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The Modern House
Grand Designs at 25: six Modern House homes that started life on the much-loved homebuilding TV show Grand Designs first aired in 1999 when television schedules were awash with dubious interiors...
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3 months ago
Grand Designs first aired in 1999 when television schedules were awash with dubious interiors programming. From the start, it was distinctly different. With just one project per episode, it allowed the viewer to become fully involved, immersed and invested. Thought-provoking and...
IEEE Spectrum
A Brief History of the World’s First Planetarium In 1912, Oskar von Miller, an electrical engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum, had an idea:...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
In 1912, Oskar von Miller, an electrical engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum, had an idea: Could you project an artificial starry sky onto a dome, as a way of demonstrating astronomical principles to the public? It was such a novel concept that when von Miller approached...
Matt Mazur
Emergent Mind in The Atlantic One of the many people who saw the incorrect Google Quick Answer about Kenya was an editor at The...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of the many people who saw the incorrect Google Quick Answer about Kenya was an editor at The Atlantic who asked Caroline Mimbs Nyce, one of their reporters, to look into it. Caroline interviewed me for the article they just published which focused on the challenges Google is...
Charles Chen
React is the New IBM You’ll never get fired for picking it, but it’s going to be expensive, bloated, difficult to get...
a year ago
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a year ago
You’ll never get fired for picking it, but it’s going to be expensive, bloated, difficult to get right, and joyless every step of the way.
Seth's Blog
Searching for stars It’s easy to imagine that talent is a magical gift, and that we’ll know it when see it (and that you...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
It’s easy to imagine that talent is a magical gift, and that we’ll know it when see it (and that you have it or you don’t). And yet, over the years, Star Search has rejected each of these musicians, picking someone else to win the competition: One could argue that they’re simply...
Castles in the Sky
Living the Questions, Reading the Clown-Arounds Embracing the Trivial in a World Obsessed with Takeaways
4 months ago
Londonist
Visit These 15 Beautiful Castles In Kent Clifftop fortresses to grand country piles.
9 months ago
TheCollector
5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For undefined
a week ago
Maps Mania
The Vespa Map of Rome
6 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
The Mystical Q OpenAI Q*, Primer on Reinforcement Learning, and Implications
a year ago
Maps Mania
Mapping Russian Military Facilities in Crimea
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers? undefined
a month ago
bt RSS Feed
My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers 2022-03-21 In case you missed it,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers 2022-03-21 In case you missed it, this website is now generated with pure HTML & CSS. Although, generated isn’t the proper way to describe it anymore. Written is a better description. No more Markdown files. No...
TheCollector
10 Historic Christmas Towns in the US to Visit undefined
a week ago
Strange Loop Canon
Symposium: On Building God
a year ago
TheCollector
Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know undefined
10 months ago
Tech + Economics +...
There is a deep rot at the heart of Australian tech. Steve Baxter, one of Australia's most prominent investors and a judge on Shark Tank, is on record...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Steve Baxter, one of Australia's most prominent investors and a judge on Shark Tank, is on record as saying that I am a man pretending to be a woman. It's an old, outdated, obsolete and uninteresting transphobic trope. In itself, it's almost not worth mentioning. But...
Calculated Risk
Schedule for Week of December 15, 2024 The key economic reports this week are Retail Sales, Housing Starts, Existing Home Sales, the 3rd...
a week ago
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a week ago
The key economic reports this week are Retail Sales, Housing Starts, Existing Home Sales, the 3rd estimate of Q3 GDP, and November Personal income and outlays. ----- Monday, December 16th ----- 8:30 AM: The New York Fed Empire State manufacturing survey for December. The...
macwright.com
Year in Review The last time I wrote a “year in review” post was 2017, and before that in 2012. Reading my old...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
The last time I wrote a “year in review” post was 2017, and before that in 2012. Reading my old writing is nostalgic and horrific. By the numbers, 2023 was pretty normal: I read around 20 books, ran around 400 miles. It’s funny how the statistics even out to the same numbers...
Oxide Computer...
Moore's Scofflaws Years ago, Jeff Bezos famously quipped that "your margin is my opportunity." This was of course...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Years ago, Jeff Bezos famously quipped that "your margin is my opportunity." This was of course aimed not at Amazon’s customers, but rather its competitors, and it was deadly serious: customers of AWS in those bygone years will fondly remember that every re:Invent brought with it...
SatPost by Trung...
9 Best Things of 2023 My favourite book, film, podcast, meme, investment and more for the year.
11 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Drones with Legs Can Walk, Hop, and Jump into the Air “Whenever I encountered crows on the EPFL campus, I would observe how they walked, hopped over or...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
“Whenever I encountered crows on the EPFL campus, I would observe how they walked, hopped over or jumped on obstacles, and jumped for take-offs,” says Won Dong Shin, a doctoral student at EPFL’s Laboratory of Intelligent Systems. “What I consistently observed was that they always...
TheCollector
8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties undefined
4 weeks ago
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 22 Feels like I've already said everything I had to say
a month ago
Old Structures...
Future Site An 1890 view of the south side of the intersection of 23rd Street, Broadway and Fifth Avenue, the...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
An 1890 view of the south side of the intersection of 23rd Street, Broadway and Fifth Avenue, the narrow triangular block that would, a dozen years later, be the site of the construction of the Flatiron Buidling. My first thought was “would you really want a dentist who...
