
TheCollector
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Castles in the Sky
The Limits of Novelty as a Value Proposition Early thoughts on writing about Russian Cosmism and "the common task"
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Favorite Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: All of these are of course just subsets of the sole...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: All of these are of course just subsets of the sole story category, which is Ape Struggled And Was Thereby Changed. Today's News:
nanoscale views
Materials characterization techniques – a brief glossary Suppose someone has synthesized or found what they think is a new material. How do people studying...
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Suppose someone has synthesized or found what they think is a new material. How do people studying materials (condensed matter physicists, materials scientists, materials chemists) figure out what they have and understand its properties? That's the puzzle-solving aspect of...
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Name that Ware, December 2022 The Ware for December 2022 is shown below. Turning this into a suitable Name that Ware-style entry...
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The Ware for December 2022 is shown below. Turning this into a suitable Name that Ware-style entry was a bit tough, but I think maybe I hit a balance between leaving enough clues, and giving it away. We’ll see shortly! I have a lot more to say about this ware: I will give proper...
One Useful Thing
Scaling: The State of Play in AI A brief intergenerational pause...
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Stephen Diehl
Reflecting on Haskell in 2016
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Midsummer Day Officially Midsummer Day is 24th June. And midsummer is also 6th August. astronomical definition...
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Officially Midsummer Day is 24th June. And midsummer is also 6th August. astronomical definition of summer is the period between the summer solstice and the autumn equinox. Summer is 94 days long so we're looking for the 47th day after the solstice and that's 6th August....
Mazdak
Playing it Safe Paid Off in 2023, But Now It's Time to Take More Risk with Your Money 2023 was a year of playing it safe for investors, with many flocking to the security and guaranteed...
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2023 was a year of playing it safe for investors, with many flocking to the security and guaranteed returns of cash and cash-like investments. This was largely driven by the Fed's aggressive interest rate hikes, which boosted the yields of money-market funds and similar...
Rest of World -...
The Chinese founder who is betting on the Western appetite for short soaps Mega Matrix and FlexTV want to succeed where Quibi has failed by embracing the allure of “so bad...
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
Caution, Workers at Play I am going to take a wild guess that your workplace isn’t condusive to play. In fact, playfulness is...
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I am going to take a wild guess that your workplace isn’t condusive to play. In fact, playfulness is probably frowned upon in your office. I was once lucky enough to work in a place where that wasn’t the case.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Seduction Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Did you know you can just BUY arcade...
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A Smart Bear
The Serengeti Plain: Fallacies that aren't fallacies A contrarian look at logical "fallacies" that maybe aren't so illogical after all.
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Londonist
57 Magnificent Things To Do In London This Month: March 2024 Art fairs, Comic Con, the Boat Races, and other March events.
10 months ago
Tinker, Tamper,...
Understanding Common Table Expressions in SQL One of the lesser known features of modern SQL are so-called “Common Table Expressions” (CTE) or...
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One of the lesser known features of modern SQL are so-called “Common Table Expressions” (CTE) or “WITH queries”. I’ll explain the mental model that helped me make sense of them, and how to use them to execute recursive queries. Afterwards I’ll show how to apply these techniques...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Dimension Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Big announcement tomorrow. A new book, which is the...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Big announcement tomorrow. A new book, which is the product of years of research. Stay tuned, and then for God's sake please buy a copy. Today's News: TOMORROW
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Post Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I feel like more comics need to use the word...
10 months ago
Ben Borgers
Are My Technical Posts Worth It?
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
The current T-34 keyboard layout I’ve been documenting my own keyboard layout in a series for a while now. But as the layout is...
over a year ago
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I’ve been documenting my own keyboard layout in a series for a while now. But as the layout is constantly changing it’s been difficult to piece together how the layout currently looks like, so this post tries to show how the layout looks right now in it’s entirety. If you want to...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Silly little rules in healthcare | Out-Of-Pocket The industry is chock full of ‘em, here's 3
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Push to Prod
How Would You Design Amazon S3? One of my favorite system design questions from a few years ago and a fascinating thing I learned...
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One of my favorite system design questions from a few years ago and a fascinating thing I learned while answering it.
Seth's Blog
A long time is not the same as never It might feel like an endless slog now, but when the innovation appears, people won’t remember how...
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It might feel like an endless slog now, but when the innovation appears, people won’t remember how long it took to get here. Often, we assume that today’s snapshot is actually the entire movie, but it rarely is.
abdz.do - Have you...
Subra's unique brand identity and UI design for NFT Market Subra's unique brand identity and UI design for NFT Market abduzeedo0421—23 ...
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Subra's unique brand identity and UI design for NFT Market abduzeedo0421—23 The NFT market is witnessing the birth of numerous innovative applications, and Subra is no exception. Designed by Jordan Vitanov, Subra boasts a distinctive brand...
Maps Mania
Where Do Refugees Go?
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Maps Mania
Poetry Walks
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Light from Space
The Space Lobster Not well known to observers in the Northern Hemisphere, the Lobster Nebula (NGC 6357) in Cepheus...
