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The Marginalian
The Secret Life of Chocolate: Oliver Sacks on the Cultural and Natural History of Cacao Without chocolate, life would be a mistake — not a paraphrasing of Nietzsche he would have easily...
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Without chocolate, life would be a mistake — not a paraphrasing of Nietzsche he would have easily envisioned, for he was a toddler in Germany when a British chocolatier created the first modern version of what we now think of as chocolate: a paste of sugar, chocolate liquor, and...
Louwrentius
Things you should consider when building a ZFS NAS ZFS is a modern file system designed by Sun Microsystems, targeted at enterprise environments. Many...
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ZFS is a modern file system designed by Sun Microsystems, targeted at enterprise environments. Many features of ZFS also appeal to home NAS builders and with good reason. But not all features are relevant or necessary for home use. I believe that most home users building their...
ntietz.com blog -...
Taking a break I've been publishing at least one blog post every week on this blog for about 2.5 years. I kept it...
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I've been publishing at least one blog post every week on this blog for about 2.5 years. I kept it up even when I was very sick last year with Lyme disease. It's time for me to take a break and reset. This is the right time, because the world is very difficult for me to move...
Rest of World -...
Rest of World’s 2024 global playlist What's that sound? It's your perfect soundtrack to just about everything.
a year ago
There are two types...
Traffic Flow and the Status Quo: There are better ways to spend $10 billion than rebuilding the BQE New York City plans to spend more than $10 billion on a project that will speed up climate change...
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New York City plans to spend more than $10 billion on a project that will speed up climate change and increase the number of New Yorkers killed by traffic and pollution. The good news is that the city will hold … Continue reading → The post Traffic Flow and the Status Quo: There...
The Ruffian
Stories are bad for your intelligence How Historians (and Others) Make Themselves Stupid
a year ago
Contemporist...
The Ultimate Gift Guide With Over 50 Ideas For Interior Designers, Architects, And Design Lovers Finding a gift for an interior designer, architect, or design lover can sometimes be a difficult...
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Finding a gift for an interior designer, architect, or design lover can sometimes be a difficult task, so we’ve put together a collection of more than 50 gift ideas to make your life easier.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Clippy Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Have you noticed nobody has ever explained *why*...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Have you noticed nobody has ever explained *why* it's supposedly bad if human beings are converted to paperclips? Today's News:
xkcd.com
Real Estate Analysis
over a year ago
Calculated Risk
AIA: Architecture Billings "End the year on a weak note" Note: This index is a leading indicator primarily for new Commercial Real Estate (CRE)...
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Note: This index is a leading indicator primarily for new Commercial Real Estate (CRE) investment. ABI December 2024: Business conditions end the year on a weak note The AIA/Deltek Architecture Billings Index (ABI) score fell to 44.1 for the month as the share of firms reporting...
Joel Gascoigne
Beware of the social ideas * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Last time I...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Last time I wrote about how to start your startup in 4 steps [https://joel.is/post/5507881155/how-to-start-your-startup-in-4-steps], and the first step I mention is to “Have an idea”. This can...
Blog - Mac Pierce
Decreasing the F.Q. - A talk on Facial Recognition and the Opt Out Cap Links to a talk I gave on the Opt-Out cap and the state of surveillance via facial recognition.
over a year ago
The Rational Walk
The Digest #202 George Washington on debt, Superinvestors of micro-caps, BYD, OXY/BHE joint venture, Imposter...
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George Washington on debt, Superinvestors of micro-caps, BYD, OXY/BHE joint venture, Imposter syndrome, Decline of higher education, Howard Schultz, Cathie Wood, Robert Hagstrom
Articles
A better Apple TV
over a year ago
The DESK Magazine
What makes me a designer? This question crossed my mind enough times recently that I went into the DESK archives to find my...
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This question crossed my mind enough times recently that I went into the DESK archives to find my own answer. To my surprise, there wasn’t one. I’ve never written about it, not until today.
alexwlchan
Telling mechanize how to find local issuer certificates I was doing some work on my library lookup tool recently, and I ran into an issue with mechanize,...
a year ago
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I was doing some work on my library lookup tool recently, and I ran into an issue with mechanize, the Python library I use to simulate a web browser. I’d upgraded my version of Python and mechanize, and now I wasn’t able to connect to HTTPS sites. If I tried a simple...
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing TagVault Surface Aero for AirTag With the popularity of our TagVault Surface Mount for AirTag, we wanted another option that was just...
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With the popularity of our TagVault Surface Mount for AirTag, we wanted another option that was just as durable, waterproof, and secure - but with a more minimal industrial design.  So we designed TagVault Surface Aero. It will look great on your motorcycle and even more...
samwho.dev
API Design: In The Wild (part 2) In a previous post we looked at some real-world APIs, highlighting the good and the bad, and in this...
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In a previous post we looked at some real-world APIs, highlighting the good and the bad, and in this post we’re going to do the same! › Python’s datetime.datetime Most experienced Pythonistas have written something like this at some point in their career: import datetime now =...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why I Won't Choose To Be A Manager I recently decided that I will not _choose_ to be a manager. This is how I arrived at that...
over a year ago
Home on Erik...
Nearest neighbors and vector models – part 2 – algorithms and data structures This is a blog post rewritten from a presentation at NYC Machine Learning on Sep 17. It covers a...
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This is a blog post rewritten from a presentation at NYC Machine Learning on Sep 17. It covers a library called Annoy that I have built that helps you do nearest neighbor queries in high dimensional spaces.
IEEE Spectrum
The Incredible Story Behind the First Transistor Radio But that’s pretty much what Pat Haggerty, vice president of Texas Instruments, did in 1954. The...
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But that’s pretty much what Pat Haggerty, vice president of Texas Instruments, did in 1954. The result was the Regency TR-1, the world’s first commercial transistor radio, which debuted 70 years ago this month. The engineers delivered on Haggerty’s audacious goal, and I...
Anecdotal Evidence
'We Shuttle Back and Forth' Metempsychosis is another word I learned from Ulysses. Up till then I used the more plebian-sounding...
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Metempsychosis is another word I learned from Ulysses. Up till then I used the more plebian-sounding reincarnation. In the fourth chapter, “Calypso,” Molly Bloom is in bed reading a novel, Ruby: Pride of the Ring. She encounters metempsychosis in the text and asks Leopold, who...
David Perell
The TWA Hotel The core concepts are simple. The implementation is borderline excessive. The post The TWA Hotel...