TheCollector
Is Calligraphy Considered Art? undefined
7 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Xiaoshi Restaurant by Longterm Design Located in the bustling coastal city of Wenzhou in the southeast of China, known for its mild...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Located in the bustling coastal city of Wenzhou in the southeast of China, known for its mild subtropical climate, Xiaoshi...
wadertales
Why count shorebirds? A tale from Portugal The Sado Estuary is one of Portugal’s most important wetlands – a key link in the chain of sites...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Sado Estuary is one of Portugal’s most important wetlands – a key link in the chain of sites connecting Africa and the Arctic, on the East Atlantic Flyway. In a paper in Waterbirds, João Belo and colleagues analyse changes in numbers of waders wintering in this estuary over...
Irrational...
Leadership requires taking some risk. At a recent offsite with Carta’s Navigators, we landed on an interesting topic: leadership roles...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
At a recent offsite with Carta’s Navigators, we landed on an interesting topic: leadership roles sometimes mean that making progress on a professional initiative requires taking some personal risk. This lesson was hammered into me a decade ago during my time at Uber, where I...
Joel Gascoigne
Plan or build? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I met with Jesse...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I met with Jesse Nowlin [https://twitter.com/MrJNowlin] a few days ago, a great founder who’s really hustling. We spent some time discussing his idea and I shared some of my experiences with...
TheCollector
Who Was Eusebius? undefined
11 months ago
African History...
A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900 The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Spidey Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We are assuming for the sake of argument that all...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We are assuming for the sake of argument that all bits of human are equivalent, which is basically correct. Today's News:
TheCollector
The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You? undefined
4 months ago
diamond geezer
National Rail interchange symbols What does the National Rail symbol on the tube map mean? I ask because several stations with a...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
What does the National Rail symbol on the tube map mean? I ask because several stations with a National Rail service don't have the symbol, for example here in the northwest corner of the map. The two symbol-less Metropolitan line stations are Rickmansworth and Chorleywood....
TheCollector
What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist? undefined
10 months ago
Seth's Blog
The commonweal Thanks to everyone who has read, talked about and taken action around my new book, The Song of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Thanks to everyone who has read, talked about and taken action around my new book, The Song of Signficance. If you have a chance to post a review, that would be great. And you can find the podcasts here. The first step in making things better is talking about it.
TheCollector
The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know undefined
2 months ago
The Marginalian
Kafka’s Creative Block and the Four Psychological Hindrances That Keep the Talented from Manifesting... The most paradoxical thing about creative work is that it is both a way in and a way out, that it...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The most paradoxical thing about creative work is that it is both a way in and a way out, that it plunges you into the depths of your being and at the same time takes you out of yourself. Writing is the best instrument I have for metabolizing my experience and clarifying my own...
Tony Finch's blog
Concurrent qp-trie performance numbers Previously, I wrote about implementing safe memory reclamation for my qp-trie code in BIND. I have...
a year ago
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a year ago
Previously, I wrote about implementing safe memory reclamation for my qp-trie code in BIND. I have now got it working with a refactored qp-trie that has been changed to support asynchronous memory reclamation - working to the point where I can run some benchmarks to compare the...
Made by Ollin
Acapella Extraction with ConvNets A working prototype
over a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Nature in Greek Myth Magical and Medicinal
9 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Jean Sammet: An Accidental Computer Programmer Jean Sammet rarely let anything get in the way of her professional goals. As a young student, she...
a week ago
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a week ago
Jean Sammet rarely let anything get in the way of her professional goals. As a young student, she was barred from attending prestigious all-boys schools, so she pursued her love of mathematics at the best institutions she could find that were open to girls and women. Following...
The Berkeley...
2024 BAIR Graduate Directory Every year, the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab graduates some of the most...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Every year, the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab graduates some of the most talented and innovative minds in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Our Ph.D. graduates have each expanded the frontiers of AI research and are now ready to embark on new...
Noahpinion
Who cares about the Ivy League? (repost) Too much of our education discourse focuses on a handful of tiny elite schools.
a year ago
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Chris Long My name is Chris and I am an artist, printmaker, composer and teacher. I studied fine art and music...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My name is Chris and I am an artist, printmaker, composer and teacher. I studied fine art and music at the University of Liverpool, a Masters in musical composition at Newcastle University and I completed my PhD at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. I have recently returned to...
ntietz.com blog
It's getting hard to use and recommend Firefox, I'm afraid for the free web A couple of months ago, every video call I had on my personal computer ended up using Chromium. I...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
A couple of months ago, every video call I had on my personal computer ended up using Chromium. I tried using Firefox and it looked good on my end: I could see and hear the other person. But they just saw a blank video feed and heard nothing. Firefox showed me that it's sending,...
Platformer
Google goes to court On the eve of a major antitrust trial — and its 25th birthday — the company is bracing for a fight
a year ago
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a year ago
On the eve of a major antitrust trial — and its 25th birthday — the company is bracing for a fight
Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963) I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
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a year ago
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen.  I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find  the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
TheCollector
How Did Belgium Become a Country? undefined
6 months ago
Atoms vs Bits
Is This Big? Is This New? A surprisingly helpful thing I've started doing: when faced with a choice or decision, I ask myself:...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
A surprisingly helpful thing I've started doing: when faced with a choice or decision, I ask myself: is this big? is this new? If the answer is "yes", I do my absolute best to go find someone who has dealt with it before and get their
Tinloof - Blog
How to get a taste of ReasonML by building something useful ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional programming language OCaml, leveraging powerful and safe types smartly inferred by default. Reason’s official documentation is clear, yet covering the theory with “Hello World”...