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Not well known to observers in the Northern Hemisphere, the Lobster Nebula (NGC 6357) in Cepheus shows a complex pattern of Hydrogen alpha and Oxygen-III regions. It's quite far south in the sky at a declination of −34° 20′ and here in Tucson it barely
xkcd.com
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Willem's Blog
Creating the ultimate commuter bike Creating the ultimate commuter bike by upgrading the Sensa Cintura belt drive bike.
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NeuroLogica Blog
A Climate Debate Regarding Health Effects – Part II Yesterday’s post was the first in an exchange about the effects of climate change on public health....
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Yesterday’s post was the first in an exchange about the effects of climate change on public health. Today’s post is my response. Part II Climate change is a critically important topic for society today, and it’s important that the public have a working knowledge of the facts,...
symmetry magazine
A call to cite Black women and gender minorities Theoretical astrophysicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein recently unveiled the Cite Black Women+ in...
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Theoretical astrophysicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein recently unveiled the Cite Black Women+ in Physics and Astronomy Bibliography.
General Robots
So You Want To Do Robots, Part 3: How to Escape Pilot Purgatory I hope you don’t fail, but building a robotics company is very hard. So it's useful to study the...
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I hope you don’t fail, but building a robotics company is very hard. So it's useful to study the patterns of what doesn’t work. We’re going to dig into the most common death pattern for robotics startups: starving in pilot purgatory. If you’ve been at a robot startup, this story...
TheCollector
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balajis.com
#1 - Vitalik Buterin on Starting New Countries, Upgrading Ethereum, and Improving Yourself Listen now (118 min) | A discussion between Vitalik Buterin and Balaji Srinivasan on starting new...
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Listen now (118 min) | A discussion between Vitalik Buterin and Balaji Srinivasan on starting new countries, improving yourself, and upgrading Ethereum. OUTLINE 00:00 - Introduction 01:27 - A brief history of Ethereum 16:54 - The DAO hack 20:32 - The Devcon 2 attack 33:24 - The...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Leaderless Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You can send me hatemail, but you have to get...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You can send me hatemail, but you have to get organized first. Today's News:
Louwrentius
AI is critically important but not for you Before Chat-GPT caused a sensation, big tech companies like Facebook and Apple were betting their...
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8 months ago
Before Chat-GPT caused a sensation, big tech companies like Facebook and Apple were betting their future growth on virtual reality. But I'm convinced that virtual reality will never be a mainstream thing. If you ever used VR you know why: A heavy thing on your head that messes up...
Open Culture
How Magician David Copperfield Made the Statue of Liberty Disappear (1983) In April, 1983, 50 million television viewers watched the illusionist David Copperfield make the...
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In April, 1983, 50 million television viewers watched the illusionist David Copperfield make the Statue of Liberty disappear, straight into thin air. If you’re north of 50, you perhaps remember the spectacle. How did he do it? 40 years later, the YouTube channel Mind Blown Magic...
anderegg.ca
The “Home Alone” / “NiGHTS into Dreams” connection NiGHTS into Dreams is one of those games I tend to think about when Christmas rolls around. It’s one...
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NiGHTS into Dreams is one of those games I tend to think about when Christmas rolls around. It’s one of my favourites from the Saturn lineup, and it also had a free Christmas version. In it, there’s a song I really love that plays on the level select screen called Gate of Your...
Making software...
Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify 2021-01-19 It's no secret that I'm passionate about open...
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over a year ago
Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify 2021-01-19 It's no secret that I'm passionate about open source software, but I'm also extremely adamant about protecting the privacy of all users across the web. So when I decided to implement analytics on my own personal website, I ended...
nanoscale views
Cavities and tuning physics I've written before about cavity quantum electrodynamics.  An electromagnetic cavity - a resonator...
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I've written before about cavity quantum electrodynamics.  An electromagnetic cavity - a resonator of some kind, like your microwave oven chamber is for microwaves, or like an optical cavity made using nearly perfect mirrors - picks out what electromagnetic modes are allowed...
Wanderingspace
The Green Light of Day Image of tire tracks on Mars with an unusual green tone. . Taken by Perseverance on February 4th.
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Image of tire tracks on Mars with an unusual green tone. . Taken by Perseverance on February 4th.
bt RSS Feed
Using HTML Validator Badges Again Using HTML Validator Badges Again 2019-07-05 There was a time on the Internet when websites wore...
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Using HTML Validator Badges Again 2019-07-05 There was a time on the Internet when websites wore badges of honor, declaring that their code was semantic and followed the W3C guidelines. The validators we used weren’t great (and still aren’t perfect) but they represented a...
Old Structures...
Best Commute Ever The conference I am currently attending is at ETH, the famous engineering school in Zurich. My hotel...
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The conference I am currently attending is at ETH, the famous engineering school in Zurich. My hotel is not far away in a two-dimensional sense. I picked it some months ago by looking at a map and thinking that it was a short walk from campus. It’s a short flight to campus if...