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The core concepts are simple. The implementation is borderline excessive. The post The TWA Hotel appeared first on David Perell.
Commoncog
Under The Hood How do you shape employee culture? How do you win employee commitment? Under The Hood has a coherent...
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How do you shape employee culture? How do you win employee commitment? Under The Hood has a coherent model for building this skill.
TokyoDev
If You Want To Hire Great Engineers, Let Engineers Do The Hiring Hiring great engineers is not just about evaluating technical skills. It’s about finding passionate...
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Hiring great engineers is not just about evaluating technical skills. It’s about finding passionate individuals who align with your mission. It’s about building a team that can turn your vision into reality. To make this happen, a solid interview process is your best tool....
Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ This Is What We Have To Lose Yesterday felt defeating with the damning report that our climate has indeed moved unfortunately...
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Yesterday felt defeating with the damning report that our climate has indeed moved unfortunately forward into severity and decline. It’s too late for some aspects but not too late to avoid some of the worst aspects. The fires, the smoke, and the record-high temperatures that...
Charlie Becker
The Individual Magic of Their Genius Introducing the Enchanter Series
over a year ago
mtlynch.io
I Sold TinyPilot, My First Successful Business My first two years as a bootstrapped founder went poorly. I could barely find any paying customers,...
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My first two years as a bootstrapped founder went poorly. I could barely find any paying customers, and all of my businesses lost money. I began questioning my decision to quit my cushy Google job. In mid-2020, yet another of my businesses had flopped, and it was only kind of...
Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Let This Be a Moment A moment when you discover that legacy media is not in your best interest, being fueled by...
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A moment when you discover that legacy media is not in your best interest, being fueled by advertising and bureaucratic bullshit. If you've worked anywhere, you should understand that no organization is immune to this. A moment when you might consider stepping out of your shoes...
TheCollector
The Artistic Inspiration Behind 10 Iconic Paintings Inspiration is a powerful force that ignites creativity. It is essential for artists striving to...
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Inspiration is a powerful force that ignites creativity. It is essential for artists striving to create masterpieces. Every work of art originates from a unique spark influenced by various sources, such as significant historical events, personal experiences, mythology,...
TheCollector
Who Is Mary in Islam? Mary’s status in Christianity as the most divinely-favored woman in history is without dispute....
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Mary’s status in Christianity as the most divinely-favored woman in history is without dispute. While Protestants afford her a lower status than do Catholic and Orthodox Christians, she is still honored by Christians of all stripes as the mother and sole biological parent of...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Prometheus and AI?
8 months ago
Articles
"People need my product!" (But do they want it?)
over a year ago
History Today Feed
Have We Forgotten How to Listen to Lectures? Have We Forgotten How to Listen to Lectures? JamesHoare Wed, 03/26/2025 - 09:04
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Irrational...
Developing leadership styles For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with. They would...
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For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with. They would often pop out of nowhere, jab holes in the work I had done without understanding the tradeoffs, and then disappear when I wanted to explain my decisions. In those moments, I wished...
abdz.do - Have you...
Brand identity for podcast Fala Colega Brand identity for podcast Fala Colega abduzeedo0124—23 ...
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Brand identity for podcast Fala Colega abduzeedo0124—23 Recently, Leo Becker shared a brand identity project work for a podcast that aimed to make audio the main focus of its visual identity. Leo and the team behind the project wanted to create...
Calculated Risk
Question #5 for 2025: What will the YoY core inflation rate be in December 2025? Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of...
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Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of these questions concern real estate (inventory, house prices, housing starts, new home sales), and I posted thoughts on those in the newsletter (others like GDP and employment will...
Joel Gascoigne
Maximize your excitement * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’m a huge...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’m a huge believer of the lean startup movement and the concept of validating ideas as quickly as possible. I think wasted time and resources are disastrous and no matter how much you love an...
Classical Wisdom
Plato On Knowledge What is True?
a year ago
Calculated Risk
Schedule for Week of April 13, 2025 The key reports this week are March Retail Sales and Housing Starts. ----- Monday, April 14th...
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The key reports this week are March Retail Sales and Housing Starts. ----- Monday, April 14th ----- No major economic releases scheduled. ----- Tuesday, April 15th ----- 8:30 AM: The New York Fed Empire State manufacturing survey for April. The consensus is for a reading of...
NeuroLogica Blog
Using AI To Create Virtual Environments Generative AI applications seem to be on the steep part of the development curve – not only is the...
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Generative AI applications seem to be on the steep part of the development curve – not only is the technology getting better, but people are finding more and more uses for it. It’s a new powerful tool with broad applicability, and so there are countless startups and researchers...
Open Culture
Jane Austen Used Pins to Edit Her Manuscripts: Before the Word Processor & White-Out Before the word processor, before White-Out, before Post-It Notes, there were straight pins. Or, at...
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Before the word processor, before White-Out, before Post-It Notes, there were straight pins. Or, at least that’s what Jane Austen used to make edits in one of her rare manuscripts. In 2011, Oxford’s Bodleian Library acquired the manuscript of Austen’s abandoned novel, The...
Map of the Week
The Atlas of Design, Volume 7 Note to readers on this platform: I also publish this blog on Substack. You may find that the...
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Note to readers on this platform: I also publish this blog on Substack. You may find that the pictures below show up a little better than here. The Atlas of Design is a biannual production of the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS). It highlights some of the...
Old Structures...
Multiple Generations That picture of a cold, gray day in the Bronx was taken from the Burnside Avenue Station on the 4...
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That picture of a cold, gray day in the Bronx was taken from the Burnside Avenue Station on the 4 train. (A side note: when I was at Rensselaer, some courses could be taken “self paced,” meaning that you studied on your own and took a test for each week’s less to show your...
xkcd.com
Sky Alarm
10 months ago
Rest of World -...
Free AI tools are killing South Africa’s web designer job market Some web designers use ChatGPT to code and create basic designs, while salaries for web designers in...
a year ago
diamond geezer
Time Out are liars - official Time Out are liars - official blogpost highlighting Time Out's tendency to lift research from...
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Time Out are liars - official blogpost highlighting Time Out's tendency to lift research from dubious sources and then claim the information is 'official'. They did it again yesterday in a piece called "It’s official: 6 of the UK’s dirtiest beaches for water quality are near...
Josh Thompson
Climbing in Cuba, 2019 A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to go climbing in Cuba. Mark and Dave, walking back from...