Jonas Hietala
Postmortem: Black and White All this time working on my latest game I thought it sucked and I was trying hard to make it to not...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
All this time working on my latest game I thought it sucked and I was trying hard to make it to not suck. My spirit wasn’t high, just check this post and this but now when it’s done it’s like night and day, or like black and white! I’m damn happy I got it done!! Aah I’ll try to...
Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960) The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
History Today Feed
Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah JamesHoare Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
9 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Word Can Open Like a Tomb to Reveal Its Past' The poet William Wenthe opens his essay “The Glamour of Words” with a provocative memory. It was the...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
The poet William Wenthe opens his essay “The Glamour of Words” with a provocative memory. It was the anniversary of Charles Dickens’ death and he was in the Poets’ Corner of Westminster Abbey, where Dickens is interred and his sister is speaking to mark the occasion. Wenthe looks...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
2 months ago
TheCollector
Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain? undefined
a year ago
Posts on Made of...
Some musings on ORMs I’m pretty sure every developer who has ever worked with a modern database-backed application,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m pretty sure every developer who has ever worked with a modern database-backed application, particularly a web-app, has a love/hate relationship with their ORM, or object-relational mapper. On the one hand, ORMs are vastly more pleasant to work with than code that constructs...
Seth's Blog
Preference and utility Taste varies. That’s why we don’t call it utility. Taste is individual preference, not absolute...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Taste varies. That’s why we don’t call it utility. Taste is individual preference, not absolute truth. In team settings, then, it’s much more helpful to say, “I prefer this over that,” instead of, “this is wrong.” Some things are wrong. There are standards that we can all accept...
Old Structures...
Variations On A Theme It turns out that I didn’t exhaust the topic of The Tombs yesterday. Possibly because of its social...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
It turns out that I didn’t exhaust the topic of The Tombs yesterday. Possibly because of its social meaning in the mid-1800s, possibly because of its bizarre appearance, drawings and photos of it seem to have turned up a lot in various publications. Here’s a photo in 1898, near...
Paul Graham: Essays
The Patent Pledge
over a year ago
The Marginalian
The Power of a Thin Skin "To be thin-skinned is to feel keenly, to perceive things that might go unseen, unnoticed, that...
a year ago
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a year ago
"To be thin-skinned is to feel keenly, to perceive things that might go unseen, unnoticed, that others might prefer not to notice."
Maggie Appleton
Testing JavaScript
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
The importance of dogfooding - Why product managers should use their product as much as their users Product testing is essential, but your testing won’t always pick up the small sources of friction...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Product testing is essential, but your testing won’t always pick up the small sources of friction which build up over time and frustrate your users…
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Decentralizing Journals and Peer Review DAOs | Out-Of-Pocket the evolution of legitimacy in scientific publishing
a year ago
TheCollector
Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art undefined
11 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
Why AI hasn’t shown up in the GDP statistics yet AI is meant to bring us closer to utopia, according to its builders.
4 months ago
Build In Public...
Meet Turf Imagine having a Swiss Army Knife for your community use cases
5 months ago
Sam Altman
Researchers and Founders I spent many years working with founders and now I work with researchers. Although there are always...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I spent many years working with founders and now I work with researchers. Although there are always individual exceptions, on average it’s surprising to me how different the best people in these groups are (including in some qualities that I had assumed were present in great...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Adding an Exec command and File Browser support to Insphex <![CDATA[I implemented the last features originally planned for Insphex, my hex dump tool in Common...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
<![CDATA[I implemented the last features originally planned for Insphex, my hex dump tool in Common Lisp for Medley Interlisp. The first new feature is an Exec command for invoking the program. The command HD works the same way as the function INSPHEX:HEXDUMP and accepts the...
Steve Klabnik
The secret to Rails OO design
over a year ago
Old Structures...
More Blatant Fakery First, a 1908 postcard, issued when the Singer Building was brand new: Second, a photo from about...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
First, a 1908 postcard, issued when the Singer Building was brand new: Second, a photo from about the same time: It’s standard practice in New York real-estate glamor pictures to pretend that the buildings between you and the subject don’t exist. Narrow streets and big buildings...
Arduino Blog
Deploy your smart meeting room management system with Arduino GIGA Managing shared spaces, especially meeting rooms, can be a headache in busy offices. At Arduino,...
3 days ago
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3 days ago
Managing shared spaces, especially meeting rooms, can be a headache in busy offices. At Arduino, we’ve experienced it firsthand in our flexible and dynamic offices around the world – where colleagues could often be seen wandering around with their laptops, trying to find a quiet...
Throwable
AI is Coming for Software Engineers (I'm a Software Engineer) There seems to be a lot of AI anxiety across professions and I'm here to tell you that no one should...
a year ago
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a year ago
There seems to be a lot of AI anxiety across professions and I'm here to tell you that no one should worry as much as software engineers.
Old Structures...
It’s Not Blue That’s a drawing from 1837 of the new Customs House – now Federal Hall – being constructed at the...
a year ago
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a year ago
That’s a drawing from 1837 of the new Customs House – now Federal Hall – being constructed at the northeast corner of Wall and Nassau Streets. John Frazee is listed as the architect and superintendent, which is not quite accurate: he was working from an architectural design by...
