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Piotr Migdał's Blog
Metal bands bring happiness (as chocolate brings Nobel Prizes) Metal bands bring happiness (as chocolate brings Nobel Prizes). But correlation is not causation.
over a year ago
Calculated Risk
Housing Jan 27th Weekly Update: Inventory Up 0.7% Week-over-week, Up 26.5% Year-over-year Altos reports that active single-family inventory was up 1.2% week-over-week. Inventory always...
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Altos reports that active single-family inventory was up 1.2% week-over-week. Inventory always declines seasonally in the Winter and usually bottoms in late January or February. If two weeks ago was the seasonal bottom, that would be very early in the year, but that has...
Noahpinion
Who's "weird"? A campaign insult offers a window into American society in the 2020s.
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Leaderless Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You can send me hatemail, but you have to get...
a year ago
Louwrentius
PPSS version 2.30 now operates asynchronous If you background a bash or shell process, how do you determine if it has finished? Since inter...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you background a bash or shell process, how do you determine if it has finished? Since inter process communication is not possible using shell scripts, people often refer to while loops or other polling mechanisms to determine if some process has stopped. However, the one...
Letters of Note
It is only a matter of time On September 12th of 2011, the New York Times published an article by Dr. Abigail Zuger in which she...
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On September 12th of 2011, the New York Times published an article by Dr. Abigail Zuger in which she criticised certain supposedly unrealistic aspects of Contagion, Steven Soderbergh’s recently released and widely lauded thriller in which a deadly pandemic sweeps the globe. In...
Old Structures...
Before Iron The photo above, from the NYPL digital archive, shows South William Street (AKA a block from our...
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a year ago
The photo above, from the NYPL digital archive, shows South William Street (AKA a block from our office) in the mid-1860s. We’re looking at, from left to right 9, 11, 13, 15, and 17 South William. Here’s a roughly similar view in 2014 (not current because there is now scaffolding...
Left To Write
Some Sh*tty Career Advice From A Professional Gambler Asymmetric betting, skill acquisition and daring to be different
over a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Philosophy and Children Event: THIS Saturday
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
User Feedback I was listening to ShopTalkShow #544 where Dave mentions his craving for frank, almost brutal, user...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was listening to ShopTalkShow #544 where Dave mentions his craving for frank, almost brutal, user feedback on the app they’re building (Luro) and it reminded me of something I wanted to write down. At a previous gig, we hired a head of user research who helped formalize and...
The American Scholar
The Challenge The post The Challenge appeared first on The American Scholar.
a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
A Spy Satellite You’ve Never Heard of Helped Win the Cold War In the early 1970s, the Cold War had reached a particularly frigid moment, and U.S. military and...
7 months ago
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In the early 1970s, the Cold War had reached a particularly frigid moment, and U.S. military and intelligence officials had a problem. The Soviet Navy was becoming a global maritime threat—and the United States did not have a global ocean-surveillance capability. Adding to the...
Matt Mullenweg
Status Quo I wrote over on WordPress.org about breaking the status quo with a Joost/Karim fork. It’s a perfect...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I wrote over on WordPress.org about breaking the status quo with a Joost/Karim fork. It’s a perfect time as Automattic is re-focusing its work while the legal stuff is going on.
Flashbak
Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
Neil Madden
Is Datalog a good language for authorization? Datalog is a logic programming language, based on Prolog, which is seeing something of a resurgence...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Datalog is a logic programming language, based on Prolog, which is seeing something of a resurgence in interest in recent years. In particular, several recent approaches to authorization (working out who can do what) have used Datalog as the logical basis for access control...
Yazin Alirhayim
Braindump Been having a hard time lately focusing. It’s like whenever I start doing anything of any...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Been having a hard time lately focusing. It’s like whenever I start doing anything of any significance I get derailed, and fall into this spiral of thought where I reconsider whether what I’m about to do matters, why it would, and whether I could be doing something else that...
The American Scholar
Such People The post Such People appeared first on The American Scholar.
7 months ago
Yale E360
Lightning Kills 320 Million Trees Yearly. With Warming, the Toll Could Rise A new study finds that lightning kills some 320 million trees around the world each year, more than...
