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TheCollector
Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century undefined
11 months ago
Aaron's Essays
Things that aren't progress A few months ago, I wrote about things that look like work, but aren't. As I paid more attention to...
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over a year ago
A few months ago, I wrote about things that look like work, but aren't. As I paid more attention to founders doing these things, I started thinking about why they were happening. I realized that the behaviors were largely a function of bad goal setting. When founders choose bad...
Anecdotal Evidence
'He Liked to Hold Ideas Up to the Light' The single most influential book in my life, the one that with time altered the way I think, not...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
The single most influential book in my life, the one that with time altered the way I think, not just what I think, is Guy’s Davenport’s The Geography of the Imagination (North Point Press, 1981). I bought it that year in a lesbian bookstore in Manhattan. Over the previous decade...
TheCollector
The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany undefined
a year ago
Product Identity
Narratives of business models A meditation on the identity of business models and what can be learned from Telegram
10 months ago
Diaries of Note
ABBEY ROAD On the morning of 8th August 1969, as a policeman held back traffic, all four members of the Beatles...
a year ago
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a year ago
On the morning of 8th August 1969, as a policeman held back traffic, all four members of the Beatles made their way across a zebra crossing outside EMI Studios in London. As they walked in line, one after the other, with a ten minute window in which to get the job done,...
diamond geezer
Freshwater fish quiz Freshwater fish quiz (quiz complete... all answers now in the comments box) 1) roost 2) plump 3)...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Freshwater fish quiz (quiz complete... all answers now in the comments box) 1) roost 2) plump 3) long spear 4) below tenor 5) director Ken 6) former Sussex MP 7) Surrey MP     8) vehicle (quiet) 9) phone company (large) 10) 10 swiss 11) 60 secs at present 12) 500 + 1 13) 1000...
Louwrentius
Linux RAID 6 performance using software RAID So after toying around with RAID 0 just for fun, time to get serious. I created a RAID 6 of 10 x 1...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So after toying around with RAID 0 just for fun, time to get serious. I created a RAID 6 of 10 x 1 TB disks. This gives me raw device read speeds of 850 MB/s and write speeds of 300 MB/s. I think this is exactly what should be expected, but boy it is damn fast. Especially the...
Anecdotal Evidence
'One Is Always at Home in One’s Past' I will quote the writer who has given me more pleasure – “aesthetic bliss” he called it – than any...
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8 months ago
I will quote the writer who has given me more pleasure – “aesthetic bliss” he called it – than any other and whose birthday we observed earlier this week: “One is always at home in one’s past.” That might serve as a gloss on his autobiography, Speak, Memory, in which he writes at...
Folklore.org:...
First day with the Macintosh team Rod Holt, who remember every technical detail in the world, forgot he hired me
a year ago
Sean Carroll
What I Look for in Podcast Guests People often suggest guests to appear on Mindscape — which I very much appreciate! Several of my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
People often suggest guests to appear on Mindscape — which I very much appreciate! Several of my best conversations were with people I had never heard of before they were effectively suggested by someone. Suggestions could be made here (in comments below), or on the subreddit, or...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Southern Heat, Part 7 (Hill Country) The extended road trip finally arrived at its western terminus in the Texas Hill Country. This also...
a year ago
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a year ago
The extended road trip finally arrived at its western terminus in the Texas Hill Country. This also marked my first visit to Burnet County, a rural locale situated northwest of Austin. Locals pronounce it something like BURN-it, and that’s how it felt as the mercury hit 103°...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Remote job sites need a "Timezone overlap" filter There are plenty of remote jobs out there, but nearly all require you to be be “within n hours” of a...
a year ago
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a year ago
There are plenty of remote jobs out there, but nearly all require you to be be “within n hours” of a timezone. (n often seems to be 2). But I have not come across a remote job site that has a filter that supports this. Most allow you to choose your timezone and then filter jobs...
The Works in...
History is in the making It's technology and ideas, not politics, that change our lives the most. History should reflect...
3 weeks ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'And Now We Shall Never, Never See Her Again' Ian Donaldson begins his 2011 biography of Ben Jonson not with the poet’s birth nor even his death...
a year ago
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a year ago
Ian Donaldson begins his 2011 biography of Ben Jonson not with the poet’s birth nor even his death but with his interment in Westminster Abbey. Though a popular playwright during his lifetime, Jonson died in poverty and was buried vertically in order to consume less valuable real...
Identity Designed
Atypical Designed by Behalf, Saigon.
over a year ago
Making software...
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the process of setting up Fathom PRO on Netlify, I figured it made sense to create a similar tutorial for the "Lite" variation, self-hosted on DigitalOcean. Please note that while I...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - New Word Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Genuinely ashamed how much time was wasted on...
7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Third World War Has Been Cancelled. It was all too difficult, finally.
5 months ago
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware June 2024 The Ware for June 2024 is a hash board from an Antminer S19 generation bitcoin miner, with the top...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
The Ware for June 2024 is a hash board from an Antminer S19 generation bitcoin miner, with the top side heatsinks removed. I’ll give the prize to Alex, for the thoughtful details related in the comments. Congrats, email me for your prize! I chose this portion of the miner to...
Seth's Blog
Amazon Smile gets a frown I’m pretty sure how the first meetings went almost a decade ago: “Well, we’re paying our affiliates...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’m pretty sure how the first meetings went almost a decade ago: “Well, we’re paying our affiliates 5% for referrals. If we pay charities a tenth of that and call it a donation, it’ll be great PR and we’ll also make a profit on every sale because we won’t need to pay a full...
TheCollector
7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know undefined
11 months ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Advanced Promise Coordination: Rate Limiting In the previous post we learnt to serialize and concurrecy-limit promise-based operations in js....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In the previous post we learnt to serialize and concurrecy-limit promise-based operations in js. This time we dive further and handle rate limiting. What Exactly to Rate Limit Let's get terminological matters out of the way first. Promises represent operations that last a certain...
Making software...
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist 2021-11-03 This is my personal opinion. Please leave...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist 2021-11-03 This is my personal opinion. Please leave your pitchforks at the door... I love CSS. I can spend hours deep diving into a website's CSS system and never find myself getting bored. It's pretty amazing to see the problems...
Rest of World -...
Why African governments must prioritize affordable internet and smartphones Lacina Koné of Smart Africa discusses the continent’s digital transformation and potential.
a year ago
RhysTranter.com
A New Role at St David’s Catholic College, Cardiff I have just started a new role as a pastoral tutor at St David's Catholic College in Cardiff. Over...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have just started a new role as a pastoral tutor at St David's Catholic College in Cardiff. Over the last two years I have been looking for a secure full-time job that would allow me to draw on my teaching skills and experience, while also offering an opportunity to serve my...