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A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to go climbing in Cuba. Mark and Dave, walking back from climbing outside Viñales Locals crag, called “The roof of the world”. Stunning routes. because it was so hot, we spent a lot of time in this cave. Kristi and I tend to stick...
bt RSS Feed
Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser 2022-05-17 After using the beta apps for the new DuckDuckGo...
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Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser 2022-05-17 After using the beta apps for the new DuckDuckGo browser for both macOS and iOS, I have returned to Safari. This switch back doesn’t mean that these browsers are bad by any means. Both browsers are decently fine for casual users....
Londonist
BBC's Desert Island Discs Announces Live Palladium Shows Celebrating 80 years of the hit radio programme.
a year ago
Seth's Blog
The seduction of “why” It’s classic linkbait. Headlines that explain why something is happening. Questions to AI about why...
a year ago
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It’s classic linkbait. Headlines that explain why something is happening. Questions to AI about why something happens. Even kids, asking their parents. Why is easy to sell. Why is hard to deliver. Consultants make a good living explaining the why. And media companies try to. But...
The Universe of...
Stuff I wanted to say to the historic district people but didn't [ Thanks to John Wiersba for noticing that I forgot to publish this. ] A few weeks ago I wrote a...
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[ Thanks to John Wiersba for noticing that I forgot to publish this. ] A few weeks ago I wrote a letter to my neighbors about why I thought it was a bad idea to oppose building more housing in our neighborhood. I didn't write this paragraph: In the past it has often happened that...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
The Ro Breakdown | Out-Of-Pocket The idea of “goal oriented care” and the big questions around direct-to-patient care
a year ago
Seth's Blog
What are you thinking about? A philosopher can spend a month, a year or a career thinking about one knotty problem. Making...
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A philosopher can spend a month, a year or a career thinking about one knotty problem. Making assertions, testing theories, understanding how others are thinking about it as well. But this exercise shouldn’t be reserved for academics. What are you working on? When will you change...
alexwlchan
Agile and iterative project management Earlier today, I gave a talk for the the Open Life Science Program about agile and iterative project...
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Earlier today, I gave a talk for the the Open Life Science Program about agile and iterative project management. I was talking about how READMEs serve as the first point of contact for a project; how they get new users interested in and excited about the project. The cohort calls...
Christopher Butler
object – OMNI Magazine, Issue 1 This is a publication very much of its time and ahead of its time. I briefly subscribed to OMNI...
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This is a publication very much of its time and ahead of its time. I briefly subscribed to OMNI magazine in the late ’80s and early ’90s. It was the sort of magazine that thoroughly suited my interests but was often a bit over my head and clearly not meant for a kid to read....
Steven Scrawls
Care doesn't scale Care Doesn’t Scale I met a social worker whose job was to look after four orphaned children. She’d...
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Care Doesn’t Scale I met a social worker whose job was to look after four orphaned children. She’d alternate with her coworkers spending 24 hours at a time living with the kids, effectively acting as their parent. The children, unsurprisingly, had a lot of trauma and so her job...
The Works in...
Links in Progress: Should we give babies the vote? And births rise in South Korea
5 months ago
Greg Brockman
Stellar board I’ve been advising Stellar since Stripe helped it launch about a year ago. Today I’m joining their...
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I’ve been advising Stellar since Stripe helped it launch about a year ago. Today I’m joining their board. Digital currencies are still nascent, and my hopes for them remain unchanged. Particularly, we need digital currency protocols like Stellar that work with the existing...
Joel Gascoigne
Work and rest in a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’m writing this...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’m writing this from Javea, Spain [http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=javea,+spain&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Javea,+Province+of+Alicante,+Valencia,+Spain&gl=uk&t=h&z=12] . I arrived here a couple of days...
Making software...
The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love 2022-07-14 I want to love the "Linux Desktop". I really do. But...
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The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love 2022-07-14 I want to love the "Linux Desktop". I really do. But I've come to the realization that what I love is the idea of the Linux Desktop. The community. The security and core focus on open source. The customizable environments. Tweaking as...
The Marginalian
Wonder-Sighting on Planet Earth: The Space Telescope Eye of the Scallop Inside Earth's most alien vision.
over a year ago
Wrong Side of...
Britain’s Project 2029 Can you just do things? We shall find out
5 months ago
Calculated Risk
Q4 Update: Delinquencies, Foreclosures and REO Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Q4 Update: Delinquencies, Foreclosures and...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Q4 Update: Delinquencies, Foreclosures and REO A brief excerpt: This entire housing cycle I’ve argued that we would NOT see a surge in foreclosures that would significantly impact house prices (as happened following the...
Both Are True
I felt more human after this conversation Isabel Cowles Murphy and I talk parenting and writing and and the “hideous and holy” aka babies with
2 months ago
Rest of World -...
How we’re tracking AI incidents around global elections Rest of World is collecting examples of AI being used for campaigning, misinformation, and memes in...
a year ago
The personal website...
The micromanager's dilemma Here’s a riddle: Nobody I’ve ever worked with likes micromanagement. Yet, on every team I’ve been...
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Here’s a riddle: Nobody I’ve ever worked with likes micromanagement. Yet, on every team I’ve been on, there is at least one micromanager. How is this possible? Harvard Business Review says, “Micromanage at Your Peril.” Forbes says “Micromanaging is one of the most damaging habits...
Mark Manson
The Point Is to Stop Years ago, I wrote an article that claimed the best way to judge the usefulness of self-help advice...
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over a year ago
Years ago, I wrote an article that claimed the best way to judge the usefulness of self-help advice is by how many people eventually leave it behind. In it, I boldly claimed that if self-help advice actually worked, the industry would quickly go out of business. After all, if the...
sbensu
The birth of a (pseudo) currency A dozen pseudo-currencies were issued in Argentina in 2002. How did that work? And why are they...
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A dozen pseudo-currencies were issued in Argentina in 2002. How did that work? And why are they coming back in 2024?
Flashbak
Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
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Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
Jason Fried
Hooks, towel bars, and software Strangely, a recent bathroom renovation crystalized my perspective on product development. When...
a year ago
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Strangely, a recent bathroom renovation crystalized my perspective on product development. When being asked to choose between towel hooks or a towel bar, the choice was obvious: Hooks, of course. Hooks take up no space. Towel bars suck up space. Hooks hold towels no matter how...
Rest of World -...
Brazil banned X. Right-wing politicians are still using it Echoing Elon Musk, the politicians claim they are defending free speech.