The Marginalian
William James on Love "If it comes, it comes; if it does not come, no process of reasoning can force it. Yet it transforms...
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"If it comes, it comes; if it does not come, no process of reasoning can force it. Yet it transforms the value of the creature loved."
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My Three Strikes Rule for Blogging A simple way to decide when and what to write.
over a year ago
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 25 September-1 October 2023 The best articles from the past week.
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Jan 2022 updates: 4K MRR, new release, new features, new learnings Hello everyone, this is Tony! 👋 In January 2022, I released a new DevUtils version, added a lot of...
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Hello everyone, this is Tony! 👋 In January 2022, I released a new DevUtils version, added a lot of features for Black Magic, reached $4K MRR, and learned a ton! Here comes the monthly update! Hope you like it! 🧩 New DevUtils release: 1.13 The latest release of DevUtils comes...
History Today Feed
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Our long national nightmare is not over I have faith in Joe Biden. And Kamala Harris. They’re good people. They and the team they’ve...
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I have faith in Joe Biden. And Kamala Harris. They’re good people. They and the team they’ve selected know what they’re doing. It’s obvious just listening to them. So I can barely wait for them to take over the White House tomorrow. Because real governance will be back in...
Artificial Ignorance
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Pitched Roofs Cover This Dark And Moody Farmhouse Atlas Architects has shared photos of a modern house on the Mornington Peninsula, Australia, that...
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Atlas Architects has shared photos of a modern house on the Mornington Peninsula, Australia, that was once a brown-brick, pitched-roof farmhouse built in the 1980s.
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Multiple Regression with StatsModels This is the third is a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science which available from...
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This is the third is a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science which available from Lulu.com and online booksellers. It’s from Chapter 10, which is about multiple regression. You can read the complete chapter here, or run the Jupyter notebook on Colab. In the previous...
Paul Graham: Essays
The Other Half of "Artists Ship"
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Notes on software...
How I run a coffee club I started the NYC Systems Coffee Club in December of 2023. It's gone pretty well! I regularly get...
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I started the NYC Systems Coffee Club in December of 2023. It's gone pretty well! I regularly get around 20 people each month. You bring a drink if you feel like it and you hang out with people for an hour or two. There is no agenda, there is no speaker, there is no structure....
Math Is Still...
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...
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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
Math Is Still...
The Computer Scientist Who Builds Big Pictures From Small Details To better understand machine learning algorithms, Lenka Zdeborová treats them like physical...
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To better understand machine learning algorithms, Lenka Zdeborová treats them like physical materials. The post The Computer Scientist Who Builds Big Pictures From Small Details first appeared on Quanta Magazine
David Heinemeier...
Switching to Android was easy In addition to trying out Windows for a week, I also switched my main phone number to Android...
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In addition to trying out Windows for a week, I also switched my main phone number to Android recently. And that turned out to be far easier. Dangerously easy, you might say, if you were in Apple’s shoes. But it’s all down to how deep you’re mired in the platform services soup. I...
The Marginalian
The Beach and the Soul: Anne Morrow Lindbergh on the Benedictions of the Sea "The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient... Patience,...
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"The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient... Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach."
Old Structures...
A Hidden Surprise, But Not Really The picture above shows the nearly-complete Astor Court Apartments, on Broadway between 89th and...
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The picture above shows the nearly-complete Astor Court Apartments, on Broadway between 89th and 90th Street, in 1915. (As a side note, we’ve got some heavy hitters involved: the architect was Charles Platt, the contractor was Marc Eidlitz & Son, and the photographer was Irving...
TokyoDev
Bringing Your Family to Japan My son often walks a few blocks to the convenience store to buy a snack. His friends bike to our...
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My son often walks a few blocks to the convenience store to buy a snack. His friends bike to our house to play. And as my daughter’s coming home from school, the neighbors no longer say “Konnichiwa,” when she passes. They call out “Okaeri!” which means “Welcome home!” I’ve...
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How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer How to “FLOSS” as a Web Designer 2020-02-07 I have a profound respect for the open source community....
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How to “FLOSS” as a Web Designer 2020-02-07 I have a profound respect for the open source community. I most likely wouldn’t have the skills or knowledge I do today with it. Unfortunately, when I was just starting out in “web dev” some 10 years ago, proprietary software was the...
Josh Thompson
Fred Roger's Method For Writing Scripts Someone said: People think this is silly, but read about Fred rogers’ method for writing a script...
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Someone said: People think this is silly, but read about Fred rogers’ method for writing a script for his show. The rules aren’t fully applicable to presentations, but the attention to detail and to the Interpretation of the audience is. Don’t use any words carelessly. I...
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VFX Suite 1.5 Today Red Giant released the first major update to the VFX Suite we introduced last year. Lens...
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Today Red Giant released the first major update to the VFX Suite we introduced last year. Lens Distortion Matcher A brand-new effect, Lens Distortion Matcher makes it ridiculously easy to profile the distortion of any lens, and either remove it, or build a VFX workflow around it...
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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...
