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Internal Tech Emails
Should we buy Instagram, Foursquare, or Pinterest? It's really expensive -- probably ~$1 billion.
5 months ago
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Should we buy Instagram, Foursquare, or Pinterest?

from Internal Tech Emails [alt+shift+b] in startups

5 months ago
It's really expensive -- probably ~$1 billion.
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Damn Interesting
This is Dang Interesting Happy New Year! This has nothing to do with the new year. We at this website know, reluctantly, that...
over a year ago
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This is Dang Interesting

from Damn Interesting [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
Happy New Year! This has nothing to do with the new year. We at this website know, reluctantly, that “d*mn” is not always a welcome word. Additionally, we are aware that we have a few articles sporting even saltier vocabularies (settle down, Colonel Sanders!). Countless school...
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CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the... On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
7 months ago
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Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the Protests

from CrimethInc. [alt+shift+b] in history

7 months ago
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the struggle for independence from Russian rule remains the chief force driving the popular mobilization that has been growing over the past several months. Yet today’s movement points to a...
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Articles
Don't swim upstream
over a year ago
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Don't swim upstream

from Articles [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
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Stephen Diehl
Stablecoins Do Not Deserve Special Treatment
over a year ago
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Stablecoins Do Not Deserve Special Treatment

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
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Contemporist...
This Quiet Home Is All About Living Slowly and Fully In the ancient water town of Suzhou, known for its poetic gardens and slow-living culture, one home...
3 weeks ago
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This Quiet Home Is All About Living Slowly and Fully

from Contemporist Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture

3 weeks ago
In the ancient water town of Suzhou, known for its poetic gardens and slow-living culture, one home has been quietly redefining the idea of what it means to dwell well. The Suzhou Tongli Villa, designed by Hangzhou Shihe Design, isn’t lavish in the traditional sense. There’s no...
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ToughSF
The Expanse's Epstein Drive We aim to take a fictional propulsion technology from The Expanse, and apply the appropriate science...
over a year ago
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The Expanse's Epstein Drive

from ToughSF [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
We aim to take a fictional propulsion technology from The Expanse, and apply the appropriate science to explain its features in a realistic manner. This also applies to other SciFi settings that want a similar engine for their own spacecraft. The Epstein Drive Title art...
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Matt Mazur
“Monthly Billed Annually” is Cursed Copy There was a great discussion on Twitter recently that began with Daniel Vassallo calling out a SaaS...
a year ago
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“Monthly Billed Annually” is Cursed Copy

from Matt Mazur [alt+shift+b] in AI

a year ago
There was a great discussion on Twitter recently that began with Daniel Vassallo calling out a SaaS for not refunding an accidental annual payment he made on their service. He intended to purchase the monthly plan, but due to an unclear UI and poor copy, he unintentionally...
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AI Snake Oil
What is algorithmic amplification and why should we care? A symposium and a primer on social media recommendation algorithms
over a year ago
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What is algorithmic amplification and why should we care?

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over a year ago
A symposium and a primer on social media recommendation algorithms
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Krebs on Security
ClickFix: How to Infect Your PC in Three Easy Steps A clever malware deployment scheme first spotted in targeted attacks last year has now gone...
3 months ago
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ClickFix: How to Infect Your PC in Three Easy Steps

from Krebs on Security [alt+shift+b] in technology

3 months ago
A clever malware deployment scheme first spotted in targeted attacks last year has now gone mainstream. In this scam, dubbed "ClickFix," the visitor to a hacked or malicious website is asked to distinguish themselves from bots by pressing a combination of keyboard keys that...
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Birchtree
Was 2024 a good year? Oh, and all the metrics and earnings info you could ever want. 2024 was a weird year for the Birchler household. Without getting into the details, two things put a...
6 months ago
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Was 2024 a good year? Oh, and all the metrics and earnings info you could ever want.

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

6 months ago
2024 was a weird year for the Birchler household. Without getting into the details, two things put a damper on the year right from the jump: a health issue and a radical increase in monthly spending. I won't go into the details here, but over the course of
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A Beautiful Site
How to use the PHP ternary operator When I learned how to use the ternary operator years ago, I fell in love with it. What a cool way to...
over a year ago
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How to use the PHP ternary operator

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
When I learned how to use the ternary operator years ago, I fell in love with it. What a cool way to simplify assignments based on a condition. If you're not sure what the ternary operator is or how it works, you're missing out on a really cool piece of programming...
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Daniel Bourke
Introducing Nutrify 1.2: Calorie and Macronutrient Goals, Breakdowns and 57 New Foods Nutrify 1.2: Track calories and macronutrients with custom goals, detailed food breakdowns, and 57...
a year ago
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Introducing Nutrify 1.2: Calorie and Macronutrient Goals, Breakdowns and 57 New Foods

from Daniel Bourke [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
Nutrify 1.2: Track calories and macronutrients with custom goals, detailed food breakdowns, and 57 new foods in Nutridex. Available on the App Store.
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Simply Explained
ESP-IDF: Storing AWS IoT certificates in the NVS partition (for OTA) When using AWS IoT Core, most tutorials will tell you to include device certificates in your...
over a year ago
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ESP-IDF: Storing AWS IoT certificates in the NVS partition (for OTA)

from Simply Explained [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
When using AWS IoT Core, most tutorials will tell you to include device certificates in your firmware. While that does work, it means you won't be able to run over-the-air updates.In this post, I'll show how to store AWS certificates in the NVS partition. This will make it...
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Louwrentius
Redhat explains why chroot is not a security feature I came across this Redhat security blog post that explains why the chroot command has it's uses, but...
over a year ago
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Redhat explains why chroot is not a security feature

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
I came across this Redhat security blog post that explains why the chroot command has it's uses, but it isn't magic security pixie dust. Running an application from within a chrooted jail or just on a well-configured system would result in the same level of security. Josh...
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
A Lambo for the People If you count eyeballs, the zombie-mobileis the most popular story I have written. This week instead...
over a year ago
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A Lambo for the People

from Adrian Hanft, III: RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
If you count eyeballs, the zombie-mobileis the most popular story I have written. This week instead of my normal essay I want to simply point you to a show that will surely appeal to fans of car design and haters of the crossover.
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023 Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
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Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023

from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
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Louwrentius
Monitoring HP MSA P2000 G3 I/O latency with Nagios At work we have a couple of HP MSA P2000 G3 SANs. These are entry-level SANs that still seem to have...
over a year ago
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Monitoring HP MSA P2000 G3 I/O latency with Nagios

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
At work we have a couple of HP MSA P2000 G3 SANs. These are entry-level SANs that still seem to have almost all features you might want from a SAN, except for official SSD-support. It seems that the new MSA 2040 adds support for SSDs and also provides 4 GB cache per controller...
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Astral Codex Ten
ACX Survey Results 2025 ...
5 months ago
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ACX Survey Results 2025

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5 months ago
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Seth's Blog
Doing it step by step I was surprised to discover that for many AI questions, if you add, “please figure this out step by...
11 months ago
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Doing it step by step

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

11 months ago
I was surprised to discover that for many AI questions, if you add, “please figure this out step by step,” the AI will provide a dramatically more accurate and useful answer. This works on simple questions like, “how many times does the letter ‘r’ appear in the word ‘strawberry'”...
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Seth's Blog
“Home is wherever my cello is” Ben Zander is bringing the Boston Philharmonic and Beethoven to New York in a few weeks. I’m excited...
over a year ago
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“Home is wherever my cello is”

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

over a year ago
Ben Zander is bringing the Boston Philharmonic and Beethoven to New York in a few weeks. I’m excited to seem them in person, but it’s also streaming live. I hope you’re able to come. While his impact on the musical canon is legendary, Ben’s ruckus extends far into how we lead,...
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Epic Web Dev
Testing Accessibility with Keyboard (article) Learn how to improve keyboard accessibility in web apps, ensuring an inclusive experience for all...
9 months ago
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Testing Accessibility with Keyboard (article)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

9 months ago
Learn how to improve keyboard accessibility in web apps, ensuring an inclusive experience for all users, including those using assistive technologies.
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Eric Bailey
How to build a cloud-hosted accessibility testing Windows computer using Amazon WorkSpaces
over a year ago
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How to build a cloud-hosted accessibility testing Windows computer using Amazon WorkSpaces

