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99% Invisible
Rocket Man [EPISODE] In the twentieth century, the jetpack became synonymous with the idea of a ‘futuristic society.’...
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In the twentieth century, the jetpack became synonymous with the idea of a ‘futuristic society.’ Appearing in cartoons and magazines, it felt like a matter of time before people could ride a jetpack to work. But jetpacks never became a mainstream technology, leaving many to...
Maps Mania
Mapping the U.S. Electoral Divide
a month 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....
5 months ago
Retail Design Blog
The White Company Office x Millennium Contracts Commissioned by Household, Millennium Contracts had the opportunity to transform The White Company’s...
a month ago
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a month ago
Commissioned by Household, Millennium Contracts had the opportunity to transform The White Company’s 32,000 sq ft office based in Shepherd’s...
Math Is Still...
The Hidden Connection That Changed Number Theory Quadratic reciprocity lurks around many corners in mathematics. By proving it, number theorists...
a year ago
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a year ago
Quadratic reciprocity lurks around many corners in mathematics. By proving it, number theorists reimagined their whole field. The post The Hidden Connection That Changed Number Theory first appeared on Quanta Magazine
diamond geezer
A quiz Mystery quiz Suggestions and answers in the comments box please. one suggestion and one guess each,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Mystery quiz Suggestions and answers in the comments box please. one suggestion and one guess each, thanks.   1) aftermaths 2) arrow 3) banter 4) braindamaged 5) cheering 6) commensuration 7) condor 8) dance 9) eely 10) embryo 11) feline   12) genial 13) hamlet 14) hearing 15)...
Passing Time
Reconsidering Reading While it may feel good to be able to say you've read something, that doesn’t mean it’s the most...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
While it may feel good to be able to say you've read something, that doesn’t mean it’s the most effective way to learn.
TheCollector
Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum undefined
a year ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Out-Of-Pocket’s 2025 Predictions | Out-Of-Pocket I’m like 50% right every year, I just never know which 50%
2 weeks ago
AVC
Sleep I got an Oura ring a couple of years ago and have been working on improving my sleep and sleep...
a year ago
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a year ago
I got an Oura ring a couple of years ago and have been working on improving my sleep and sleep habits ever since. For much of my adult life, I have been a poor sleeper. I have always been able to fall asleep quickly, but I have been plagued by two sleep issues. The first […]
TheCollector
What Was the Kido Butai? undefined
11 months ago
Maps Mania
A Bird's Eye View of America
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Follow Up Following up and following through is a well known formula for success. Yet people don't do it. Why?
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Following up and following through is a well known formula for success. Yet people don't do it. Why?
The Last...
Product Review: Panasonic PT AX200U (Hipsters On Food Stamps Part 3) but how will you afford a steak? Part 2 here Three questions, open book: 1.  Did Hipster...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
but how will you afford a steak? Part 2 here Three questions, open book: 1.  Did Hipster Gerry get his money's worth from the University of Chicago, either $100k in future income or knowledge?  No. 2. Did society get their money's worth in sending him, i.e. by...
The Ruffian
How to process news of the Israel-Hamas conflict A guide for the ignorant and perplexed like me
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Particle/Wave Duality Theory of Knowledge Learning is *BOTH* a discrete and a continuous process. If the tools we use don't respect this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Learning is *BOTH* a discrete and a continuous process. If the tools we use don't respect this duality, information is lost — either writing involves too much effort, or reading requires too much context.
One Useful Thing
Detecting the Secret Cyborgs The AI Trap for Organizations
a year ago
Seth's Blog
The hard parts (and the important parts) The hard parts of what you do all day can feel fraught. It’s heavy lifting. Emergencies. Dangerous...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
The hard parts of what you do all day can feel fraught. It’s heavy lifting. Emergencies. Dangerous labor. The stakes are high and the work can be difficult. The important parts of what you do all day are valuable to someone else. This is what you’re getting paid for–solving a...
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Five It’s hard to believe that five years have already gone by since RevenueCat’s inception. In a matter...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s hard to believe that five years have already gone by since RevenueCat’s inception. In a matter of weeks, RevenueCat will become the company where I have worked the longest in my career. As Jason Lemkin says, it’s important to continuously reinvent the company and oneself...
The American Scholar
Ho Ho Horror Why not make this Christmas a little darker? The post Ho Ho Horror appeared first on The American...
a week ago
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a week ago
Why not make this Christmas a little darker? The post Ho Ho Horror appeared first on The American Scholar.
Maps Mania
AI Satellite Search
5 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow? undefined
a month ago
Applied Cartography
Why your marketing site should be separate In Notes on buttondown.com and How Buttondown uses HAProxy, I outlined the slightly kludgy way we...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
In Notes on buttondown.com and How Buttondown uses HAProxy, I outlined the slightly kludgy way we serve buttondown.com both as a marketing site (public-facing, Next/Vercel, largely just content pushed by non-developers) and an author-facing app (behind a login, Django/Heroku/Vue)...
The Marginalian
Look Up: The Illustrated Story of Astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, Who Laid the Groundwork for... How a brilliant woman rose against the tide of her time to fathom the mysteries of space.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Interview with a Bus Rescheduler An interview with Liam Fennell, TfL Bus Rescheduler DG: Hi Liam, tell us what you do. Liam: Hi, I'm...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
An interview with Liam Fennell, TfL Bus Rescheduler DG: Hi Liam, tell us what you do. Liam: Hi, I'm the guy who slows the buses down. DG: I've always wondered who that was. Liam: It's quite a responsibility! DG: So how does that work? Liam: You know when you're on a bus, pootling...
Rest of World -...
Why Silicon Valley’s biggest AI developers are hiring poets Training data companies are grabbing writers of fiction, drama, poetry, and also general humanities...
a year ago
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a year ago
Training data companies are grabbing writers of fiction, drama, poetry, and also general humanities experts to improve AI creative writing.
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire? undefined
a year ago
Left To Write
#10 Writemas: Uncovering High Agency Talent I’ve met many people in my adult life who are so much more intelligent than I am. But most of them...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve met many people in my adult life who are so much more intelligent than I am. But most of them have ended up in well-paid corporate roles. Now, there’s nothing wrong with doing a 9 to 5. These corporate companies are needed, but whenever I walk away from conversations with...
Common Edge
Contemporary Architecture and the Modern City Americans don’t like modern buildings because they don’t like the modern city.
4 months ago
Spoon & Tamago
Tamiya’s New Plamodel Factory in Tokyo is a Model Maker’s Paradise Photos by Daici Ano and Tomoyuki Kusunose, courtesy Torafu Architects Tamiya, perhaps the most...
5 months ago
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Photos by Daici Ano and Tomoyuki Kusunose, courtesy Torafu Architects Tamiya, perhaps the most recognized brand name in the modeling industry, recently opened a new flagship facility in the Shimbashi Toranomon area of Tokyo. Dubbed the Tamiya Plamodel Factory, the shiny new...
Arduino Blog
A riddle wrapped in an enigma… made easy, with Arduino Plug and Make Kit The Arduino Plug and Make Kit was designed to open up infinite possibilities, breaking down the idea...
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a month ago
The Arduino Plug and Make Kit was designed to open up infinite possibilities, breaking down the idea that technology is a “black box” reserved for experts. With its snap-together system, this kit gives everyone – beginners and seasoned makers alike – the power to create and...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Powering a blog with Notion and Netlify The last iteration of this blog was a Go program running on Digital Ocean’s cheapest VM...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The last iteration of this blog was a Go program running on Digital Ocean’s cheapest VM ($5/month). Recently I’ve made 2 big changes: I converted it to a static site hosted on Netlify I used Notion for writing the posts instead of writing markdown files in a text editor Moving to...
journal – Winnie Lim
gyeongju, the city of beautiful tombs Spent a few days in gyeongju. I knew there were going to be tombs, but what I didn’t expect was them...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Spent a few days in gyeongju. I knew there were going to be tombs, but what I didn’t expect was them to be everywhere, not just concentrated in one area. I didn’t...