9 months ago
Diaries of Note
The Boy Jones In his journal on 25th March 1841, banker and renowned dandy Thomas Raikes wrote of someone who for...
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In his journal on 25th March 1841, banker and renowned dandy Thomas Raikes wrote of someone who for three years had been fascinating Londoners. Known to most as ‘The Boy Jones,’ Edward Jones was a teenager who had repeatedly managed to break into Buckingham Palace, and on three...
Seth's Blog
The clamp and the mallet While building a project, I found that a key part was stuck. I tapped it with a mallet, then harder,...
a year ago
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a year ago
While building a project, I found that a key part was stuck. I tapped it with a mallet, then harder, and eventually whacked at it. No luck. Then I got smart and put three clamps around the part, gently turning each one, increasing the pressure, until it simply popped out....
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bring Back Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is the real afterlife. Today's News:
11 months ago
The Map is Mostly...
Designing a New Old Home: The Elements Heating and Cooling and Airflow Ensuring your house works well with the natural world is one of the...
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over a year ago
Heating and Cooling and Airflow Ensuring your house works well with the natural world is one of the most crucial parts of designing a home. Like I wrote in the first part, it’s also one of the most ignored. We wanted to build a house that would stay as naturally cool in the...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 4 Highlights TinyPilot hit $10k in revenue. That’s a record high for me and exceeds my total revenue...
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Highlights TinyPilot hit $10k in revenue. That’s a record high for me and exceeds my total revenue for all of 2019. I interviewed several IT consultants and business owners about what TinyPilot features would be useful to them. I tested several new marketing channels and realized...
Eric Bailey
Let’s Talk About Speech CSS
over a year ago
Grow With Less
A Quick and Easy Win for the New Year (and an Important Check) 2020 is finally over (thank God.) Which means it’s time for some New Year cleaning. You may have...
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2020 is finally over (thank God.) Which means it’s time for some New Year cleaning. You may have articles or copyright notices that reference previous years. Now is the perfect time to update these and make sure they say “2021” and not “2020” or even “2019.” To find pages...
NeuroLogica Blog
The Future of (Unpaid) Work If we think of the top inventions that had a positive impact on human society and our quality of...
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If we think of the top inventions that had a positive impact on human society and our quality of life most lists would contain things like the printing press, the wheel, or the computer. One invention that should be on everyone’s list but is easy to overlook is – the washing...
Yale e360
Facing High Tariffs in U.S., Chinese Solar Flows to Poorer Countries Facing high tariffs in the U.S. and Europe, Chinese solar and battery companies have been selling a...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Facing high tariffs in the U.S. and Europe, Chinese solar and battery companies have been selling a growing share of their products to poorer countries, a new analysis finds. Read more on E360 →
Posts on Made of...
DEF CON I’m sitting in the airport in Las Vegas on the way back from DEF CON 15. It’s the first time I’ve...
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I’m sitting in the airport in Las Vegas on the way back from DEF CON 15. It’s the first time I’ve been at the con, and it wasn’t really what I expected. Frankly, I walked away feeling kinda underwhelmed. Very few of the talks were as technical as I was hoping – they were almost...
Platformer
Why Platformer is leaving Substack We’ve seen this movie before — and we won’t stick around to watch it play out
a year ago
Maps Mania
Europe in Drought
a month ago
Laetitia@Work
AI’s battle of the skills: upskilling vs deskilling Laetitia@Work #78
4 months ago
Nabeel S. Qureshi
Principles // This was originally a Google Doc where I gathered hard-won life lessons; eventually I open...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
// This was originally a Google Doc where I gathered hard-won life lessons; eventually I open sourced it. It got a great response, including a shoutout from Tim Ferriss, so here it is on Substack.
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 22 Highlights TinyPilot generates $58k/month in revenue yet somehow loses money. It’s more important...
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Highlights TinyPilot generates $58k/month in revenue yet somehow loses money. It’s more important than I thought to have low-latency insight into developers’ hours. I’m trying paid advertising again for the first time in almost two years. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I...
Mark Manson
Why Growth Requires Struggle I get a lot of reader questions about pain, trauma, challenge, and struggle. Most of these questions...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I get a lot of reader questions about pain, trauma, challenge, and struggle. Most of these questions were some variation of, “Is there such a thing as being exposed to too much pain?” or “Are there situations where pain and struggle aren’t helpful but only hurtful?” or “What...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}. Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu. Hakum, added two drawings to the...
Computer Things
What could be added to TLA+ Last week Leslie Lamport posted The Future of TLA+, saying "the future of TLA+ is in the hands of...
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Last week Leslie Lamport posted The Future of TLA+, saying "the future of TLA+ is in the hands of the TLA+ foundation". Lamport released TLA+ in 1999 and shepherded its development for the past 25 years. Transferring ownership of TLA+ to the official foundation has been in the...
The Elysian
I built a castle to save the economy You're welcome.
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Rest of World -...
The slow decline of Meta’s Trusted Partner program Who trusts the trusted partners?
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The personal website...
Responsive roadmaps Shane Parrish’s essay The Map is Not the Territory begins: The map of reality is not reality. Even...
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Shane Parrish’s essay The Map is Not the Territory begins: The map of reality is not reality. Even the best maps are imperfect. That’s because they are reductions of what they represent. The same is true for product roadmaps. Understanding and applying Parrish’s mental model is...
Seeking Wisdom
Few thoughts on life, psychology, and mindset I’ve been writing my thoughts on life, psychology, and mindset for some time. I’ve considered...
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I’ve been writing my thoughts on life, psychology, and mindset for some time. I’ve considered transferring some of these writings from Notion into this post. In physics, three laws can explain 99% of observations. However, in life, psychology, and mindset, 99 laws can barely...
The Diff
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Is Deno Ready for Primetime? Deno is a new JavaScript runtime that offers an excellent set of modern features, including builtin...
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Deno is a new JavaScript runtime that offers an excellent set of modern features, including builtin TypeScript and a support for existing Node modules. However when it comes to using it in a real application, does it live up to its promises?
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Travel to Coastal Germany's Historical UNESCO Sites
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Amid a surge in violence in Tijuana, ride-hailing apps and authorities implement new safety measures Uber launched a panic button linked to state-run emergency centers to keep drivers and users safe —...
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Free speech isn't guaranteed to be forever History is full of long stretches of dominance by noble ideas and despots, times of prosperity and...