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The Coca-Cola Christmas Truck Drives Into London This Week Merry fizz-mas!
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Shein and MercadoLibre are fighting over vendors in Brazil’s largest garment market After the pandemic pushed Brazilian manufacturers and store owners to digitize their businesses,...
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After the pandemic pushed Brazilian manufacturers and store owners to digitize their businesses, e-commerce platforms began pulling out all the stops to lure vendors.
Open Culture
Read J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Letter From Father Christmas” To His Young Children (1925) J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for the sweeping fantasy landscapes of Lord of The Rings and The...
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J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for the sweeping fantasy landscapes of Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit. Apart from being a celebrated author, the Oxford University professor of Anglo-Saxon was also a devoted father who doted on his children. In 1920, a few short years after Tolkien...
Epic Web Dev
Use Fetcher Keys for Registering Remix Fetchers (tip) Discover how to use fetcher keys in Remix 2.2.0 for optimistic theme switching with cookies. Improve...
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Discover how to use fetcher keys in Remix 2.2.0 for optimistic theme switching with cookies. Improve user experience and eliminate network delays.
TheCollector
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Anorak Corner (rail edition) Anorak Corner [National Rail edition] passenger data from across Britain's railway network, this...
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Anorak Corner [National Rail edition] passenger data from across Britain's railway network, this batch covering the period April 2022 to March 2023. After a couple of years of freakish statistics we've finally left the pandemic behind, with its subdued commuting, reduced...
Josh Thompson
Typing in Colemac 2.0 I want to learn to type in Colemak, but I’m afraid to try to invest twenty hours in it. That’s a...
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over a year ago
I want to learn to type in Colemak, but I’m afraid to try to invest twenty hours in it. That’s a long commitment, and I’m afraid I would not follow through, and feel like it was a failure, because I didn’t allot enough time, nor reach a desired level of skill. My hope is that as...
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Mark Zuckerberg: "speed and strategy" One way to make sure we can move quickly is for everyone to understand our strategy behind the major...
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One way to make sure we can move quickly is for everyone to understand our strategy behind the major product areas we're working on. I've tried to summarize some of the key ones here.
Farza's Newsletter
drinking a spanish latte but i dont speak spanish is this legal I come from a Pakistani family. Unless your new initiative is a big success, you're a big flop. As a...
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I come from a Pakistani family. Unless your new initiative is a big success, you're a big flop. As a society, no matter where you're from -- we have a tendency to look at those that did something really hard, but didn't figure it out as a person who "failed".
nanoscale views
The need for energy-efficient computing Computing is consuming a large and ever-growing fraction of the world's energy capacity. I've seen...
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over a year ago
Computing is consuming a large and ever-growing fraction of the world's energy capacity. I've seen the essential data in this figure several times over the last few months, and it has convinced me that the need for energy-efficient computing hardware is genuinely pressing.  This...
Lighthouse Blog
How to manage tags
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TheCollector
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Father's Day (First posted on Father's Day, 2022.)
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Damn Interesting
A Trail Gone Cold Iceland is known to the rest of the world as the land of Vikings and volcanos, an island caught...
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Iceland is known to the rest of the world as the land of Vikings and volcanos, an island caught between continents at the extremities of the map. Remote and comparatively inhospitable, it was settled only as long ago as the 9th century, and has seen little additional in-migration...
AFAR Media - Travel...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Brand Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is why smbc refuses to be about anything...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is why smbc refuses to be about anything whatsoever, except maybe the idea that clowns are a species with interesting sexual customs. Today's News: Geeks of the UK! If you pre-order soon, you get a 20% discount on my new...
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Bond Villain When Powell devalued bonds, he destroyed the economy.
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Beating the Auction Duopoly Sotheby's and Christie's are a combined 538 years old. Can the 48-year old Heritage Auctions topple...
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Sotheby's and Christie's are a combined 538 years old. Can the 48-year old Heritage Auctions topple this duopoly?
Vadim Kravcenko
 🎭 Owning up to your mistakes Some self reflection on owning up to your mistakes. A few weeks ago my business partner Jakob...
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Some self reflection on owning up to your mistakes. A few weeks ago my business partner Jakob mentioned that I […] The post  🎭 Owning up to your mistakes appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
The Architectural...
Architects vs. the Public: A Surprising Study Sheds Light on Aesthetic Preferences Do architects have a different taste in buildings compared to the rest of us? A recent Swedish study...
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Do architects have a different taste in buildings compared to the rest of us? A recent Swedish study delves into this question, and the findings are intriguing. In the study “Green City Branding – How People Respond to the Built Environment“, people were asked to rate five...
The Modern House
Good Fortune: the best Chinese restaurants in London
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NeuroLogica Blog
Woman with Catatonia for Years Wakes After Treatment The story of a woman, in a severe state of catatonia for years and “waking up” after being treated...
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The story of a woman, in a severe state of catatonia for years and “waking up” after being treated for an autoimmune disease, is making the rounds and deserves a little bit of context. April Burrell was diagnosed with a severe form of schizophrenia resulting in catatonia, and has...
