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Open Culture
Jimi Hendrix Arrives in London in 1966, Asks to Get Onstage with Cream, and Blows Eric Clapton Away:... Jimi Hendrix arrived on the London scene like a ton of bricks in 1966, smashing every British blues...
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4 months ago
Jimi Hendrix arrived on the London scene like a ton of bricks in 1966, smashing every British blues guitarist to pieces the instant they saw him play. As vocalist Terry Reid tells it, when Hendrix played his first showcase at the Bag O’Nails, arranged by Animals’ bassist Chas...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Your Father's Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also you'll want to call this tech support number...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also you'll want to call this tech support number your father called before you. Today's News: This is probably the right place to mention we made the thing people kept asking for.
The Ruffian
Who Has The Better Final Pitch? It's Closing Time In America
2 months ago
The Changelog
Flying Joy Wisdom from my 5-year-old: When flying in a small plane, it is important to give your dolls a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Wisdom from my 5-year-old: When flying in a small plane, it is important to give your dolls a headset and let them see out the window, too! Moments like this make me smile at being a pilot dad. A week ago, I also got to give 8 children and one adult their first ever ride …...
Open Culture
J. G. Ballard Demystifies Surrealist Paintings by Dalí, Magritte, de Chirico & More Before his signature works like The Atrocity Exhibition, Crash, and High-Rise, J. G. Ballard...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Before his signature works like The Atrocity Exhibition, Crash, and High-Rise, J. G. Ballard published three apocalyptic novels, The Drowned World, The Burning World, and The Crystal World. Each of those books offers a different vision of large-scale environmental disaster, and...
xkcd.com
Doctor's Office
a year ago
History Today Feed
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty JamesHoare Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
9 months ago
Lighthouse Blog
How to combine multiple RSS feeds in one view
7 months ago
Light from Space
The Path to the Pillars of Creation Famously photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope, here's my first look at the Pillars of Creation...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Famously photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope, here's my first look at the Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula (Messier 16). Total exposure time: 16h 5m Shot from my driveway near Tucson, AZ in April & May 2022 Telescope: William Optics RedCat 51 (250mm focal length ƒ
TheCollector
What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE? undefined
4 months ago
Londonist
Rare Chelsea Books: Memories Of A Bookshop On The King's Road "We discouraged visitors from bringing in galettes, to prevent sticky fingers."
a year ago
Rest of World -...
WhatsApp voice notes are revolutionizing farming in Senegal For farmers in Senegal who struggle to read or write, sending voice notes has unlocked a new world...
a year ago
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a year ago
For farmers in Senegal who struggle to read or write, sending voice notes has unlocked a new world of collaboration across the industry.
TheCollector
8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers undefined
8 months ago
Josh Thompson
On Boldness In Climbing Climb boldly. I’ve tried to write about this many times, and have thousands of words scattered...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Climb boldly. I’ve tried to write about this many times, and have thousands of words scattered across my computer about this topic. I always felt like I wasn’t communicating it quite right. I wasn’t happy with it. So I said “screw it, I’ll explain it like I would if I were...
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
mtlynch.io
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi I had a mixed reaction to this book. Some of Ibram X. Kendi’s ideas felt novel and compelling. It...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I had a mixed reaction to this book. Some of Ibram X. Kendi’s ideas felt novel and compelling. It broadened my perspective in thinking about race. And there’s a lot of historical discussion of race and slavery that covered details I don’t remember from school. At the same time, I...
The Last...
Funeral do you have a better system? The funeral is attended by 30 people. It's a military...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
do you have a better system? The funeral is attended by 30 people. It's a military funeral because he was in Korea, and in the front chairs are his wife and two grown children, and they are quietly crying. When it ends, people disperse hesitatingly, after all, they...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Top 6 Underrated Places to Visit in the BVI
3 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Score Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The weird thing is he uses the money to get a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The weird thing is he uses the money to get a flight back south to buy more pens. Today's News:
The DESK Magazine
The case for being ignorant I am sure you know this feeling. You find a new book that you absolutely love. A new movie, a new TV...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I am sure you know this feeling. You find a new book that you absolutely love. A new movie, a new TV series or even a new hobby such as cycling or designing. It can be anything and everything.
Maps Mania
The New Medieval Map of London
6 months ago
A Beautiful Site
BrowserStack: stop using virtual machines for browser testing Sick of booting up an entire virtual machine (VM) just to test something in IE? With BrowserStack,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Sick of booting up an entire virtual machine (VM) just to test something in IE? With BrowserStack, you don't need VMware or VirtualBox. Just enter a URL and instantly test on just about any browser you can think of. This is legit. It's not just another screenshot service or...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Law Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is a complete theory of law, no exceptions,...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
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:
Abstruse Goose
The Most Powerful Person in the World
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
adidas Illustrates Confidence In Simplicity with a New Branded Space Design Exclusive to JD Sports Launching into JD Sports’ best-performing store at Westfield Stratford, as well as JD Sports...
a month ago
The Elysian
Week 4: One pitch several places
9 months ago
Citation Needed
Issue 55 – Halving a bad time The bitcoin "halving" looms, and that may not be as good news as coiners hope. Also, Terra committed...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
The bitcoin "halving" looms, and that may not be as good news as coiners hope. Also, Terra committed fraud and Uniswap got a Wells notice.
CONTEMPORIST
This Modern Home Was Designed Around A Split-Trunk Oak Tree A Parallel Architecture has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Austin, Texas, that’s...
a month ago
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a month ago
A Parallel Architecture has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Austin, Texas, that’s designed around a split-trunk live oak, which has stood guard over the center of the tight lot for decades. The home’s exterior features concrete, wood, and large windows, with some...
PostHog's RSS Feed
HogMail #14 Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
TheCollector
Prince Charles III Portrait Defaced by Animal Right Activists undefined
7 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
a year ago
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a year ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Midst the Pomp and Toil of War' I learned that General George S. Patton, Jr. wrote poetry from my father, a man who never read...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I learned that General George S. Patton, Jr. wrote poetry from my father, a man who never read poetry. I was a senior in high school. Days before we went to see the Oscar-winning film Patton, he delivered a lecture on the general’s military prowess, anti-Semitism and desire to...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Best of the Best
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
My first netrunner store championship My girlfriend has told me I get these narrow interests where I pour all my energy and thoughts into...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My girlfriend has told me I get these narrow interests where I pour all my energy and thoughts into and about 1,5 months ago I discovered Netrunner, a very awesome card game. Check out this how to play or team covenant’s channel if you want to know more. So this Sunday I went to...