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History is full of long stretches of dominance by noble ideas and despots, times of prosperity and of dark ages. Each of which must have seemed like they would never end to the people who lived through them. If you were a citizen of the Ottoman empire 1452, you probably didn't...
Flashbak
Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
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The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself.     The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
Ink & Switch
Backchannel: A relationship-based digital identity system In this article, we propose an alternative approach to digital identity that replaces user profiles...
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In this article, we propose an alternative approach to digital identity that replaces user profiles with trusted digital relationships.
Noahpinion
The crisis of the 21st century is here Slipping a little bit closer toward a world of war.
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Abstruse Goose
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really you should wake up every morning and check the integral of happiness over time. Today's News:
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How Tesla’s Mexico plans stalled out When the Monterrey factory finally arrives, will Elon still want it?
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Old Structures...
Almost Unrecognizeable Most of the 1950s Angelo Rizzuto photos I’ve been discussing recently can be quickly located even if...
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Most of the 1950s Angelo Rizzuto photos I’ve been discussing recently can be quickly located even if their descriptions don’t say were they were taken. The 1957 picture above threw me. We’re looking towards midtown – the Empire State Building makes that obvious – but from what...
Rest of World -...
Tesla looks to India at a moment of crisis The company faces an uncertain future in the world’s third-largest auto market.
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African History...
The role of firearms in African military history, and the guns of the Benin kingdom. "The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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Piotr Migdał's Blog
How I learned to stop worrying and love the types & tests On TypeScript, ESlint, jest, TSDoc, Travis-CI, and VSCode (with inspirations from the Zen of...
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wingolog
conservative gc can be faster than precise gc Should your garbage collector be precise or conservative? The prevailing wisdom is that precise is...
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Should your garbage collector be precise or conservative? The prevailing wisdom is that precise is always better. Conservative GC can retain more objects than strictly necessary, making GC slow: GC has to more frequently, and it has to trace a larger heap on each...
Willem's Blog
Something the smartwatch will never have: patina Patina is often neglected when comparing smartwatches with regular watches.
over a year ago
Stephen Wolfram...
Computing the Eclipse: Astronomy in the Wolfram Language Basic Eclipse Computation It’s taken millennia to get to the point where it’s possible to accurately...
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Basic Eclipse Computation It’s taken millennia to get to the point where it’s possible to accurately compute eclipses. But now—as a tiny part of making “everything in the world” computable—computation about eclipses is just a built-in feature of the Wolfram Language. The core...
HTMHell
#30 Bullet “list” Bad code <p> • HTML <br> • CSS <br> • JavaScript </p> Issues and how to fix them Use <p>...
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Bad code <p> • HTML <br> • CSS <br> • JavaScript </p> Issues and how to fix them Use <p> for paragraphs, not lists. The standard way for creating basic lists is <ul> (when the order doesn't matter) or <ol> (when the order matters), and <li> for each item. The “list”...
Joel Gascoigne
How an investor who turned me down ended up sleeping on my couch * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Last week I had...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Last week I had the great pleasure of grabbing dinner with Jon Bradford [http://twitter.com/jd], and having him stop over at my place on his way to speak on a panel at an event in Jerusalem. The...
wadertales
What happens when the mud disappears? The Yellow Sea provides important ‘service stations’ for shorebirds on the East Asian-Australasian...
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The Yellow Sea provides important ‘service stations’ for shorebirds on the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, especially on their way north to Russian and Alaskan breeding areas. In a thought-provoking paper in Biological Conservation, Xiaodan Wang and colleagues consider how...
NeuroLogica Blog
The Clipper Europa Mission I wrote earlier this week about the latest successful test of Starship and the capture of the Super...
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I wrote earlier this week about the latest successful test of Starship and the capture of the Super Heavy booster by grabbing arms of the landing tower. This was quite a feat, but it should not eclipse what was perhaps even bigger space news this week – the launch of NASAs...
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Costa Rica, Part 3 (Exploring La Fortuna) The second full day in La Fortuna promised abundant showers although not continuously. It was the...
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The second full day in La Fortuna promised abundant showers although not continuously. It was the rainy season after all and it rains, and people deal with it. Frankly, the bright sunshine of the previous day was a fluke. So we understood all of this ahead of time and we devised...
Computer Things
New blog post: Composing TLA+ Specifications Post here! It's a really advanced TLA+ technique that I'm sure will alienate 90% of my readers....
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Post here! It's a really advanced TLA+ technique that I'm sure will alienate 90% of my readers. Patreon here. Anyway, I'm off to get a bone graft. Proper newsletter will come later this week when I've got more time to write.
Musings on Markets
The Sugar Daddy Effect? Assessing Corporate venture capital, Sovereign funds and Green Energy! It is a sign of the times that I spent some time thinking about whether the title of my post would...
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It is a sign of the times that I spent some time thinking about whether the title of my post would offend some people, as sexist or worse. I briefly considering expanding the title to  "Sugar Daddies and Molasses Mommies", but that just sounds awkward, or even replacing the words...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ontological Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: That than which is a perfectly acceptable English...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: That than which is a perfectly acceptable English language construction, deal with it. Today's News:
Uncharted...
100,000 Gifts What happened in 2024 and what will happen in 2025
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Life in India is a series of bilateral negotiations finding the new equilibrium for the next superpower
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10 Other Places Where Geniuses Hide Groups, networks, the Internet, IQ, state sponsorship, and many more
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Raising money is less stressful than bootstrapping Since PostHog raised Venture Capital (VC), we've had far less stress, and far more fun. There are...
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Since PostHog raised Venture Capital (VC), we've had far less stress, and far more fun. There are lots of myths around what it's like run a business…
Steve Blank
Reorganizing the DoD to Deter China and Win in the Ukraine – A Road Map for Congress This article previously appeared in Defense News. It was co-written with Joe Felter, and Pete...
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This article previously appeared in Defense News. It was co-written with Joe Felter, and Pete Newell. Today, the U.S. is supporting a proxy war with Russia while simultaneously attempting to deter a China cross-strait invasion of Taiwan. Both are wakeup calls that victory and...
Alex Meub
Automating Capacitive Buttons with a Modified Switchbot I’ve had a heater in my home office this winter and I’ve wished it could turn on/off automatically...
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I’ve had a heater in my home office this winter and I’ve wished it could turn on/off automatically based on whether or not I was in the room. A smart outlet wouldn’t work for this because the heater has a manual switch. My next thought was to use my Switchbot smart button pusher,...