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
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computers are bad
2025-03-01 the cold glow of tritium I have been slowly working on a book. Don't get too excited, it is on a very niche topic and I will...
4 months ago
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2025-03-01 the cold glow of tritium

from computers are bad [alt+shift+b] in technology

4 months ago
I have been slowly working on a book. Don't get too excited, it is on a very niche topic and I will probably eventually barely finish it and then post it here. But in the mean time, I will recount some stories which are related, but don't quite fit in. Today, we'll learn a bit...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Clippy Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Have you noticed nobody has ever explained *why*...
over a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Clippy

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Have you noticed nobody has ever explained *why* it's supposedly bad if human beings are converted to paperclips? Today's News:
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TheCollector
How Rembrandt’s Art Became a Masterclass in Light and Shadow From the highest praise of some critics to the lowest execrations comparing his painting to “dung,”...
3 weeks ago
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How Rembrandt’s Art Became a Masterclass in Light and Shadow

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 weeks ago
From the highest praise of some critics to the lowest execrations comparing his painting to “dung,” Rembrandt’s later art was provocative in the 17th-century Dutch Golden Age. Today, his status is justly assured as an exquisite and intuitive handler of light and shadow as a...
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Both Are True
i guess i wrote a song??? a guest post from Alex Gobrenko
a year ago
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i guess i wrote a song???

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a year ago
a guest post from Alex Gobrenko
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Retail Design Blog
QUAHWA coffee by lorkaborka QUAHWA is a fictional coffee product created as part of a university project. The word itself comes...
a year ago
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QUAHWA coffee by lorkaborka

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

a year ago
QUAHWA is a fictional coffee product created as part of a university project. The word itself comes from the Arabic...
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Herbert Lui
Why you feel lost, what to do next The story of The Courage to Be Disliked is told mostly in dialogue, between a student and a...
3 months ago
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Why you feel lost, what to do next

from Herbert Lui [alt+shift+b] in travel

3 months ago
The story of The Courage to Be Disliked is told mostly in dialogue, between a student and a philosopher. Spoiler alert: While the student starts off opposing the philosopher, hellbent on proving the philosopher and their school of thinking—Adlerian psychology—wrong, he starts to...
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Old Structures...
It Is Sorely Missed Conceptions of leisure activities have changed over the years. The fact that people now sun...
a year ago
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It Is Sorely Missed

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Conceptions of leisure activities have changed over the years. The fact that people now sun themselves lying on towels in Central Park while wearing quite brief bathing suits would seem as weird to people in the 1870s, when the park was new, as the presence of sheep in the Sheep...
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Stoic Simple
Using Stoicism to Live a Balanced Life Maintaining balance and achieving personal contentment has been a pressing concern for people...
over a year ago
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Using Stoicism to Live a Balanced Life

from Stoic Simple [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
Maintaining balance and achieving personal contentment has been a pressing concern for people throughout history. From ancient Greek philosophers to modern-day wellness coaches, experts have offered diverse approaches to balance the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Ten million users is the new one million users Entrepreneurs and investors have been enamored with consumer internet startups for the last few...
over a year ago
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Ten million users is the new one million users

from cdixon.org RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
Entrepreneurs and investors have been enamored with consumer internet startups for the last few years. But there are signs this is ending…
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 076: Grand theft audio July 19, 2024.
11 months ago
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AI Roundup 076: Grand theft audio

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11 months ago
July 19, 2024.
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AFAR Media - Travel...
5 Excursions With Afar and Atlas Ocean Voyages
a year ago
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5 Excursions With Afar and Atlas Ocean Voyages

from AFAR Media - Travel Stories, News, Reviews, Tips + Guides [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
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xkcd.com
D Combinatorics
7 months ago
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D Combinatorics

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7 months ago
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The Ruffian
Best of The Ruffian 2024 Catch-up service:
6 months ago
50

Best of The Ruffian 2024

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6 months ago
Catch-up service:
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A Smart Bear
Productive meeting activities: Leverage the team, empower the individual Meetings are most productive when we create something that none of us could have created alone. How...
over a year ago
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Productive meeting activities: Leverage the team, empower the individual

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Meetings are most productive when we create something that none of us could have created alone. How can we leverage the wisdom of the crowd, while ensuring that decisions and responsibilities continue to reside with an individual?
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Jonas Hietala
A Christmas Game I’m going through a bit of a boardgame stint, as I usually do during christmas time. I had exactly...
over a year ago
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A Christmas Game

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
I’m going through a bit of a boardgame stint, as I usually do during christmas time. I had exactly one thing on my wishlist for this christmas for my little brother: Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries. Guess what? I got something from my wishlist! This was our 5th or 6th game (or...
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Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.07.07 - Beer New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
5 days ago
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Comic for 2025.07.07 - Beer

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5 days ago
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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journal – Winnie Lim
temporary amnesia Travel enriches me in many ways. Apart from novelty and discovery, new surroundings help me to...
11 months ago
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temporary amnesia

from journal – Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life

11 months ago
Travel enriches me in many ways. Apart from novelty and discovery, new surroundings help me to temporarily forget things that usually weigh me down. Certain familiar things back home trigger uncomfortable feelings...
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xkcd.com
Solar Protons
9 months ago
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Solar Protons

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9 months ago
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bea Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: (Thanks for the amazing sales numbers so far, and...
over a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bea

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: (Thanks for the amazing sales numbers so far, and more importantly for all the happy stories about parents and kids reading together!) Today's News: Also this, but we ran out of space
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Retail Design Blog
Klim Coffee Roasting Co. by SuiL Located in a new boutique business development in the bustling southeastern suburb of Mount...
11 months ago
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Klim Coffee Roasting Co. by SuiL

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

11 months ago
Located in a new boutique business development in the bustling southeastern suburb of Mount Waverley, Victoria, Australia, Klim Coffee Roasting...
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Notes on software...
Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 4. a database/sql driver Previously in database basics: 1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL 2. binary expressions...
over a year ago
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Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 4. a database/sql driver

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Previously in database basics: 1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL 2. binary expressions and WHERE filters 3. indexes In this post, we'll extend gosql to implement the database/sql driver interface. This will allow us to interact with gosql the same way we would...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Out of the Software Crisis: Gardening The following is an extension of my notes from Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” including...
a year ago
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Out of the Software Crisis: Gardening

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
The following is an extension of my notes from Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” including quotes from the author. Great software grows in our minds, we don’t manufacture it on-demand. [Software projects] are grown thought-stuff [but we] treat them like lego blocks. As...
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The American Scholar
The Writing on the Wall Augustine Sedgewick on his discovery of Henry David Thoreau’s connection to slavery The post The...
8 months ago
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The Writing on the Wall

from The American Scholar [alt+shift+b] in literature

8 months ago
Augustine Sedgewick on his discovery of Henry David Thoreau’s connection to slavery The post The Writing on the Wall appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Cognitive...
Rise of the Open Source ChatGPT Clones At first there was Open-Assistant, then appeared OpenChatKit, and the newly announced ColossalChat....
over a year ago
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Rise of the Open Source ChatGPT Clones

from Cognitive Computations [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
At first there was Open-Assistant, then appeared OpenChatKit, and the newly announced ColossalChat. Now three projects (that I know of!) aim to give everybody the ability to create their own ChatGPT clone. The basic components of a ChatGPT clone are: large language model as its...
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Stat Significant
Quantifying 'The Kevin Bacon Game': A Statistical Exploration of Hollywood’s Most Connected Actors Examining 'Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon' and its statistical underpinnings.
9 months ago
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Quantifying 'The Kevin Bacon Game': A Statistical Exploration of Hollywood’s Most Connected Actors

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9 months ago
Examining 'Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon' and its statistical underpinnings.
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Londonist
London's Going Snowdrop Crazy This Month - Here's Where To See Them The flower that's about to take over your Instagram feed.
a year ago
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London's Going Snowdrop Crazy This Month - Here's Where To See Them

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a year ago
The flower that's about to take over your Instagram feed.
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Liz Denys
Has Baby Yoda been engaging in Twitter 'platform manipulation?' and the broad brush of Twitter's... Popular Twitter parody account @BabyYodaBaby is currently suspended for "platform manipulation and...
over a year ago
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Has Baby Yoda been engaging in Twitter 'platform manipulation?' and the broad brush of Twitter's spam policies and its decentralized future