Paul Graham: Essays
A Way to Detect Bias
over a year ago
Maps Mania
Chronotube
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'How Much Can Be Accomplished' Cleveland is traditionally divided between East Side and West Side. I’m a West-Sider, though I...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Cleveland is traditionally divided between East Side and West Side. I’m a West-Sider, though I haven’t lived in the city since 1977. The designation suggests working-class neighborhoods, many of them Slavic. Ethnicity was important, and not usually in the sense of bigotry. I was...
Maps Mania
Is it too hot for the Tour de France?
a year ago
TheCollector
10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Oscar Wilde? undefined
a year ago
Maps Mania
The Right-Wing Terrorism Map
10 months ago
Home on Erik...
Meta-blogging (This is not a very relevant/useful post for regular readers – feel free to skip. I thought I would...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
(This is not a very relevant/useful post for regular readers – feel free to skip. I thought I would share it so people can find it on Google.) My blog blew up twice in a week earlier this year when I landed on Hacker News.
Louwrentius
'Tip of the day: Scrolling in GNU screen' Just the answer: By default, on Debian, the scroll back buffer is about 1K lines. This can...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Just the answer: By default, on Debian, the scroll back buffer is about 1K lines. This can be changed in the .screenrc file in your home directory. The following example sets the scroll back buffer to 5K lines. defscrollback 5000 Set the scroll back buffer on the fly with: First...
The Marginalian
Anne Morrow Lindbergh on Embracing Change in Relationships and the Key Pattern for Nourishing Love "All living relationships are in process of change, of expansion, and must perpetually be building...
11 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Learning Gears > Translations welcome!...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
> Translations welcome! ([Português](https://meleu.github.io/artigos-traduzidos/marchas-de-aprendizagem.html))
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Knight Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The really creepy part is the tower is its...
2 months ago
mtlynch.io
Happy City by Charles Montgomery Given how much urban design affects our lives, it’s surprising how little we think about and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Given how much urban design affects our lives, it’s surprising how little we think about and participate in it. This book was eye-opening in terms of the way I look at cities and how its inhabitants interact with them. I took for granted the idea that cities should be friendly to...
Identity Designed
WHEN Designed by Universal Favourite, Sydney.
3 weeks ago
The Universe of...
Another corner of Pennsylvania [ Previously: [1] [2] [3] ] A couple of years back I wrote: I live in southeastern Pennsylvania, so...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
[ Previously: [1] [2] [3] ] A couple of years back I wrote: I live in southeastern Pennsylvania, so the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Delaware triple point must be somewhere nearby. I sat up and got my phone so I could look at the map, and felt foolish. As you can see, the triple...
The Rational Walk
Real Estate Adventures Buying real estate can be intimidating and complicated. This article describes two experiences with...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Buying real estate can be intimidating and complicated. This article describes two experiences with realtors, one positive and one negative.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bullying Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You're gonna wish the conditions of your birth were...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You're gonna wish the conditions of your birth were altered so ass to prevent this unpleasant occurrence while leaving your identity largely intact, bro! Today's News: OK, so my new favorite compliment to receive is 'I tried to...
Society's Backend
Taking the AI to Consumers The Google Pixel 8 Pro is a much bigger deal than you think
a year ago
Flashbak
Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he first spotted at a swap meet in Pasadena, California. We don’t know who took these photographs of David Bowie backstage, James Brown meeting and greeting the fans and many other...
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2023 / Lisboa, PT]
over a year ago
xkcd.com
Solar Panel Placement
a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Too much of a good thing: the trade-off we make with tests I've worked places where we aspired to (but did not reach) 100% code coverage. We used tools like a...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I've worked places where we aspired to (but did not reach) 100% code coverage. We used tools like a code coverage ratchet to ensure that the test coverage always went up and never down. This had a few effects. One of them was the intended effect: we wrote more tests. Another was...
TheCollector
UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge undefined
5 months ago
Probably...
Young Americans are Marrying Later or Never I’ve written before about changes in marriage patterns in the U.S., and it’s one of the examples in...
4 weeks ago
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4 weeks ago
I’ve written before about changes in marriage patterns in the U.S., and it’s one of the examples in Chapter 13 of the new third edition of Think Stats. My analysis uses data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). Today they released the most recent data, from surveys...
TheCollector
What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England? undefined
7 months ago
Wuthering...
The Assemblywomen by Aristophanes - Octopus tunnyfish dogfish and skate The Assemblywomen by Aristophanes – or The Parliament of Women, or several other titles – was...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The Assemblywomen by Aristophanes – or The Parliament of Women, or several other titles – was performed in 392 BCE, thirteen years after The Frogs.  In the interval many things had changed.  Athens had been conquered; democracy was overthrown but restored; one endless war ended...
Home on Erik...
What can startups learn from Koch Industries? I recently finished the excellent book Kochland. This isn't my first interest in Koch—I read The...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently finished the excellent book Kochland. This isn't my first interest in Koch—I read The Science of Success by Charles Koch himself a couple of years ago. Charles Koch inherited a tiny company in 1967 and turned it into one of the world's largest ones.
Platformer
13 predictions for platforms in 2023 Twitter! ChatGPT! Content moderation! And more
over a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
The Threat of Technology In my second book (shameless plug alert) – The Skeptics’ Guide to the Future – my coauthors and I...
a year ago
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a year ago
In my second book (shameless plug alert) – The Skeptics’ Guide to the Future – my coauthors and I try to imagine both the utopian and dystopian versions of the future, brought about by technology, either individually or collectively. This topic has come up multiple times recently...
sancho.dev
Learning OCaml in 2023
over a year ago
The Wandering...
Transforming French WW1 Lambert Coordinates to WGS84 Nord de Guerre Here’s a survey plat made in 1919 by a US Army unit in France. In the aftermath of...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Nord de Guerre Here’s a survey plat made in 1919 by a US Army unit in France. In the aftermath of WW1, teams of American military surveyors produced these as they went around France mapping the grave sites of fallen soldiers. On this plat we can see a number of bearings and...
Londonist
Londonist Talks To Just Stop Oil "No one will listen to you if they cannot hear you."
10 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Microsoft is Dead
over a year ago
Astral Codex Ten
Book Review: The Rise Of Christianity ...
a month ago
TheCollector
What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism undefined
11 months ago
Home on Erik...