Melting Asphalt
A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning I've never been plagued by the big existential questions. You know, like What's my purpose? or What...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've never been plagued by the big existential questions. You know, like What's my purpose? or What does it all mean? Growing up I was a very science-minded kid — still am — and from an early age I learned… Read more ›
The Honest Broker
Crisis in the Culture: An Update I revisit past predictions
6 months ago
TheCollector
8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy undefined
11 months ago
One from Nippon
Emoji Open your phone’s keyboard and go to the emojis. Scroll past the same five emojis you’ve used for...
a year ago
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a year ago
Open your phone’s keyboard and go to the emojis. Scroll past the same five emojis you’ve used for years and see what others exist. You will soon see 🍡 🈸 🍙 and other weird-looking pictures. What the hell are these things, and why are they in
Citation Needed
AI isn't useless. But is it worth it? AI can be kind of useful, but I'm not sure that a "kind of useful" tool justifies the harm.
8 months ago
Alex MacCaw
The Toad
over a year ago
Words and Buttons...
Using logical operators for logical operations is good A folow up on a guessing game with C++ operators. Let's redo a few rounds. The benchmark is the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A folow up on a guessing game with C++ operators. Let's redo a few rounds. The benchmark is the same, the questions are the same. The compiler is the same. The only thing that changes is the platform. This is now CHIP with ARMv7.
TheCollector
Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics undefined
6 months ago
diamond geezer
339 Rerouting Implementation Assessment Report Rerouting of bus route 339 on Fish Island November 2023 rerouted in the Fish Island area of East...
a year ago
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a year ago
Rerouting of bus route 339 on Fish Island November 2023 rerouted in the Fish Island area of East London to serve emerging residential areas previously remote from the bus network. This report from the Independent E3 Inspectorate analyses the build-up to implementation and...
Willem's Blog
The day I sold my car This week I sold my car, I now no longer own one. I look back at my years of owning a sports car, if...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This week I sold my car, I now no longer own one. I look back at my years of owning a sports car, if you're looking for a reason to buy one you should check this out.
African History...
Anti-slavery laws and Abolitionist thought in pre-colonial Africa the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
8 months ago
Seth's Blog
The missing file It contained some of my best writing. Cogent, clear and powerful. I found it. It wasn’t nearly as...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
It contained some of my best writing. Cogent, clear and powerful. I found it. It wasn’t nearly as good as I remembered. In fact, it was hardly useful. The opposite happens with the things we fear. When they show up, they’re likely to be a lot less fearsome than we imagined.
History Today Feed
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review ‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’...
3 months ago
AVC
What Does “Native” Mean When a new technology comes to market, we often look for “native” applications of that technology....
a year ago
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a year ago
When a new technology comes to market, we often look for “native” applications of that technology. What is a “native” AI application? What is a “native” Web3 application? I have not seen a better articulation of “native” than my partner Albert’s post from 2009 on native mobile...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Inspired Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Somehow this became inspired by nature...
a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Working with `git` Patches in Apple Mail Working with git Patches in Apple Mail 2023-05-11 Before we begin: You could likely automate this...
a year ago
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a year ago
Working with git Patches in Apple Mail 2023-05-11 Before we begin: You could likely automate this process in a more streamlined way, but for most use cases this workflow should be fine. I recently covered how to work with git email patches in Evolution on Linux, so I thought it...
The Marginalian
Uses of the Erotic: Audre Lorde on the Relationship Between Eros, Creativity, and Power "There is, for me, no difference between writing a good poem and moving into sunlight against the...
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Scale AI’s Remotasks platform is dropping whole countries without explanation Workers in Kenya, Nigeria, and Pakistan were booted off the AI-training service earlier this month.
8 months ago
diamond geezer
Canary Wharf 25 Today is Canary Wharf station's 25th birthday. Not the DLR station (that's 33) nor the Crossrail...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Today is Canary Wharf station's 25th birthday. Not the DLR station (that's 33) nor the Crossrail station (that's 2) but the Jubilee line station which opened mid-afternoon on Friday 17th September 1999. The relentless commercialisation of Canary Wharf station "Twenty banks of...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 1-7 January 2024 Things to do for under a fiver.
11 months ago
Math Is Still...
Why Is This Shape So Terrible to Pack? Two mathematicians have proved a long-standing conjecture that is a step on the way toward finding...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Two mathematicians have proved a long-standing conjecture that is a step on the way toward finding the worst shape for packing the plane. The post Why Is This Shape So Terrible to Pack? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Res Obscura
Why I love etymologies Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
Retail Design Blog
Evident Scientific Offices by Conexus Studio Conexus Studio designed Evident Scientific’s APAC Headquarters in Singapore, focusing on a...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Conexus Studio designed Evident Scientific’s APAC Headquarters in Singapore, focusing on a visionary, future-forward workspace with state-of-the-art facilities, innovative design,...
Seth's Blog
Long-term selfish Everyone is selfish. We do things that increase our chances of survival, help us achieve our goals...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Everyone is selfish. We do things that increase our chances of survival, help us achieve our goals and give us a story we can tell ourselves about our role in the community. But short-term selfish is something we try to grow out of. Short-term selfish runs a red light because...
Julia Evans
Making crochet cacti I noticed some tech bloggers I follow have been making April Cools Day posts about topics they don’t...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I noticed some tech bloggers I follow have been making April Cools Day posts about topics they don’t normally write about (like decaf or microscopes). The goal isn’t to trick anyone, just to write about something different for a day. I thought those posts were fun so here is a...
Londonist
Vintage Football Shirts: The Best And Oddest From Every Big London Club New book delves deep into the world of vintage collectables.
a year ago
Seth's Blog
What happened vs. what we do about it It’s possible to have a useful conversation about what to do about something that’s broken or needs...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
It’s possible to have a useful conversation about what to do about something that’s broken or needs improvement. But first, we must acknowledge that it happened. It’s not controversial to understand the facts, the data and the shifts that are happening in the world we live in. In...