Noahpinion
Uh, guys, we really should think about spending more on defense That's not a message many people want to hear, but it's true.
a year ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Fire Hydrant Fury If you are an artist living in a city with a public art project you hope nobody blames you for it....
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If you are an artist living in a city with a public art project you hope nobody blames you for it. Lincoln, Nebraska is covered with ugly bike-shaped sculptures covered with even uglier paintings. Loveland, Colorado lets people paint their electric boxes. Your city probably has...
Kat Snyder
Quantitative Analysis and Cognitive Dissonance in Marketing I love business-related applications of data analysis, and so I want to share a huge shift in my...
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I love business-related applications of data analysis, and so I want to share a huge shift in my understanding of data analysis...
Joel Gascoigne
Snowmelt meetings “When spring comes, snow melts first at the periphery, because that is where it is most exposed” -...
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over a year ago
“When spring comes, snow melts first at the periphery, because that is where it is most exposed” - Andy Grove This quote comes from Andy Grove, Intel’s former CEO, and which I was reminded of in the most recent book I finished reading, Seeing Around Corners
Steve Klabnik
Shoes 4 work is starting: get involved!
over a year ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Are many useStates better than useState(object)? Lately I've converted a lot of class components to functional. One question left me curious every...
over a year ago
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Lately I've converted a lot of class components to functional. One question left me curious every time — why do I feel like splitting the old class state into so many useState(atom) — one for each state key? Is there any real benefit in it? Should I just leave a single...
TheCollector
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The Pragmatic...
A Tech Conference Listed Fake Speakers for Years: I Accidentally Noticed For 3 years straight, the DevTernity conference listed non-existent Coinbase employees as featured...
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For 3 years straight, the DevTernity conference listed non-existent Coinbase employees as featured speakers. When were they added and what could have the motivation been?
Josh Thompson
The advantage of low friction goals If you have a project, make it easy to take small steps. I’m trying to publish something every day...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you have a project, make it easy to take small steps. I’m trying to publish something every day for a month. Normally, I would sit down at my computer, open a text editor, write something, the copy it into Squarespace, and customize the post from there. “Customization”...
Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1986/06 Australian Personal Computer Mag It’s that time of the month. This time let’s look at humor from down under. These comics are from...
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It’s that time of the month. This time let’s look at humor from down under. These comics are from the June 1986 issue of Australian Computer magazine. Enjoy! What computer ads would you like to see in the future? Please comment below. If you enjoyed it, please share it with your...
Tony Finch's blog
The unix69 keyboard layout: nerdy and nice A proper Unix keyboard layout must have escape next to 1 and control next to A. Compared to the...
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A proper Unix keyboard layout must have escape next to 1 and control next to A. Compared to the usual ANSI layout, backquote is displaced from its common position next to 1. But a proper Unix keyboard should cover the entire ASCII repertoire, 94 printing characters on 47 keys,...
Diaries of Note
I long for vigour and clear thought, but only meet with chaos When she wrote the following diary entry, English author, poet, and garden designer Vita...
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When she wrote the following diary entry, English author, poet, and garden designer Vita Sackville-West was 28. Living in Long Barn, Kent, with her husband and fellow writer, Harold Nicolson, she was nearing the end of an intense, two-year romance with Violet Keppel, with whom...
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Notes on Adversarial Interoperability Summarizing thoughts from Seth Godin and Cory Doctorow on Interoperability
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Internal Tech Emails
Mark Zuckerberg: "VR / AR strategy" We are vulnerable on mobile to Google and Apple because they make major mobile platforms. We would...
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a year ago
We are vulnerable on mobile to Google and Apple because they make major mobile platforms. We would like a stronger strategic position in the next wave of computing.
Commoncog
The Hospitality Solution in Your Business A look at the main provocation of Will Guidara’s Unreasonable Hospitality: that you can solve...
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A look at the main provocation of Will Guidara’s Unreasonable Hospitality: that you can solve (certain) business problems with hospitality, and that it only takes a little thoughtfulness to do so.
Society's Backend
Why MLX is Important for the ML Community And a step-by-step guide to train a machine learning model on your Mac
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The Tao Of Wealth
The Meaning Of “Om” With the help of “Om” one can realize the Divine. “Om” has a transformative power. “Om” represents...
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With the help of “Om” one can realize the Divine. “Om” has a transformative power. “Om” represents the Divine. They say that all the aspirations of the world when going towards the Divine make “Om”, like that. I was in France, some, I think 60 years ago. There was a Frenchman who...
Calculated Risk
Construction Spending Mostly Unchanged in November From the Census Bureau reported that overall construction spending increased: Construction spending...
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From the Census Bureau reported that overall construction spending increased: Construction spending during November 2024 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $2,152.6 billion, virtually unchanged from the revised October estimate of $2,152.3 billion. The November...
Adventures In...
Thoughts on the Cartographer’s Role in an AI Future A few moments ago I was asked by a student about the “development of cartography over the next 10...