My issue with GPU-accelerated deep learning I've been spending several hundred bucks renting GPU instances on AWS over the last year. The...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've been spending several hundred bucks renting GPU instances on AWS over the last year. The speedup from a GPU is awesome and hard to deny. GPUs have taken over the field. Maybe following the footsteps of Bitcoin mining there's some research on using FPGA (I know very little...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
The Engineering Behind Healthcare LLMs with Abridge | Out-Of-Pocket What kinds of challenges come up with creating a speech-to-text gen AI product?
4 months ago
The DESK Magazine
When good is no longer good enough It wasn’t long ago I’d see a 3D rendering or piece of highly detailed art and feel blown away.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 089: Adobe MAX October 18, 2024.
2 months ago
ntietz.com blog
You should make a new programming language Every software engineer uses a programming language, usually multiple. Few of us make programming...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Every software engineer uses a programming language, usually multiple. Few of us make programming languages. This makes sense, because the work we need to get done can typically be done just fine in the languages that exist. Those already have people making them better. Let's...
History Today Feed
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend j.hoare Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
a year ago
computers are bad
2023-02-17 something up there pt II As we discussed previously, the search for UAP is often contextualized in terms of the events of...
a year ago
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a year ago
As we discussed previously, the search for UAP is often contextualized in terms of the events of 2017: the public revelation of the AATIP and alien-hunting efforts by Robert Bigelow and Tom DeLonge. While widely publicized, these programs seem to have lead to very little. I...
TheCollector
What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology? undefined
11 months ago
👋 Hello, I'm...
How to get (micro) acquired?
a year ago
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Smooth Shadow "Make a smooth css shadow "
a year ago
TheCollector
Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy? undefined
7 months ago
Commoncog
Data is an Added Sense A useful operating principle to sidestep the biggest misconception with becoming data driven in...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
A useful operating principle to sidestep the biggest misconception with becoming data driven in business.
The Diff
Just Another Risk Asset Plus! SPVs; The Global Advantage; Cachet; GLP-1 Friendliness; Integrations
4 weeks ago
Passing Time
How I passed the time in 2024 Essays, books, albums, & reviews
3 weeks ago
CONTEMPORIST
Tropical Living: This Modern Home Embraces The Steep Terrain Of The Costa Rican Jungle SARCO Architects has shared photos of a home they completed in Costa Rica, designed to focus on...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
SARCO Architects has shared photos of a home they completed in Costa Rica, designed to focus on transparency, blurring the boundaries between indoor and outdoor spaces. The steep terrain posed the biggest challenge of the design, and as a result, the home was broken up into...
Maps Mania
The Battle of Hong Kong
a year ago
On Life and Lisp
AAA gaming on Asahi Linux Gaming on Linux on M1 is here! We’re thrilled to release our Asahi game playing toolkit, which...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Gaming on Linux on M1 is here! We’re thrilled to release our Asahi game playing toolkit, which integrates our Vulkan 1.3 drivers with x86 emulation and Windows compatibility. Plus a bonus: conformant OpenCL 3.0. Asahi Linux now ships the only conformant OpenGL®, OpenCL™, and...
The Modern House
A Day Well Spent with Isabella Burley
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Learning to accept defeat against reality A great many smart people terminably hamper their ability to better understand the world by refusing...
a year ago
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a year ago
A great many smart people terminably hamper their ability to better understand the world by refusing to accept defeat when reality proves them wrong. Armed with an intellect that's at once both too proud to recognize it's own failings and cunningly capable of producing...
The Great Discontent...
Brad Montague Brad Montague is an illustrator, speaker, picture book author, video creator, and all-around maker....
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Brad Montague is an illustrator, speaker, picture book author, video creator, and all-around maker. He’s a self-proclaimed dreamer and doer. Above all, he’s a storyteller, “working to create a better world for kids with kids” through Montague Workshop, the creative studio he runs...
A Smart Bear
Brittle Points: How to make companies robust Brittleness is when the company fails because just one component breaks. Learn some strategies for...
a month ago
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a month ago
Brittleness is when the company fails because just one component breaks. Learn some strategies for fixing Brittle Points.
Opsbros
WetSocks Revival How to get a broken METAR/TAF Toolbar application working again; the fun way! Seeing what we can do...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How to get a broken METAR/TAF Toolbar application working again; the fun way! Seeing what we can do to get WetSocks Windows 98 tray weather app working again.
Paul Graham: Essays
Crazy New Ideas
over a year ago
Farza's Newsletter
imagine if birds were slices of pizza with wings Chilling at Central Park. I usually hang out here on the same bench on Sunday mornings, blast some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Chilling at Central Park. I usually hang out here on the same bench on Sunday mornings, blast some music, and do stuff :). Going to write this newsletter and then head to the office. Lots to do with Zip this week! We’re finding tons of cool new teachers, making dope content,...
Open Culture
The Isolated Bass Grooves of The Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh (RIP) This past Friday, the bassist of The Grateful Dead, Phil Lesh, passed away at age 84. Almost...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
This past Friday, the bassist of The Grateful Dead, Phil Lesh, passed away at age 84. Almost immediately the tributes poured in, most recognizing that Lesh wasn’t your ordinary bassist. As Jon Pareles wrote in the New York Times, Phil Lesh held songs “aloft.” His “bass lines...
Applied Cartography
Are monopolies bad, actually? One of the more interesting theses advanced by Zero to One [1] is that monopolies are good to the...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
One of the more interesting theses advanced by Zero to One [1] is that monopolies are good to the extent that they afford companies the agency and comfort to engage in long-term activities: Monopolists can think about things other than making money; non-monopolists can’t. In...
TheCollector
The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding undefined
2 months ago
Maps Mania
The American Home Values Map
8 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review ‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review JamesHoare Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01
5 months ago
TheCollector
Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise undefined
9 months ago
Paolo Amoroso's...
Overriding card editing with a no-op in WebCard <![CDATA[I wrote some throwaway code to experiment with editing cards of type Web in WebCard, my...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
<![CDATA[I wrote some throwaway code to experiment with editing cards of type Web in WebCard, my RetroChallenge 2024 project. The goal is to make the card read only with the least amount of effort. In a NoteCards hypertext a Web card is a stand-in for a website, a placeholder...