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Popular Twitter parody account @BabyYodaBaby is currently suspended for "platform manipulation and spam" according to their Instagram. Twitter's policy on platform manipulation and spam allows for "using Twitter pseudonymously or as a parody, commentary, or fan account," as...
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Retail Design Blog
Padel 1.8.5 by Salto Studio A warehouse. Eight courts. Five sculptural objects. A disused industrial warehouse is transformed...
7 months ago
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Padel 1.8.5 by Salto Studio

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

7 months ago
A warehouse. Eight courts. Five sculptural objects. A disused industrial warehouse is transformed into a boutique padel club, providing sophisticated...
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Farnam Street
Learning Through Play Play is an essential way of learning about the world. Doing things we enjoy without a goal in mind...
over a year ago
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Learning Through Play

from Farnam Street [alt+shift+b] in finance

over a year ago
Play is an essential way of learning about the world. Doing things we enjoy without a goal in mind leads us to find new information, better understand our own capabilities, and find unexpected beauty around us. Arithmetic is one example of an area we can explore through play....
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Articles
Everybody stop
over a year ago
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Everybody stop

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over a year ago
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Coding Horror
What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up? I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living,...
over a year ago
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What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?

from Coding Horror [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living, and here's my 15 second answer: We built a sort of Wikipedia website for computer programmers to post questions and answers. It's called Stack Overflow
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Liz Denys
Pentagonal antiprism planter with drip tray, 2023 Aged leather / dazzle camouflage / coming together? pushing apart?
a year ago
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Pentagonal antiprism planter with drip tray, 2023

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Aged leather / dazzle camouflage / coming together? pushing apart?
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Escaping Flatland
On limitations that hide in your blindspot and how to find them
a year ago
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On limitations that hide in your blindspot

from Escaping Flatland [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
and how to find them
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Vitalik Buterin's...
My 40-liter backpack travel guide
over a year ago
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My 40-liter backpack travel guide

from Vitalik Buterin's website [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
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Retail Design Blog
Pacific Companies Offices by Hendy Hendy designed a new office space for Pacific Companies in Irvine, emphasizing comfort and...
10 months ago
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Pacific Companies Offices by Hendy

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

10 months ago
Hendy designed a new office space for Pacific Companies in Irvine, emphasizing comfort and flexibility, creating a home-like environment with...
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Marian's Blog
Designing a Lego orrery I've always been a fan of the Lego Technic series, especially those models that have gears and...
a year ago
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Designing a Lego orrery

from Marian's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

a year ago
I've always been a fan of the Lego Technic series, especially those models that have gears and cranks and moving parts. But it seems that Lego is shifting the focus of the Technic series away from functional models, so I had to take matters into my own hands. I think an orrery is...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Challenge Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later bean guy makes a fortune selling cans of...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Challenge

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later bean guy makes a fortune selling cans of beans with his label on them. People who hate him are 60% of his audience. He goes on to a university position in media studies. Today's News:
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Flashbak
Ute Mahler Shows Us The Real East Germany “I wanted to see what was hiding behind the prescribed official false optimism. I was looking for...
2 months ago
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Ute Mahler Shows Us The Real East Germany

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago
“I wanted to see what was hiding behind the prescribed official false optimism. I was looking for the truth in the inner realm of people’s lives.” – Ute Mahler, photographs of communist East Germany     Between 1972 and 1988, Ute Mahler repeatedly turned her camera on the people...
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Tips for Avoiding Crowds and Enjoying Croatia
a year ago
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Tips for Avoiding Crowds and Enjoying Croatia

from AFAR Media - Travel Stories, News, Reviews, Tips + Guides [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
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Louwrentius
Setting up a Jabber instant messaging server |_http-title: Site doesn't have a title (text/html;... I wanted to see how dificult it is to setup an instant messaging server based on open source...
over a year ago
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Setting up a Jabber instant messaging server |_http-title: Site doesn't have a title (text/html; charset=utf-8).

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
I wanted to see how dificult it is to setup an instant messaging server based on open source software. Now I know that it is very easy, unless you are stubborn and do things your own way. In this example, I'm setting up a small IM server that is only for internal company use, but...
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journal – Winnie Lim
living life like a solo rpg player One of my all-time favourite games is stardew valley. I don’t actually play a lot of games,...
9 months ago
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living life like a solo rpg player

from journal – Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life

9 months ago
One of my all-time favourite games is stardew valley. I don’t actually play a lot of games, partially because they trigger migraines and motion sickness for me, and partially because a combination...
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Construction Physics
Why Skyscrapers Became Glass Boxes Everything put into the building that is unnecessary, every cubic foot that is used for purely...
5 months ago
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Why Skyscrapers Became Glass Boxes

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in technology

5 months ago
Everything put into the building that is unnecessary, every cubic foot that is used for purely ornamental purposes beyond that needed to express its use and to make it harmonize with others of its class, is a waste — is, to put it in plain English, perverting someone’s money —...
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Seth's Blog
Checking the date After 2022, it’s hard to tell for sure. And going forward, public life is going to be even more...
over a year ago
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Checking the date

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

over a year ago
After 2022, it’s hard to tell for sure. And going forward, public life is going to be even more rumor-driven than it is now. Any video, any voiceover, any photograph–we can’t be sure. If YouTube or the Wayback Machine shows us that it happened after 2022, bring some doubt. AI and...
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Articles
Forget about your heroes We spend way too much time trying to deconstruct our heroes' journey.
over a year ago
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Forget about your heroes

from Articles [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
We spend way too much time trying to deconstruct our heroes' journey.
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Fonts In Use – Blog...
Sega logo (1976–present) Contributed by Stephen Coles Source: segaretro.org License: All Rights Reserved. The Sega logo...
over a year ago
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Sega logo (1976–present)

from Fonts In Use – Blog Only [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
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...
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The Marginalian
The Fairy Tale Tree Creativity is at bottom the combinatorial work of memory and imagination. All of our impressions,...
a year ago
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The Fairy Tale Tree

from The Marginalian [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
Creativity is at bottom the combinatorial work of memory and imagination. All of our impressions, influences, and experiences — every sight we have ever seen, every book read, every landscape walked, every love loved — become seeds for ideas we later combine and recombine,...
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Seth's Blog
99 vs 0 If you get a 99% quality haircut or a 99% close-to-perfect meal, it’s better than good. On the other...
over a year ago
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99 vs 0

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

over a year ago
If you get a 99% quality haircut or a 99% close-to-perfect meal, it’s better than good. On the other hand, if the scrub nurse only does a 99% job of disinfecting the tools in the operating room, you’re still going to die of an infection. Some projects respond very well to...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Backwards Compatibility in the Web, but Not Its Tools After reading an article, I ended up on HackerNews and stumbled on this comment: The most...
2 months ago
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Backwards Compatibility in the Web, but Not Its Tools

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 months ago
After reading an article, I ended up on HackerNews and stumbled on this comment: The most frustrating thing about dipping in to the FE is that it seems like literally everything is deprecated. Lol, so true. From the same comment, here’s a description of a day in the life of a...
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Flashbak
This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s...
9 months ago
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This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

9 months ago
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
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Overcoming Bias
UFO As Aliens Odds, Spending The following are some (lognormal fit) median estimates from some X polls I just ran.
5 months ago
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UFO As Aliens Odds, Spending

from Overcoming Bias [alt+shift+b] in history

5 months ago
The following are some (lognormal fit) median estimates from some X polls I just ran.
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anderegg.ca
Sequoia’s “Macintosh” screen saver and old Control Panels I was recently on-site with a client and noticed that one person was using the new “Macintosh”...
4 months ago
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Sequoia’s “Macintosh” screen saver and old Control Panels

from anderegg.ca [alt+shift+b] in technology

4 months ago
I was recently on-site with a client and noticed that one person was using the new “Macintosh” screen saver that was added in macOS Sequoia. If you haven’t seen it, here’s a video of it in action. I knew that the screen saver had released, but I was very happy with Relay’s St....
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Wrong Side of...
What will become of the Sensitive Young Men? Wrong Side of History round-up #59
5 months ago
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What will become of the Sensitive Young Men?

from Wrong Side of History [alt+shift+b] in history

5 months ago
Wrong Side of History round-up #59
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The Solarchitecture...
Solarchitect's book recommendations I. “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” - Cicero
over a year ago
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Solarchitect's book recommendations I.

from The Solarchitecture Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” - Cicero
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TheCollector
Rare Roman Goddess Statue Found Near Hadrian’s Wall Ongoing excavations at Vindolanda, an ancient Roman fort just south of Hadrian’s Wall, recently...
a month ago
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Rare Roman Goddess Statue Found Near Hadrian’s Wall

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

a month ago
Ongoing excavations at Vindolanda, an ancient Roman fort just south of Hadrian’s Wall, recently revealed a rare find. A relief sculpture depicting Victoria, the Roman goddess of victory, was unearthed by a married couple who are longtime volunteers at the northern England...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Rats! What killed off the dodo? Humans first arrived at Mauritius island in the late 1500s. They found on...
a year ago
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Rats!