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A few moments ago I was asked by a student about the “development of cartography over the next 10 years.” Here’s my somewhat off-the-cuff response, though my thoughts have been steeping in this for the past year or so. In the next 10 years artificial intelligence, and probably...
The American Scholar
Bony Ramirez Beautiful parasites The post Bony Ramirez appeared first on The American Scholar.
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TheCollector
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Paolo Amoroso's...
Raspberry Pi 400: first impressions <![CDATA[I bought a lovely little computer, a Raspberry Pi 400, and two accessories, a 64 GB Samsung...
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<![CDATA[I bought a lovely little computer, a Raspberry Pi 400, and two accessories, a 64 GB Samsung Pro Endurance microSD card to hold the file system and a very cheap Full HD webcam for video calls. Raspberry Pi 400, Samsung Pro Endurance 64 GB microSD card, and Full HD webcam...
TheCollector
What is Objectivism? Ayn Rand’s Philosophy undefined
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The Elysian
One essay could change the future Please support a better media ecosystem.
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AI Snake Oil
One year update: book submitted; TIME 100; Sep 21 online workshop It's been an eventful year
a year ago
Blog - Bitfield...
Type parameters in Go Now that generics have come to Go, let's take a look at the new syntax for type parameters. We’ll...
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Now that generics have come to Go, let's take a look at the new syntax for type parameters. We’ll find out why we need type parameters, how we write them, and how we can use them to create generic functions in Go.
Maps Mania
The Virtual Tour Maker
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Musings on Markets
Data Update 1 for 2023: Setting the table! In my last post, I talked about the ritual that I go through every year ahead of my teaching each...
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over a year ago
In my last post, I talked about the ritual that I go through every year ahead of my teaching each spring, and in this one, I will start on the first of a series of posts that I make at the start of each year, where I look at data, both macro and company-level. In this post, I...
nanoscale views
Items of interest The time since the APS meeting has been very busy, hence the lack of posting.  A few items of...
9 months ago
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The time since the APS meeting has been very busy, hence the lack of posting.  A few items of interest: The present issue of Nature Physics has several articles about physics education that I really want to read.  This past week we hosted N. Peter Armitage for a really fun...
Cartogrammar
Ohio is still a piano In a hundred years, no one will remember our work. Strike that, make it about five years. Digital,...
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over a year ago
In a hundred years, no one will remember our work. Strike that, make it about five years. Digital, web-based work can break or disappear in an instant. I’ve certainly done some things which are now gone forever. Anyway, one broken thing was the crazy Ohio piano map I made nearly...
TheCollector
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Flashbak
Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in...
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Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
Society's Backend
Discussions around OpenAI's o1, Superhuman AI, When AI Should Be An App, and More Discussions from the past week: 09/16/2024
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diamond geezer
Unblogged December 28 unblogged things I did in December Fri 1: My monthly electricity bill arrived and it was an...
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28 unblogged things I did in December Fri 1: My monthly electricity bill arrived and it was an estimate, except that after several months of them assuming I'd used 40 kWh they'd suddenly decided I'd used 192 kWh. The bloke on the helpline couldn't explain the massive hike ("no, I...
Rest of World -...
Exclusive: Microsoft Bing’s censorship in China is even “more extreme” than Chinese companies’ New Citizen Lab study comes as U.S. lawmakers scrutinize Microsoft’s willingness to comply with...
6 months ago
Koos Looijesteijn -...
A not so gentle intro to web3 Almost everything web3-related is a grift based on getting people to buy crypto. Although the...
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Almost everything web3-related is a grift based on getting people to buy crypto. Although the distributed part of blockchain technology...
The Codist
Why Are People Still Using C? C is second in the latest TIOBE list of the most popular languages. I find it hard to understand...
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a year ago
C is second in the latest TIOBE list of the most popular languages. I find it hard to understand why, unless there is a lot of existing code to support, I can't fathom why anyone would start something new in 2023 in C. I first learned C in
Josh Thompson
How To Write A Letter of Recommendation for Yourself I meet regularly with early-career software developers. A few recurring meetings, 1x/week, plus...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I meet regularly with early-career software developers. A few recurring meetings, 1x/week, plus ad-hoc calls as needed with others. A question came up recently: My three-month internship is close to wrapping up. The Co-founder/CEO/lead developer of the consulting company I’m at...
The Marginalian
The Unphotographable: Richard Adams on the Singular Magic of Autumn There is a lovely liminality to autumn — this threshold time between the centripetal exuberance of...
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2 months ago
There is a lovely liminality to autumn — this threshold time between the centripetal exuberance of summer and the season for tending to the inner garden, as Rilke wrote of winter. Autumn is a living metaphor for the necessary losses that shape our human lives: What falls away...
Seth's Blog
Understanding pricing The money we exchange for a service or item isn’t based on how much it cost to make, how hard it was...
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a month ago
The money we exchange for a service or item isn’t based on how much it cost to make, how hard it was to produce or how much the producer likes it. That’s hard to hear, because when we make something, we spend most of our time thinking about those very things. Price is based on...
Florian Bellmann |...