TheCollector
Who Were the Wright Brothers? undefined
10 months ago
The Marginalian
The Great Blind Spot of Science and the Art of Asking the Complex Question the Only Answer to Which... “Real isn’t how you are made… It’s a thing that happens to you,” says the Skin Horse — a stuffed toy...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
“Real isn’t how you are made… It’s a thing that happens to you,” says the Skin Horse — a stuffed toy brought to life by a child’s love — in The Velveteen Rabbit. Great children’s books are works of philosophy in disguise; this is a fundamental question: In a reality of matter,...
Classical Wisdom
Is Subjective Equal to Objective? Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
Rest of World -...
In-home beauty service in Pakistan: the woman sweet-talking tough clients Though gig work gives respite from the grind of working in a salon, choosy clients make a...
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Inequality and Risk
over a year ago
Math Is Still...
The Two Faces of Space-Time A mysterious phenomenon known as duality often leads to new discoveries in physics. This time,...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
A mysterious phenomenon known as duality often leads to new discoveries in physics. This time, space-time itself can sometimes be two things at once. The post The Two Faces of Space-Time first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Old Structures...
A Bit Alien From a recent trip to Governors Island, a big thing in the water near the piers on the east side of...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
From a recent trip to Governors Island, a big thing in the water near the piers on the east side of the island: It’s the mid-length air shaft for the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and, constructed circa 1950, it’s a relative newcomer to the island’s landscape. The diagram below,...
Rest of World -...
The TikTok ban is bigger than just ByteDance The U.S. clampdown on Chinese-owned companies won't end here.
8 months ago
Seth's Blog
Amplifying the fringes Culture is: “People like us do things like this.” We might even have a chance to choose our group....
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Culture is: “People like us do things like this.” We might even have a chance to choose our group. Hipsters do this, hippies do that. People in this town wear this outfit, students at this school hang out here on Saturdays… We might be born into a culture. Less agency, but just...
Open Culture
Free: 356 Issues of Galaxy, the Groundbreaking 1950s Science Fiction Magazine Along with Astounding Science Fiction and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy...
a month ago
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a month ago
Along with Astounding Science Fiction and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy Magazine was one of the most important science fiction digests in 1950s America. Ray Bradbury wrote for it–including an early version of his masterpiece Fahrenheit 451–as did Robert A....
Rest of World -...
Instagram helps Brazilians dodge a national sales ban on vapes As Brazilian law clashes with Meta’s policies, illegal vapes flood social media and the streets.
3 months ago
The personal website...
Just-in-time design photo by Tools for motivation There is a disconnect between product design and product...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
photo by Tools for motivation There is a disconnect between product design and product engineering. Three factors contribute to this disconnect: Products get shipped faster every day. DevOps teams automate huge amounts of the delivery process, enabling engineering teams to ship...
TokyoDev
Unbricking my MacBook took an email to Tim Cook I previously wrote about [how my lost MacBook was returned to me with an Activation Lock on...
a year ago
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a year ago
I previously wrote about [how my lost MacBook was returned to me with an Activation Lock on it](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/not-setting-up-find-my-bricked-my-macbook), and how Apple refused to unlock it for me. Well, I did manage to finally get it unlocked. All it took was...
Probably...
Hazard and Survival Here’s a question from the Reddit statistics forum. If I have a tumor that I’ve been told has a...
a month ago
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It’s a tempting shortcut. Different kinds of people prefer pop tarts to pizza, or prefer expensive wine to beer, or prefer amusement parks to bowling. Except everyone is the same and everyone is different. What’s actually useful is to realize that in this moment, under these...
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useDeferredValue is one of the most underrated React hooks. It allows us to dramatically improve the performance of our applications in certain contexts. I recently used it to solve a gnarly performance problem on this blog, and in this tutorial, I'll show you how! ⚡
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Freshly whipped WebGPU, with ice cream I recently rolled out version 0.7 of Use.GPU, my declarative/reactive WebGPU library. This includes features and goodies by itself. But most important are the code patterns which are all nicely slotting into place. This continues to be...
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For most people straight out of school, work life is a bit of a culture shock. For me it was an awesome experience, but a lot of the constraints were different and I had to learn to optimize for different things.
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tl;dr - it’s valuable to update your LinkedIn profile to be a concise, accurate, and current summary of your accomplishment. Spend at most two hours updating it, then ask a friend (ideally a recruiter) for feedback. Incorporate that feedback and don’t think about your profile...
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It’s been a long time since I’ve published a blog post. Two whole years. Now we’ve reached 2024, it’s time for a complete refresh.
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Rónán is the founder of Deutsch Gym, an online community for learning German. He's making thousands in revenue from his startup which he made after moving to Berlin and wanting to improve his German language skills. Read on for his tips on making a
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The best way to predict if you’ll benefit from psychedelic therapy is a questionnaire asking if you’ve met God. Where did it come from, and what is it really measuring?
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It's a strange part of town, is St James. Essentially a lesser-known southern extension of Mayfair, it's barely a half mile square and yet contains quite a high density of fancy hotels (Duke's, the Stafford, the Ritz), private members' clubs and the odd royal palace. Whereas some...
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The original post note from October 5, 2021: This was typed up/published in about 20 minutes, took 2x as long as I wish it had. I could make it 10x better with another hour of work, but I only have 20 minutes. I’m a fan of “conceptual frameworks” This concept has been important...
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RODE, a Boston-based team of architects, designers, and urban planners, together with Passive House Construction LLC, has shared photos of Brucewood Homes, a collection of internationally certified Passive House single-family homes. The Brucewood Homes project is a series of...
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After 5 years or so I’ve made a large upgrade to my desktop, and this post contains details and some pictures about the process. It was time I didn’t really want to do an upgrade right now, but I felt I had to do it. Sometimes the lag had gotten very noticeable, for example when...
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We had a delightful discussion on the importance of writing weekly updates in this week's [Coding Career Community meetup](https://learninpublic.org/#community). I rarely get so excited about an idea I immediately know I need to start doing it, so I'm choosing to write it up to...
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Supervised Learning: Classification Learning & Decision Trees The simplest form of Classification algorithm
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The Washington state deputy sheriff looked suspiciously at the motorcycle strapped to the back of the odd little French car. The motorcycle was a recently repaired Honda 90, sporting a fresh coat of grey spray paint. The driver, Robert Rogers, kept a neutral expression as the...
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The school and my life is trotting along. I’m handling the extra course fine, but instead I’ve left the standard math course behind a bit. Actually more than a bit but hopefully I’ll correct things later. No my life is going along just fine, it almost feels like my life is runing...