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
What killed off the dodo? Humans first arrived at Mauritius island in the late 1500s. They found on this island fat flightless birds who nested on the ground and were a convenient way to restock their ship’s food supply. Within 80 years the dodo went extinct. But hunting was not...
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Making software...
Animated Radio Tab Toggles Animated Radio Tab Toggles 2021-01-05 In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we...
over a year ago
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Animated Radio Tab Toggles

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Animated Radio Tab Toggles 2021-01-05 In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we need to create a radio slide toggle for our made-up payment options. For this we want to display 3 simple payment choices to the user: One-time payment Recurring payment Free tier...
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Quantum Frontiers
Quantum Algorithms: A Call To Action Quantum computing finds itself in a peculiar situation. The number one question asked about quantum...
2 months ago
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Quantum Algorithms: A Call To Action

from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science

2 months ago
Quantum computing finds itself in a peculiar situation. The number one question asked about quantum computers by outsiders is very common sensical: What are they good for? The honest answer reveals an elephant in the room: We don’t fully know yet. For theorists like me, it’s an...
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The Honest Broker
Nick Drake at Age 75 On a milestone birthday, I revisit a singer-songwriter nobody ever really knew
over a year ago
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Nick Drake at Age 75

from The Honest Broker [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
On a milestone birthday, I revisit a singer-songwriter nobody ever really knew
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Josh Thompson
Load Testing your app with Siege Last time, I dug into using Apache Benchmark to do performance testing on a page that requires...
over a year ago
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Load Testing your app with Siege

from Josh Thompson [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago
Last time, I dug into using Apache Benchmark to do performance testing on a page that requires authentication to access. Today, we’ll figure out how to use siege to visit many unique URLs on our page, and to get benchmarks on that process. I’ll next figure out performance...
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macwright.com
patch-package can bail you out of some bad situations by Let’s say you’re running some web application and suddenly you hit a bug in one of your...
a year ago
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patch-package can bail you out of some bad situations by

from macwright.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Let’s say you’re running some web application and suddenly you hit a bug in one of your dependencies. It’s all deployed, lots of people are seeing the downtime, but you can’t just push an update because the bug is in something you’ve installed from npm. Remember patch-package....
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Ken Shirriff's blog
Antenna diodes in the Pentium processor I was studying the silicon die of the Pentium processor and noticed some puzzling structures...
7 months ago
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Antenna diodes in the Pentium processor

from Ken Shirriff's blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

7 months ago
I was studying the silicon die of the Pentium processor and noticed some puzzling structures where signal lines were connected to the silicon substrate for no apparent reason. Two examples are in the photo below, where the metal wiring (orange) connects to small square regions of...
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TheCollector
Scotland’s Viking Isles: A History Lover’s Voyage to Orkney & Shetland On the Wednesday following the last Tuesday in January, Shetland shuts down. It is the only place in...
2 months ago
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Scotland’s Viking Isles: A History Lover’s Voyage to Orkney & Shetland

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2 months ago
On the Wednesday following the last Tuesday in January, Shetland shuts down. It is the only place in Scotland to have an extra public holiday. The reason is simply because everyone is exhausted. They’ve been up all night burning a Viking galley.   In neighboring Orkney, they’re a...
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Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to... We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind....
7 months ago
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Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to Humanity (1978)

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7 months ago
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
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Home on Erik...
Snakebite Just promoting Spotify stuff here: check out the Snakebite repo on Github, written by Wouter de Bie....
over a year ago
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Snakebite

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Just promoting Spotify stuff here: check out the Snakebite repo on Github, written by Wouter de Bie. It's a super fast tool to access HDFS over CLI/Python, by accessing the namenode directly over sockets/protobuf. Spotify's developer blog features a nice blog post outlining what...
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Seth's Blog
At all costs Principles have a priority. Isaac Asimov’s three rules of robotics were: First LawA robot may not...
8 months ago
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At all costs

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

8 months ago
Principles have a priority. Isaac Asimov’s three rules of robotics were: First LawA robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Second LawA robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would...
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Making software...
First Letter Pseudo Element First Letter Pseudo Element 2019-05-03 In today's TypeTip we will be taking a look at the often...
over a year ago
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First Letter Pseudo Element

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
First Letter Pseudo Element 2019-05-03 In today's TypeTip we will be taking a look at the often overlooked :first-letter CSS pseudo element. Though you might only use this for specific article-format web pages, it's still a nice-to-have in your web dev toolset. The HTML Like most...
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Londonist
Review: Fantasy: Realms Of The Imagination At The British Library The genre finally gets the exhibition it deserves.
a year ago
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Review: Fantasy: Realms Of The Imagination At The British Library

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a year ago
The genre finally gets the exhibition it deserves.
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TheCollector
70-Year-Old Mystery of Stolen Van Dyck Sketch Solved In 1951, an original oil sketch by Anthony van Dyck disappeared from an English country estate—only...
3 months ago
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70-Year-Old Mystery of Stolen Van Dyck Sketch Solved

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
In 1951, an original oil sketch by Anthony van Dyck disappeared from an English country estate—only to mysteriously reappear across the pond a few years later. Now, just over seven decades later, an art history professor has finally cracked the case.   The Origin of the Stolen...
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Posts on Made of...
Indices point between elements If you’re familiar with nearly any mainstream programming language, and I asked you to draw a...
over a year ago
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Indices point between elements

from Posts on Made of Bugs [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
If you’re familiar with nearly any mainstream programming language, and I asked you to draw a diagram of an array, the array indices, and the array elements, odds are good you’d produce a diagram something like this: In this post, I want to persuade you to replace that image, or,...
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Trying to Understand...
Digging Deeper. Because the alternative is worse.
2 weeks ago
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Digging Deeper.

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2 weeks ago
Because the alternative is worse.
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Paul Graham: Essays
What I've Learned from Hacker News
over a year ago
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What I've Learned from Hacker News

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over a year ago
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History Today Feed
‘The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism’ by Martyn Percy review ‘The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism’ by Martyn Percy review JamesHoare Wed, 04/02/2025 - 09:13
3 months ago
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‘The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism’ by Martyn Percy review

from History Today Feed [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
‘The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism’ by Martyn Percy review JamesHoare Wed, 04/02/2025 - 09:13
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Tumultuous Evolution of the Design Profession Via Jeremy Keith’s link blog I found this article: Elizabeth Goodspeed on why graphic designers...
2 months ago
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The Tumultuous Evolution of the Design Profession

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 months ago
Via Jeremy Keith’s link blog I found this article: Elizabeth Goodspeed on why graphic designers can’t stop joking about hating their jobs. It’s about the disillusionment of designers since the ~2010s. Having ridden that wave myself, there’s a lot of very relatable stuff in there...
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Escaping Flatland
A summary of what I wrote in 2024 A man sets out to draw the world.
7 months ago
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A summary of what I wrote in 2024

from Escaping Flatland [alt+shift+b] in literature

7 months ago
A man sets out to draw the world.
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Dan Quach Blog
The Unexpected $30,000 Benefit of the Pandemic: Haircuts During the early pandemic, a topic came up I never thought I would need to worry about. Who would...
a year ago
70