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a month ago
A new study finds that lightning kills some 320 million trees around the world each year, more than was previously thought. And that figure could rise in the decades ahead as increasingly hot and humid weather fuels more lightning, particularly in forested parts of the Far...
99% Invisible
Nuts and Bolts [EPISODE] In her new book Nuts and Bolts Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way),...
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In her new book Nuts and Bolts Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way), structural engineer Roma Agrawal identifies and examines the seven of most basic building blocks of engineering that have shaped the modern world: the nail, the wheel, the spring, the...
mtlynch.io
End-to-End Testing Web Apps: The Painless Way Okay, I know you’re skeptical. Other guides have promised you painless web app tests only to reveal...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Okay, I know you’re skeptical. Other guides have promised you painless web app tests only to reveal that their solution requires some hyper-specific tech stack or a paid third-party service. I won’t do that to you. This guide provides a straightforward and flexible template for...
The Honest Broker
Substack Has Changed in the Last 30 Days The people who hate us now love us—should we be worried?
3 months ago
The American Scholar
“The Imaginary Iceberg” by Elizabeth Bishop Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “The Imaginary Iceberg” by Elizabeth Bishop appeared first on...
a year ago
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a year ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “The Imaginary Iceberg” by Elizabeth Bishop appeared first on The American Scholar.
Dan Quach Blog
Personal Newsletter 2023 Q1 Loss and Distance For the past couple of months, my Facebook usage has started to diminish. In the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Loss and Distance For the past couple of months, my Facebook usage has started to diminish. In the past, I used to post quite a bit, and I dare say probably 10 years ago to the point of oversharing. It seems to me that the popularity of Facebook has been dropping in my network to...
Blog - Bitfield...
Things fall apart The night is dark and full of errors—and durable Rust software is not only ready for them, but...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
The night is dark and full of errors—and durable Rust software is not only ready for them, but handles them sensibly. Let’s see how, by returning to our line-counter project.
Artificial Ignorance
What AI models really think about politics Exploring the political biases of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok.
10 months ago
Archinect - Features
Where You Should and Should Not Use AI When Hiring As artificial intelligence begins to play a more prominent role in how firms hire, we break down...
3 months ago
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As artificial intelligence begins to play a more prominent role in how firms hire, we break down where AI can improve efficiency in the way architects create job ads, manage communication, and understand regulations. In contrast, we also detail areas of the hiring process where...
Overcoming Bias
Status Marker Polls In an attempt to learn more about status, I asked some polls comparing status markers.
4 months ago
Adventures In...
Inner Glow Effect for Polygons in ArcGIS Online Sure, there’s a glorious drop shadow effect in the ever-more-capable ArcGIS Online Map Viewer to...
5 months ago
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Sure, there’s a glorious drop shadow effect in the ever-more-capable ArcGIS Online Map Viewer to give features a sweet glow, BUT there’s no inner glow effect. How do we cast that beautiful glow inward? I’ll admit that I’ve been stumped by this one for longer than I care to admit,...
The Ruffian
Do You Wear the Mask or Does the Mask Wear you? Novak Djokovic, Boris Johnson, and the Art of Creating a Professional Persona
a year ago
Benny Kuriakose
Paliam Nalukettu: A Glimpse into a Matrilineal Society In the small town of Chendamangalam in Paravur, Kerala, is the Paliam Nalukettu, which is located...
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In the small town of Chendamangalam in Paravur, Kerala, is the Paliam Nalukettu, which is located within the Paliam complex. Benny...
csvbase blog
Client libraries are better when they have no API fsspec is secretly everywhere, and boss
a year ago
The American Scholar
Amy Wetsch Life, magnified The post Amy Wetsch appeared first on The American Scholar.
8 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Situazioni di collusione
over a year ago
On Life and Lisp
Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end In 2020, Apple released the M1 with a custom GPU. We got to work reverse-engineering the hardware...
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In 2020, Apple released the M1 with a custom GPU. We got to work reverse-engineering the hardware and porting Linux. Today, you can run Linux on a range of M1 and M2 Macs, with almost all hardware working: wireless, audio, and full graphics acceleration. Our story begins in...