TheCollector
Top 10 Museums to Visit in New York City undefined
4 months ago
Old Structures...
Half Of A Grand Commercial Palace 380 Broadway has architecture above its station. It was built in 1860 with retail space at the base...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
380 Broadway has architecture above its station. It was built in 1860 with retail space at the base and loft space above, but it’s got that grand marble-veneer facade on the upper floors and some very nice cast iron by Daniel Badger at the first floor. It’s fortunes have followed...
Alex Meub
Finding Campsites with Python My wife and I love to camp on the Oregon coast and the summer is always the best time to go. It also...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My wife and I love to camp on the Oregon coast and the summer is always the best time to go. It also ends up being the most competitive time to find a campsite. If you look up the handful of good campsites on the coast you will probably find that nearly every summer weekend is...
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"We need science to help us meet reality on its own terms, and we need poetry to help us broaden and deepen the terms on which we meet ourselves and each other. At the crossing point of the two we may find a way of clarifying our experience and of sanctifying it."
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“There’s no place like home,” Dorothy sighs in The Wizard of Oz. But home is not a place — it is a locus of longing, always haunted by our existential homelessness. “Welcome home!” a cheaply suited broker once exclaimed at me, swinging open the door to a tiny studio as my foot...
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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...
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I’m still catching up with myself.  I wanted to spend March thinking about Socrates as a philosopher, independent from Plato’s use of him, to the extent that it is possible.  The Socrates of Aristophanes in The Clouds is not much help.  But luckily we have Xenophon, a close...
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It’s a big day at Maxon/Red Giant! We’re releasing huge updates to Magic Bullet and Trapcode Suites. Trapcode Particular continues to embody our ethos of power and ease-of-use, with a completely modernized simulation engine that allows particles to behave more naturally, with...
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In 2017 and 2018, I (along with Paul Tarjan and Dmitry Petrashko) was a founding member of the Sorbet project at Stripe to build a gradual static typechecking system for Ruby, with the aim of enhancing productivity on Stripe’s millions of lines of Ruby, and eventually producing a...
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They say that countries win more medals when they host the Olympics. But do they? And if so, why? I’ve seen various theories: Jetlag. Maybe it’s because athletes from the host country don’t need to travel as far. Esprit de corps. Maybe athletes feel lifted up by the local crowd...
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A good memoir is entertaining, insightful, and relatable. A great memoir changes you because you see yourself in it. All the Wrong Moves by Sasha Chapin is a great memoir. It is nominally a book about a guy who becomes obsessed with chess. But to me, it’s a book about the...
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On Monday, Mr Neumann issued a statement saying the impending bankruptcy was “disappointing”. “It has been challenging for me to watch from the sidelines since 2019 as WeWork has failed to take advantage of a product that is more relevant today than ever before,” ...
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Just a reminder that the best way to support the site is by buying a print from our online store, because you get something awesome in return! We’re having a Thanksgiving/Black Friday/Small Business Saturday/Cyber Monday sale with 15% off all prints. Choose from my original...
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One of the biggest questions of exoplanet astronomy is how many potentially habitable planets are out there in the galaxy. By one estimate the answer is 6 billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way. But of course we have to set parameters and make estimates, so this number can...
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'Till Love and Fame to Nothingness Do Sink' Dr. Johnson thought the first aim of biography was utilitarian: “I esteem biography, as giving us...
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Dr. Johnson thought the first aim of biography was utilitarian: “I esteem biography, as giving us what comes near to ourselves, what we can turn to use.” The reader reads the life of another, reflects on it and applies the lessons he deduces to himself. In the early pages of his...
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This is a cool material science development that nicely illustrates recent technological advancements. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have created a superalloy using additive manufacturing (3D printing). That may not sound that impressive at first, but consider the...
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I broke past 10,000 Twitter followers on Saturday. Obviously this is a completely arbitrary milestone and pretty minor in the hierarchy of needs. I'm not celebrating.
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One of my goals in life is to become head waiter of a refined cafe (white apron, silver tray), with tables set in a quiet and shaded garden. The patrons would be middle-aged or elderly women, and despite knowing their names and cultivating an immense fondness
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Even empty space bubbles with energy, according to quantum mechanics — and that fact affects almost every facet of physical reality. The theoretical physicist Isabel Garcia Garcia explains to Steven Strogatz why it’s so important in modern physics to understand what a true vacuum...
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This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963.  It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it. Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
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This article contains commentary on Berkshire Hathaway's latest proxy statement focusing on skin in the game, repurchase activity, and stock based compensation.
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CSS Variables CSS Variables 2018-03-24 The CSS language is becoming even more awesome and powerful everyday. In...
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CSS Variables 2018-03-24 The CSS language is becoming even more awesome and powerful everyday. In this quick article I’d like to focus specifically on the “new” CSS variable function that you can start using in your projects right now. Getting started is easy Let’s just jump...
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To continue this year's Christmas perambulations, three little donkeys. Donkey Lane EN1 just off the Great Cambridge Road in the London borough of Enfield. Locally the local area is known as Carterhatch, and might be known more widely had the potential Overground station not...
Musings on Markets
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As I have argued in all four of my posts, so far, about 2022, it was year when we saw a return to normalcy on many fronts, as treasury rates reverted back to pre-2008 levels, and risk capital discovered that risk has a downside. During the course of the year, investors also...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: SMBC is the 74-almost funniest webcomic. Today's News: If you were a patreon subscriber, you would be seeing my magnum opus at this very moment.
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Apple actually lost a court case for once, but they refuse to comply in good faith Apple just lost an appeal on the ruling from the Epic case that mandated the company allow app...