Irrational...
Lessons not worth learning. A few weeks ago I had a call with a startup founder who was frustrated with their team. The team...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A few weeks ago I had a call with a startup founder who was frustrated with their team. The team kept getting distracted by interesting work, and was avoiding the most important work to move the business forward. Was it possible to build a team that simply does the important work...
symmetry magazine
Applications of quantum mechanics at the beach How does sunscreen work on the atomic level?
a year ago
Math Is Still...
Even Synthetic Life Forms With a Tiny Genome Can Evolve By watching “minimal” cells regain the fitness they lost, researchers are testing whether a genome...
a year ago
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a year ago
By watching “minimal” cells regain the fitness they lost, researchers are testing whether a genome can be too simple to evolve. The post Even Synthetic Life Forms With a Tiny Genome Can Evolve first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With? undefined
8 months ago
Dan Slimmon
Platform teams don’t need to act like companies Lately you see a lot of software company R&D teams organized around internal products. The Search...
a year ago
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a year ago
Lately you see a lot of software company R&D teams organized around internal products. The Search Team provides a Search service and its “customers” are the teams whose code consumes that service. The Developer Productivity Team’s product is a suite of tools for managing local...
Paul Graham: Essays
Trolls
over a year ago
Alex Meub
Setting Up Free SSL for Static Sites on AWS Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult to get working. For some time now, I’ve been looking for a cheap and easy way to set up SSL for static sites. AWS Certficate Manager I recently discovered AWS Certificate Manager...
Open Culture
You Can Buy Historic Italian Houses for €1 — But What’s the Catch? From Abruzzo to Vergemoli, small Italian towns and villages have recently been making their historic...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
From Abruzzo to Vergemoli, small Italian towns and villages have recently been making their historic homes available for purchase for as low as €1. Given the picturesque nature of many of these places, such offers have proven practically irresistible to foreign buyers who’ve made...
macwright.com
Reverse engineering a day’s worth of websites Some light reverse-engineering of websites has been a source of entertainment and knowledge for me....
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Some light reverse-engineering of websites has been a source of entertainment and knowledge for me. I’ll poke around in the Chrome DevTools and figure out the basics of how popular websites work. Sure, it’s common to compress JavaScript and other resources, and the HTML source of...
TheCollector
10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times undefined
2 weeks ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
What to Do in South Lake Tahoe, California
a year ago
TheCollector
The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes undefined
10 months 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...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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...
The Ruffian
Creativity Needs Stupidity How artists think and unthink
6 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
9 Reasons to Visit This Underrated SoCal Town
2 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
Who’s Winning the AI War? All of us, except the AI startups and VCs—unless a real war breaks out
11 months ago
Maps Mania
The Book Banning Map of America
3 months ago
./techtipsy
Accidentally turning the ASRock DeskMini X300 into a semi-passively cooled PC After playing around with fan curves on my ASRock DeskMini X300 based home server, I noticed one...
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over a year ago
After playing around with fan curves on my ASRock DeskMini X300 based home server, I noticed one interesting thing. At least it was interesting to me. Background I had one goal: to try to see if I could turn it into a semi-passive PC by only turning the fan on when the PC was...
TheCollector
What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life? undefined
a year ago
Max Rozen
How to choose a median result when running Google Lighthouse multiple times Running Google Lighthouse five times will half the variability of your test results. So how do you...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Running Google Lighthouse five times will half the variability of your test results. So how do you figure out which run is the median?
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Frank Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I read a lot of Perry Bible Fellowship, desperately...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I read a lot of Perry Bible Fellowship, desperately afraid that somewhere I'd amnesia-stolen this script. Today's News:
Louwrentius
Solaris is an obsolete platform Assuming that the rumor is true and OpenSolaris will be slain by Oracle, we must conclude that the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Assuming that the rumor is true and OpenSolaris will be slain by Oracle, we must conclude that the Solaris operating system is obsolete. Solaris can be considered legacy. Sun was a hardware shop and to sell their hardware, they needed a great operating system. Sun had a great...
Archinect - Features
'Architecture Education as an Active Project': A Conversation with Mariana Ibañez, Chair of... Academic leaders have the demanding task of steering and shaping a school's culture and pedagogy....
a year ago
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a year ago
Academic leaders have the demanding task of steering and shaping a school's culture and pedagogy. Not only are they responsible for overseeing an institution's administrative affairs, but they are also charged with fostering environments for students and faculty to thrive. Since...
African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom. government in central Africa.
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
My 2022 New Mac Setup I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
over a year ago
The Forney Flyer
Nineteen Years of Joy, and Counting! Nineteen years ago today, I married my best friend, Joy.  One year later our first child was...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Nineteen years ago today, I married my best friend, Joy.  One year later our first child was born... ... and well before his first birthday, we were commissioned by our church to head to the mission field. That was 17 years ago, and we've spent the vast majority of our...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Facebook’s response to Yahoo’s patent lawsuit Like many in tech, I believe all software patents should be abolished. That said, I think Facebook...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Like many in tech, I believe all software patents should be abolished. That said, I think Facebook made the right move by filing a lawsuit…
symmetry magazine
Rap with an undercurrent of particle physics UK musician Consensus spins the big ideas of physics into rap and hip-hop tracks.
a year ago
Daniel Marino
My First Sketch Plugin and What I Learned I’ve been Adobe Illustrator free for almost six months now, and what I miss most about it are some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been Adobe Illustrator free for almost six months now, and what I miss most about it are some of the nice effects it ships with. I love Sketch, but I don’t think these effects will ever make their way into Sketch. Sketch does have the ability to add plugins, and I’ve always...
99% Invisible
Medellin, Revisited [EPISODE] Back in the 1980s, Medellín, Colombia was in the middle of a full-blown crisis. 30 years ago, this...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Back in the 1980s, Medellín, Colombia was in the middle of a full-blown crisis. 30 years ago, this was the murder capital of the world. Pablo Escobar’s notorious Medellín Cartel was waging a bloody drug war right on the city’s streets. For Medellín’s residents, the threat of...
Paul Graham: Essays
The Future of Web Startups
over a year ago
Flashbak
Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story “For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway   You might...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway   You might have heard that Ernest Hemingway wrote a six-word short story in response to a $10 bet that so few words could make the reader cry. Hemingway won with: “For sale: Baby shoes. Never...