NeuroLogica Blog
Telepathy Tapes Promotes Pseudoscience I was away on vacation the last week, hence no posts, but am now back to my usual schedule. In fact,...
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I was away on vacation the last week, hence no posts, but am now back to my usual schedule. In fact, I hope to be a little more consistent starting this summer because (if you follow me on the SGU you already know this) I am retiring from my day job at Yale at the […] The post...
TheCollector
Why Did Genghis Khan’s Empire Decline? Genghis Khan died in 1227 fighting in China. Upon his successor’s death in 1259, squabbles over...
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Genghis Khan died in 1227 fighting in China. Upon his successor’s death in 1259, squabbles over succession led to the Mongol Empire being split into four khanates, each ruled by a son or grandson. These included the Yuan Dynasty in China, the European Golden Horde, Persia’s...
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The near and mid-term future of improving the Ethereum network's permissionlessness and...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Post Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Someday I'm gonna have a book in which the comic...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Someday I'm gonna have a book in which the comic sounds like it's going to become controversial and then goes all in on stupid. Today's News: Final week!
Seth's Blog
The paradox of self skepticism If we’re to publish, teach, invent, imagine or promote, we need the confidence to believe that we...
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If we’re to publish, teach, invent, imagine or promote, we need the confidence to believe that we have something to offer. That we are, in some way, right. But the enterprise of rational thought is based on theories, tests and improvements. We can never be certain, all we have is...
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Modelling my brain A 22 hour medical experiment breathing 12% oxygen, and the 7000 images of my brain that came out of...
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Yale e360
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...
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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,...
Quanta Magazine
Mathematical Thinking Isn’t What You Think It Is The mathematician David Bessis claims that everyone is capable of, and can benefit greatly from,...
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The mathematician David Bessis claims that everyone is capable of, and can benefit greatly from, mathematical thinking. The post Mathematical Thinking Isn’t What You Think It Is first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Applied Cartography
Gosling’s Old Rum Virginia has draconian liquor laws, which means I have to get interesting bottles shipped from...
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Virginia has draconian liquor laws, which means I have to get interesting bottles shipped from [REDACTED], a site on which I am very prone to judging a book by its cover; every month I'll end up purchasing a bottle of something purely because it looks interesting and I can...
TheCollector
Guide to the History & Beliefs of Roman Catholicism The Roman Catholic Church traces its origin to the apostles and specifically to Peter. They are by...
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The Roman Catholic Church traces its origin to the apostles and specifically to Peter. They are by far the largest denomination of Christianity with more than 1.2 billion Roman Catholic believers worldwide. The Church played a significant role in history and had a marked...
Escaping Flatland
Why we ended up homeschooling “Little Sister”, Agnes Martin, 1962
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Internal Tech Emails
Inside Apple's Marcom meeting To come back and suggest that Apple needs to think dramatically different about how we are running...
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To come back and suggest that Apple needs to think dramatically different about how we are running our company is a shocking response.
The American Scholar
Katie Heller Saltoun Tenderness and grit The post Katie Heller Saltoun appeared first on The American Scholar.
6 months ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Font Blocking, Invisible Words, and Flames of Shame You never know when you will be confronted by a test of character. There will come a moment when you...
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You never know when you will be confronted by a test of character. There will come a moment when you are forced to choose. Do you stick to your beliefs, or do you fold under the pressure and sacrifice your very identity?
Liz Denys
Where books travel i I sit down in my premium economy seat, the abbreviated way of saying "economy as it was fifteen...
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i I sit down in my premium economy seat, the abbreviated way of saying "economy as it was fifteen years ago, but at a higher premium," and deeply internalize my physical constraints for the next six hours. A small box outlined by my seat, the side of the plane with its tiny...
Louwrentius
Parallel / distributed password cracking with John the Ripper and MPI This article has been updated to reflect the changes for John version 1.7.8 as released in june...
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This article has been updated to reflect the changes for John version 1.7.8 as released in june 2011. The most important change is the fact that MPI support is now integrated in the jumbo patch. The original John the Ripper off-line password cracker only uses a single processor...
Unpacked
Instagram limits political content, and Google's consumer play with Gemini Last week, Meta announced that they will not proactively recommend political content across their...
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Last week, Meta announced that they will not proactively recommend political content across their recommendation surfaces including Reels and Threads. We dive into criticism Meta has gotten in the past, what led Meta to this decision, the increasingly dispersed media landscape...
Himanshu Mishra |...
You need a Product Mindset Treat Your Developers Like VIP Customers Your developers are not just users; they're customers who...
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Treat Your Developers Like VIP Customers Your developers are not just users; they're customers who have high expectations from your internal…
SOCKS
90-Degree Axonometric’s by Auguste Merle (Late 19th – Early 20th C.) Auguste Merle was an Art Brut artist living in France at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries....
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Auguste Merle was an Art Brut artist living in France at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. His works depict imaginary buildings with meticulous detailing, using graphite on notebook paper. The rigorous yet inventive forms are depicted in 90-degree axonometric projections,...
Retail Design Blog
CMC Korea by Instory Creative CMC is one of the largest technology corporations in Vietnam. In the process of going global, CMC...
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CMC is one of the largest technology corporations in Vietnam. In the process of going global, CMC opened a branch...
Blog - Practical...
When Abandoned Mines Collapse [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In December of 2024, a huge...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In December of 2024, a huge sinkhole opened up on I-80 near Wharton, New Jersey, creating massive traffic delays as crews worked to figure out what happened and get it fixed. Since then, it happened again in...
Applied Cartography
Humane Inc. Humane Inc. started in 2018; it raised around $250M over five years before coming out of stealth...
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4 months ago
Humane Inc. started in 2018; it raised around $250M over five years before coming out of stealth mode with an AI pin that people did not like very much, and today they announced their sale (or, to be specific, the sale of their patent library) to HP for $116M. Here is a hype...
A Collection of...
Collections: On the Gracchi, Part II: Gaius Gracchus Last time, we started our retrospective on the Gracchi looking at the elder brother Tiberius...
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Last time, we started our retrospective on the Gracchi looking at the elder brother Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus and his term as tribune of the plebs in 133 BCE; this week, we’ll wrap up this look by discussing Tiberius’ younger brother Gaius Sempronius Gracchus and his terms as...
somenice
Familiar Lines of Nostalgic Proportions A mixed tape was once a personal show of expression. An arrangement of songs purposefully set to...