The Unexpected $30,000 Benefit of the Pandemic: Haircuts

from Dan Quach Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
During the early pandemic, a topic came up I never thought I would need to worry about. Who would cut my hair? My Asian hair is a bit funky where it is similar to Wolverine in X-men. After a couple weeks the sides get really pointy and uncomfortable so I would go to the barber...
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
How to replace useState with useRef and be a winner React state is the bread and butter of a react app — it's what makes your app dynamic. React state...
over a year ago
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How to replace useState with useRef and be a winner

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
React state is the bread and butter of a react app — it's what makes your app dynamic. React state lives in useState, useReducer or in this.state of a class component, and changing it updates your app. But then there's a vast ocean of state not managed by React. This includes...
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Platformer
The unbearable slowness of Meta's Oversight Board A 234-day wait to get a ruling in a case about incitement to violence suggests that something...
a year ago
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The unbearable slowness of Meta's Oversight Board

from Platformer [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
A 234-day wait to get a ruling in a case about incitement to violence suggests that something important is broken
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Rest of World -...
Argentina’s Mercado Pago is like Venmo plus investing Latin America’s answer to Venmo helps Argentines survive sky-high inflation.
over a year ago
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Argentina’s Mercado Pago is like Venmo plus investing

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
Latin America’s answer to Venmo helps Argentines survive sky-high inflation.
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Handprinted - Blog
Screen Printing with Permaset Puff Paste Puff Paste is a great way to add a little something extra to your fabric prints! It adds depth and...
over a year ago
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Screen Printing with Permaset Puff Paste

from Handprinted - Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

over a year ago
Puff Paste is a great way to add a little something extra to your fabric prints! It adds depth and texture and is so much fun to use. In this project, we have exposed a screen and used it to print with Puff Paste onto a tote bag: Half-fill the coating trough with photo emulsion....
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Mazdak
CPP vs OAS: Understanding Canada's Core Retirement Benefits 🇨🇦 Canada's retirement income system consists of two major public pension programs: the Canada Pension...
8 months ago
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CPP vs OAS: Understanding Canada's Core Retirement Benefits 🇨🇦

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

8 months ago
Canada's retirement income system consists of two major public pension programs: the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and Old Age Security (OAS).
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TheCollector
What the Sanctuary of Odysseus Reveals About Ancient Greek Beliefs What if the myths you know are hiding deeper truths? For thousands of years, Odysseus—the legendary...
3 weeks ago
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What the Sanctuary of Odysseus Reveals About Ancient Greek Beliefs

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 weeks ago
What if the myths you know are hiding deeper truths? For thousands of years, Odysseus—the legendary king of Ithaca and hero of Homer’s Odyssey—has captured the imaginations of people worldwide. Now, thanks to modern archaeological discoveries on the storied Greek island, the gap...
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devonzuegel.com
Property values should be normalized by acre In the US, it's common for local governments to focus on tax revenue produced by a property, without...
12 months ago
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Property values should be normalized by acre

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12 months ago
In the US, it's common for local governments to focus on tax revenue produced by a property, without considering the costs it adds to the city's budget. This is like measuring how far a car can drive without considering how much gas it uses to get there. Different properties...
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Flashbak
Historical Figures in Ridiculous Frippery: Ruff Love For Old Masters “If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you...
6 months ago
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Historical Figures in Ridiculous Frippery: Ruff Love For Old Masters

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

6 months ago
“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask… with nothing beneath it?” — Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes     Volker Hermes lampoons traditional...
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Mark Manson
5 Best Personal Traits for Life https://youtu.be/kDqQGogavmY What if I told you there's a hidden treasure trove of personal traits...
over a year ago
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5 Best Personal Traits for Life

from Mark Manson [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
https://youtu.be/kDqQGogavmY What if I told you there's a hidden treasure trove of personal traits that could turn your life around? Are you curious? Are you dying to know what they are? Are you wondering why I'm asking so many questions instead of getting to the point? OK,...
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mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 6 Highlights TinyPilot had another record-breaking month, with $15k in revenue. I sold $1.1k in...
over a year ago
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TinyPilot: Month 6

from mtlynch.io [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago
Highlights TinyPilot had another record-breaking month, with $15k in revenue. I sold $1.1k in pre-orders for my first ever video course. My attempt to slow down sales ended up doing the opposite. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish....
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Louwrentius
Setup a VPN on your iPhone with OpenVPN and Linux ⚠️ 🚨 Update 2024 🚨⚠️ I'm not using OpenVPN anymore for my VPN needs and this article is considered...
over a year ago
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Setup a VPN on your iPhone with OpenVPN and Linux

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
⚠️ 🚨 Update 2024 🚨⚠️ I'm not using OpenVPN anymore for my VPN needs and this article is considered unmaintained. It's stronly recommended not to use this tutorial and find up-to-date documentation. I also have no plans to update this blogpost in the future. [Update 2018] This...
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TheCollector
Paulo Freire’s Philosophy of Education: An In-Depth Guide If you’re an educator, student, or just someone who loves to learn, it’s worth checking out Paulo...
3 months ago
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Paulo Freire’s Philosophy of Education: An In-Depth Guide

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3 months ago
If you’re an educator, student, or just someone who loves to learn, it’s worth checking out Paulo Freire. His educational philosophy changed the game. Freire believed that teaching shouldn’t be about bossing kids around—and that schools shouldn’t reproduce systems of oppression....
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Rest of World -...
What languages dominate the internet? The one you’re reading this in, for starters.
over a year ago
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What languages dominate the internet?

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
The one you’re reading this in, for starters.
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Old Structures...
Discussing Immigrants Elsewhere That’s discussion elsewhere about immigrants here, not discussion here about immigrants somewhere...
a year ago
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Discussing Immigrants Elsewhere

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
That’s discussion elsewhere about immigrants here, not discussion here about immigrants somewhere else. I’m at the 8th International Congress on Construction History this week, where I hope to learn a lot about past design and construction practice. I have certainly learned much...
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Steve Klabnik
How do you find the time?
over a year ago
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How do you find the time?

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
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alexwlchan
Snippets to manage albums in Photos.app Recently I’ve been building some tools to help me manage my photo collection, and part of that...
over a year ago
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Snippets to manage albums in Photos.app

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Recently I’ve been building some tools to help me manage my photo collection, and part of that involves moving photos in and out of albums. The tool I’ve built is very specific to my workflow and unlikely to be immediately useful to anyone else, but I thought some of the code for...
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Paul Cudenec
Truth, essence, knowledge and light Being criticised or insulted by your political enemies is not too difficult to cope with – after...
7 months ago
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Truth, essence, knowledge and light

from Paul Cudenec [alt+shift+b] in life

7 months ago
Being criticised or insulted by your political enemies is not too difficult to cope with – after all, you do not really care what they think of you.
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PostHog's RSS Feed
8 annoying A/B testing mistakes every engineer should know 1. Including unaffected users in your experiment The first common mistake in A/B testing is...
over a year ago
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8 annoying A/B testing mistakes every engineer should know

from PostHog's RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
1. Including unaffected users in your experiment The first common mistake in A/B testing is including users in your experiment who aren't actually…
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Escaping Flatland
Caring for others At Kastrup Airport in Copenhagen, I see a passport fall out of the back pocket of a man and...
a month ago
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Caring for others

from Escaping Flatland [alt+shift+b] in literature

a month ago
At Kastrup Airport in Copenhagen, I see a passport fall out of the back pocket of a man and immediately (at least) three strangers call out.
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The American Scholar
As I Walked Out One Morning The post As I Walked Out One Morning appeared first on The American Scholar.
8 months ago
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As I Walked Out One Morning

from The American Scholar [alt+shift+b] in literature

8 months ago
The post As I Walked Out One Morning appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Neil Madden
The square roots of all evil Every programmer knows Donald Knuth’s famous quote that “premature optimization is the root of all...
7 months ago
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The square roots of all evil

from Neil Madden [alt+shift+b] in technology

7 months ago
Every programmer knows Donald Knuth’s famous quote that “premature optimization is the root of all evil”, from his 1974 Turing Award lecture (pdf). A fuller quotation of the surrounding context gives a rounder view: I am sorry to say that many people nowadays are condemning...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Caveman Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This caption works for most comics, and makes them...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Caveman