Louwrentius
The 'hidden' cost of using ZFS for your home NAS Introduction Update December 2023: In June, it was announced that iXsystems would sponsor...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction Update December 2023: In June, it was announced that iXsystems would sponsor implementing the VDEV expansion feature. A new pr has been created for this effort. The feature was merged into the code base, but may not be available to the general public before the end...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Soulmate Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Today's News:
10 months ago
David Heinemeier...
Meta is shutting down Workplace The saying "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" is at its essence about risk management. The...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
The saying "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" is at its essence about risk management. The traditional wisdom goes that if you buy from a big company, you're going to be safe. It may be more expensive, but big companies project an image of stability and reliability, so buying...
Seth's Blog
Drama at work A divo (or diva) is an opera singer with skill. Sometimes, though, that skill comes in a package...
a year ago
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a year ago
A divo (or diva) is an opera singer with skill. Sometimes, though, that skill comes in a package that also includes imperiousness, skittishness and a fair amount of unpredictable drama. It’s tempting to imagine that CEOs, painters or poets that bring the noise must also have...
Londonist
What's Happening With London Housing, Rent And Development? November 2023 Our quickfire summary of bricks and mortar, steel and glass.
a year ago
diamond geezer
100 tuts and a sigh 100 tuts and a sigh beside the litter bin? Why is your basket on wheels completely blocking the...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
100 tuts and a sigh beside the litter bin? Why is your basket on wheels completely blocking the aisle? Why did you set the ringer on your phone to maximum volume? Who rotated the Cyclists Beware sign so traffic can't read it? Why has nobody rotated the sign back to where it...
Renegade Otter
Getting our focus back “We was robbed…” Attention is arguably the most precious resource of the 21st century. Technology...
a year ago
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a year ago
“We was robbed…” Attention is arguably the most precious resource of the 21st century. Technology companies have expended incredible efforts to improve the ways in which they capture our attention and convert it into revenue. That fight for the nine unmonetized glances. An...
Maps Mania
The Coldest Day of the Year
3 days ago
Retail Design Blog
FENDI shop-in-shop Hankyu Men‘s arguably is Osaka‘s high-end fashion central, and it’s no surprise many a luxury brand...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Hankyu Men‘s arguably is Osaka‘s high-end fashion central, and it’s no surprise many a luxury brand goes the extra yard...
Seth's Blog
“What will I tell my boss?” If you can’t answer that six-word question, you’re selling a commodity. Organizations don’t buy...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
If you can’t answer that six-word question, you’re selling a commodity. Organizations don’t buy things, people do. And people at companies aren’t spending their own money, so this is the only question on the table. A cogent story, based on affiliation and status, one that sees...
TheCollector
Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy undefined
5 months ago
Willem's Blog
Half Marathon Discover my journey from noob to (half) marathon finisher and how I balanced data with fitness -...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Discover my journey from noob to (half) marathon finisher and how I balanced data with fitness - read about my experiences!
Common Edge
Let’s Stop Using the Terms ‘Traditional’ and ‘Modern’ By now, the terms are arbitrary and confusing.
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
It’s easier to forgive a human than a robot One of the reasons I think AI is going to have a hard time taking over all our driving duties, our...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
One of the reasons I think AI is going to have a hard time taking over all our driving duties, our medical care, or even just our customer support interactions, is that being as good as a human isn’t good enough for a robot. They need to be computer good. That is, virtually...
Classical Wisdom
Rituals and Religion Belief in the Ancient World
a year ago
Platformer
13 predictions for platforms in 2023 Twitter! ChatGPT! Content moderation! And more
over a year ago
Eukaryote Writes...
Defending against hypothetical moon life during Apollo 11 This is how a completely abstract argument about alien germs was taken seriously and mitigated at...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
This is how a completely abstract argument about alien germs was taken seriously and mitigated at great effort and expense during the 1969 Apollo landing.
Willem's Blog
Repairing a Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP Reparing an old Nintendo Gameboy Advance to play classic Zelda again.
over a year ago
TheCollector
Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e undefined
5 months ago
Common Edge
What Is Sacred Architecture in an Increasingly Secular Time? Is it space or the people who animate it?
10 months ago
Map of the Week
Where Your Christmas Tree Comes From A recent map on maps.com (an Esri run map site) by Joshua Stevens shows where Christmas trees are...
a year ago
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a year ago
A recent map on maps.com (an Esri run map site) by Joshua Stevens shows where Christmas trees are grown. The data is from the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Each tree shaped spike represents a county. The most significant areas are in Oregon and North Carolina. If you click on...
the singularity is...
A Person of Compute We will define one person of compute as 20 PFLOPS (64 A100s, or a single dense 42U A100 rack). We...
a year ago
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a year ago
We will define one person of compute as 20 PFLOPS (64 A100s, or a single dense 42U A100 rack). We are in the era of the 1 rack person, consuming about 30kW to provide those 20 PFLOPS. LLaMA was trained on a cluster of 2048 A100s, with ~312 TFLOPS each. 2048 is currently the...
CONTEMPORIST
A Thatched Roof And Charred Wood Siding Were Used To Create This Modern Home PAX Architects has completed a modern summer house in Skagen, Denmark, whose design pays tribute to...
a year ago
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a year ago
PAX Architects has completed a modern summer house in Skagen, Denmark, whose design pays tribute to the local architecture and history of the town it’s located in. The materials chosen for the home were inspired by the houses built in Skagen’s Black Period, when charred wood from...
Seth's Blog
Change your shoes Like all good metaphors, it might be practical too. Your ‘shoes’ are the point of greatest leverage....
a week ago
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a week ago
Like all good metaphors, it might be practical too. Your ‘shoes’ are the point of greatest leverage. The spot where you have traction and engage with the world most directly. For a freelancer, it might be the way you engage with customers, or your software tools. It might be the...
nanoscale views
APS March Meeting 2024, Day 3 My highlights today are a bit thin, because I was fortunate enough to spend time catching up with...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
My highlights today are a bit thin, because I was fortunate enough to spend time catching up with collaborators and old friends, but here goes: Pedram Roushan from Google gave an interesting talk about noisy intermediate-scale quantum experiments for simulation.  He showed some...