PostHog's RSS Feed
PostHog raises $15 million Series B for open source product analytics Jun 10th, 2021 – PostHog , the open source product analytics company, today announced $15 million...
over a year ago
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Jun 10th, 2021 – PostHog , the open source product analytics company, today announced $15 million in fresh funding and major new free features for…
Londonist
Five Wonderful New Pubs That (Re)Opened In London This Year It's not all doom and gloom in the world of boozers.
a week ago
Common Edge
Hope and Squalor: Venezuelan Refugees at Chicago Police Stations Nearly 3000 people are living in tents and inside police facilities.
a year ago
alexwlchan
Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line Recently I’ve been trying to create a local archive of my bookmarked web pages. I already have tools...
a year ago
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Recently I’ve been trying to create a local archive of my bookmarked web pages. I already have tools to take screenshots, and I love them as a way to take quick snapshots and skim the history of a site, but bitmap images aren’t a great archival representation of a website. What...
Retail Design Blog
Conglong restaurant by Studio8 Architects Located in the historic district of Nanjing, China, CONGLONG is a wagyu hot pot restaurant designed...
2 months ago
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Located in the historic district of Nanjing, China, CONGLONG is a wagyu hot pot restaurant designed by Studio8 Architects. Drawing...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Transcendence Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If a man transcends in the woods, and nobody hears...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If a man transcends in the woods, and nobody hears him, should he make a sound? Today's News:
Left To Write
#12 Writemas: All The Pieces of You There’s a quote by Jorge Luis Borges I came across that I think about a lot. It goes like this: “I...
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There’s a quote by Jorge Luis Borges I came across that I think about a lot. It goes like this: “I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
Fonts In Use – Blog...
Sega logo (1976–present) Contributed by Stephen Coles Source: segaretro.org License: All Rights Reserved. The Sega logo...
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Contributed by Stephen Coles Source: segaretro.org License: All Rights Reserved. The Sega logo used since 1976, in its official color for the Japanese market. Source: segaretro.org Image: Scarred Sun. License: All Rights Reserved. Sega logo used from the late 1950s to...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Optimize for not breaking up with your co-founder Last week we had an offsite in the beautiful Portuguese countryside, an hour's bus journey from...
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Last week we had an offsite in the beautiful Portuguese countryside, an hour's bus journey from Porto. We uploaded a highlight reel of the retreat to…
Retail Design Blog
Day and Night Park by CATS In late 2022, the independent bookstore Jetlag Books, based in Beijing, approached us with a...
a year ago
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In late 2022, the independent bookstore Jetlag Books, based in Beijing, approached us with a collaboration opportunity with the Swire...
journal – Winnie Lim
questioning the prevailing narratives on reading The Dawn of Everything
a week ago
Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Follow vs. Block In the beginning, you followed someone to see their content in your feed. Now, you block someone to...
a year ago
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a year ago
In the beginning, you followed someone to see their content in your feed. Now, you block someone to remove them from your feed. That’s the price of an endless algorithmic feed designed to keep you in-app or on-platform, entertained, and eventually (if not already) monetized. A...
Old Structures...
Gaudy This scrapbook clipping is listed as 1895 to 1945. The presence of the entrance kiosk for the City...
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This scrapbook clipping is listed as 1895 to 1945. The presence of the entrance kiosk for the City Hall subway stop means it’s after 1904. I’m not sure if the Municipal Building (built 1909 to 1914) would be visible from this angle or would be off the left side of the frame; the...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Right Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: God then says he's glad they remain...
8 months ago
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
2025-06-21 Sat: Thoughts on C/C++ killer There are several programming languages that are “better C/C++”: zig, odin, jai, D. The problem is...
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There are several programming languages that are “better C/C++”: zig, odin, jai, D. The problem is adoption: it’s hard to break from all the code already written in C/C++. It’s too expensive to rewrite large code bases in new language. My idea on how to improve adoption: perfect...
Society's Backend:...
OpenAI’s Blunder is a Loss for the ML Community The timeline and why OpenAI’s actions are a big deal
a year ago