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Apple just lost an appeal on the ruling from the Epic case that mandated the company allow app developers the right to link to their own websites. And it seems like Apple had been preparing for this outcome, because immediately thereafter, Apple revealed an elaborate bad-faith...
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2024-06-02 consumer electronics control In a previous episode, I discussed audio transports and mention that they have become a much less...
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In a previous episode, I discussed audio transports and mention that they have become a much less important part of the modern home theater landscape. One reason is the broad decline of the component system: most consumers aren't buying a television, home theater receiver,...
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Business Brainstorms
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Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “Is there a Superhuman for Salesforce? Because this...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Dubious or Questionable Medium' In 1972, Daryl Hine, the editor of Poetry, requested poems “protesting the acceleration of the...
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In 1972, Daryl Hine, the editor of Poetry, requested poems “protesting the acceleration of the undeclared Indo-Chinese War” for a special issue to be published in September of that year. Hine said he would be “grateful to consider any poem on this terrible and topical subject...
Stoic Simple
Stoicism & Military Training: How Stoic Philosophy Makes Better Soldiers Military training is known for its rigorous physical and mental demands. Soldiers must be able to...
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Military training is known for its rigorous physical and mental demands. Soldiers must be able to perform under pressure while managing complex emotions in high-stress situations. To better prepare military personnel for the challenges ahead, many are turning to Stoic philosophy...
CONTEMPORIST
A Distinct Dining Area Was Created In This Home By Surrounding It With Cabinetry Toronto-based architecture and design practice Great Lake Studio has shared photos of a home they...
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Toronto-based architecture and design practice Great Lake Studio has shared photos of a home they designed, that’s clad in custom charred cedar and has a pitched roof. Inside, the main level of the home is the gathering place, with the living room, dining area, and kitchen all...
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Here's a problem that I used to give to candidates. I stopped using it seriously a long time ago since I don't believe in puzzles, but I think it's kind of fun. Let's say you have a function that simulates a random coin flip.
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Behold Modular Forms, the ‘Fifth Fundamental Operation’ of Math Modular forms are one of the most beautiful and mysterious objects in mathematics. What are they? ...
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Modular forms are one of the most beautiful and mysterious objects in mathematics. What are they? The post Behold Modular Forms, the ‘Fifth Fundamental Operation’ of Math first appeared on Quanta Magazine
diamond geezer
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Several times a year, aligned to the full moon, the Thames sees some particularly high tides. Sometimes, after particularly heavy spells of rain, much more water comes down the Thames than usual. And when these two events coincide various paths, piers and embankments that don't...
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How to find clients without social media Social media platforms have helped many people establish their business, but what if you don’t want...
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Social media platforms have helped many people establish their business, but what if you don’t want to play the algorithm game? Is it possible to find clients without social media in 2024? The short answer is yes, and here's how.
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<p>blogstatic had another above $1K month.</p> <p>$1,208.38 to be exact.</p> <p>This was the third +$1K month overall, since <a href="https://valsopi.com/blogstatic-chance">rebranding</a> back in 2022.</p> <figure><img...
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I’m not really a fan of bumper stickers in general, but I saw this one on the freeway a few days ago and I couldn’t stop laughing: It’s of course making fun of the Earth Stickers that are so common everywhere (especially in Portland): If you’re curious, the original sticker was...
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Organic Intelligence Jeremy wrote about how the greatest asset of a company like Google is the trust people put in...
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Jeremy wrote about how the greatest asset of a company like Google is the trust people put in them: If I use a [knowledge tool] I need to be able to trust [it] is good...I don’t expect perfection, but I also don’t expect to have to constantly be thinking “was this generated by a...
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Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've learned Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes...
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Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes to marketing to engineers . Paid ads is a…
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Basic Gulp Build for Sass 2019-01-15 Some designers might shy away from build tools when first starting out and I can understand the reasoning - task runners like gulp and grunt can seem daunting at first. So, I’ve decided to showcase my go-to setup for gulp and explain what the...
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I recently wrote a blog post for my personal site about the lessons I'd learned from leading my first two projects as a Software Engineer at PostHog…
Londonist
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Seth's Blog
Unaware If you don’t realize that you have power, you might not be able to exercise it. The power to speak...
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If you don’t realize that you have power, you might not be able to exercise it. The power to speak up, to participate, to invent, to lead, to encourage, to vote, to connect, to organize, to march, to write, to say ‘no’ or to say ‘yes’. It’s tempting to imagine we have less power...
Patrick Kayongo
Super Apps vs WhatsApp Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be...
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Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be multi-functional “mobile malls”. In South Africa, Vodacom has released VodaPay where one can “enter” multiple stores to shop their products. Nedbank has Avo where one can also shop...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Under One of the most formal elements in Central Park is the Bethesda Fountain and Terrace, just south of...
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One of the most formal elements in Central Park is the Bethesda Fountain and Terrace, just south of The Lake. The terrace overlooks the fountain from the elevation of the 72nd Street crosstown drive, and has three sets of stairs leading down; the undercroft of the terrace is a...
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Let’s say you want to cross a river. There’s no bridge, because it’s 3000 BC and you are a nomadic goat herder. You’ve never seen a bridge that wasn’t just a log over a creek. Crossing a big river is something you haven’t figured out. Maybe nobody has. You could maybe make a...
Confused bit
Simply explained: how does GPT work? By now, you have probably heard of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or any of the alternatives GPT-3, GPT-4,...