Maps Mania
Historical Sanborn Maps of America
a year ago
Map of the Week
The Southern Underground Railroad This map, via Smithsonian, shows the main passageways that the enslaved took southwards to...
a year ago
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a year ago
This map, via Smithsonian, shows the main passageways that the enslaved took southwards to freedom. The southern Underground Railroad was less traveled and much less well documented, but Mexico after gaining independence passed strong anti-slavery laws. Even before that the...
bt RSS Feed
Installing OpenBSD on Linveo KVM VPS Installing OpenBSD on Linveo KVM VPS 2024-10-21 I recently came across an amazing deal for a VPS on...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Installing OpenBSD on Linveo KVM VPS 2024-10-21 I recently came across an amazing deal for a VPS on Linveo. For just $15 a year they provide: AMD KVM 1GB 1024 MB RAM 1 CPU Core 25 GB NVMe SSD 2000 GB Bandwidth It’s a pretty great deal and I suggest you look more into it if you’re...
Londonist
The BT Tower Is Becoming A Hotel Iconic building sold for £275m.
10 months ago
Making software...
Proper UI Hierarchy Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and how designers these days have lost (or willfully forgotten) the skill to create accessible UIs with proper visual hierarchy. A skill which at it's core seems so simple - yet is...
Citation Needed
Follow the Crypto FollowTheCrypto.org: A new project to track cryptocurrency industry spending to influence 2024...
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5 months ago
FollowTheCrypto.org: A new project to track cryptocurrency industry spending to influence 2024 elections in the United States.
African History...
The pyramids of ancient Nubia and Meroe: death on the Nile and the mortuary architecture of Kush a complete history of an African monument
a year ago
Remains of the Day
Status as a Service (StaaS) Editor's Note 1: I have no editor. Editor’s Note 2: I would like to assure new subscribers to this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Editor's Note 1: I have no editor. Editor’s Note 2: I would like to assure new subscribers to this blog that most my posts are not as long as this one. Or as long as my previous one. My long break from posting here means that this piece is a collection of what would’ve normally...
Rest of World -...
23 Rest of World stories that defined 2023 This year, Rest of World published around 500 articles from more than 50 countries. Here are our...
12 months ago
Flashbak
Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981 “Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage....
a month ago
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a month ago
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage. Chance brought me together with a crowd of unknowns. It was up to me to parse them out and magnify the moment.” – Joni Sternbach on her pictures of NYC Subway Passengers in the 1970s  ...
Joel Gascoigne
Ways to bootstrap a startup: "working in waves" * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve spent the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve spent the last year and a half after graduating from the University of Warwick juggling working on startups and working as a contract web developer. I’d like to share some of my reflections...
journal – Winnie Lim
learning to be physically stronger After thinking about it for more than three years, I’ve finally signed up for personal training so I...
a year ago
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a year ago
After thinking about it for more than three years, I’ve finally signed up for personal training so I can learn how to strength-train. We start to have muscle loss as we age:...
Herbert Lui
Just do the real thing (again) If you want to get good at something, just start by doing it. Today.  Sam Altman writes an important...
a week ago
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a week ago
If you want to get good at something, just start by doing it. Today.  Sam Altman writes an important reminder on this: don’t outsmart yourself and spend precious time and energy working on fake prerequisites. Here’s an example, from my life, that I write about in Creative Doing:...
Seth's Blog
But it matters a lot to them… To get to the Kebab House Cafe, you’ll need to drive past a dozen fast food restaurants, restaurants...
a year ago
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a year ago
To get to the Kebab House Cafe, you’ll need to drive past a dozen fast food restaurants, restaurants you can find off just about any interstate. It’s certainly less convenient to go a few blocks off the beaten path, but the food and service and vibe might be worth it. The thing...
Flashbak
Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982 Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The...
a year ago
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a year ago
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The band had recently released their fourth album Juju (1981) and were working on their fifth A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982). While other punk bands had imploded, Siouxsie and the...
Retail Design Blog
Baby, it’s cold inside by Pavla Chuykina When it comes to vodka packaging, it’s important to highlight the product’s features and how best to...
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When it comes to vodka packaging, it’s important to highlight the product’s features and how best to enjoy it—like keeping...
Rest of World -...
Why Chinese EV battery manufacturers are flocking to Hungary They are drawn to the country’s access to European automakers, government subsidies, and favorable...
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Never had Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It later turns out that airborne carcinogens slow...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It later turns out that airborne carcinogens slow global warming, so everything is fine. Today's News:
Build In Public...
Build In Public - Community Edition #1 (Aug 2021) Hey everyone 👋 Build In Public is no more just a hot trend, it’s a movement. Thousands of founders,...
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Hey everyone 👋 Build In Public is no more just a hot trend, it’s a movement. Thousands of founders, creators, and builders are embracing the principles and building in public especially on Twitter. On that note, get ready for a quick community round-up highlighting launches and...
A Beautiful Site
A Web Component Story Gather 'round, it's story time. A number of years ago, I was hired by a company to rebuild a...
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over a year ago
Gather 'round, it's story time. A number of years ago, I was hired by a company to rebuild a component library for their design system. The one they were replacing was built with AngularJS, but AngularJS was old and rickety and nobody wanted to use it anymore. Plus, many teams...
Noahpinion
Sizing up the New Axis A repost, more relevant than ever.
3 months ago
Math Is Still...
The Viral Paleontologist Who Unearths Pathogens’ Deep Histories Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer searches museum jars for genetic traces of flu, measles and other...
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Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer searches museum jars for genetic traces of flu, measles and other viruses. Their evolutionary stories can help treat modern outbreaks and prepare for future ones. The post The Viral Paleontologist Who Unearths Pathogens’ Deep Histories...
Tinloof - Blog
Explain Like I'm Five: Headless CMS This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and terms easy to understand. In this post, we explain in a few minutes what Headless CMS is and show you how it's used. So, what is a headless CMS, what are the use cases and...
Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: Politics Yet Again GOP 4channers, more Twitch drama, and a Very Mad Laptop Company
a month ago
The Oatmeal - Comics...
Rise from the deep A comic about Twitter. View on my website
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Looping Through Jekyll Collections Looping Through Jekyll Collections 2022-08-12 I recently needed to add a couple new items to my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Looping Through Jekyll Collections 2022-08-12 I recently needed to add a couple new items to my wife’s personal recipe website (cookingwith.casa) which I hadn’t touched in quite a while. The Jekyll build still worked fine, but I realized I was statically adding each collection by...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Tech Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Somehow it came the week of jokes about...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Somehow it came the week of jokes about dissociating from reality with VR. Today's News:
Math Is Still...
Astronomers Dig Up the Stars That Birthed the Milky Way There once was a cosmic seed that sprouted the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers have discovered its...