Trying to Understand...
Bringing It All Back Home If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
Matt Mazur
Looking to sell Emergent Mind I currently have two products: Preceden, a SaaS timeline maker, and Emergent Mind, an AI news site...
a year ago
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a year ago
I currently have two products: Preceden, a SaaS timeline maker, and Emergent Mind, an AI news site and newsletter. Emergent Mind began last December as LearnGPT, a ChatGPT examples site, and I later renamed it to Emergent Mind and transitioned it the news site that it is today:...
History Today Feed
The Death of Einhard the Historian The Death of Einhard the Historian JamesHoare Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
9 months ago
bt RSS Feed
New Domain and Code Forge New Domain and Code Forge 2024-01-29 As you can clearly see, my site’s domain has switched over to...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
New Domain and Code Forge 2024-01-29 As you can clearly see, my site’s domain has switched over to btxx.org. This post will go into details about the reason for this URL swap (spoilers: I’m a cheapskate) - but that isn’t all. I have moved my personal git repositories over to my...
diamond geezer
Wyncham Stream THE UNLOST RIVERS OF LONDON Wyncham Stream Chislehurst → Longlands → Blackfen (2½ miles) Eight...
a year ago
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a year ago
THE UNLOST RIVERS OF LONDON Wyncham Stream Chislehurst → Longlands → Blackfen (2½ miles) Eight years ago when I walked the River Shuttle, a proper unlost river, I apologised that I wouldn't be walking its tributary the Wyncham Stream. It's only a mile long, I said, and only...
./techtipsy
Testing GPU passthrough on AMD Ryzen 7 5700G APU Introduction Before we jump into all the nitty-gritty details, I’d like to go over what we are...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction Before we jump into all the nitty-gritty details, I’d like to go over what we are dealing with here since these topics may be unfamiliar to you. VFIO is quite a niche topic and not everyone knows about it. GPU passthrough: the process of allowing a VM...
computers are bad
2023-04-10 solving problems with chatgpt One of the foundational goals of computer technology, at least as understood by popular culture, is...
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One of the foundational goals of computer technology, at least as understood by popular culture, is to automate away our jobs. When your job is (put simply) to get computers to work correctly, there's sort of an irony to this view of things. Still, just within the span of my...
A Beautiful Site
Design Systems Are An Investment It's hard to put a value on a design system. It's a lot easier to add up the costs of said design...
a year ago
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a year ago
It's hard to put a value on a design system. It's a lot easier to add up the costs of said design system, especially in terms of salaries and development time. It's even easier to target a design system as the thing that's holding up a product from getting delivered. The truth...
nanoscale views
A few quick highlights It's been a very busy time, hence my lower posting frequency.  It was rather intense trying to...
a year ago
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a year ago
It's been a very busy time, hence my lower posting frequency.  It was rather intense trying to attend both the KITP conference and the morning sessions of the DOE experimental condensed matter PI meeting (pdf of agenda here).  A few quick highlights that I thought were...
Retail Design Blog
Padel 1.8.5 by Salto Studio A warehouse. Eight courts. Five sculptural objects. A disused industrial warehouse is transformed...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
A warehouse. Eight courts. Five sculptural objects. A disused industrial warehouse is transformed into a boutique padel club, providing sophisticated...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The internet is reshaping our economy from one of huge corporations with lots of jobs to huge... From Innovation and the Bell Labs Miracle in today NYTimes: Innovation is an important new product...
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Software The build continues, now in a little more familiar territory. Firmware flashing To flash the...
a year ago
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a year ago
The build continues, now in a little more familiar territory. Firmware flashing To flash the firmware I had to order a microSD card reader. With that on hand the flashing wasn’t difficult. The VORON docs walks you through the installation very well. Mainsail I chose to install...
Louwrentius
1.0 GB/s using Linux software RAID I filled the Norco case with hardware. It is now up and running, based on Debian Linux (Lenny). I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I filled the Norco case with hardware. It is now up and running, based on Debian Linux (Lenny). I immediately performed some initial tests with software RAID 0. The results are just astounding. debian:~# dd if=/dev/md0 of=/dev/null bs=1M count=50000 50000+0 records in 50000+0...
TheCollector
A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy undefined
6 months ago
TokyoDev
Facebook is Japan's LinkedIn A couple of weeks back, an article [Facebook Wins Relatively Few...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A couple of weeks back, an article [Facebook Wins Relatively Few Friends in Japan](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/10/technology/10facebook.html?pagewanted=all) made its rounds. As usual, Facebook is compared to the big three Japanese SNS: mixi, Gree, and Mobage-town. However,...
Old Structures...
Different Types of Commercial Use From 1880, a view of Broadway looking north from Morris Street to Trinity Church. Given how deserted...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
From 1880, a view of Broadway looking north from Morris Street to Trinity Church. Given how deserted it is, it’s either early in the morning on a weekend or a holiday. Wm. M Fleiss & Co, on the left, is at 47 Broadway. Broadway is lined with office and loft buildings which are...
Neil Panchal
Quantum Lorem Ipsum I got tired of Lorem Ipsum text and created Quantum Lorem Ipsum, now with 100% more physics jargon!...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I got tired of Lorem Ipsum text and created Quantum Lorem Ipsum, now with 100% more physics jargon! To those who are not familiar, Lorem Ipsum is a piece of latin text, comprised of multiple paragraphs, that is used as a placeholder during the design process of building a page
AFAR Media - Travel...
In-Depth Review of the Dorchester in London
a year ago
FIRE v London
Jan ’23: Mr Market defuses my tax bombshell January is always a miserable month to be in London. Thankfully I managed to get away a bit during...
a year ago
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a year ago
January is always a miserable month to be in London. Thankfully I managed to get away a bit during the month (not to Davos, no), and enjoy myself in London despite the wintry weather. What you’re paying for in Mayfair these days Market movements in January The markets on the...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The Internet is for snacking Web products have followed a steady evolutionary path from the compound to the atomic. Today’s...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Web products have followed a steady evolutionary path from the compound to the atomic. Today’s popular social sites are spin outs of…
Tech and Tea
I spent my morning talking to an AI chatbot A tech "late-adopter" plays around with chat-gpt and other chatbots and is blown away by some use...
a year ago
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a year ago
A tech "late-adopter" plays around with chat-gpt and other chatbots and is blown away by some use cases and underwhelmed by others.
Classical Wisdom
5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome Ode to the Giants
8 months 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...
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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...
Cremieux Recueil
Evaluating a Sitting Senator's Healthcare Claims If you're a public official who wants to to use numbers, use correct numbers, and if you're going to...
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If you're a public official who wants to to use numbers, use correct numbers, and if you're going to speculate, try not so speculate wildly, lest you end up telling brazen lies to the American people
abdz.do - Have you...
Sherwin-Williams by Laundry Sherwin-Williams by Laundry abduzeedo0210—23 Sherwin-Williams,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Sherwin-Williams by Laundry abduzeedo0210—23 Sherwin-Williams, the renowned paint and coatings company, has recently released its latest marketing campaign, and it is a true feast for the eyes. Directed by ECD Jayson Whitmore, these spots are a...
Math Is Still...
The Brainstem Fine-Tunes Inflammation Throughout the Body The evolutionarily ancient part of the brain that controls breathing and heart rate also regulates...
6 months ago
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The evolutionarily ancient part of the brain that controls breathing and heart rate also regulates the immune system — a discovery about the brain-body axis made by experts on taste. The post The Brainstem Fine-Tunes Inflammation Throughout the Body first appeared on...