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This caption works for most comics, and makes them a lot nicer. Today's News: I'll be at CulpeperCon today, if you're in central Virginia and want to say hi.
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Style over Substance
Our favorite places to eat and drinks during our Portugal vacation In the summer of 2023, we went on an amazing trip through Portugal. We’d already visited Lisbon on a...
a year ago
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Our favorite places to eat and drinks during our Portugal vacation

from Style over Substance [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
In the summer of 2023, we went on an amazing trip through Portugal. We’d already visited Lisbon on a short city trip a few years earlier, and that experience was so good we knew we had to return. This time, we decided to take a full three weeks and see the sights. We were...
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charity.wtf
Generative AI is not going to build your engineering team for you Originally posted on the Stack Overflow blog on June 10th, 2024 When I was 19 years old, I dropped...
a year ago
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Generative AI is not going to build your engineering team for you

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Originally posted on the Stack Overflow blog on June 10th, 2024 When I was 19 years old, I dropped out of college and moved to San Francisco. I had a job offer in hand to be a Unix sysadmin for Taos Consulting. However, before my first day of work I was lured away to a […]
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Tinloof - Blog
Yeah hooks are good, but have you tried faster React Components? This article is not meant to perf-shame you. If you’re a beginner in React, don’t focus on...
over a year ago
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Yeah hooks are good, but have you tried faster React Components?

from Tinloof - Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
This article is not meant to perf-shame you. If you’re a beginner in React, don’t focus on performance issues but rather on getting comfortable and productive with it. The performance of a React application can be defined by how long the user should wait before seeing the UI...
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AFAR Media - Travel...
The Ultimate Guide for Solo Travelers: Exploring This Beach Destination
a year ago
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The Ultimate Guide for Solo Travelers: Exploring This Beach Destination

from AFAR Media - Travel Stories, News, Reviews, Tips + Guides [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
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TheCollector
Discover Caral-Supe: The Cradle of Civilization in the Americas Cradles of civilization are regions where humans developed complex social systems independently....
3 weeks ago
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Discover Caral-Supe: The Cradle of Civilization in the Americas

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 weeks ago
Cradles of civilization are regions where humans developed complex social systems independently. There are six accepted cradles of civilization: Egypt, India, Mesopotamia, China, Olmec, and Caral-Supe. The first societies all formed around agriculture. The Caral-Supe, who emerged...
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ On a Low and a High A few days separate us from our time at Canyon of the Ancients and our last camp from this fall...
over a year ago
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✏️ On a Low and a High

from Naz Hamid — Journal + Links [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago
A few days separate us from our time at Canyon of the Ancients and our last camp from this fall trip. After a mangled tale of an ER (mis)visit and a return for refuge at Sage Canyon (this time camping just outside the Workshop Loft — thank you, Grant, for the use of your bathroom...
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The Rational Walk
Will Berkshire Hathaway Pay a Dividend? Investors have been debating the dividend question for decades. So far, shareholders have been well...
a year ago
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Will Berkshire Hathaway Pay a Dividend?

from The Rational Walk [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
Investors have been debating the dividend question for decades. So far, shareholders have been well served by Warren Buffett's reluctance to send out dividend checks.
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abdz.do - Have you...
Brand Identity & System definition for Traffic-Productions.de Brand Identity & System definition for Traffic-Productions.de ...
over a year ago
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Brand Identity & System definition for Traffic-Productions.de

from abdz.do - Have you given up on being inspired? [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
Brand Identity & System definition for Traffic-Productions.de AoiroStudio0206—23 Hrvoje Grubisic is a creative director and the founder of HOLOGRAPHIK®. The team at HOLOGRAPHIK® specializes in developing brand and visual identities for clients...
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Archinect - Features
On Becoming a Professional: Letter to an Architecture Student Dear Student, I suspect you’ve already encountered most of the conventional advice—the familiar...
3 months ago
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On Becoming a Professional: Letter to an Architecture Student

from Archinect - Features [alt+shift+b] in architecture

3 months ago
Dear Student, I suspect you’ve already encountered most of the conventional advice—the familiar platitudes repeated endlessly in classrooms, critiques, and career talks. Work hard. Stay disciplined. Develop your craft. Each phrase is earnest, and each contains some truth, but...
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CONTEMPORIST
Plants Were Integrated Into This Home’s Design To Give It The Feeling Of A Tropical Resort Wallflower Architecture + Design has shared photos of a home they recently completed in Novena,...
a year ago
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Plants Were Integrated Into This Home’s Design To Give It The Feeling Of A Tropical Resort

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Wallflower Architecture + Design has shared photos of a home they recently completed in Novena, Singapore, that integrates plants into its design. Located in a residential area in the middle of the city, the house sits on a fan-shaped property and has been designed to reflect the...
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Mazdak
Whatever Happens to TikTok, Big Tech is Coming for Its Millions of Creators TikTok, the platform that redefined short-form video and became a cultural phenomenon, is now facing...
5 months ago
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Whatever Happens to TikTok, Big Tech is Coming for Its Millions of Creators

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

5 months ago
TikTok, the platform that redefined short-form video and became a cultural phenomenon, is now facing an uncertain future in the United States.
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Ruud van Asseldonk
The yaml document from hell
over a year ago
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The yaml document from hell

from Ruud van Asseldonk [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
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Josh Thompson
How To Write A Letter of Recommendation for Yourself I meet regularly with early-career software developers. A few recurring meetings, 1x/week, plus...
over a year ago
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How To Write A Letter of Recommendation for Yourself

from Josh Thompson [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago
I meet regularly with early-career software developers. A few recurring meetings, 1x/week, plus ad-hoc calls as needed with others. A question came up recently: My three-month internship is close to wrapping up. The Co-founder/CEO/lead developer of the consulting company I’m at...
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Steve Klabnik
A new introduction to Rust
over a year ago
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A new introduction to Rust

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over a year ago
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swyx's site RSS Feed
BHAGs Recently, [I asked tweeple](https://mobile.twitter.com/swyx/status/1158902677289472001):
over a year ago
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BHAGs

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Recently, [I asked tweeple](https://mobile.twitter.com/swyx/status/1158902677289472001):
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Londonist
Just 18 Pictures Of Modernist Tube Stations Looking Dreamy They don't make 'em like they used to.
a year ago
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Just 18 Pictures Of Modernist Tube Stations Looking Dreamy

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
They don't make 'em like they used to.
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The personal website...
Practice makes perfect Professional baker/member of my band Jake at a band retreat recently, practicing. Editor’s note: I...
over a year ago
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Practice makes perfect

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
Professional baker/member of my band Jake at a band retreat recently, practicing. Editor’s note: I think this falls under the heading of ‘conventional wisdom.’ In addition, I’m walking a fine line between ‘self-help’ and ‘beating a dead horse.’ Perhaps poorly. Bear with me. I do...
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Open Culture
An Introduction to The Babylonian Map of the World–the Oldest Known Map of the World Taking a first glance at the Babylonian Map of the World, few of us could recognize it for what it...
11 months ago
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An Introduction to The Babylonian Map of the World–the Oldest Known Map of the World

from Open Culture [alt+shift+b] in creative

11 months ago
Taking a first glance at the Babylonian Map of the World, few of us could recognize it for what it is. But then again, few of us are anything like the British Museum Middle East department curator Irving Finkel, whose vast knowledge (and ability to share it compellingly) have...
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Hixie's Natural Log
Flutter: Static analysis of sample code snippets in API docs One of the things I am particularly proud of with Flutter is the quality of our API documentation....
a year ago
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Flutter: Static analysis of sample code snippets in API docs

from Hixie's Natural Log [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
One of the things I am particularly proud of with Flutter is the quality of our API documentation. With Flutter's web support, we're even able to literally inline full sample applications into the API docs and have them literally editable and executable inline. For example,...
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Platformer
Instagram's co-founders are mounting a comeback EXCLUSIVE: Meet Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text
over a year ago
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Instagram's co-founders are mounting a comeback

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over a year ago
EXCLUSIVE: Meet Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text
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History Today Feed
‘Miracles and Wonder’ by Elaine Pagels review ‘Miracles and Wonder’ by Elaine Pagels review JamesHoare Wed, 06/11/2025 - 07:00
a month ago
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‘Miracles and Wonder’ by Elaine Pagels review

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a month ago
‘Miracles and Wonder’ by Elaine Pagels review JamesHoare Wed, 06/11/2025 - 07:00
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Piotr Migdał's Blog
king - man + woman is queen; but why? Words, vectors, analogies and conceptual metaphors - the linear space of word2vec and GloVe. Or: how...
over a year ago
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king - man + woman is queen; but why?

from Piotr Migdał's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
Words, vectors, analogies and conceptual metaphors - the linear space of word2vec and GloVe. Or: how to change gender with a vector.
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TheCollector
Don Quixote: Was the First Modern Novel Born in Captivity? First published in 1605, Don Quixote is considered by many to be the first modern novel. Because of...
4 months ago
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Don Quixote: Was the First Modern Novel Born in Captivity?