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There once was a cosmic seed that sprouted the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers have discovered its last surviving remnants. The post Astronomers Dig Up the Stars That Birthed the Milky Way first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Arduino Blog
Save money by making your own MKR WiFi 1010-powered smart thermostat Go browse your favorite store for a smart thermostat and take a look at the prices. They aren’t...
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Go browse your favorite store for a smart thermostat and take a look at the prices. They aren’t cheap and the more affordable models tend to lock you into proprietary ecosystems. But a decent smart thermostat can save you money on energy costs, so you might want to consider this...
Moneyness
For the first time ever, euro paper money in circulation is shrinking Why is the paper euro shrinking? Are we at peak cash?  To begin with, here is the data,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Why is the paper euro shrinking? Are we at peak cash?  To begin with, here is the data, charted:  As the orange line shows, Europe is experiencing its first year-over-year drop in paper money in circulation.  While it's tempting to attribute this to paper money's declining...
Seth's Blog
A deal’s a deal A fundamental building block of civilization is the understanding that contracts matter. Regardless...
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a year ago
A fundamental building block of civilization is the understanding that contracts matter. Regardless of where someone is on the current political spectrum (from Alinksy to Mises), things can be understood to work better if the boss, the vendor, the client and the freelancer all...
Epic Web Dev
Preparing for a workshop with Kent C. Dodds (tip) Full Stack Workshop Series Volume 1 and enhance your web development skills. Get step-by-step...
a year ago
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a year ago
Full Stack Workshop Series Volume 1 and enhance your web development skills. Get step-by-step instructions, resources, and hands-on exercises to level up.
The Marginalian
An Almanac of Birds: Divinations for Uncertain Days I have found that the surest way of seeing the wondrous in something ordinary, something previously...
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4 months ago
I have found that the surest way of seeing the wondrous in something ordinary, something previously underappreciated, is coming to love someone who loves it. As we enter each other’s worlds in love — whatever its shape or species — we double our way of seeing, broaden our way of...
Blog System/5
Windows NT: Peeking into the cradle A review of "Showstopper!" by G. Pascal Zachary and my own reflections
a year ago
Arduino Blog
This perplexing robotic performer operates under the control of three different Arduino boards Every decade or two, humanity seems to develop a renewed interest in humanoid robots and their...
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2 months ago
Every decade or two, humanity seems to develop a renewed interest in humanoid robots and their potential within our world. Because the practical applications are actually pretty limited (given the high cost), we inevitably begin to consider how those robots might function as...
Londonist
Hello Brain! At The Crick Probes Secrets Of The Mind... With Knitting See the latest brain research while you wait for a train.
9 months ago
Rest of World -...
There is no American Ambani A tale of two tech industries.
9 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Regulatory hacks A common way to think of business regulations is by analogy to sports: the rules are specified up...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A common way to think of business regulations is by analogy to sports: the rules are specified up front, and the players follow the rules…
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
AI Is Like a Lossy JPEG That’s something I’ve heard before — ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web — and it kind of made sense...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
That’s something I’ve heard before — ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web — and it kind of made sense when I read it. But Paul Ford, writing in the Aboard Newsletter, helped it make even more sense in my brain. [AI tools] compress lots and lots of information—text, image, more—in...
Drew Ex Machina
Recollections of NASA’s Apollo 11 Mission Like a lot of kids who grew up during the ‘60s and ‘70s, I had a fascination with spaceflight. This...
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Like a lot of kids who grew up during the ‘60s and ‘70s, I had a fascination with spaceflight. This interest started honestly enough back around […]
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Contribute to Open Source Frameworks One of the best ways to level up in programming is to contribute to a high quality open source...
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One of the best ways to level up in programming is to contribute to a high quality open source project, especially a framework.
Ink & Switch
09 · Version history as chat This prototype mixes a history timeline with a chat-like interface. The result is useful for...
8 months ago
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This prototype mixes a history timeline with a chat-like interface. The result is useful for understanding changes and discussing a work-in-progress document.
High Signal
The best no-code newsletters for founders to read Want to find the best no-code newsletters for learning about what you can build without coding? You...
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Want to find the best no-code newsletters for learning about what you can build without coding? You came to the right place!
Rest of World -...
India’s electric rickshaws are leaving EVs in the dust Little-known e-rickshaw companies like YC Electric are at the forefront of the country’s EV...
8 months ago
blag
Towards Inserting One Billion Rows in SQLite Under A Minute This is a chronicle of my experiment where I set out to insert 1B rows in SQLite
over a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
How A 1940s House Was Renovated Into A Modern Home Architecture firm Wittman Estes has transformed an original house built in the 1940s, located on the...
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11 months ago
Architecture firm Wittman Estes has transformed an original house built in the 1940s, located on the eastern shore of Hood Canal near the Bangor submarine base in Washington State. Due to the complex constraints of the shoreline exemption, the architects kept to the existing...
There are two types...
“Big Real Estate’s Continuing Stranglehold Over New York City” Recently, the Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman wrote in the New York Times about the causes of...
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over a year ago
Recently, the Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman wrote in the New York Times about the causes of unaffordable housing in New York City. He blamed the crisis on a few things, including a powerful financial “monoculture” in the city, NIMBYs, … Continue reading → The post “Big...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Alone Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: God runs a comedy club in heaven and everyone is...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: God runs a comedy club in heaven and everyone is obligated to laugh at his disturbingly alien sense of humor. Today's News: Thanks to everyone who came for BAHFest and congrats to our winner of the Hennig Brand trophy, Esther...
Math Is Still...
Mathematicians Cross the Line to Get to the Point A new paper establishes a long-conjectured bound about the size of the overlap between sets of lines...
a year ago
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a year ago
A new paper establishes a long-conjectured bound about the size of the overlap between sets of lines and points. The post Mathematicians Cross the Line to Get to the Point first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
What Did Adorno Think of Beckett’s Endgame? undefined
a year ago
Nadia Asparouhova
Does meditation experience improve success with the jhanas? Jhanas – a series of altered mental states that are accessed via concentration – are often described...
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Jhanas – a series of altered mental states that are accessed via concentration – are often described as an “advanced meditation practice,” a phrase that suggests that one must be a skilled meditator to access them: just as only a skilled outdoorsman would embark upon an...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, June 2023 The ware for June 2023 is shown below. This ware should be possible to match to an exact model...
a year ago
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a year ago
The ware for June 2023 is shown below. This ware should be possible to match to an exact model number, based on this photo alone — if not simply because in its era there were fewer consumer electronics devices to choose from. I tested the image against Google Image search and...