Londonist
The Docklands Gym Where Muslim Women Are Toughening Up And Feeling Empowered "I used to be a couch potato, but now I love coming here"
a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Ripples in Spacetime It’s always exciting when a scientific institution announces that they are going to make an...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s always exciting when a scientific institution announces that they are going to make an announcement. Earlier this week we were told that there was going to be a major announcement today (June 29th) regarding a gravitational wave discovery. The goal of the pre-announcement is...
The Modern House
How to better the design of your bathroom for a brighter future
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Range and Liveliness of Poetry' I heard from a high-school classmate who remembered the time in A.P. English our senior year when...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I heard from a high-school classmate who remembered the time in A.P. English our senior year when the teacher had us form small groups, select a poem and prepare a discussion. At my suggestion, our group picked “The Groundhog” (1934) by Richard Eberhart (1904-2005). Note its...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Nerve Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: And don't even start in on liquor-cake. Today's...
4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband Should you meet your heroes?
7 months ago
Old Structures...
A Sometimes Disagreeable Foreign Land, Part 1 My off-hand comment yesterday about a Baedeker guide made me think that I should look to see what a...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
My off-hand comment yesterday about a Baedeker guide made me think that I should look to see what a nineteenth-century European guidebook had to say about New York and I was not disappointed. The guidebooks put out by the Baedecker company since the 1830s are famous for their...
Many Worlds
The Makeup of Red Dwarf Solar Systems May Seriously Limit the Formation of Habitable Planets Jupiter is often described as the “big brother” planet of our solar system that made the formation...
a year ago
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a year ago
Jupiter is often described as the “big brother” planet of our solar system that made the formation and evolution of Earth possible. In the early days of the solar system, massive Jupiter helped the planet grow rapidly while serving as a gravity well that shielded the planet from...
David Heinemeier...
Wonderful Rails World Vibes I totally understand how programming conferences end up being held in a drab Sheraton hotel...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I totally understand how programming conferences end up being held in a drab Sheraton hotel somewhere to save money. It's expensive to outfit a cool venue with the gear and operations needed to pull off a great experience for speakers, sponsors, and attendees. And while the cost...
CONTEMPORIST
A Green Roof Covers The Pool House At This New Home Robert Young Architects has shared photos of a home they designed in Hither Hills, a rolling...
a year ago
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a year ago
Robert Young Architects has shared photos of a home they designed in Hither Hills, a rolling topography of dunes between Montauk and Amagansett, New York, for a family that wanted a year-round retreat. Located on a steep site, the home features multiple levels, a swimming pool,...
diamond geezer
Building churches on housing estates When did they stop building churches on housing estates? Time was when even the smallest village...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
When did they stop building churches on housing estates? Time was when even the smallest village had a church, such was the domination of religion in our society. As towns and suburbs grew they too were always built with churches, often of multiple denominations, these an...
TheCollector
What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy) undefined
2 months ago
Tinker, Tamper,...
KY-040 Rotary Encoder with Linux on the Raspberry Pi For a project I with a Raspberry Pi (Zero W) needed a simple and easy input device to change a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For a project I with a Raspberry Pi (Zero W) needed a simple and easy input device to change a numerical value. So I bought some rotary encoders off Amazon.If you search the Internet for information/tutorials on how to use a “KY-040” rotary encoder with Linux and the Raspberry...
Common Edge
The Enduring Legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright Why we still care, almost seven decades after his death.
3 months ago
Blog System/5
Windows NT: Peeking into the cradle A review of "Showstopper!" by G. Pascal Zachary and my own reflections
a year ago
Londonist
Origin Of The Faeces: Massive Animal Poo Collection Drops In Kingston This show's going to make a splash.
a year ago
Grow With Less
Journorequest: The Little-Known Twitter Hashtag That Will Help You Get Quality Backlinks If you have ever tried to do outreach to build backlinks, you know how frustrating the process can...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you have ever tried to do outreach to build backlinks, you know how frustrating the process can be. You spend hours looking for the right people to reach out to, crafting your outreach emails and finally send them, already picturing yourself receiving a ton of quality...
Roberto's blog
Decision matrices as a thinking tool Some decisions require comparing multiple options where it’s not immediately apparent which is best....
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Some decisions require comparing multiple options where it’s not immediately apparent which is best. One common way of doing that is to list the pros and cons of each option. For example, option A lists low latency as a pro, while option B lists high throughput as a pro. But do...
Julia Evans
Some Git poll results A new thing I’ve been trying while writing this Git zine is doing a bunch of polls on Mastodon to...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
A new thing I’ve been trying while writing this Git zine is doing a bunch of polls on Mastodon to learn about: which git commands/workflows people use (like “do you use merge or rebase more?” or “do you put your current git branch in your shell prompt?”) what kinds of problems...
anderegg.ca
Maybe Bluesky has “won” November has sucked so far. One upside of the terrible nonsense is that more people are fleeing X....
a month ago
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a month ago
November has sucked so far. One upside of the terrible nonsense is that more people are fleeing X. Many are choosing Bluesky. I’ve seen a bunch of takes about this recently, but I keep seeing things I disagree with. I figure that’s a good enough excuse to write more about this...
The Wandering...
Mapping Francis Younghusband in the Gobi Desert, 1887, Part 4: from the Ya-hu oasis to Hami. [Back to Part 3: from the Hun-kua-ling sandhills to the Ya-hu oasis] From Ya-Hu to Hami, we can see...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
[Back to Part 3: from the Hun-kua-ling sandhills to the Ya-hu oasis] From Ya-Hu to Hami, we can see that Younghusband now has to turn south, as his own map shows. The journey takes from June 23rd to July 4th, or twelve days. His mapmaker places Ula Khutun almost halfway from...
./techtipsy
Overcoming hardware limitations: the time-to-sleep script As some of you might own, I’m still rocking a ThinkPad T430, a laptop model originally released in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As some of you might own, I’m still rocking a ThinkPad T430, a laptop model originally released in 2012. It’s not the fastest laptop out there, but it is plenty fast for a number of tasks, even most software development work. I also try to keep my machines up to date and properly...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker Round-Up 2024! It has been another incredible year of printmaking inspiration. We've put together a round-up of all...
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3 weeks ago
It has been another incredible year of printmaking inspiration. We've put together a round-up of all our fantastic Meet the Maker artists from 2024, alongside their advice or inspiration for other printmakers. Read through for a wholesome dose of printmaking magic, and click...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Why I cancelled my Replit subscription <![CDATA[I cancelled my annual Replit Hacker plan and I'll let it lapse at the end of December of...
a year ago
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a year ago
<![CDATA[I cancelled my annual Replit Hacker plan and I'll let it lapse at the end of December of 2023. Replit is a popular and growing multi language development environment in the cloud. I've been subscribing to the Hacker plan for the past few years and it worked well for my...
Ryan Mulligan
A Horizontal Scroll List and Custom Keyboard Navigation Getting started It was time for a personal site refresh. I didn't plan much for this next iteration,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Getting started It was time for a personal site refresh. I didn't plan much for this next iteration, but I knew I wanted to include a showcase of my CodePen projects. With so many to choose from, it was tough deciding on how I'd ultimately like to visibly display project content....
AFAR Media - Travel...
21 Must-Try Michelin-Star Restaurants in Monaco
8 months ago
Ruud van Asseldonk
Exceptional results: error handling with C# and Rust
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Telling mechanize how to find local issuer certificates I was doing some work on my library lookup tool recently, and I ran into an issue with mechanize,...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was doing some work on my library lookup tool recently, and I ran into an issue with mechanize, the Python library I use to simulate a web browser. I’d upgraded my version of Python and mechanize, and now I wasn’t able to connect to HTTPS sites. If I tried a simple...
A Smart Bear
In its emptiness, there is the function of a startup Everything about a startup changes over time. The few things that don't, are its essence. The voyage...
a year ago
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a year ago
Everything about a startup changes over time. The few things that don't, are its essence. The voyage is meaningless, unless you decide what those things are.