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4 months ago
First published in 1605, Don Quixote is considered by many to be the first modern novel. Because of this, it is still widely read and beloved over 400 years later. However, the daunting nature and outdated language of the massive text preclude many from having more than a passing...
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Paul Graham: Essays
The Hundred-Year Language
over a year ago
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The Hundred-Year Language

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over a year ago
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Matt Mullenweg
Status Quo I wrote over on WordPress.org about breaking the status quo with a Joost/Karim fork. It’s a perfect...
6 months ago
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Status Quo

from Matt Mullenweg [alt+shift+b] in technology

6 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.
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HTMHell
A link on a logo in the header, what should the alt-text be? by Rian Rietveld It's a common pattern to use a logo in the header as a link to the homepage. Fun...
7 months ago
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A link on a logo in the header, what should the alt-text be?

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

7 months ago
by Rian Rietveld It's a common pattern to use a logo in the header as a link to the homepage. Fun fact: the alt text of the image inside a link, will be added to the link text. The problem with linking a logo is that it serves 2 purposes: a logo, that tells you which site you are...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Let’s Talk About Cement Industry is responsible for 23% of carbon emissions, close to the amount of electricity production...
a year ago
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Let’s Talk About Cement

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a year ago
Industry is responsible for 23% of carbon emissions, close to the amount of electricity production (25%) and transportation (28%). We talk a lot about transportation and energy, but industrial carbon is a harder nut to crack. Also, the 23% is direct carbon release from industrial...
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The Works in...
Should you infect yourself with Zika? What life is like in a challenge trial
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Should you infect yourself with Zika?

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a year ago
What life is like in a challenge trial
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Nela Dunato Art &...
How can selling services be easy? I find selling easy, but it has nothing to do with my “ability to sell”. I’m not a good sales...
over a year ago
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How can selling services be easy?

from Nela Dunato Art & Design [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
I find selling easy, but it has nothing to do with my “ability to sell”. I’m not a good sales person. I’d hate doing a sales job for a living. But I happen to do a lot of other things that remove all the pressure from the sales conversation. I do the hard work in the marketing...
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Thu Le
Stubborn determination What music hunts, design struggles, and running have in common.
3 months ago
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Stubborn determination

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3 months ago
What music hunts, design struggles, and running have in common.
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Computer Things
Solving a math problem with planner programming The deadline for the logic book is coming up! I'm hoping to have it ready for early access by either...
a year ago
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Solving a math problem with planner programming

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
The deadline for the logic book is coming up! I'm hoping to have it ready for early access by either the end of this week or early next week. During a break on Monday I saw this interesting problem on Math Stack Exchange: Suppose that at the beginning there is a blank document,...
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James Vaughan's blog
Introducing: json-space-analyzer
a year ago
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Introducing: json-space-analyzer

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a year ago
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Software patents should be abolished The alleged societal benefit of patent law is that it creates a financial incentive to innovate....
over a year ago
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Software patents should be abolished

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over a year ago
The alleged societal benefit of patent law is that it creates a financial incentive to innovate.  The societal drawback is that it reduces…
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Applied Cartography
Why can't you just...? Buried in a snarky thread about why Google Calendar doesn’t support calendar syncing is a long,...
a year ago
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Why can't you just...?

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a year ago
Buried in a snarky thread about why Google Calendar doesn’t support calendar syncing is a long, detailed explanation of why shipping this sort of thing is hard: Designing a consent experience for the enterprise admin and enterprise end user Creating a special "read only" object...
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
What Do Hospitals Care About? | Out-Of-Pocket Let’s look at three big priorities and a real hospital
5 months ago
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What Do Hospitals Care About? | Out-Of-Pocket

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5 months ago
Let’s look at three big priorities and a real hospital
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Both Are True
how can I write when *gestures at…everything* between certainty and silence, a third path "forward"
4 months ago
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how can I write when *gestures at…everything*

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4 months ago
between certainty and silence, a third path "forward"
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Joel Gascoigne
What can we do right now? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently there...
over a year ago
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What can we do right now?

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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently there have been a few occasions at Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] where we’ve hesitated about next steps or thought about spending longer on certain tasks. As a result of my thinking...
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Open Culture
Compare the “It Ain’t Me Babe” Scene from A Complete Unknown to the Real Bob Dylan & Joan Baez... A Complete Unknown, the new movie about Bob Dylan’s rise in the folk-music scene of the early...
6 months ago
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Compare the “It Ain’t Me Babe” Scene from A Complete Unknown to the Real Bob Dylan & Joan Baez Performance at the Newport Folk Festival

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6 months ago
A Complete Unknown, the new movie about Bob Dylan’s rise in the folk-music scene of the early nineteen-sixties and subsequent electrified break with it, has been praised for not taking excessive liberties, at least by the standards of popular music biopics. Its conversion of a...
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Musings on Maps
Floating Sargasso Sea Mapped from the Canaries to the West Indies, against a blank background, the Sargassum Belt seems...
over a year ago
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Floating Sargasso Sea

from Musings on Maps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

over a year ago
Mapped from the Canaries to the West Indies, against a blank background, the Sargassum Belt seems removed from the levels of phosphorous of our coastal oceans leaving the high density of its thirteen million tons on a blank screen as the latest whacky disturbance of the...
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Flashbak
The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906 Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka...
a year ago
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The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906

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a year ago
Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka The Cynic’s Word Book, consists of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions. The book was a compilation of Bierce’s columns for The Wasp (1881–1860 plus) and The...
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Dominik Sobe's...
My 2020 Annual Review
over a year ago
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My 2020 Annual Review

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over a year ago
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Atoms vs Bits
Alien Intelligence Housecats give us the most realistic insight to what it would be like to encounter space aliens.
over a year ago
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Alien Intelligence

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over a year ago
Housecats give us the most realistic insight to what it would be like to encounter space aliens.
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Aaron's Essays
I and We Starting a company is, in large part, an act of ego. When that business is a startup, the ego...
over a year ago
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I and We

from Aaron's Essays [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
Starting a company is, in large part, an act of ego. When that business is a startup, the ego component is even larger. This is a good thing. Ego is what gives the founder the confidence to create something new. Ego powers the belief that the new thing the founder creates will...
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Alex Meub
Protect Your Wireless Network Short of leaving your wireless network open, the Wifi Protected Setup (WPS) vulnerability is...
over a year ago
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Protect Your Wireless Network

from Alex Meub [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Short of leaving your wireless network open, the Wifi Protected Setup (WPS) vulnerability is probably the single biggest security hole on any home wireless network. About WiFi Protected Setup WiFi Protected Setup is a security standard that comes enabled by default on many...
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bt RSS Feed
Sharing The Things We Use Sharing The Things We Use 2021-07-24 I always love stumbling across personal websites that include...
over a year ago
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Sharing The Things We Use

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Sharing The Things We Use 2021-07-24 I always love stumbling across personal websites that include some form of a “uses” page. A place where the author lists out all the tools they use on a regular basis - whether it be hardware, software or something else entirely. It allows...
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Elevation Lab - Blog
A newer, better, ElevationDock Today we launched an update to our iPhone dock. It's wider to fit a bigger generation of phones,...
over a year ago
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A newer, better, ElevationDock

from Elevation Lab - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Today we launched an update to our iPhone dock. It's wider to fit a bigger generation of phones, ships with an Apple-certified Lightning connector (that you can assemble in seconds with the new tool-free back plate), and we've added some new lateral supports for added...
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Arduino Blog
Build your own smart pet feeder with the Arduino Plug and Make Kit If you are a pet owner, you know how important it is to keep furry companions fed and happy – even...
5 months ago
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Build your own smart pet feeder with the Arduino Plug and Make Kit

from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

5 months ago
If you are a pet owner, you know how important it is to keep furry companions fed and happy – even when life gets busy! With the Arduino Plug and Make Kit, you can now build a customizable, smart pet feeder that dispenses food on schedule and can be controlled remotely. It’s the...
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Rest of World -...
Nigeria’s currency devaluation is a disaster for startups “So many businesses will die. It’s not a matter of if but when.”
a year ago
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Nigeria’s currency devaluation is a disaster for startups