TheCollector
5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder undefined
2 months ago
Seth's Blog
Survivor bias and the mistake of stability An asteroid has never destroyed the Earth, therefore an asteroid never will. This brand has been...
a year ago
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a year ago
An asteroid has never destroyed the Earth, therefore an asteroid never will. This brand has been involved in scandals before, and it has always come back stronger, so there’s nothing to worry about. There have been technology changes before, but we’ve always managed to find...
Common Edge
In Praise of a Great Mentor: Working With Geoffrey Bawa Life-long lessons from the father of Tropical Modernism.
a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact? undefined
a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
Prevalence in News Media of Two Competing Hypotheses about COVID-19 Origins Published article Quick Twitter summary Introduction As of August 2021, the origins of the...
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over a year ago
Published article Quick Twitter summary Introduction As of August 2021, the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic remain a mystery. This essay summarizes a recent article I published about the prevalence in news media articles of two popular hypotheses...
Seth's Blog
Twenty questions Your next project might feel like a calling, but it’s a choice. A choice that will have an impact on...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Your next project might feel like a calling, but it’s a choice. A choice that will have an impact on each day you spend on it. There are no right answers here, but before you fall in love with a business or an organization, it may pay to think about these and other options that...
Anecdotal Evidence
'He Is Some Twentie Sev’rall Men at Least' Whitman “contained multitudes,” of course, while George Herbert says of a man: “He is some...
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Whitman “contained multitudes,” of course, while George Herbert says of a man: “He is some twentie sev’rall men at least / Each sev’rall houre.” What sounds self-dramatizing in the American simply acknowledges our inconstancy, our fickle nature, in Herbert’s poem “Giddinesse.” In...
Joel Gascoigne
The exercise habit * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * This morning, my...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * This morning, my alarm sounded at precisely 5:50am. Within a few minutes, I was up and had my running shoes, shorts and a t-shirt on. Minutes later at 6am, I opened my MacBook Air, switched to the...
Anecdotal Evidence
'They Fluttered Around Like Blue Snowflakes' As a former newspaper reporter I regularly read three hard-copy newspapers: The Leader, a...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
As a former newspaper reporter I regularly read three hard-copy newspapers: The Leader, a neighborhood weekly here in Houston; the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal; and County Highway. That’s down from thirty years ago when I read seven or eight papers every day (like a...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bio Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: My daughter saw me drawing and asked if it was kid...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: My daughter saw me drawing and asked if it was kid appropriate, and I don't know. Today's News:
Irrational...
How to get more headcount. One of the recurring challenges that teams face is getting headcount to support their initiatives. A...
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a month ago
One of the recurring challenges that teams face is getting headcount to support their initiatives. A similar problem is the idea that a team can’t get a favored project into their roadmap. In both cases, teams often create a story about how clueless executives don’t understand...
David Gerrells
journey before destination It is hard to be focused and motivated when ones eyes are not on the task at hand but rather the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It is hard to be focused and motivated when ones eyes are not on the task at hand but rather the accolades in the future.
Elad Blog
Startup Markets, Summer 2022 Edition About a month ago, I wrote a tweet storm on the changing startup financing and employment...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
About a month ago, I wrote a tweet storm on the changing startup financing and employment environment. This blog captures aspects of that tweet storm and some of its predictions and extends them further. Like all predictions this is what I view as a highly likely scenario versus...
The American Scholar
Riding With Mr. Washington How my great-grandfather invented himself at the end of Reconstruction The post Riding With Mr....
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6 months ago
How my great-grandfather invented himself at the end of Reconstruction The post Riding With Mr. Washington appeared first on The American Scholar.
Diaries of Note
How beautiful that leaf was, so simple in its death Jiddu Krishnamurti was an Indian philosopher and spiritual leader who spent much of his adult life...
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a year ago
Jiddu Krishnamurti was an Indian philosopher and spiritual leader who spent much of his adult life teaching and sharing his insights on self-awareness, freedom from conditioning, and the importance of living in the present moment. He traveled the world, engaging in dialogues with...
swyx's site RSS Feed
8 Landing Page Tips from Rob Hope I submitted my book's landing page for Rob Hope's review and he obliged! Brutal feedback incoming.
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
32do Younghee Café and Restaurant by stof. + FFFAAARRR A new multi-dining space has opened in Seminyak, one of the most vibrant areas in Bali, Indonesia....
4 months ago
diamond geezer
Trafalgar Square TRAFALGAR SQUARE £240   London's Monopoly Streets TRAFALGAR SQUARE Colour group: red Purchase...
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TRAFALGAR SQUARE £240   London's Monopoly Streets TRAFALGAR SQUARE Colour group: red Purchase price: £240 Rent: £20 Area: 3 acres Borough: Westminster Postcode: WC2 four streets on the Monopoly board (all the pinks plus Strand) and is also a property in its own right. I've...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Why Denmark and Finland Are Must-Visits for Foodies
4 months ago
Arduino Blog
This frighteningly realistic animatronic head features expressive silicone skin The human face is remarkably complex, with 43 different muscles contorting the skin in all kinds of...
a week ago
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a week ago
The human face is remarkably complex, with 43 different muscles contorting the skin in all kinds of ways. Some of that is utilitarian — your jaw muscles are good for chewing, after all. But a lot of it seems to be the result of evolution giving us fantastic non-verbal...
diamond geezer
Victoria vents in Islington One thing every underground railway needs is ventilation and the Victoria line needs it more than...
a year ago
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a year ago
One thing every underground railway needs is ventilation and the Victoria line needs it more than most. It runs fully underground from end to end and has lengthy distances between stations, so without atmospheric release would soon come unstuck. Engineers therefore had to include...
Charles Chen
Cheap and Easy Way to Scrape Sites for LLM Processing If you need to extract text from websites to feed into LLMs, this easy solution will get you started...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you need to extract text from websites to feed into LLMs, this easy solution will get you started with just a few lines of code.
The Modern House
Harriet Verney on her camp interiors and life within a converted Bible factory in Dalston
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Clusivity Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is literally the funniest clusivity joke ever...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is literally the funniest clusivity joke ever created. Today's News: Another double update thanks to this stupid book I wrote that people keep preordering.
ntietz.com blog -...
Supporting coworkers, employees, and friends in this time We should always be supporting each other, but it feels particularly important right now. An...
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a month ago
We should always be supporting each other, but it feels particularly important right now. An election just finished in the US, which means that half the country lost and has to face the coming changes. In particular, this is a scary time for many folks who have been targets in...
Notes on software...
Checking linearizability in Go You want to check for strict consistency (linearizability) for your project but you don't want to...