Steve Klabnik
An introduction to economics under capitalism
over a year ago
TheCollector
Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks undefined
3 months ago
Confessions of a...
Live Session: CPython and ELF Essentials for Building a Basic Remote Profiler Learn some CPython internals, ELF file format and loading, and how remote profilers work
7 months ago
nanoscale views
Strategic planning + departmental reviews It's been a while since I've written a post about the ways of academia, so I thought it might be...
a year ago
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a year ago
It's been a while since I've written a post about the ways of academia, so I thought it might be time, though it's not exactly glamorous or exciting.  There are certain cycles in research universities, and two interrelated ones are the cycle of departmental strategic planning and...
Notes on software...
SMTP protocol basics from scratch in Go: receiving email from Gmail I've never run my own mail server before. Before today I had no clue how email worked under the hood...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've never run my own mail server before. Before today I had no clue how email worked under the hood other than the very few times I've set up mail clients. I've heard no few times how hard it is to send mail from a self-hosted server (because of spam filters). But how hard can...
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National Gallery 200 The National Gallery first threw open its doors 200 years ago today. It wasn't in Trafalgar Square...
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The National Gallery first threw open its doors 200 years ago today. It wasn't in Trafalgar Square at the time, that hadn't been built yet, but at 100 Pall Mall in a dead banker's townhouse. Here John Julius Angerstein's small collection of Old Masters was displayed, slowly...
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What I’ve Been Reading This post is a list of books that I read in the first quarter of 2024, most notably The Diary of...
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This post is a list of books that I read in the first quarter of 2024, most notably The Diary of Anne Frank, Endurance, Crime and Punishment, and the Iliad.
diamond geezer
Not the Metropolitan line extension Eight years ago the Metropolitan line extension to Watford Junction was cancelled when the incoming...
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Eight years ago the Metropolitan line extension to Watford Junction was cancelled when the incoming Mayor chose to ditch the outgoing Mayor's underfunded project. The people of London barely noticed - they had no desperate need to go to west Watford and the money saved went on...
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Inside Discord’s reform movement for banned users Most platforms ban their trolls forever. Discord wants to rehabilitate them
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The Office Bell Ringer At my company, it’s a tradition to say “ring the bell” when we sign a new customer, release a new...
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At my company, it’s a tradition to say “ring the bell” when we sign a new customer, release a new feature or receive other positive news, big or small. When we hear the large bell ring in the center of the office, we know that something good just happened. It’s been a great way...
Luxagraf:...
Second Spring Driving 1,800 miles north in a week was like stepping back in time. Spring came and went in Florida...
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Driving 1,800 miles north in a week was like stepping back in time. Spring came and went in Florida back in early March, by the time we left Florida was well into summer, whatever the calendar might have said. Here in Washburn though spring had barely arrived. The night we got...
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A Map Of Westminster Place Names And Where They Come From From Maida Vale to Covent Garden.
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Luxagraf:...
Mobile Bay We maxed out our time at Fort Pickens. After six weeks, it was time to move on. We had planned to go...
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We maxed out our time at Fort Pickens. After six weeks, it was time to move on. We had planned to go to New Orleans, and then up into the Ozarks, before heading back up to Wisconsin for the summer, but given how mild the winter turned out to be, we decided to press north sooner...
Code Of Honor
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I feel fortunate to have been part of Blizzard Entertainment when it started, now over thirty years ago. I got to work with amazing people; make games players loved; and learn a lot about design, programming, and business along the way. Some of those lessons were hard-earned, as...
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6 thoughts on "Elon Musk" by Walter Isaacson Including the Twitter deal, SpaceX's "Idiot Index", the manufacturing "algorithm", management style...
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Including the Twitter deal, SpaceX's "Idiot Index", the manufacturing "algorithm", management style and Big Tech beefs (Bill Gates, Larry Page, Jeff Bezos).
Archinect - Features
Are Architectural Workers More Pessimistic About the Economy Than Firm Owners? In our recent analysis of the Archinect Business Survey published last month, we observed a distinct...
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In our recent analysis of the Archinect Business Survey published last month, we observed a distinct divergence between how firm owners and workers were feeling about the business health of their firm, industry, and the wider U.S. economy. Across the board, our survey suggests...
Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Peter Mick Lessons from building and growing Copylime to 6 figures all in public
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Style over Substance
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Back in 2021, we bought a PlayStation 5 (PS5) as our main living room console. Making the most out of this console meant we also had to buy a new TV, as our old TV was not 4K-compatible and did not support HDMI2.1, the new A/V standard required to support all of the PS5’s...
IEEE Spectrum
Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Team Up on Robots Today, Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced a new partnership “to...
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Today, Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced a new partnership “to accelerate the development of general-purpose humanoid robots utilizing TRI’s Large Behavior Models and Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot.” Committing to working towards a general purpose...
The Rational Walk
Too Clever by Half! The temptation to trade in the stock market can be overwhelming, especially when prices are moving...
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The temptation to trade in the stock market can be overwhelming, especially when prices are moving quickly. It's useful to ask, "What would Charlie Munger say?"
Archinect - Features
‘In the Climate Context, Architects Need to Push a New Frontier’; A Conversation with Mario... When TECLA was unveiled to the world at the beginning of 2021, it captured the attention of both the...
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When TECLA was unveiled to the world at the beginning of 2021, it captured the attention of both the architectural community and the imagination of the mainstream media. The world's first 3D-printed house made from raw earth, TECLA was one of 17 projects showcased at COP26 in an...
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Leprechauns Is there a rainbow underneath your pot of gold? Sometimes, we get it backwards.
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Asia-Pacific, Part 5 (Japan: Farther Afield) Monday arrived and I had to get back to work. A weekend in Tokyo was nice although I had other plans...
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Monday arrived and I had to get back to work. A weekend in Tokyo was nice although I had other plans and that involved getting out of the city. After all, the whole premise for this trip was visiting U.S. military facilities USS Blue Ridge The 7th Fleet of the United States Navy...
The Rational Walk
Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting Questions Berkshire Hathaway's 2024 annual meeting will be held in Omaha on May 4. This article includes five...
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Berkshire Hathaway's 2024 annual meeting will be held in Omaha on May 4. This article includes five potential questions for the Q&A session.
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Array 1.30.0 Brand new and faster user interface, automatic conversion signal detection with Correlation...
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Brand new and faster user interface, automatic conversion signal detection with Correlation analysis, saving insights for future use and a fully revamped recordings playback experience and more than 350 improvements/fixes more.
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SemVer: The Tricky Parts Semantic versioning, is the way to version packages in JS ecosystem. I always thought I understood...
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Semantic versioning, is the way to version packages in JS ecosystem. I always thought I understood semver, but that illusion disappeared once I started maintaining libraries myself. Semver has tricky edge cases where it's unclear what the new version number should be: Should you...
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The First 31 Paintings of 2016 Since January 1, I have been posting one piece of art a day
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Like many design teams, the Wall Street Journal team has been thinking through our design principles. Writing design principles comes pretty naturally (especially if you read this excellent list by Jeremy Keith). As we collaborate, we end up with a lot of candidates. However,...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sometimes I read my own comics and they seem like they were written by aliens. Today's News:
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Costa Rica, Part 2 (In the Shadow of the Volcano) We landed at Juan Santamaría airport in San José on a Friday afternoon, clearing Immigration and...
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We landed at Juan Santamaría airport in San José on a Friday afternoon, clearing Immigration and Customs nearly effortlessly. Then we got a taste of rush hour traffic riding on the shuttle to retrieve our rental car. Driving conditions became a lot more difficult later in the...
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“To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier,” Walt Whitman writes in the prime of life. “What happens when you get to the end of things?” four-year-old Johnny in Ohio asks his mother from the bathtub while Whitman’s borrowed atoms are becoming young grass in a...
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PR bumf roundup I haven't whinged about unsolicited PR emails for a while because I don't get as many as I used to....