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A mixed tape was once a personal show of expression. An arrangement of songs purposefully set to invoke an emotion. Happy, sad, psych-up workouts, breakups, love making… all depends. Spending time to record a deliberate mix of songs in order for someone else was devotion. When...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #172 Pilot's Founders vs. Berkshire, I Bonds, Ted Weschler interview transcript, Expanding circles of...
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Pilot's Founders vs. Berkshire, I Bonds, Ted Weschler interview transcript, Expanding circles of competence, Damodaran on Tesla, Thompson on AI, Charlie Munger, Chris Davis
Notes on software...
Things that go wrong with disk IO There are a few interesting scenarios to keep in mind when writing applications (not just...
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There are a few interesting scenarios to keep in mind when writing applications (not just databases!) that interact with read and writes files, particularly in transactional contexts where you actually care about the integrity of the data and when you are editing data in...
The Honest Broker
Tell Us About the Person Who Inspires You Most It's Open Mic Day at 'The Honest Broker'
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Retail Design Blog
L’aura – Unveil Your Aura by Innovāt – Empowering Creative Innovation L’aura – Unveil Your Aura | Branding & Packaging L’aura is a luxury and modern high-end cosmetics...
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Eric Bailey
Where do you put spacing on design system components? I work on design systems now. It scratches a lot of itches I have, most importantly organizing and...
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I work on design systems now. It scratches a lot of itches I have, most importantly organizing and standardizing things, as well as baking accessibility in at both the design and development layers. My very cool boss is working on updating our grid system, and with that comes...
Yazin Alirhayim
Part 2: Will greater access to capital spark Bahrain’s economy? 👉 If you haven’t read Part 1, do that first. In the last post, I discussed the question of access...
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👉 If you haven’t read Part 1, do that first. In the last post, I discussed the question of access to capital and why’s important to verify that we do in fact have a problem before we attempt to “solve” it. Now, we’re going to talk about the method for measuring the extent of...
Sam Altman
DALL•E 2 Today we did a research launch of DALL•E 2, a new AI tool that can create and edit images from...
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Today we did a research launch of DALL•E 2, a new AI tool that can create and edit images from natural language instructions.  Most importantly, we hope people love the tool and find it useful. For me, it’s the most delightful thing to play with we’ve created so far. I find it to...
Calculated Risk
Personal Income increased 0.9% in January; Spending Decreased 0.2% The BEA released the Personal Income and Outlays, January 2025 report for January: Personal income...
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The BEA released the Personal Income and Outlays, January 2025 report for January: Personal income increased $221.9 billion (0.9 percent at a monthly rate) in January, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Disposable personal income...
Open Culture
A Stylish 2,000-Year-Old Roman Shoe Found in a Well When the Romans pushed their way north into the German provinces, they built (circa 90 AD) the...
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When the Romans pushed their way north into the German provinces, they built (circa 90 AD) the Saalburg, a fort that protected the boundary between the Roman Empire and the Germanic tribal territories. At its peak, 2,000 people lived in the fort and the attached village, and it...
Home on Erik...
Open source
over a year ago
Tech + Economics +...
Is Twitch losing its edge with draconian content regulation? The Verge: Twitch will ban people pretending to be naked Twitch is changing its sexual...
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The Verge: Twitch will ban people pretending to be naked Twitch is changing its sexual content policies again, this time to prohibit implied nudity on the platform. The platform already prohibits nudity, but Twitch’s new attire policy, which goes into effect...
Max Prilutskiy
How we're using email on a custom domain for $0/mo Google has announced yet another price increase for Google Workspace. Here's what we've done to...
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Google has announced yet another price increase for Google Workspace. Here's what we've done to avoid paying anything at all.
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 075: Levels of AGI July 12, 2024.
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Arduino Blog
Using an Arduino Nicla Vision as a drone flight controller Drone flight controllers do so much more than simply receive signals and tell the drone which way to...
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Drone flight controllers do so much more than simply receive signals and tell the drone which way to move. They’re responsible for constantly tweaking the motor speeds in order to maintain stable flight, even with shifting winds and other unpredictable factors. For that reason,...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Inside the New Delta Sky Club Lounge at NY’s JFK Airport
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The Marginalian
How to Say Goodbye: An Illustrated Field Guide to Accompanying a Loved One at the End of Life "If you don't know what to say, start by saying that... That opens things up."
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Notes on software...
Phil Eaton on Technical Blogging This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
3 months ago
Birchtree
How I’m using AI tools in early 2025 (members post) What am I actually using these LLMs for at the start of 2025? Quite a bit, actually.
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Paul Graham: Essays
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Calculated Risk
Wednesday: FOMC Statement Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. mortgage...
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Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. mortgage purchase applications index. Architecture Billings Index for February (a leading indicator for commercial real estate). FOMC Meeting Announcement. No change to policy is expected at this...
Willem's Blog
Designing and implementing a (micro) payment system Designing and implementing a micro payment system with an emphasis on simplicity. Read about how I...
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Designing and implementing a micro payment system with an emphasis on simplicity. Read about how I did it in this post.
Laetitia@Work
Mind the Exponential Gap Listen now (54 mins) | Laetitia@Work #42
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Retail Design Blog
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We’ve talked about ESTUDIO–CAFE, a cool coffee parlour in Montevideo, in a previous post. The café is a side activity...
xkcd.com
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Putting the Casio F-91W band on an Apple Watch
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Seth's Blog
Pique-a-boo Marketers seek to make an impact, and that takes interest. Three ways to spell the key word: Peak...
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Marketers seek to make an impact, and that takes interest. Three ways to spell the key word: Peak interest can’t get any higher. It never happens at launch. It’s the result of cultural change and an idea moving through the population. Peek interest happens when there’s scarcity...
Herbert Lui
Three quotes on routine living Living a heavily structured life, always by the rules, also drains it of vitality. “Consistency is...
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Living a heavily structured life, always by the rules, also drains it of vitality. “Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead,” Aldous Huxley writes.  That’s part of the drawbacks of relying too heavily on habits; the...
Retail Design Blog
Eight Oaks Farm Distillery by Makers & Allies Eight Oaks Farm Distillery is so much more than whiskey. It’s a farm just as much as it is a...
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About the time I trashed my mother's laptop Around 2003, my mother had a laptop: the Compaq Armada 1592DT. It ran Windows Me, the worst Windows...
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Around 2003, my mother had a laptop: the Compaq Armada 1592DT. It ran Windows Me, the worst Windows to ever exist, whopping 96 MB of RAM, and a 3 GB hard drive. My mother used it for important stuff, and I played games on it. Given the limitations of the 3 GB hard drive,...