How to get in shape with a Raspberry Pi A Raspberry Pi is a great tool for any coder to have. It is a small, cheap computer that can be used...
a year ago
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a year ago
A Raspberry Pi is a great tool for any coder to have. It is a small, cheap computer that can be used for a variety of projects. This blog post will discuss some of the reasons why I think every coder should have one!
Open Culture
The Cramps Play a Mental Health Hospital in Napa, California in 1978: The Punkest of Punk Concerts “We’re The Cramps, and we’re from New York City, and we drove 3,000 miles to play for you...
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“We’re The Cramps, and we’re from New York City, and we drove 3,000 miles to play for you people.” So begins one of the oddest but also the punkest of punk rock concerts in history, as The Cramps play for a crowd at a state mental hospital in Napa, California. The date was June...
Posts on Made of...
autocutsel As most of you probably know, X has several different mechanisms for copy-paste, used by different...
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over a year ago
As most of you probably know, X has several different mechanisms for copy-paste, used by different applications in different ways. I know some people who use them deliberately, juggling two pieces of text in different clipboards at once, but for me, it’s always just been...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
HTML Web Components I think the word “component” in “web components” confused a lot of people — at least it did me. “Web...
a year ago
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a year ago
I think the word “component” in “web components” confused a lot of people — at least it did me. “Web components” sounded like the web platform’s equivalent to “React components”. JSX had <MyComponent> and now the web had <my-component>. But when you try building web components...
Blog - Bitfield...
Functional programming in Go Thanks to generics, there are some interesting new ways to program in Go. This article explains...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Thanks to generics, there are some interesting new ways to program in Go. This article explains how we can use functional programming techniques like Map, Filter, and Reduce, and what kind of problems they might help us to solve.
The American Scholar
As I Walked Out One Morning The post As I Walked Out One Morning appeared first on The American Scholar.
2 months ago
bt RSS Feed
Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts 2021-11-25 As you can most likely tell by looking at...
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over a year ago
Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts 2021-11-25 As you can most likely tell by looking at your browser’s URL - I’ve swapped over to a new domain for my personal website: tdarb.org. I’m a fickle person and this is a random change - but it is one I’ve been planning to do...
Contemporist...
Green Metal Siding Allows This Small Cottage To Blend In With Its Surroundings Daymark Design Incorporated has shared photos of a cabin they completed in Robert’s Island Honey...
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a month ago
Daymark Design Incorporated has shared photos of a cabin they completed in Robert’s Island Honey Harbour in Ontario, Canada, that's clad in sage green standing seam metal siding.
Josh Thompson
Tiny Habits take 2 Dr. BJ Fogg runs Tiny Habits, a one-week course on building new habits. Since most of what we do is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Dr. BJ Fogg runs Tiny Habits, a one-week course on building new habits. Since most of what we do is governed by habits, it is reasonable to study how to build new ones, or replace bad ones. I have done his course before, and had success. I have been reading Freewith Kristi and...
Transit Maps
Submission – Unofficial Map: Improved Cercanías Madrid Map by Jace Submitted by Jace, who says: A while ago I saw your review of the Cercanías Madrid [our 2022 review...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Submitted by Jace, who says: A while ago I saw your review of the Cercanías Madrid [our 2022 review is here – Cam], and, as a regular user of the system, I too find the map quite bad: Uneven distances between lines, mismatched fonts in the route bullets, and overall lack of...
Londonist
Ever Noticed These Decorative Panels At Guy's Hospital? Three scenes of hospital life.
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Indian politicians are bringing the dead on the campaign trail, with help from AI Digital rights activists have questioned the ethics of using “soft fakes” to resurrect the past and...
8 months ago
Louwrentius
Linode hacked: thoughts about cloud security I bought a Linode VPS for private usage just after the report that Linode had reset all passwords of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I bought a Linode VPS for private usage just after the report that Linode had reset all passwords of existing users regarding the Linode management console. Resetting passwords is not something you do when under a simple attack such as a DDOS attack. Such a measure is only taken...
Josh Thompson
Sidekiq and Background Jobs for Beginners I’ve recently had to learn more about background jobs (using Sidekiq, specifically) for some bugs I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve recently had to learn more about background jobs (using Sidekiq, specifically) for some bugs I was working on. I learned a lot. Much of it was extremely basic. Anyone who knows much at all about Sidekiq will say “oh, duh, of course that’s true”, but at the time, it wasn’t...
Engineers Need Art
VPX Scripting - Part 1 (Teacher's Pet) The first in a series of posts about scripting Visual Pinball tables.
9 months ago
Dominik Sobe's...
Launching HelpKit
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Maps Mania
The 46 States of America & Each State Flower
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TheCollector
Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society? undefined
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - AAAAAA Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I was actually screaming in agony, but now that you...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I was actually screaming in agony, but now that you mention it they are lovely. Today's News:
African History...
a brief note on the history of Africans exploring their own continent plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
a year ago
Home on Erik...