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I haven't whinged about unsolicited PR emails for a while because I don't get as many as I used to. But they still come, generally from hopeful marketeers with a press release to regurgitate or a plea to amplify some sponsored content. We don't do that here, thanks. Emily got...
The Roots of...
What does it mean to “trust science”? And this, my children, is why we do not say things like “I believe in science”. I mean, don’t get me...
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And this, my children, is why we do not say things like “I believe in science”. I mean, don’t get me wrong, science definitely exists—I’ve seen it. But not everything that calls itself science is science, and even good science sometimes gets wrong results. –Megan McArdle Should...
Stoic Simple
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Previous Next https://youtu.be/ELM6pYo76DQ For Stoics of antiquity, the most admirable and important kind of strength was the type that came from an inner fortitude that was nurtured with discipline and devotion to philosophy. The most difficult trials of our lives come not from...
The Changelog
Martha the Pilot Martha, now 5, can’t remember a time when she didn’t fly periodically. She’s come along in our...
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Martha, now 5, can’t remember a time when she didn’t fly periodically. She’s come along in our airplane in short flights to a nearby restaurant and long ones to Michigan and South Dakota. All this time, she’s been riding in the back seat next to Laura. Martha has been talking...
Explorations of an...
2023 Part 1: January Through Early March (Argentina, Uruguay) Over the next little while I will be making a few photo-heavy blog posts, highlighting a few of my...
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Over the next little while I will be making a few photo-heavy blog posts, highlighting a few of my favourite memories from 2023. Laura and I finished our extending traveling in Latin America, but the first four months of 2023 saw us visiting Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil to close...
computers are bad
2023-11-25 the curse of docker I'm heading to Las Vegas for re:invent soon, perhaps the most boring type of industry extravaganza...
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I'm heading to Las Vegas for re:invent soon, perhaps the most boring type of industry extravaganza there could be. In that spirit, I thought I would write something quick and oddly professional: I'm going to complain about Docker. Packaging software is one of those fundamental...
Home on Erik...
Developer experience as a competitive advantage I spent a ton of time looking at different software providers, both as a CTO, and as a nerd...
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over a year ago
I spent a ton of time looking at different software providers, both as a CTO, and as a nerd “advanced” consumer who builds stuff in my spare time. In the last 10 years, there has been an order of magnitude more products that cater directly to developers, through APIs, SDKs, and...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
My eclipse photography plan .title {text-wrap:balance;} 2017 solar eclipse—obscuration 93.8% (view original) In 2017, I...
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.title {text-wrap:balance;} 2017 solar eclipse—obscuration 93.8% (view original) In 2017, I opted to skip the crowds and the drive and settle for a 94% solar eclipse. I fully regret that decision. Weather permitting, I’ll be photographing the full solar eclipse from the path...
diamond geezer
Eu-stun For two decades Euston had a very long departures board across the front of the station...
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For two decades Euston had a very long departures board across the front of the station concourse. large expectant crowd often gathered. switched off to be replaced by two new departure boards in the centre of the floor space. If you feel the need to tell us you would have...
Anecdotal Evidence
'That Is My Ambition Here' Does anyone still read “Invictus”? Is it part of any school’s curriculum? It was as late as 1965,...
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Does anyone still read “Invictus”? Is it part of any school’s curriculum? It was as late as 1965, when Miss Wagy had us memorize it in eighth-grade English. The poem is irresistible for recitation, whether privately in times of self-doubt or at the Kiwanis luncheon: “I am...
TheCollector
Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union undefined
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Open Culture
The Alphabet Explained: The Origin of Every Letter Think back, if you will, to the climactic scenes of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, which take...
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Think back, if you will, to the climactic scenes of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, which take place in the hidden temple that contains the Holy Grail. His father having been shot by the dastardly Nazi-sympathizing immortality-seeker Walter Donovan, Indy has no choice but to...
NeuroLogica Blog
World Events and the Conspiracy Instinct By now most people have heard that on Saturday there was a failed assassination attempt on candidate...
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By now most people have heard that on Saturday there was a failed assassination attempt on candidate Trump at a rally. While it has only been a few days, preliminary investigation has found that 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, using a AR style rifle purchased legally by his...
Diaries of Note
For the love of God, give me a flea! Born in 1880 in the mining town of Diamantina, Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant was in her sixties when...
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Born in 1880 in the mining town of Diamantina, Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant was in her sixties when she found fame, for it was then that her teenage diary was published to wide acclaim. Written under the pseudonym Helena Morley between the ages of 12 and 15, the diary tells the...
Maps Mania
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Ruby on Rails maintenance policy
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Overcoming Bias
Tension-Filled Black Holes Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its...
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Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its shape, instead of collapsing down to a point mass.
Math Is Still...
Game Theory Can Make AI More Correct and Efficient Researchers are drawing on ideas from game theory to improve large language models and make them...
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Researchers are drawing on ideas from game theory to improve large language models and make them more consistent. The post Game Theory Can Make AI More Correct and Efficient first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Diaries of Note
BOREDOM, HOMESICK, LOVESICK In April 1918, Spike Milligan was born. A titan in the world of comedy and literature, he is...
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In April 1918, Spike Milligan was born. A titan in the world of comedy and literature, he is arguably most fondly remembered for ‘The Goon Show’, a radio comedy programme that not only brought laughter to millions but also reshaped the landscape of British humour. But Milligan’s...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Tradition Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Tradition is whatever had just faded when I was...
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The personal website...
Design-by-wire There’s a lot of fear in the air. As AI gets better at design, it’s natural for designers to be...
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There’s a lot of fear in the air. As AI gets better at design, it’s natural for designers to be worried about their jobs. But I think the question — will AI replace designers? — is a waste of time. Humans have always invented technology to do their work for them and will continue...
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 7-8 October 2023 Oktoberfest parties, rugby screenings, and an open day at a rather niche museum.
a year ago
Ognjen Regoje •...
When am I "allowed" to quit and not be labeled a quitter? There’s a type of startup that stays alive but doesn’t achieve meaningful growth. One that keeps...
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There’s a type of startup that stays alive but doesn’t achieve meaningful growth. One that keeps raising bridge rounds but whose valuation stagnates. Anecdotally, their founders belong to two groups: They’re still convinced that the business will work and are unflappable in their...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 052: AI, EO, DPA February 2, 2024.
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History Today Feed
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OpenAI is making a risky bet on live translation The company has a stunning demo — but can the product live up to the hype?
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AVC
What Is A Protocol And Why Does It Matter? USV’s current thesis is: Enabling trusted brands that broaden access to knowledge, capital, and...
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USV’s current thesis is: Enabling trusted brands that broaden access to knowledge, capital, and well-being by leveraging networks, platforms, and protocols. https://www.usv.com/#thesis-3-0 That last word is powerful but unfortunately less understood than the other words in that...
TheCollector
The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour undefined
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diamond geezer
Non-London universities in London London contains a lot of non-London universities. This building is part of Buckinghamshire New...
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London contains a lot of non-London universities. This building is part of Buckinghamshire New University, which is neither new nor in Buckinghamshire. wrong side of the river Colne. Admittedly the boundary's less than 200 metres away but this side of the river has always...
alexwlchan
Fare-Wellcome Collection I still remember the first time I visited Wellcome Collection – just over seven years ago. I was...
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I still remember the first time I visited Wellcome Collection – just over seven years ago. I was living and working in the Cambridge at the time, and I’d come into London for the day to hang out with a friend who lived near King’s Cross. We wandered up the Euston Road, popped...
Math Is Still...
The Search for What Shook the Earth for Nine Days Straight Last year, an immense but brief outburst of seismic energy was soon followed by a long hum that made...
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Last year, an immense but brief outburst of seismic energy was soon followed by a long hum that made the world ring. Finding its cause took 68 scientists and an assist by the Danish military. The post The Search for What Shook the Earth for Nine Days Straight first...