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I’m teaching undergrad solid-state for the first time, and it has served as a reminder of how condensed matter physics got off the ground.  I suspect that one reason CM historically had not received a lot of respect in the early years (e.g. Pauli declaring that solid-state...
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When people talk about interview link building, they mostly talk about expert interviews, you interview experts on your blog in the hope that they will then share your interview and link to it. But doing the opposite also works. If you have interesting hobbies or any kind of...
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The photo from the Bain News Service is titled “Post Office, New York” and the Library of Congress dates it as “between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915.” I think we can do better: that’s the Municpal Building in the background under construction. The building took longer than usual to...
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Implicit data and collaborative filtering A lot of people these days know about collaborative filtering. It's that Netflix Prize thing, right?...
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A lot of people these days know about collaborative filtering. It's that Netflix Prize thing, right? People rate things 1-5 stars and then you have to predict missing ratings. While there's no doubt that the Netflix Prize was successful, I think it created an illusion that all...
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Mailbag: What should you do if you report to an underperforming executive? Recently, an email came in asking what to do when you report into a mediocre or underperforming...
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Recently, an email came in asking what to do when you report into a mediocre or underperforming executive. I’ve gotten variants of this question a number of times over the years, and it’s worth digging into a bit: Have you written anything about working in middle management where...
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When he wrote the following entry in his journal in October 1940, André Gide was living through a chaotic period in history. A French literary titan known for probing works like The Immoralist and The Counterfeiters, Gide now found himself grappling with the profound impact that...
SOCKS
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We are pleased to announce that we are curating an exhibition that will open in September at the Archizoom Gallery (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland.  In an age characterised by the increasing dematerialisation of cultural production and transmission, Database, Network, Interface...
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Do you know anyone like that, the type of person that seems unsinkable? No matter what life throws at them they persevere. Every blow makes them stronger, they always come out on top, and they make it look so easy.
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If you want to order a new iMac with an SSD there are two problems: An SSD of 256 gigabytes will cost you a lot: 600 euros. The SSD is of medium quality, and does not justify the cost of 600 euros. Here you can find information about the Toshiba SSD that Apple provides. You can...
This Space
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Code generation is arguably one of the most interesting applications of LLMs, and one of the first with real commercial use (Copilot/Codex, Codegen, etc.). If you spend time on the internet these days you’ll see people claim productivity gains ranging from 0 to 100x,...
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When working with CSS transitions, the need to detect whether or not the browser supports them may arise.  It can be of particular use when working with the transitionend event, which won't fire in unsupportive browsers. After finding a number of questionable solutions, I came...
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One Useful Thing
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Art is very personal and we often consider the process of creation itself when evaluating the resulting piece. Does a sculpture have more artistic value when molded by human hands rather than a 3D printer? Most would say that it does. But what if the automation was, itself, part...
Ian's Blog
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Let's talk about some of the simple & practical steps you can take to improve your GitHub account security. There's plenty of good reasons why you should try to keep any online account safe, but I feel that GitHub deserves special attention among developers. With automation...
Applied Cartography
Notebook as marketing primitive Earlier this week, I stumbled upon this brilliant marketing-slash-documentation idea from...
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Earlier this week, I stumbled upon this brilliant marketing-slash-documentation idea from SingleStore — notebooks as a first-party page! There are a handful of nice things about this idea: Very easy to fan out. You're not going to really run out of sample notebooks from which you...
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You just finished writing an amazing article and can’t wait to share it with the world. But first, you need to come up with a great SEO title. The kind of SEO title that’ll not only help you rank in Google but also make people excited to read your article. Following the advice I...
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Effect vs affect In a culture fascinated by attitude, gloss and performance, it’s easy to believe that adopting an...
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In a culture fascinated by attitude, gloss and performance, it’s easy to believe that adopting an affect is precisely what you need to make a difference. In fact, the persistent, generous work that happens when no one is looking is what actually makes a difference. Looking the...
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Web is made up of technologies that got started over 25 years ago. Now, we are transitioning to a new and improved architecture for building web applications.
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Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
bt RSS Feed
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Web Development on a $200 Chromebook 2020-01-07 This blog post was written, edited and tested locally on a cheap $200 Chromebook. The article draft was composed in Sublime Text. Jekyll (the SSG this website uses) was generated via the Linux Beta Terminal running alongside Chrome...
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The United States has an official web design system and a custom typeface that belongs to the people. This thoughtful public design system aims to make government websites not only look good, but to make them accessible and functional for all.
HTMHell
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Context: A list of linked cards, each with heading, image, and teaser text. Bad code <section> <section> <h2>Overview</h2> <figure class="card" data-url="image1.html" style="background: url(image1.jpg)"> <figcaption> <h4>My heading</h4> ...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
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I recently changed my workflow around authoring and publishing my site notes.jim-nielsen.com. Here’s the rundown. Before Pretty standard JAMstack type stuff. All my notes are markdown files in a git repository that live alongside the code generating the website,...
99% Invisible
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Imagine one of those old-timey lumberjack photos. The kind where two men in plaid are working away at a tree, holding opposite ends of a huge, human-length saw. That is a vintage crosscut saw. Some avid crosscut seekers spend hours mining websites like eBay and Craigslist. But...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Appear to the Public to be Some Sort of Miracle' On Christmas Eve 1890, Chekhov writes to his friend and editor Alexi Suvorin:  “I believe in both...
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On Christmas Eve 1890, Chekhov writes to his friend and editor Alexi Suvorin:  “I believe in both [Robert] Koch and spermine, and I praise the Lord. Kochines, spermines, etc. all appear to the public to be some sort of miracle that has sprung unexpectedly from someone’s head like...
Old Structures...
Like Looking Down A Well Trinity Church and its yard are surrounded on all four sides by tall buildings. In 1952, when Angelo...
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Trinity Church and its yard are surrounded on all four sides by tall buildings. In 1952, when Angelo Rizzuto took this picture looking down from the roof of one of them, they were all of about 1900-1920 vintage. It’s a striking shot, but I’d guess not to everyone’s taste.
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Using External Links as GitHub Issue Template Options I've been down the road of configuring custom issue templates on GitHub repos before. It even seems...
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I've been down the road of configuring custom issue templates on GitHub repos before. It even seems like there have been some nice improvements to help make creating them even easier. Thanks for setting me up with a reasonable bug report template to start from so I don't have to...
Scott Jenson
Design can be free (part 3) This is the third in a series. The first two showed how confusing products could be fixed with...