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By now, you have probably heard of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or any of the alternatives GPT-3, GPT-4, Microsoft’s Bing Chat, Facebook’s LLaMa or even Google’s Bard. They are artificial intelligence programs that can participate in a conversation. Impressively smart, they can easily be...
TheCollector
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I Have No Idea What...
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In this blog “I have no idea what I’m doing” I’ll be chronicling the progress and discoveries I make as I build a startup for the first time. The name of this blog comes from a talk in 2015 by former Facebook engineer Graham Lee. In his talk, he admits that although at the time...
99% Invisible
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If your parents or grandparents grew up in the United States in the 1950s, there’s a decent chance that they know the theme song to The Howdy Doody Show. The Howdy Doody Show is one of those pieces of 1950s ephemera that has come to symbolize mid-century American childhood. For...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
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There has been a lot of quantum computer news since I last wrote about the topic. But this is still a technology that is slowly advancing in the background, while actual applications have been limited. There is a threshold effect at play – at some point, quantum computers will be...
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Since the madness of the Covid Times, you may have noticed that the rate of posting on this blog has slowed down a bit. Where I used to try and do 6 or 7 posts a month, and with that obviously stopping completely while there was nothing open to review, I have since found that 2...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Result of Education Carried on By Curiosity' “His curiosity was so pure it seemed almost childlike.”  Vladimir Nabokov is describing his friend...
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“His curiosity was so pure it seemed almost childlike.”  Vladimir Nabokov is describing his friend in exile, Iosif Hessen (1866-1943), and makes him sound like an extraordinary fellow. He continues in the obituary he wrote for his friend:   “He was living proof of the fact that a...
TheCollector
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a wet mouldy sponge Yesterday after a strength-training session I had a very innocuous mini argument with my partner...
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Yesterday after a strength-training session I had a very innocuous mini argument with my partner about misplacing some things at home. Which after I simply slumped and curled up into a ball...
Construction Physics
How to Build a $20 Billion Semiconductor Fab For the last several decades, one avenue of technological progress has towered over nearly...
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For the last several decades, one avenue of technological progress has towered over nearly everything else: semiconductors. Semiconductors are materials that can have their conductivity varied by many orders of magnitude, which makes it possible to selectively block and allow the...
The Rational Walk
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Go to Japan today, and the country will present you with plenty of opportunities to buy pan, tabako, and tempura. These products themselves — bread, cigarettes, and deep-fried seafood or vegetables — will be familiar enough. Even the words that refer to them may have a...
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Care about how the work is done High performers care deeply not just about doing the work but how it’s done.
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A pet peeve of more than one of us at Old Structures is seeing buildings that are “faking” something that makes no sense. Examples abound, like weep holes in solid masonry walls. I noticed this building while on the train recently, with the star anchors that one often sees on...
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When a non-expert brings a strong point of view to a complex discussion, the words might not mean what they seem to mean. What might be being said is, “I’m worried. I’m afraid. I don’t understand. I am looking for solace.” Answering emotional word salad with logical insight...
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The mind is a camera obscura constantly trying to render an image of reality on the back wall of consciousness through the pinhole of awareness, its aperture narrowed by our selective attention, honed on our hopes and fears. In consequence, the projection we see inside the dark...
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It seems like Twitter might be circling a drain, and so a lot of people are downloading a copy of their archive in case the site goes down unexpectedly. But large as it is, the archive doesn’t contain everything: Kate @thingskatedid my twitter archive...
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Some of these apps, resources and tools aren’t directly WordPress-related, or even necessarily development-related; some have to do with productivity or just make life a little easier. That’s by design. Part of being a developer is learning to work and use your tools as...
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The Case for the React Native Web Singularity There is a possible "React Native Web Singularity", when it starts being a better standalone choice...
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There is a possible "React Native Web Singularity", when it starts being a better standalone choice for developing for the mobile web than `react-dom`. If this speculation comes true, this would be gamechanging.
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Stoicism is a school of ancient Greek philosophy that aims to teach individuals how to live a good life by focusing on rationality, self-control, and mindfulness. Despite its ancient roots, Stoicism has seen a resurgence in popularity in recent years as people look to improve...
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It is never pleasant to be in the midst of a market correction, but a market correction does operate as a cleanser for excesses that enter into even the most disciplined investors' playbooks in the good times. This correction has been no exception, as the threat of losing...
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Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability improvement. But outside this niche, it's surprisingly little known in the world of software. Which is a shame since it's a simple but economical idea. It costs nothing to keep in...
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Brilliant. This moving manuscript depicts a single musical sequence played front to back and then back to front. Give the video a little time to unfold and enjoy.
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Astronomers have discovered multiple “pits” on the surface of the moon – these look superficially like craters, but on closer inspection are actually vertical pits. There has been considerable speculation that these pits might be cave openings. Now, an analysis of data from the...
Flashbak
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Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
Moneyness
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When we first learn about money and banking in high school or university, we are all taught that money has three functions: medium of exchange, unit of account, and store of value. Maybe it’s time for educators to throw out this triumvirate. It’s not very accurate.  We need a...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Godel proved you can't prove anything. Don't think about it too hard. Today's News: Happy New Year,
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Here’s some new JavaScript on this website. It’s the only JavaScript on most pages, which are otherwise pretty minimal. try { if (document.referrer) { const ref = new URL(document.referrer); if (ref.host === 'news.ycombinator.com') { window.location.href =...
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To be fed from a spoon requires three distinct skills. First, you must open your mouth when the spoon approaches. Second, you must close your mouth around the spoon once it has fully entered the mouth (and not before). Third, you must swallow the food that remains in your mouth...