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The End of Localhost > This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site:...
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> This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site: https://dx.tips/the-end-of-localhost
mtlynch.io
My Fourth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder Four years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own self-funded software...
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Four years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own self-funded software company. For the first few years, all of my businesses flopped. They all operated at a loss, and none of them earned more than a few hundred dollars per month in revenue. Halfway through...
Basta’s Notes
We need to be liked, and it might be the fault of social media. If our god is a benevolent one, then why did he make us crave approval?
a year ago
Ryan Mulligan
Detect JavaScript Support in CSS I had been aware of the scripting CSS media feature but I was still under the impression that...
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I had been aware of the scripting CSS media feature but I was still under the impression that cross-browser support was lacking. What a pleasant surprise to discover that it has been available in all modern browsers as of December 2023 according to caniuse.com. With this feature,...
NeuroLogica Blog
BBC Gets Into UFOs Paranormal phenomena tend to wax and wane in the public interest. Typically a generation will become...
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Paranormal phenomena tend to wax and wane in the public interest. Typically a generation will become fascinated with a topic, but eventually the novelty will wear thin and interest will fade. But the flame will be kept alive by the hardcore believers. Wait long enough, and...
Londonist
The Top Exhibitions To See In London In November 2023 David Hockney, Antony Gormley and some strange creatures.
a year ago
Old Structures...
The True Form I thought I had posted this map before, but apparently not. John Montresor was an engineer in the...
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I thought I had posted this map before, but apparently not. John Montresor was an engineer in the British army, who was in North America from the French and Indian War until about halfway through the American Revolution. He created this map in 1775, showing the city of New York,...
Londonist
Atlas of Imagined Cities: Who Lives Where in TV, Books, Games and Movies? New book maps the worlds of fiction.
a year ago
TheCollector
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diamond geezer
Anorak corner - bus edition Anorak Corner [bus edition] (annual update) Once again TfL have silently published their annual...
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Anorak Corner [bus edition] (annual update) Once again TfL have silently published their annual spreadsheet listing the number of passengers using every London bus route and how many kilometres those buses travelled. Data is for April 2023 - March 2024. Comparisons are with the...
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Local Attractions in The Cayman Islands
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Beautiful Public...
Photologging Vans These sequences are from New York and Connecticut’s state photolog archives, which I obtained...
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These sequences are from New York and Connecticut’s state photolog archives, which I obtained through public records requests. Almost every state’s highway departments had highway photolog programs, some dating back as early as 1961. These sequences were captured by specially...
African History...
A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala. It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies,...
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It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
TheCollector
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CONTEMPORIST
A Round Fireplace Is A Unique Feature In The Living Room Of This Remodeled Home Aaron Kohler and Marc Straumann of architecture and design firm KOHLERSTRAUMANN, have shared photos...
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Aaron Kohler and Marc Straumann of architecture and design firm KOHLERSTRAUMANN, have shared photos of their latest project, a renovated family home in Lausen, Switzerland. The architects completely transformed the space by changing the floors, renovating all bathrooms and the...
Maps Mania
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Launching the Coding Career Handbook! I'm launching my career advice book today!
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FIRE v London
My 20 year property returns I was pleased to have reached the 10 year point of tracking my investment portfolio last month. But...
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I was pleased to have reached the 10 year point of tracking my investment portfolio last month. But my net worth includes an important asset class – property – that I don’t normally track, but which I have held in some form for over 20 years. So, this post takes a look at how my…...
Paul Graham: Essays
Holding a Program in One's Head
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sad Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Actually with this new plugin the robot doesn't...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Actually with this new plugin the robot doesn't need the sympathy but can just directly experience a mixture of awe and joy. Today's News:
Koos Looijesteijn
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Many Worlds
Getting To Know Rogue Planets In our Earthling minds, planets exist in solar systems with a Sun in the middle and objects large...
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In our Earthling minds, planets exist in solar systems with a Sun in the middle and objects large and small orbiting around it.   This is hardly surprising since planets are pretty much exclusively illustrated in solar systems and, until the onset of the 21st century, no other...
37signals Dev
Prometheus metrics with Rails and Kamal We use Prometheus metrics quite heavily at 37signals nowadays. They’re used to monitor a variety of...
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We use Prometheus metrics quite heavily at 37signals nowadays. They’re used to monitor a variety of components in our infrastructure, such as MySQL, Redis and the servers hosting our applications. My colleague, Victor, previously wrote in detail about Prometheus metrics at...
Cheese and Biscuits
The Union, Rye Over the last, I don't know, ten or fifteen or so years - certainly since the expansion of the St...
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Over the last, I don't know, ten or fifteen or so years - certainly since the expansion of the St John universe but also since places like Lyle's and the Sportsman and the Draper's Arms spread their wings - a kind of consensus has appeared on what constitutes a Modern British...
Saturday Morning...
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Alice GG
Does ChatGPT dream about cryptographic cats? Back in 2017, the tech world seemed to be constantly talking about a single subject:...
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Back in 2017, the tech world seemed to be constantly talking about a single subject: Blockchains. Two years ago, Vitalik Buterin revolutionized the nascent field by creating Ethereum. Ethereum was at the time a cryptographic protocol that would allow people to make distributed...
TheCollector
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Home on Erik...
MLConf 2014 Just spent a day at MLConf where I was talking about how we do music recommendations. There was a...
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over a year ago
Just spent a day at MLConf where I was talking about how we do music recommendations. There was a whole range of great speakers (actually almost 2/3 women which was pretty cool in itself). Here are my slides:
Flashbak
Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest...
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The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest medieval conventions, sometimes depicted in water colour with fantastic elements such as human faces. The medicinal properties and preparations of the plants.     Via University...
Willem's Blog
Enter text without keys Worn on your fingers, the Tap Strap recognises tapping and moving to control and type without a...
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Worn on your fingers, the Tap Strap recognises tapping and moving to control and type without a mouse or keyboard!
CONTEMPORIST
A Laneway House With A Rotated Brick Facade Architecture firm Williamson Williamson has shared photos of a laneway home they completed in...
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Architecture firm Williamson Williamson has shared photos of a laneway home they completed in Toronto, Canada, that features a distinct rotated brick facade. Usually, laneway houses are small, however, this one is a four-bedroom home, designed for a family of five, providing...
Mazdak
The Shadow Bankers Rise: Private Credit Fuels M&A in a Turbulent Market While 2023 witnessed a 6% dip in US M&A value, a silent force has emerged as the lifeblood of...
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While 2023 witnessed a 6% dip in US M&A value, a silent force has emerged as the lifeblood of deal-making in this uncertain market: private credit. Stepping in where traditional bank financing hesitates, private credit has carved a niche with its nimble agility and diverse tools.
Maps Mania
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Last month, NASA made headlines as they (finally) launched their SLS rocket as part of the Artemis 1 mission. The long and expensive development of SLS has been the subject of much debate, and caused a lot of online rage. I will now induce similar rage at a fraction of the...
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How Apple and Google Are Taking Over the In-Car User Experience Ever since the introduction of the iPhone and Apple App Store in 2007 and 2008, our digital lives...
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Ever since the introduction of the iPhone and Apple App Store in 2007 and 2008, our digital lives center around apps. These are available…
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I was recently listening through the How to succeed at failing series on the Freakonomics podcast and started to think about how often I had failed in the past few years. The first answer was - not too much. I couldn’t think of too many instances of where I had “failed”. This was...
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For a few months, I had issues with my Wi-Fi network. The 2.4 GHz network would be fine, but the 5 GHz one would suddenly stop working and completely disappear from the available Wi-Fi networks. OpenWRT upgrades also didn’t improve the situation. This was very annoying. After...
./techtipsy
I looked at this site on the Wayback Machine Yesterday was election day in Estonia and the results are in, which is why I remembered that one...