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a month ago
You want to check for strict consistency (linearizability) for your project but you don't want to have to deal with the JVM. Porcupine, used by a number of real-world systems like etcd and TiDB, has you covered! Importantly, neither Jepsen projects nor Porcupine can...
Unfiltered by Tim...
11 Decisions I'm Making At 38 To Avoid Regret At 58 The future you is formed by every small decision you make today, not luck or fate
2 weeks ago
ntietz.com blog
RSA is deceptively simple (and fun) While reading Real-World Cryptography, I came across the "million message attack". This is an attack...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
While reading Real-World Cryptography, I came across the "million message attack". This is an attack that Daniel Bleichenbacher demonstrated in 1998, which effectively broke RSA with a particular encoding function called PKCS #1. It was only mentioned briefly, so I dug in and...
This Space
39 Books: 2007 When I chose the book for 2007, the constraint of the 39 Books series presented a problem: how can I...
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7 months ago
When I chose the book for 2007, the constraint of the 39 Books series presented a problem: how can I write about a 350-page novel last read 17 years ago without taking several days to reread it? Answer: not at all, so I started reading. What good fortune! How well Hugo Wilcken...
TheCollector
6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages undefined
7 months ago
Math Is Still...
Will Better Superconductors Transform the World? Scientists are pursuing materials that can conduct electricity with perfect efficiency under ambient...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Scientists are pursuing materials that can conduct electricity with perfect efficiency under ambient conditions. In this episode, the physicist Siddharth Shanker Saxena tells co-host Janna Levin about what makes this hunt so difficult and consequential. The post Will...
Notes on software...
How do databases execute expressions? Databases are fun. They sit at the confluence of Computer Science topics that might otherwise not...
a year ago
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a year ago
Databases are fun. They sit at the confluence of Computer Science topics that might otherwise not seem practical in life as a developer. For example, every database with a query language is also a programming language implementation of some caliber. That doesn't include all...
Josh Collinsworth
This isn't the Time, But it's the Perfect Time; Goodbye, Instagram …Lately, I’ve been wondering whether I can actually continue supporting Instagram and the company...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
…Lately, I’ve been wondering whether I can actually continue supporting Instagram and the company behind it, however passively or at whatever seemingly insignificant scale. And while I was zeroing in on this answer anyway, the events of the last couple of weeks have clearly...
A Smart Bear
How annual pre-pay creates an infinite marketing budget Dozens of founders have used this technique to transform the cash-flow of their businesses. Now it's...
5 months ago
Wanderingspace
Mars Express is Still Making Great Images 20 Years Later Mars Express was launched by the European Space Agency in 2003, and is ESA’s first Mars mission. In...
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3 months ago
Mars Express was launched by the European Space Agency in 2003, and is ESA’s first Mars mission. In one shot, you can see Mars as a half-lit disk, with Phobos, its tiny moon, hovering above. Right below Phobos is Olympus Mons, the solar system's largest volcano, towering 22 km...
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
TheCollector
Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily undefined
8 months ago
Wuthering...
Books I read in March 2024 - Literature was a game of pillaging, and this book showed it. A nice little run at Persian literature this month.  And I am reading in Portuguese again,...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
A nice little run at Persian literature this month.  And I am reading in Portuguese again, slowly, slowly. PERSIAN LITERATURE, MOSTLY CLASSICAL Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (1110),  Abolqasem Ferdowsi – See here for notes on this big epic in Dick Davis’s translation. The...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Big Sur-ification of macOS Icons Here’s an example of some icons that transitioned well in the Big Sur-ification of macOS icons: And...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Here’s an example of some icons that transitioned well in the Big Sur-ification of macOS icons: And just for good measure, here’s a few more — I love this stuff. While some apps made this transition fun (and further infused their brand with character), others did not. They did...
The Modern House
‘I go to bed thinking about it’: why Tate Modern director Frances Morris returns to her childhood... Where does our spirit go when we die? Frances Morris has this question figured out: she will return...
a year ago
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a year ago
Where does our spirit go when we die? Frances Morris has this question figured out: she will return to the home in which she was born, a Georgian house abreast the Meridian Line in Greenwich. Listen to this deeply personal conversation on our podcast, Homing […]
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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a month ago
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...
One Useful Thing
Captain's log: the irreducible weirdness of prompting AIs Also, we have a prompt library!
9 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Farklı ZK-EVM Türleri
over a year 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...
over a year ago
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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...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Taking Your Time, Angel of Death' I like plain speaking when it comes to death. Not needlessly harsh but direct and above all...
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a month ago
I like plain speaking when it comes to death. Not needlessly harsh but direct and above all unvarnished, no flowers, closer to a coroner’s report than a greeting card. A well-meaning reader has sent belated condolences for my brother’s death in August without once using any of...
Willem's Blog
Creating a minimal road bike I wondered how hard it would be to make a bike from spare parts I had in my garage
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Fun Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm like 4 comics away from the Clown Book. Today's...
a year ago
Stephen Diehl
The Political Case for a Blanket Cryptocurrency Ban
over a year ago
Alex Meub
Building the DataToaster 3000 Last summer, I was inspired by a computer that was built inside of a toaster that I saw at a local...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Last summer, I was inspired by a computer that was built inside of a toaster that I saw at a local computer recycling store. The idea of a computer with the design of a home appliance was really appealing and so was the absurdity of it. It occurred to me that this would be a fun...
Home on Erik...
Annoy Annoy is a simple package to find approximate nearest neighbors (ANN) that I just put on Github. I'm...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Annoy is a simple package to find approximate nearest neighbors (ANN) that I just put on Github. I'm not trying to compete with existing packages, but Annoy has a couple of features that makes it pretty useful.
balajis.com
The Network State Book A new book on starting new countries. Available on Kindle and for free at thenetworkstate.com.
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A new book on starting new countries. Available on Kindle and for free at thenetworkstate.com.
ntietz.com blog
Licensing can be joyful (and legally dubious) Software licenses are a reflection of our values. How you choose to license a piece of software says...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Software licenses are a reflection of our values. How you choose to license a piece of software says a lot about what you want to achieve with it. Do you want to reach the maximum amount of users? Do you want to ensure future versions remain free and open source? Do you want to...