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This is the third in a series. The first two showed how confusing products could be fixed with fairly simple changes. It’s often possible to significantly improve a product even using the same hardware. This one tackles a much trickier problem: improving the quality of hardware....
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: St. Peter just taps the crudely drawn No Girls Allowed sign made by God. Today's News: Whoever made the A City on Mars wikipedia entry, bless you. Now when people argue against stuff that we didn't actually say, I'm just linking...
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If you want to learn a modern JavaScript framework like React or Angular, you better be familiar with the terminal! So many frameworks and tools assume that you're proficient with it, without ever explaining it. This blog post is your missing manual, covering all of the most...
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Today I hope to bring you five St Patrick's Day quizzes. Just one guess in each quiz please. (but that's five guesses over the course of the day) 5) St Patrick quiz ST PATRICK.   1) bigot 2) channel 3) characteristics 4) coupé 5) deceives 6) designer     7) flatbreads 8)...
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 2-3 September 2023 A vintage sale, a David Bowie club night, and a wealth of festivals to kickstart September.
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Just looking Lots of people go to the beach but very few get in the water. 3,000 students go to the football game...
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Lots of people go to the beach but very few get in the water. 3,000 students go to the football game to watch 20 of their peers play. And we go to a conference to meet people and connect, and then spend most of our time hoping someone else will see us and care enough […]
A Smart Bear
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Resolve decision-making conflicts by selecting the right approach: Make a bold choice, synthesize a new solution, or find the balance.
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LEICESTER SQUARE £260   London's Monopoly Streets LEICESTER SQUARE Colour group: yellow Purchase price: £260 Rent: £22 Area: 2 acres Borough: Westminster Postcode: WC2 And so to the yellows, the 'entertainment' corner of the Monopoly board. One theory has it that their ordered...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Decarbonizing Aviation and Agriculture When we talk about reducing carbon release in order to slow down and hopefully stop anthropogenic...
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When we talk about reducing carbon release in order to slow down and hopefully stop anthropogenic global warming much of the focus is on the energy and transportation sectors. There is a good reason for this – the energy sector is responsible for 25% of greenhouse gas (GHG)...
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Donald Christiansen, who transformed IEEE Spectrum from a promising but erratic technology magazine into a repeat National Magazine Award winner, died on 2 October 2024, at the age of 97, in Huntington, N.Y. served aboard the aircraft carrier San Jacinto, an experience that led...
Retail Design Blog
If Zara Home rebrands as luxury Imagine a complete transformation of Zara Home. Stepping through the threshold, you’re no longer...
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Imagine a complete transformation of Zara Home. Stepping through the threshold, you’re no longer greeted by the familiar retail layout....
David Heinemeier...
Staying in the arena One of the things that can seem difficult to understand for people who merely tolerate having a job...
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One of the things that can seem difficult to understand for people who merely tolerate having a job is why anyone would continue working if they didn't have to. You often see a version of this incredulity when the peanut gallery weighs in on the choices of billionaires. Why do...
Spoon & Tamago
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a triptych by Toyokuni Utagawa depicting an excursion to gather bamboo shoots (early 1800s) According to Japan’s ancient calendar of 72 microseasons, right now is microseason 21: the time of year when “Bamboo Shoots Sprout.” Known as takenoko in Japan, these voracious plants have...
Making software...
Making Tables Responsive With Minimal CSS Making Tables Responsive With Minimal CSS 2019-06-11 Update (Oct 2019): @aardrian wrote a...
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Making Tables Responsive With Minimal CSS 2019-06-11 Update (Oct 2019): @aardrian wrote a previous post about how changing the display properties on tables can impact screen readers. I highly recommend his excellent article Tables, CSS Display Properties, and ARIA I find...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The really cool thing is that those are cargo sandals, to match the cargo socks, cargo pants, cargo shirt. Today's News:
Retail Design Blog
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Since MAM is similar to a growing organism, its new competence center resembles one as well, with the intention of...
Daniel Bourke
Operation zero commute I’d like to setup a life where my commute time is basically zero. As much as possible from...
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I’d like to setup a life where my commute time is basically zero. As much as possible from home. Work from home, gym from home, practice farming from home, community from home. Everything walking or riding distance, the rest delivered. I don’t even live in one
diamond geezer
Doctor Who 60 On Doctor Who's 60th birthday, here's a post about Doctor Who and birthdays. I checked back...
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On Doctor Who's 60th birthday, here's a post about Doctor Who and birthdays. I checked back recently and was amazed to see that my birthday had coincided with a new episode of Doctor Who in four consecutive years. This seemed somewhat improbable. 9th March 1982: Earthshock...
Handprinted - Blog
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Drypoint is an intaglio printmaking method that involves scratching an image into a plate with a pointed tool. These lines create a burr that holds ink, meaning that the print reveals the drawing. Drypoint is an easy technique to get to grips with and is a great method if you...
Math Is Still...
Biophysicists Uncover Powerful Symmetries in Living Tissue After identifying interlocking symmetries in mammalian cells, scientists can describe some tissues...
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After identifying interlocking symmetries in mammalian cells, scientists can describe some tissues as liquid crystals — an observation that lays the groundwork for a fluid-dynamic theory of how tissues move. The post Biophysicists Uncover Powerful Symmetries in Living...
Cheese and Biscuits
YiQi, Chinatown As any self-respecting 2024 London restaurant-goer knows, the trend in Asian cuisine is towards...
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As any self-respecting 2024 London restaurant-goer knows, the trend in Asian cuisine is towards regional specification. You're not just Thai, you're Northern Thai/Isarn. You're either selling Tokyo ramen or Sapporo Miso or Kyoto-style Kaiseki. And if you're Chinese, are you...
Retail Design Blog
Alpha Group office by Ikon & Design with Narrative After creating ‘the best office in Bristol’ for Alpha, the international financial services group...
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After creating ‘the best office in Bristol’ for Alpha, the international financial services group asked Ikon to rise to similar...
Citation Needed
Issue 49 – And so the Lord says "give them a 10x" Bitcoin ETP approval, God-sent crypto scammers, and more trouble in Justin Sun's world.
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The Honest Broker
Are Harvard Graduates Better Than Harvard Dropouts? Or how I spent $503,402 on college education
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The magic of a Hacker News Pre-Mortem Imagine you're working on something for other developers that you really, really want to be great....