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Yesterday was election day in Estonia and the results are in, which is why I remembered that one time I looked at my website on the Wayback Machine. This domain used to point to a Wordpress site that hosted content for a candidate in the local elections, at least around...
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Highlights A change to Zestful’s website boosted it to the front page of Google results within days. I’m going to try to make a better version of a decades’ old application for managing machine shops. I’m doing lots of coding to avoid talking to customers. Goal Grades At the...
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Photography by Younes Bounhar Design firm PARTISANS has designed a home for a family in Toronto, Canada, that features a sculptural brick facade. Photography by Younes Bounhar The design of the Canvas House has been inspired by the homeowners’ love of contemporary art, with the...
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end cap from one of Skylab’s oxygen tanks in the dirt. Cattle were drinking collected rainwater from the remains of a US $2.2 billion NASA investment. Skylab’s Failure and Recovery Skylab’s fate was sealed moments after lift-off when the sun shield and main solar panel were...
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Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts 2021-11-25 As you can most likely tell by looking at your browser’s URL - I’ve swapped over to a new domain for my personal website: tdarb.org. I’m a fickle person and this is a random change - but it is one I’ve been planning to do...
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Philip Larkin shares with us the mundane complaints of the middle class, the lusts and anxieties of people unburdened with wealth and pull. He grows deaf, loses hair, juggles girlfriends, gains weight and drinks too much. As a librarian he works hard. He will never be hip except...
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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...
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In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
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There’s a lot of content out there arguing that exploding term sheets—ones that expire after a set amount of time, whether or not they’re accepted—are bad. Some of this comes from founders who do not appreciate the pressure; some if it comes from VCs who want to emphasize their...
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There’s been a lot in the news recently about the implementation of the Shark Cull (or, as the Government put it, the “shark protection measures”) here in Western Australia.  Just as I am not a climate scientist, I am not a shark biologist, and cannot claim to be a shark expert....
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The ASIC pit of despair Monero has once again changed the POW to brick ASICs following confirmation that 85% of Monero’s...
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Monero has once again changed the POW to brick ASICs following confirmation that 85% of Monero’s hashrate were ASICs. Recurring hard forks to brick ASICs is a very dangerous game and what better to illustrate this than with an xkcd-style plot? You’re safe on the edges but how do...
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As binary thinking -- a rush to judgment about books, food, our fellow humans and just about everything else -- becomes harsher and more fashionable, interesting conversation withers. Have you noticed how quickly people dismiss a subject before it has been pondered and probed?...
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We've been stocking Hawthorn Stay Open Inks for 6 years now! These inks are oil based inks and work beautifully for relief printing. We have a fantastic range of colours including the process range. Process colours are inks specially formulated to create a full spectrum of...
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This is the second post in a row where I am bringing back an old tradition. This time it is Fun Friday, something I haven’t done in about five years. Like last week, the catalyst is our portfolio company Blackbird Labs, which I posted about a few months ago. Blackbird is a...
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I recently wrote a post where I said entrepreneurs need to understand term sheets on their own, without the assistance of lawyers.  I got…
Acko.net
Get in Zoomer, We're Saving&nbsp;React Looking back, and forward Lately, it seems popular to talk smack about React. Both the orange...
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Looking back, and forward Lately, it seems popular to talk smack about React. Both the orange and red site recently spilled the tea about how mean Uncle React has been, and how much nicer some of these next-gen frameworks supposedly are. I find this bizarre for two...
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The remaining structures are a testament to the rich cultural and historical heritage of a society. They include architectural styles,...
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At Arduino, we’re constantly working to improve your IoT management experience. Today, we’re excited to announce a new feature for Arduino Cloud that will allow you to enhance your IoT dashboards: the Image widget. The new Image widget The Image widget is a simple yet powerful...
Internal Tech Emails
Steve Jobs negotiates Apple's deal with Microsoft Greg, Here is a review of the terms we last discussed, as well as some issues I have encountered....
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Greg, Here is a review of the terms we last discussed, as well as some issues I have encountered. Please ping me to let me know that you received this email.
Old Structures...
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Continuing my discussion (part 1 is here) of London’s maybe-first skyscraper, the Adelaide House, let’s talk about structure. There’s a big difference between trying to build the first skyscraper in your city in the 1870s or 80s or 90s (depending on how you want to define...
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HWY 101 - Forest Birding Near Iguazú Highway 101 is the main corridor that runs east-west along the top end of Misiones Province in...
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Highway 101 is the main corridor that runs east-west along the top end of Misiones Province in Argentina. Though this road looks like a major artery on Google Maps, in practice it is nothing more than a clay track that receives very little traffic - mainly, just a few locals...
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Noncommuting charges are much like Batman Understanding a character’s origins enriches their narrative and motivates their actions. Take...
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Understanding a character’s origins enriches their narrative and motivates their actions. Take Batman as an example: without knowing his backstory, he appears merely as a billionaire who might achieve more by donating his wealth rather than masquerading as a bat … Continue...
Cheese and Biscuits
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For most restaurants, no matter how lofty their ambitions or discerning the clientele, sheer practical market forces will be the driving force behind at least one or two dishes, whether it's the chic Northern gastropub reluctantly offering fish and chips and a burger alongside...
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Judy Space Puzzles (1970s) Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!  I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time...
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Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!  I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time to bring them back. These were classroom puzzles (although they were probably owned by kids at home too). They were mostly for Kindergarten-2nd grade kids and were "educational" as...
Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978) A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share.  This pop-up book was part of the...
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A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share.  This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
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Where’s the magic? I got asked once my favourite person from history in a job interview. I said Isaac Newton. An old...
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I got asked once my favourite person from history in a job interview. I said Isaac Newton. An old cricket coach told me about the laws of motion. And I never forgot. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. It helped fix my right arm leg spin. I later
Joel Gascoigne
How to get more replies to the emails you send: be specific * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "We live in a...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise made and kept is difficult to overstate." - Seth...
Platformer
Taylor Lorenz on her extremely online history of the internet Notes on selling books via Instagram stories, fighting with Elon, and which platform is best at...
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Notes on selling books via Instagram stories, fighting with Elon, and which platform is best at shielding users from harassment
./techtipsy
I tried out the CyberPower UT650EG UPS After some spicy feedback to my post where a ThinkPad T430 acted as a server, I decided to try out...
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After some spicy feedback to my post where a ThinkPad T430 acted as a server, I decided to try out one UPS that was recommended on the basis of it being much more power efficient compared to the APC UPS that I previously ran. That UPS? CyberPower UT650EG. Why switch out a...
diamond geezer
Green Link Walk 1 For those of us who like walking, yesterday was a red letter day. A new official London walkway was...
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For those of us who like walking, yesterday was a red letter day. A new official London walkway was launched, the first in over a decade - the first of six potential new Greenways proposed by the London Ramblers in 2021. It's been a while because waymarking and accessibility take...
Dan Slimmon
Podcast: Small Batches with Adam Hawkins I was recently delighted to be interviewed by Adam Hawkins on his podcast Small Batches. We...
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I was recently delighted to be interviewed by Adam Hawkins on his podcast Small Batches. We discussed a huge variety of topics. Here is the full episode, and on that page you’ll find meticulously timestamped links to specific topics. Check out the rest of Adam’s podcast, it’s...
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Love Letter Back Home Mapped October 5th, written December 2019: As I noted in my last Guerrilla Cartography Cartographer...
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Mapped October 5th, written December 2019: As I noted in my last Guerrilla Cartography Cartographer Spotlight (May 2019), my career has been a diverse mix of my two professional passions, cartography and participatory mapping. Cartography is about the place; it’s top-down, it’s...
David Perell
Kevin Kelly: Seeing the Future My guest today is Kevin Kelly, who co-founded Wired Magazine in 1993 and served as its Executive...
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My guest today is Kevin Kelly, who co-founded Wired Magazine in 1993 and served as its Executive Editor for the first seven years. As one of the most important futurists of our generation, he’s published a number of books including The Inevitable, What Technology Wants, and New...