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Just the pure physical joy of thrashing your arms around in water. To fill the kid’s buckets and throw it at the sun—the way the water falls apart into drops, and then into mist, the way a rainbow appears for a second and is gone.
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CONTEMPORIST
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Joe Herrin, Principal at Heliotrope Architects, has shared photos of an A-Frame cabin he completed as an idyllic little home on Orcas Island, set within the San Juan Island Archipelago of Washington state. The cabin structure is a modest late-60’s era kit A-frame, built by the...
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“Property-based testing” refers to the idea of writing statements that should be true of your code (“properties”), and then using automated tooling to generate test inputs (typically, randomly-generated inputs of an appropriate type), and observe whether the properties hold for...
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Wow I guess it was more than a year ago that I tweeted this. Crazy how time flies by. Anyway, here's my rationale: When I update one line of code I feel like I have to put in a long explanation about its side effects, why it's fully backwards compatible, and why it fixes some...
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I recently finished a very short book with an intriguing title: Why Greatness Cannot be Planned. It’s an unconventional self-help book disguised as a computer science research exposition (that’s why the publisher is Springer). I strongly recommend reading it. Here is a taste of...
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Pareto efficency Pareto efficiency is a useful concept I like to think about. It often comes up when you compare...
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Pareto efficiency is a useful concept I like to think about. It often comes up when you compare items on multiple dimensions. Say you want to buy a new TV. To simplify it let's assume you only care about two factors: price and quality.
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“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage. Chance brought me together with a crowd of unknowns. It was up to me to parse them out and magnify the moment.” – Joni Sternbach on her pictures of NYC Subway Passengers in the 1970s  ...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is a complete theory of law, no exceptions, don't email me. Today's News:
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Unfortunately, Sally is now set on the path toward cannibalism. Today's News:
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TikTok Shop, the controversial app’s ambitious next phase, has caught fire in Indonesia. “This is truly the year of TikTok,” says one seller.
Applied Cartography
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Working on a new analytics engine — a scant eleven months after the previous 'new analytics engine'. Calling this 3.0 is a bit of a misnomer: most of the code, design, and plumbing from the 2023 redesign is sticking around, just in a more modular format. The goal here is to...
A Beautiful Site
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CSS Shadow Parts, colloquially known as CSS Parts, are used to expose elements inside a web component's shadow root so they can be styled by consumers with CSS. But what are we allowed to call these parts? What characters comprise a valid CSS part name? To find out, I had to dive...
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When Inc Magazine reached out to have David H. Freedman (website powered by WordPress) write a feature piece I was excited because though Inc wasn’t a magazine I have read much since I was a teenager, David seemed like a legit journalist who usually writes for better publications...
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After your floorplan, and along with your use of sunlight, the materials you choose will make the biggest difference in the mood that inhabits your home. This post covers our own thinking and what we decided.
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Spices meant salt and pepper. For my family like others in the American working class, there was no cardamom or turmeric. When I was a kid those would have sounded vaguely like medical conditions. We never heard of such things until decades later. For some baked goods, breakfast...
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When I’m traveling and therefore don’t know anything about most of the structures around, I simply take pictures and hope that I’ll be able to identify them later. Sometimes it’s quite easy. I came across this little Victorian masterpiece last week and it turns out it’s listed,...
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In a bold move to challenge the dominance of closed AI models, a new global alliance for AI open source development has emerged, firing shots at the likes of OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. These tech giants have captured much of the AI spotlight in 2023, but the alliance believes...
Platformer
How the Brazil riots change Facebook's Trump equation After a new string of riots against democracy, let's game out whether Meta should restore the former...
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After a new string of riots against democracy, let's game out whether Meta should restore the former president's account
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I borrowed a friend’s Tesla 3 yesterday. About 5 minutes into the ride, the windshield started fogging up. I couldn’t find the defroster on the large control screen Teslas are so famous for. In desperation, I tapped the CAR icon but that took me to the settings screen which ended...
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More News From Norfolk 110 mile line of pylons all the way from Norwich to the Thames. It's needed to help connect an increasing number of wind farms in the North Sea to population centres in London and the southeast, because it's no good having all that cheap energy if you...
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Nobel Prize Honors Inventors of ‘Quantum Dot’ Nanoparticles The Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to three researchers who harnessed the quantum...
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The Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to three researchers who harnessed the quantum behaviors of semiconductor nanocrystals. The post Nobel Prize Honors Inventors of ‘Quantum Dot’ Nanoparticles first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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The 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet It's my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the...
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It's my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the 501(c)(3) charity of the winner’s choice: By January 1st, 2030, completely autonomous self-driving cars meeting SAE J3016 level 5 will be commercially available for
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As a temporary pop-up space, under the current situation of the venue and budget constraints, we hope to create a...
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This series of articles is made out of two parts: In this first part, we build the stopwatch's user interface with HTML and CSS. In the second part, we'll make the user interface functional with JavaScript (the stopwatch works).
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2023 was a tough year. It started out with a bang (high expectations, everything going right) and ended with a whimper for us. The zero interest rate environment really came down hard on a few products like Cold Email Studio and now that the AI craze is cooling off, we&
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Forty years ago, Arlie Russell Hochschild wrote about emotional labor. The work that frontline employees had to do (especially women) in managing and expressing emotions as part of their job. She talked about how exhausting it was for flight attendants to show up with a smile,...
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Measurement and entanglement both have a “spooky” nonlocal flavor to them. Now physicists are harnessing that nonlocality to probe the spread of quantum information and control it. The post Physicists Observe ‘Unobservable’ Quantum Phase Transition first appeared on...