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Imagine you're working on something for other developers that you really, really want to be great. Perhaps you're creating a new startup, perhaps…
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 11-17 March 2024 Things to do for under a fiver.
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Applying to architecture school? Don't miss these info sessions and open houses this... Deadlines for 2025 architecture academic programs are coming up soon! To learn more about exciting...
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Deadlines for 2025 architecture academic programs are coming up soon! To learn more about exciting undergraduate and graduate degrees in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning, take a look below at Archinect's latest highlight of upcoming information sessions...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Rammed Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Bam, alignment solved. Earth should join my patreon...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Bam, alignment solved. Earth should join my patreon as a thankyou. Today's News: Just 8 more days!
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Work-n-travel: A practical guide for staying productive while exploring the world. ...
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TheCollector
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The road to hell is paved with asphalt Most roads are paved with asphalt. Unfortunately, there are a lot of problems with asphalt. Bricks,...
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Most roads are paved with asphalt. Unfortunately, there are a lot of problems with asphalt. Bricks, cobblestones, and pavers are often much better options, because: 1. Asphalt degrades fast, so once you account for maintenance, it's more expensive it first appears Asphalt...
A Smart Bear
Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas It is difficult to brainstorm fresh, transformative ideas. Telling everyone that “no idea is a bad...
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It is difficult to brainstorm fresh, transformative ideas. Telling everyone that “no idea is a bad idea” isn’t enough of a prompt. These questions will stretch you beyond your daily experience; if you’re lucky, they could even lead to a unique business model and a long-term...
Seth's Blog
Listening to organizational decline Great companies and teams often get stale and then fade away. Here’s what we hear as it happens:...
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Great companies and teams often get stale and then fade away. Here’s what we hear as it happens: “I’m way too important to listen to customers. Send them to the call center.” “It wasn’t a bad idea when we implemented it, so it’s not a bad idea now.” “My boss won’t let me.” “The...
TheCollector
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diamond geezer
You must have a valid ticket before boarding Last month there were significant closures on the DLR and a replacement bus service ran. And...
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Last month there were significant closures on the DLR and a replacement bus service ran. And there was one particular sentence that surprised me the most. "You must have a valid ticket before boarding the replacement bus service." I've never seen that before, not on a TfL...
Both Are True
switching to a "dumb" phone made me feel pretty dang smart the Light Phone diaries
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Maps Mania
How Smooth is the Earth?
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Notes on the acquisition process Ten years ago, startup financing was an insider’s game. Since then, the topic has been widely...
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over a year ago
Ten years ago, startup financing was an insider’s game. Since then, the topic has been widely discussed on blogs, to the great benefit of…
Cheese and Biscuits
Cafe Kitty, Soho For someone who spends an unhealthy amount of time thinking about and reading about restaurants, I...
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For someone who spends an unhealthy amount of time thinking about and reading about restaurants, I consider it a personal failing that I didn't connect Cafe Kitty (Soho) with Kitty Fisher's (Mayfair) until it came up in conversation about halfway through dinner. In my defence,...
Ben Borgers
Un-figure-out-able Software
over a year ago
Tony Dinh's...
Another 6-figure exit, and the future I sold Xnapper, here is a quick update about the acquisition details
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Healthcare Ideas That Look Good But Are Bad | Out-Of-Pocket clinical trial matching, "find a specialist", and more
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Blog posts of...
How to use Gmail more efficiently I usually I blog about Angellist but I have shown this “lifehack” to so many people that I thought...
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I usually I blog about Angellist but I have shown this “lifehack” to so many people that I thought it’s worth it’s own blogpost...
Jonas Hietala
Black and White Here it is at last! Boasting a unoriginal name, themed Bare Minimum. My thoughts where to create a...
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over a year ago
Here it is at last! Boasting a unoriginal name, themed Bare Minimum. My thoughts where to create a game where graphics where included into the gameplay but sadly it didn’t come out nearly as good as I expected it too. Yes I know there are a lot of things bad and wrong with this...
A Beautiful Site
There's a reason that Bootstrap 3 has ugly buttons It's true. Everyone loves Bootstrap's buttons...at least they did until 3.0 came out. But before you...
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It's true. Everyone loves Bootstrap's buttons...at least they did until 3.0 came out. But before you get upset at @mdo and @fat for what many mistake to be a move towards the anti-skeuomorphic design trend, you should realize there's more than meets the eye behind the decision to...
Lighthouse Blog
How to manually add content to read it later
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On Life and Lisp
Passing the reins on Panfrost Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver. It’s been a wild...
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a year ago
Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver. It’s been a wild ride. In 2017, I began work on the chai driver for Mali T (Midgard). chai would later be merged into Lyude Paul’s and Connor Abbott’s BiOpenly project for Mali G (Bifrost) to form...
bt RSS Feed
CSS Character Unit CSS Character Unit 2019-04-23 When it comes to proper readability with large portions of text, the...
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over a year ago
CSS Character Unit 2019-04-23 When it comes to proper readability with large portions of text, the golden standard is to have no more than 75 characters per line. This is easy to achieve in the world of print but on the responsive, ever-changing web - statically defined...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
For Sale: Used Domain (**Clean Title**) Bryan Braun has an interesting post about his experience with what he calls a “haunted domain”: He...
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Bryan Braun has an interesting post about his experience with what he calls a “haunted domain”: He buys a domain that seems fine on the surface. When he begins using it, he notices some things aren’t right (organic search traffic, for example, is dead). After some investigation,...
Diaries of Note
I long for vigour and clear thought, but only meet with chaos When she wrote the following diary entry, English author, poet, and garden designer Vita...
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When she wrote the following diary entry, English author, poet, and garden designer Vita Sackville-West was 28. Living in Long Barn, Kent, with her husband and fellow writer, Harold Nicolson, she was nearing the end of an intense, two-year romance with Violet Keppel, with whom...
Probably...
What’s a Chartist? Recently I heard the word “chartist” for the first time in my life (that I recall). And then later...
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Recently I heard the word “chartist” for the first time in my life (that I recall). And then later the same day, I heard it again. So that raises two questions: To answer the second question first, it’s someone who supported chartism, which was “a working-class movement for...
Passing Time
Respecting Repose There's a difference between noise and sound.
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Cremieux Recueil
Did Unions End Long Work Hours? Is it growth or organized labor that's more responsible for giving us shorter workdays?