Hundred Rabbits
Wood stove installation It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that...
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It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that the best model was the cast iron Sardine from Navigator Stoveworks. Our Espar forced air diesel heater broke on our last passage, and we decided not to replace it. There are few...
HTMHell
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Common Edge
Awesome and Affordable: Making the Case for Great Housing A new project in Los Angeles highlights the challenges—and the opportunities.
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Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960) So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
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So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
Saturday Morning...
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Boop! An in-depth tutorial that teaches how to create one of the most adorable interactions I've ever...
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An in-depth tutorial that teaches how to create one of the most adorable interactions I've ever created. We'll learn how to use React components and hooks to abstract behaviours, and see how to design the perfect API. Even if you're not into animations, I think you'll find it...
A Beautiful Site
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$.getJSON() is pretty handy for sending an AJAX request and getting back JSON data as a response. Alas, the jQuery documentation lacks a sister function that should be named $.postJSON(). Why not just use $.getJSON() and be done with it? Well, perhaps you want to send a large...
TheCollector
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AI Art Hack: Combining Abstract Designs with Objects This is member content. Thank you for being a subscriber. This is UL Member Content Subscribe...
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Classical Wisdom
Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs Factoids From the Ancient World
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The Hightown Inn, Liverpool Despite spending the first 20 years of my life about 100m up the road from the Hightown Inn (then...
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Despite spending the first 20 years of my life about 100m up the road from the Hightown Inn (then the Hightown Hotel), I never really considered this grand old Victorian building to be much of a "local". I was far more likely to get the train to the Railway in Formby where most...
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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...
Blog - Bitfield...
Test names should be sentences Tests communicate a lot of information, to readers, other developers, and even our future selves....
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Tests communicate a lot of information, to readers, other developers, and even our future selves. Well-written tests focus on a single unit of behaviour that can be described in a brief sentence, and we can use that sentence as the name of the test.
Retail Design Blog
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The core goal of the Tiana Cake project is to transform an abandoned office space into an efficient baking factory....
The Map is Mostly...
Dispatches from childhood Humility is the virtue of seeing each sunrise as truly new. Little children have no trouble with...
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Humility is the virtue of seeing each sunrise as truly new. Little children have no trouble with this perspective, they could not live any other way. Everything is visceral to them, and they carry this visceral interiority everywhere.
Val Sopi
AI will make humans better <p><i>Context:&nbsp;Read&nbsp;<a...
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<p><i>Context:&nbsp;Read&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theredhandfiles.com/chatgpt-making-things-faster-and-easier/" target="_blank">Nick Cave's letter</a> first.</i></p> <p><i></i>—</p> <p>ChatGPT (or similar) are just tools!</p> <p>Nothing more.</p> <p>They're akin to when tools...
Prolost
Introducing Prolost Beta Prolost Beta is a new subscription offering on the Prolost Store. It's an occasional email from me...
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Prolost Beta is a new subscription offering on the Prolost Store. It's an occasional email from me containing a download or a link to something cool I'm working on, that's not quite ready to become a product yet. Or maybe ever. This will most often be Lightroom presets or...
Londonist
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Josh Thompson
Cultivate Curiosity, or 'Reasons to be More Childlike' I’ve had an idea rolling around my head. I suspect that “being curious” will correlate well with...
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I’ve had an idea rolling around my head. I suspect that “being curious” will correlate well with positive outcomes in my life, on pretty much any time horizon, be it days, weeks, or decades. Curiosity feels like a tolerable antidote to boredom, though boredom in and of itself is...
Joel Gascoigne
Thoughts on when to incorporate * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Update: I...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Update: I originally posted this article with the title “Incorporate your startup only when you’re forced to” and I had amazing feedback, particularly from Andrew Payne [http://blog.payne.org/]...
AI Snake Oil
Model alignment protects against accidental harms, not intentional ones The hand wringing about failures of model alignment is misguided
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
OpenAI Is A Bad Business OpenAI, a non-profit AI company that will lose anywhere from $4 billion to $5 billion this year,...
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OpenAI, a non-profit AI company that will lose anywhere from $4 billion to $5 billion this year, will at some point in the next six or so months convert into a for-profit AI company, at which point it will continue to lose money in exactly the same way. Shortly after
Archinect - Features
At Tyler’s Urban Workshop, Architecture Students Build With, and For, Underserved... On November 8th, the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University will host the...
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On November 8th, the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University will host the Urban Workshop Symposium, the latest iteration of the Urban Workshop's engagements in community-based design and education. The event brings to the fore questions, conversations, and...
Tony Finch's blog
Migrating to BIND9 dnssec-policy Here are some notes on migrating a signed zone from BIND’s old auto-dnssec to its new...
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Here are some notes on migrating a signed zone from BIND’s old auto-dnssec to its new dnssec-policy. I have been procrastinating this migration for years, and I avoided learning anything much about dnssec-policy until this month. I’m writing this from the perspective of a DNS...
Seth's Blog
Tom Peters Tom announced his retirement today, at 80 years old, after 45 years of Excellence and perhaps...
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Tom announced his retirement today, at 80 years old, after 45 years of Excellence and perhaps 10,000,000 miles flown. I remember a photo of him sleeping on a bench in an airport in Siberia. I remember him holding my young son just before we went on stage in Florida together...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 18-24 September 2023 Things to do for under a fiver.
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Hixie's Natural Log
Deciding which bugs to fix Software has an infinite number of bugs. How can we tell which ones to fix? I propose that it...
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Software has an infinite number of bugs. How can we tell which ones to fix? I propose that it makes the most sense to optimize for people-happiness per unit bug fixing time, maximizing how much our effort improves the product for our users. To put it in mathematical...
The Oatmeal - Comics...
The full trailer for my Netflix series just dropped! View on my website
10 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Categorization and What’s In a Name Categorization is critical in science, but it is also very tricky, often deceptively so. We need to...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
Categorization is critical in science, but it is also very tricky, often deceptively so. We need to categorize things to help us organize our knowledge, to understand how things work and relate to each other, and to communicate efficiently and precisely. But categorization can...
The Roots of...
Quote quiz: “drifting into dependence” Quote quiz: who said this? (No fair looking it up). I have modified the original quotation slightly,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Quote quiz: who said this? (No fair looking it up). I have modified the original quotation slightly, by making a handful of word substitutions to bring it up to date: It might be argued that the human race would never be foolish enough to hand over all power to AI. But we are...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Augmented Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Beer goggles were also cheaper. Today's News:
10 months ago
AVC
CEO 360s I’ve written about this topic before. It is an important topic and I want to raise it again. Boards...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve written about this topic before. It is an important topic and I want to raise it again. Boards often discuss CEO performance without really knowing how things work inside the company. And CEOs often have very little visibility to how they are doing and what the board thinks...
diamond geezer
National Rail interchange symbols What does the National Rail symbol on the tube map mean? I ask because several stations with a...
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8 months ago
What does the National Rail symbol on the tube map mean? I ask because several stations with a National Rail service don't have the symbol, for example here in the northwest corner of the map. The two symbol-less Metropolitan line stations are Rickmansworth and Chorleywood....
TheCollector
Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend undefined
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Dynamic Slots Web Component authors already know how powerful slots are, but what if you could do even more with...
a year ago
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a year ago
Web Component authors already know how powerful slots are, but what if you could do even more with them? Here's an interesting technique to use (or abuse) slots in your custom elements. I've been calling the pattern dynamic slots. Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at how...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
I like watercolor painting Yep, that’s it: I like painting with watercolors. As a hobby. As a student, I thought hobbies were...
a year ago
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Yep, that’s it: I like painting with watercolors. As a hobby. As a student, I thought hobbies were lame. Because:...
The Honest Broker
The 6 Laws of Dying Hollywood Franchises Here's how you kill an entire genre
7 months ago