Scala Data Pipelines for Music Recommendations Chris Johnson‘s presentation from Data Day Texas:
over a year ago
Atoms vs Bits
Spaced Repetition Through Newsletters Some newsletters just tell you the same few concepts again, and again, and again
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
I'm making it dead simple to contribute to Ruby's documentation
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Impressionist Blogging Movement I love this articulation: AI enables action without thought. It comes from an iA article about AI...
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5 months ago
I love this articulation: AI enables action without thought. It comes from an iA article about AI and the future of design (emphasis mine): Now, what actually is AI? The Italian philosopher and technology ethicist Luciano Floridi sums it up nicely. He posits that AI doesn’t...
Neocha – Culture &...
Peace, Love, & Ass
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Notes on software...
Writing a simple Python compiler: 1. hello, fibonacci In this post we'll write a Python to C compiler in Python. This is especially easy to do since...
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over a year ago
In this post we'll write a Python to C compiler in Python. This is especially easy to do since Python has a builtin parser library and because a number of CPython internals are exposed for extension writers. By the end of this post, in a few hundred lines of Python, we'll be able...
TheCollector
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7 months ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Why I always wrap Context.Provider and useContext React context is a cool feature, and I use it a lot for injecting configuration and making container...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
React context is a cool feature, and I use it a lot for injecting configuration and making container / child component APIs (think <RadioGroup /> + <RadioButton />). Unfortunately, out of the box Context comes with a limiting and not very convenient API. In most cases, I choose...
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Competition is overrated Your #1 competitor starting out will always be the BACK button, nothing else. – Garry Tan Suppose...
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Your #1 competitor starting out will always be the BACK button, nothing else. – Garry Tan Suppose you have an idea for a startup, and then…
Dominik Sobe's...
What I have been up to lately
a year ago
Common Edge
“What Would Jane Jacobs Do?” Is the Wrong Question Proponents of City of Yes are misapplying her ideas (again).
3 months ago
The Marginalian
The Cosmogony of You We live in a state of perpetual dissociation from the almost unbearable wonder of being alive....
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We live in a state of perpetual dissociation from the almost unbearable wonder of being alive. Wonder is always an edge state, its edge so sharp it threatens to rupture the mundane and sever us from what we mistake for reality — the TV, the townhouse, the trauma narrative. If we...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Having a safe CEX: proof of solvency and beyond
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Evolution of RTS games Introduction This is an essay for the course Game Design and I’m going to give you a ride through...
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Introduction This is an essay for the course Game Design and I’m going to give you a ride through the evolution of RTS game genre. I like RTS games and I’ve played them for as long as I can remember, from the classic Red Alert and Age of Empires to the newer Supreme Commander and...
Matt Mazur
Reflecting on My First Year as a Full Time Indie Founder At the beginning of 2023 I went full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker business, after 13...
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At the beginning of 2023 I went full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker business, after 13 years of working on it on the side. A year has passed, so I wanted to share an update on how things are going and some lessons learned. Preceden My main focus in 2023 was building AI...
computers are bad
2024-03-09 the purple streetscape Across the United States, streets are taking on a strange hue at night. Purple. Purple streetlights...
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Across the United States, streets are taking on a strange hue at night. Purple. Purple streetlights have been reported in Tampa, Vancouver, Wichita, Boston. They're certainly in evidence here in Albuquerque, where Coal through downtown has turned almost entirely to mood lighting....
Wuthering...
Books I read in December 2023 - No one’s worse than you, she says Lots of short fantasy fiction this month, perhaps everything in the first section except the May...
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Lots of short fantasy fiction this month, perhaps everything in the first section except the May Sarton novel and Eugene O’Neill play, balanced by a complementary pair of Holocaust memoirs. NOVELS, STORIES & A PLAY Ocean of Story, Vol. 1 (11th cent.),  Somadeva, tr. C. H....
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Lost In The Future Soundtrack: Post Pop Depression - Paraguay I haven't wanted to write much in the last...
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Soundtrack: Post Pop Depression - Paraguay I haven't wanted to write much in the last week. Seemingly every single person on Earth with a blog has tried to drill down into what happened on November 5 — to find the people to blame, to somehow explain what could&
Overcoming Bias
Decision Selection Bias As futarchy interest and activity are way up lately, this seems a good time to elaborate on one of...
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As futarchy interest and activity are way up lately, this seems a good time to elaborate on one of its most technical issues, one that @metaproph3t also discussed recently: decision selection bias.
99% Invisible
The White Castle System of Eating Houses [EPISODE] White Castle has its own take on fast food hamburgers. For starters, the patties are square, with...
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White Castle has its own take on fast food hamburgers. For starters, the patties are square, with five holes in each patty. And they’re small, too –- two-and-a-half inch sliders. Just big enough to fit into the palm of your hand. And since they’re steamed on a bed of onions,...
Alex MacCaw
Universality and APIs From Roman numerals to Indian digits, from hieroglyphics to Latin languages, universality has been...
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From Roman numerals to Indian digits, from hieroglyphics to Latin languages, universality has been the key to unlocking human progress.