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Platformer
Reddit doubles down Delaying its API changes would benefit everyone — but users have other options, too
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Paul Graham: Essays
Copy What You Like
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TheCollector
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Louwrentius
'Linux: show graphical layout of disk temperatures' graphic, representation To get a visual representation of hard drive temperatures, I wrote a...
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over a year ago
graphic, representation To get a visual representation of hard drive temperatures, I wrote a small script. The output of this script looks like this: This output is tailored to the exact disk lay-out of my storage server. However, it is also usable for other servers. You have to...
Louwrentius
The minimum requirements for a secure system The most secure server system is a system that is not connected to a network and turned off....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The most secure server system is a system that is not connected to a network and turned off. However, little work seems to be getting done this way. So we want to turn systems on and connect them to a network, or even (God forbid) the internet. The thing is this. A system...
Cheese and Biscuits
Baudry Greene, Covent Garden There are few things more important in the success of a restaurant than pedigree. If you are able to...
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8 months ago
There are few things more important in the success of a restaurant than pedigree. If you are able to launch one good restaurant, you're more than likely to be able to make a good go of a second. And then a third, and so on. Well, up to a point. You don't want to spread yourself...
TheCollector
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Maps Mania
The US Heat Risk Map
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African History...
A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD. The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of...
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The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
mtlynch.io
I Regret My $46k Website Redesign Two years ago, I created a website for my business. By combining my terrible design skills with a...
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Two years ago, I created a website for my business. By combining my terrible design skills with a decent-looking template, I created a site that looked okay. I told myself that if the business took off, I’d hire a real designer to make it look professional. TinyPilot website,...
TheCollector
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NeuroLogica Blog
Electronic Noses I am always sniffing around (pun intended) for new and interesting technology, especially anything...
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I am always sniffing around (pun intended) for new and interesting technology, especially anything that I think is currently flying under the radar of public awareness but has the potential to transform our world in some way. I think electronic nose technology fits into this...
TheCollector
The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk undefined
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The Modern House
A television producer on transforming an old student house into a fine family home in Queen’s Park
a year ago
markround.com
A Splinter In Your Mind Earlier this year, I finally discovered as an adult that I am “on the spectrum” with what used to be...
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over a year ago
Earlier this year, I finally discovered as an adult that I am “on the spectrum” with what used to be called Asperger’s Syndrome. The diagnosis helped make sense of a lot things and has given me a greater insight into my “way of being in the world”. Whilst there are times I...
Code Of Honor
The making of Warcraft part 3 The first-ever multiplayer game of Warcraft was a crushing victory, an abject defeat, and a tie, all...
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over a year ago
The first-ever multiplayer game of Warcraft was a crushing victory, an abject defeat, and a tie, all at once. Wait, how is that possible? Well, therein lies a tale. This tale grew organically during the writing to include game AI, the economics of the game business, fog of war...
99% Invisible
For a Dollar and a Dream [EPISODE] Every week, one in eight Americans places a bet on the dream of a life-changing lottery jackpot....
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a year ago
Every week, one in eight Americans places a bet on the dream of a life-changing lottery jackpot. Americans spend more on lottery tickets annually than on video streaming services, concert tickets, books, and movie tickets combined. The story of lotteries in the United States may...
TheCollector
The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession undefined
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Blog System/5
Revisiting the DOS memory models At the beginning of the year, I wrote a bunch of articles on the various tricks DOS played to...
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3 months ago
At the beginning of the year, I wrote a bunch of articles on the various tricks DOS played to overcome the tight memory limits of x86’s real mode. There was one question that came up and remained unanswered: what were the various “models” that the compilers of the day offered?
Maps Mania
A Year of CO2
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GitButler
GitButler is joining the Open Source Pledge GitButler is joining the Open Source Pledge to help move towards a more sustainable open source...
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Noahpinion
Thoughts on techno-optimism What it means to me, and why I support it.
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Rozado’s Visual...
ChatGPT no longer displays a clear left-leaning political bias Update (20/01/2023): Results of administering 15 political orientation tests to ChatGPT Twitter...
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over a year ago
Update (20/01/2023): Results of administering 15 political orientation tests to ChatGPT Twitter Thread Summary Between December 5-6, I applied 4 political orientation tests to ChatGPT. Results were consistent across the tests. All 4 tests diagnosed ChatGPT answers to their...
./techtipsy
The Fedora Linux starter pack: everything you need for a smooth experience I like Fedora Linux. It’s the Linux distro that stopped my habit of distro-hopping. Big deal? Ooh,...
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I like Fedora Linux. It’s the Linux distro that stopped my habit of distro-hopping. Big deal? Ooh, big deal! It’s stable in day-to-day use, ships with up-to-date software, and the software selection is adequate out of the box. It also ships with a fresh Linux kernel version1,...
diamond geezer
Set To Stun The latest exhibition at Gunnersbury Park Museum is called Set To Stun and is all about designing...
a year ago
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a year ago
The latest exhibition at Gunnersbury Park Museum is called Set To Stun and is all about designing and filming sci-fi in West London. A lot of plastic props and alien beings have been created in the boroughs of Ealing and Hounslow, and slightly wider afield, so this is a chance to...
Open Culture
How Marcel Duchamp Signed a Urinal in 1917 & Redefined Art Marcel Duchamp didn’t sign his name on a urinal for lack of ability to create “real” art. In fact,...
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Marcel Duchamp didn’t sign his name on a urinal for lack of ability to create “real” art. In fact, as explained by gallerist-Youtuber James Payne in the new Great Art Explained video above, Duchamp’s grandfather was an artist, as were three of his siblings; he himself attained...
David Heinemeier...
Apple’s new extortion regime to keep big app makers Apple’s recent threat of financial audits for developers who dare link to their own website was a...
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11 months ago
Apple’s recent threat of financial audits for developers who dare link to their own website was a big, revealing moment to a lot of people. Folks who perhaps didn’t think Apple would be “that kind of company”. That they wouldn't so blatantly threaten developers into compliance...
Joel Gascoigne
Treat it as finished * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the most...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the most important differences for me personally in how I’ve run my current startup compared to the last one I founded has been how I treat the product at each stage of the process. With...
TheCollector
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Passing Time
An Ode to Manchester Wall A 19th-century bridge's contribution to climbing culture
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Londonist
Delightful Literary Days Out Near London That All Book Lovers Should Do Immerse yourself in the worlds of famous authors, from Charles Dickens to AA Milne.
a year ago
A Collection of...
Comes the Hiatus, 2024! Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
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Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...