Abishek Muthian
About Hi, this is Abishek Muthian. Thanks for visiting my blog. That's me on the picture. I'm a...
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Hi, this is Abishek Muthian. Thanks for visiting my blog. That's me on the picture. I'm a time-constrained person. Here, I intend on writing on some of my Interests and try my best to deliver as I perceived it. Between 2014-2019, I had been running Timebender Technologies;...
99% Invisible
Orange Alternative [EPISODE] In the months following the invasion of Ukraine, cryptic anti-war graffiti began popping up across...
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In the months following the invasion of Ukraine, cryptic anti-war graffiti began popping up across Russia. People started writing out the phrase “no war” using asterisks instead of the various letters in order to disguise the meaning of the message. Then back in September, a...
Both Are True
Wacky Guy One: prepping for the audition that coulda changed everything a raw and unvarnished look at what it takes to make it in hollywood with celebrated commercial actor...
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Diaries of Note
Why have children or plant trees? M.F.K. Fisher was an accomplished author and gastronome who brought the art of food writing into the...
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Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad 2024-07-10 I’ve always found it useful to run both OpenBSD and some form of Linux variation on my personal machines. Most times, I would default to running one OS on bare metal, while the other would simply live in a VM....
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I've been programming since I was 10, but I don't feel like a 'hacker' When I was 10, I was programming in Logo after being introduced to it in my school's required...
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When I was 10, I was programming in Logo after being introduced to it in my school's required computer class. Our teacher did not once call this programming; it was just another project among ones that usually weren't programming. I generalized almost every exercise - something...
Retail Design Blog
Mokkado café by MUKU design studio “Mokkado” is a café organized by a 75-year-old pharmaceutical company based in Imizu City, Toyama...
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“Mokkado” is a café organized by a 75-year-old pharmaceutical company based in Imizu City, Toyama Prefecture. The café is a...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal. Left, added a...
Articles
Forget the Valley: bootstrap founders can live wherever they want
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 063: Llama 3 April 19, 2024.
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Seth's Blog
We can agree about schismogenesis Anthropologist Gregory Bateson highlighted that often, culture is based on oppositional behavior....
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Anthropologist Gregory Bateson highlighted that often, culture is based on oppositional behavior. And it can spiral. They say “up” and the easy thing is to say “down.” Literally, “the creation of division.” Your competitor launches a product and you work to undermine it with a...
journal – Winnie Lim
temporary amnesia Travel enriches me in many ways. Apart from novelty and discovery, new surroundings help me to...
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Travel enriches me in many ways. Apart from novelty and discovery, new surroundings help me to temporarily forget things that usually weigh me down. Certain familiar things back home trigger uncomfortable feelings...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Open source starter pack for JS devs So you've decided to open-source your project. Amazing! Bad news first: writing code is only the...
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So you've decided to open-source your project. Amazing! Bad news first: writing code is only the beginning. The information for library authors on the web is surprisingly fragmented, so I've decided to put together a list of things to keep in mind when open-sourcing a JS...
Open Culture
Thousands of Pablo Picasso’s Works Now Available in a New Digital Archive If you want to immerse yourself in the world of Pablo Picasso, you might start at the Museo Picasso...
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If you want to immerse yourself in the world of Pablo Picasso, you might start at the Museo Picasso Málaga, located in the artist’s Spanish birthplace. But to understand how his work developed throughout his life, you’ll have to get out of Spain — which is just what Picasso did...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Jessie de Salis I am Jessie de Salis. I run a screen printing textile business with my cousin, Alice. We print...
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10 months ago
I am Jessie de Salis. I run a screen printing textile business with my cousin, Alice. We print colourful patterned fabrics from a Somerset barn, a space we share with the sparrows and house-martins. What inspires you? I love bold and bright design. I always seem to come back to...
Working Theorys
The Granny Hobby Protocol And the hands-on, thumbs-off economy
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ribbonfarm
Intellectual Menopause I ran across the alarming phrase intellectual menopause a few months ago in John Gall’s...
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10 months ago
I ran across the alarming phrase intellectual menopause a few months ago in John Gall’s Systemantics, and it naturally stuck in my brain given I’m pushing 50 and getting predictably angsty about it. The phrase conjures up visions of a phenomenon much more profound and unfunny...
Atoms vs Bits
Progress Studies Conference - I'll Defend Fusion The progress studies conference didn't have anyone to defend fusion energy, so I will.
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Maps Mania
The Democracy Sausage Map
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Marco.org
The 2018 Mac Mini Watch the video review I hardly ever think about my Mac Mini, but it serves a vital role for my...
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over a year ago
Watch the video review I hardly ever think about my Mac Mini, but it serves a vital role for my family as our home-theater mixer, Plex server, ScanSnap server, Apple Photos backup, and Backblaze host for our NAS.1 Almost every port on the back is in use, and it runs 24/7,...
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My blog successfully survived a scheduled power outage I had the opportunity to test the resiliency of my home server setup due to a scheduled power outage...
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I had the opportunity to test the resiliency of my home server setup due to a scheduled power outage on 2024-09-13. It was also Friday the 13th. I’m not superstitious, but I’m a little stitious. My setup usually consists of the home server, a Wifi AP/router combo box, a converter...
Rest of World -...
Sing your way to learning a new language Unlike apps like Duolingo, Beelinguapp focuses on storytelling and song to engage its over 5 million...
a year ago
Calculated Risk
A Comment on GDPNow On Friday, I noted: Q1 GDP Tracking: Wide Range, GDPNow Goes Negative GDPNow from the Atlanta Fed...
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4 months ago
On Friday, I noted: Q1 GDP Tracking: Wide Range, GDPNow Goes Negative GDPNow from the Atlanta Fed went strongly negative in the most recent reading: "The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the first quarter of 2025 is -1.5 percent on...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: Informal ink augmentation Thinking about various ways that drawing environments offer “augmentations”, like cards and arrows,...
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Thinking about various ways that drawing environments offer “augmentations”, like cards and arrows, and how we might be able to make these more dynamic.
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How to brand your startup so it isn't boring The world would be more fun if most startups hadn't undergone a personality vasectomy. Be it the...
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The world would be more fun if most startups hadn't undergone a personality vasectomy. Be it the human instinct for conformity, or the inevitable…
Contraption Co.
What worked for finding a software engineering job Retro on my recent job search
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