TheCollector
U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific? undefined
6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
a year ago
Arduino Blog
Easily add Python-controlled GPIO pins to any computer Let’s say that, hypothetically, you wanted to use your computer to blink an LED or read the state of...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Let’s say that, hypothetically, you wanted to use your computer to blink an LED or read the state of a button. Could you? Almost certainly not — at least not without additional hardware. Most modern computers don’t provide any interface for direct interaction with low-level...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Man of My Kidney' I met my nephrologist for the first time when we shared an elevator to his office on the fourth...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I met my nephrologist for the first time when we shared an elevator to his office on the fourth floor of the hospital. Between patients he was eating a banana, his breakfast, and carried a stack of folders in his other hand. On the front of his white lab coat was his name, the...
The Marginalian
Sundogs and the Sacred Geometry of Wonder: The Science of the Atmospheric Phenomenon That Inspired... Notes on the eternal dialogue between art and science in our yearning to know reality.
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dthompson
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I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.5.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile that is built on top of SDL2 and OpenGL. Chickadee aims to provide all the features that parenthetically inclined game developers need to make 2D and 3D games in...
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I’m trying to make better use of my local public library. I want to read more books, and borrowing from the library keeps the habit sustainable. It also saves a fair bit of money, and I don’t have to decide what to do with books when I’m done. Recently, I built a tool to help me...
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In Part 2 I discussed the server environment, as well as how I built and launched the first prototype version of the site. I hit some speedbumps along the way and quickly reached the limits of what I could do with a pure client-only 1980s BASIC codebase. In this part, I’ll look...
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I started using Github Copilot a month or two ago for my personal projects. I can’t say that it’s been a net positive. There are more than a handful of problems that make me slower: Sometimes it suggests a closing quote or paren that isn’t needed. Removing the duplicate character...
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My recommendation: 9/10 More details and reviews on Amazon The advice in this book is timeless! No wonder why this book has taken its well-deserved place in the best-ever investment books. The main premise is investing in the companies we know of and believe its value at. Not...
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Some of the most enticing, important metrics are impossible to measure, even after the fact. Here's now to identify and avoid this trap.
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[a note to a frustrated friend, just starting out on a long career] There are three reasons that our goals might not be achieved. In order of palatability, they are: Perhaps the goals are too lofty, too based on chance, unlikely for anyone to achieve, surrounded by barriers that...
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You're not allowed inside the Duomo with your shoulders uncovered. We learned this the hard way. I was wearing a spaghetti strap dress (it's 92℉/33℃ and humid here in Milan), so they stopped my little group at the entrance, after we'd already purchased 3 tickets. Luckily, we...
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The printmaker and illustrator Paul Catherall uses linocuts to represent iconic British landmarks. His current exhibition ‘Sent from Coventry’ is a collection of prints that highlight and record the groundbreaking post-war buildings in Coventry – Paul’s hometown – which, at the...
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2024/05/30 The Review Is the Action Item I like to consider running an incident review to be its own action item. Other follow-ups emerging from it are a plus, but the point is to learn from incidents, and the review gives room for that to happen. This is not surprising advice if...
Unpacked
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In recent times, Twitter has been through a roller coaster of events. What started with Elon Musk's turbulent acquisition has now been followed up by a series of controversial product decisions. To list a few: Twitter limited the number of daily tweets
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The ESP32 camera is the cheapest microcontroller with a built-in camera that you can buy. The OV2640 sensor has a max resolution of 1600x1200, but sometimes you don't need the entire image.In this post I'll show how to crop the images on the ESP32 itself, before sending it of to...
Old Structures...
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Early on in the movie Bull Durham, a character going to a baseball game walks from the dark underside of the stadium – where the stairs, bathrooms, and food concessions are – through one of the tunnels to the seats. The camera follows and, if you’ve ever been to stadium, the...
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by Bob Cymber Most Stoics are aware of the famous "Dichotomy of Control." In this view, there are things that are directly under our influence and things that are not directly under our influence (although those who know about modern Stoic William Irvine’s commentary realize that...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Despite being linked from SMBC, I'm told the show is family-friendly. Today's News: Or click here!
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Exploring Coffee and Architecture With These Ten Mesmerizing Cafes October 1st marks International Coffee Day, and to celebrate, we explore exceptional projects that...
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October 1st marks International Coffee Day, and to celebrate, we explore exceptional projects that exemplify the distinctive attributes and meticulous design considerations behind a diverse array of cafes across the globe.
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Using gomarkdown/markdown library This article describes an advanced markdown processing in Go using gomarkdown/markdown library. All the code examples are available at https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/tree/master/examples Basics first Here’s a good...
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Like many others working in software testing, and more specifically in automation, I have been introduced to the concept of the test automation pyramid early on in my career. While this model has received its share of criticism in the testing community over the years, I still use...
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I came late to the poet Henri Coulette, long after his death in 1988 at age sixty, and promptly fell for his charms. Chief among them are elegance, technical virtuosity, wit and devotion to his native turf, Southern California. Like one of his favorite writers, Raymond Chandler,...
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Everyone is selfish. We do things that increase our chances of survival, help us achieve our goals and give us a story we can tell ourselves about our role in the community. But short-term selfish is something we try to grow out of. Short-term selfish runs a red light because...
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Mark Twain famously quipped that “80 percent of life is showing up.” Running a startup, I’d say it’s more like 90 percent. For example, I…
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Here are a few flavors of a technique, illumination cartography, that uses data to shed light on its underlying basemap. There’s something satisfying about presenting a phenomenon as revealing geography rather than obscuring it. Love, John
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This is a bit of a false choice – we can do both, or neither – but it is an important question and a somewhat of a dilemma. Is the optimal path to reductions and eventual elimination of fossil fuel burning through reduced demand or supply? There are some interesting tradeoffs...
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Way back when, I made a cool but basic paper sculpture (in Maths is Fun and Useful) by hand, using a perl script for the shape template. For cultural reasons, I wanted to make a gift out of paper and it had to be Heaps Good. I had finally got access to a laser cutter (omgomg)...
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Style over Substance
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Just a quick link: Some person build basically the same setup, including identical controller, providing 28 TB of storage: Take a look here The main difference is that this person uses 1.5 TB disk, thus achieving more storage.
Passing Time
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Seth's Blog
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We can tell from the words. “I’m just doing my job.” “Will this be on the test?” “Don’t blame me.” “It’s what everyone else is wearing.” Keep your head down, do what you’re told, don’t stick your neck out, and most of all, pay attention to what everyone else is doing. All of this...
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When calculating dates in PHP, it is easy to add millisecond values such as 60 * 60 * 24 to increment the time by one day. This can become problematic for two main reasons. Issues with leap years # A year has approximately 365.25 days, hence a leap year occurs once every four...
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This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique for the non-destructive inspection of chips. Previously, I discussed the process of designing the IRIS light source in some detail, as well as...
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