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a year ago
“So many businesses will die. It’s not a matter of if but when.”
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Ryan Hoover's...
The accountability experiment
a year ago
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The accountability experiment

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a year ago
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Quanta Magazine
The Mathematician Who Finds the Poetry in Math and the Math in Poetry The links between math, music and art have been explored for thousands of years. Sarah Hart is now...
a year ago
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The Mathematician Who Finds the Poetry in Math and the Math in Poetry

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a year ago
The links between math, music and art have been explored for thousands of years. Sarah Hart is now turning a mathematical eye to literature. The post The Mathematician Who Finds the Poetry in Math and the Math in Poetry first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Minimalissimo Shop V2 The second project of the year has successfully shipped: Minimalissimo Shop Version 2. I don’t know...
over a year ago
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Minimalissimo Shop V2

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over a year ago
The second project of the year has successfully shipped: Minimalissimo Shop Version 2. I don’t know why I held WordPress in such high regard for so many years—it’s Starbucks of the CMS world. So migrating my sites over to Kirby is a great feeling. The latest of which was the...
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The Rational Walk
Coffee Can Investing Sometimes an investing approach that is not necessarily "rational" from an economic perspective can...
a year ago
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Coffee Can Investing

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a year ago
Sometimes an investing approach that is not necessarily "rational" from an economic perspective can produce superior results when one accounts for human nature.
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Seth's Blog
Getting AI to do your work That’s the first step, certainly. If you don’t, your boss will. The second step is to take the time...
10 months ago
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Getting AI to do your work

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

10 months ago
That’s the first step, certainly. If you don’t, your boss will. The second step is to take the time you’ve freed up and do work that the AI can’t do.
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Ralph Ammer
J.J. Gibson—The meaning of the world A quick introduction for beginners to J.J. Gibson's ecological approach to visual perception. Gibson...
over a year ago
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J.J. Gibson—The meaning of the world

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over a year ago
A quick introduction for beginners to J.J. Gibson's ecological approach to visual perception. Gibson was an American pragmatist and psychologist. The post J.J. Gibson—The meaning of the world appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
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bt RSS Feed
Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge 2020-09-09 I almost went down the path of investing a huge amount...
over a year ago
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Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge 2020-09-09 I almost went down the path of investing a huge amount of time and effort into fixing a stuck oil fuel tank float-gauge in my house. Recently, the float mechanism became stuck and permanently displayed empty regardless of how much...
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Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 Lots of interesting discussions after Sam Altman got fired from OpenAI. One of the interesting...
a year ago
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week

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a year ago
#1 💡 Lots of interesting discussions after Sam Altman got fired from OpenAI. One of the interesting themes: What does the guy actually do? Is he actually important for the company? Surely other people, the technicians, are responsible for the breakthroughs, right?
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Scheduling, Medicaid Opportunities, and Health MBAs with Sandy Varatharajah | Out-Of-Pocket misconceptions, opportunities, and more
a year ago
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Scheduling, Medicaid Opportunities, and Health MBAs with Sandy Varatharajah | Out-Of-Pocket

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a year ago
misconceptions, opportunities, and more
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mtlynch.io
Educational Products: Month 2 Highlights I learned a few techniques that make it easier for me to record videos for my course....
11 months ago
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Educational Products: Month 2

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11 months ago
Highlights I learned a few techniques that make it easier for me to record videos for my course. I’ve decided I don’t need to use a Merchant of Record service. I’ve integrated htmx into my standard toolkit for making web applications. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I...
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Willem's Blog
Limitations of sleep tracking using a wearable Limitations of heart rate analyses during sleep, why you should reconsider tracking your sleep.
over a year ago
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Limitations of sleep tracking using a wearable

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over a year ago
Limitations of heart rate analyses during sleep, why you should reconsider tracking your sleep.
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Abishek Muthian
Legal The legal terms mentioned here covers abishekmuthian.com and products which explicitly link to this...
over a year ago
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Legal

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over a year ago
The legal terms mentioned here covers abishekmuthian.com and products which explicitly link to this legal page. For legal terms of my individual products please refer to the legal section on their respective websites. Privacy Policy What personal data are collected and why its...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Time Travel Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later, things take a Heinleinian twist for the...
over a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Time Travel

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later, things take a Heinleinian twist for the horrible. Today's News:
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Left To Write
Fresh&Thick Exploring Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Theory of Stupidity in the age of social media
over a year ago
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Fresh&Thick

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over a year ago
Exploring Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Theory of Stupidity in the age of social media
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Archinect - Features
2025 Summer Architecture Programs for Kids and High School Students Looking for an engaging way to introduce your child to architecture this summer? Or are you a high...
4 months ago
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2025 Summer Architecture Programs for Kids and High School Students

from Archinect - Features [alt+shift+b] in architecture

4 months ago
Looking for an engaging way to introduce your child to architecture this summer? Or are you a high school student eager to explore design and gain pre-college experience? Archinect’s 2025 roundup of summer architecture programs offers a curated selection of courses, workshops,...
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Both Are True
sex stories all real from my life
3 months ago
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sex stories

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3 months ago
all real from my life
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The Pragmatic...
Working at a Startup vs in Big Tech A software engineer I worked in the same team with at Uber has gone back-and-forth between startups...
a year ago
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Working at a Startup vs in Big Tech

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
A software engineer I worked in the same team with at Uber has gone back-and-forth between startups and large companies. Willem Spruijt shares the good, the bad and the ugly, about both environments.
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Nothing Human
Marl Meetups it is a truth universally acknowledged: a man with a mailing list must organize a meetup
a year ago
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Marl Meetups

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a year ago
it is a truth universally acknowledged: a man with a mailing list must organize a meetup
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xkcd.com
The Roads Both Taken
2 months ago
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The Roads Both Taken

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2 months ago
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Contemporist...
This Open Cabin Was Designed For Children Architecture Firm Imaginary Objects, has shared photos of a small child-friendly cabin they...
3 months ago
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This Open Cabin Was Designed For Children

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3 months ago
Architecture Firm Imaginary Objects, has shared photos of a small child-friendly cabin they completed in Chonburi, Thailand, that's inspired by the spirit of a treehouse.
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Louwrentius
Linux RAID 6 performance using software RAID So after toying around with RAID 0 just for fun, time to get serious. I created a RAID 6 of 10 x 1...
over a year ago
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Linux RAID 6 performance using software RAID

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
So after toying around with RAID 0 just for fun, time to get serious. I created a RAID 6 of 10 x 1 TB disks. This gives me raw device read speeds of 850 MB/s and write speeds of 300 MB/s. I think this is exactly what should be expected, but boy it is damn fast. Especially the...
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 22, 2024 Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks...
a year ago
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Fireside Friday, March 22, 2024

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a year ago
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks as the coincidence of illness, the dense part of the teaching semester and unexpected travel are playing havoc on my schedule. I can only promise that we will finish the series on...
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journal – Winnie Lim
daring to be ugly I was quite vain when I was younger due to a low self-esteem which led to a high level of...
over a year ago
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daring to be ugly

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over a year ago
I was quite vain when I was younger due to a low self-esteem which led to a high level of insecurity. That insecurity made me feel ugly and that I was never...
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somenice
Untitled
11 months ago
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Untitled

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11 months ago
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Passing Time
A Morning and Night in the Desert These moments in time seem to have a higher density than usual.
over a year ago
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A Morning and Night in the Desert

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over a year ago
These moments in time seem to have a higher density than usual.
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Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
over a year ago
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Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp

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over a year ago
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Fonts In Use – Blog...
WAR IS OVER! (If You Want It) Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: entertainment.ha.com License: All Rights Reserved. Original...
over a year ago
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WAR IS OVER! (If You Want It)

from Fonts In Use – Blog Only [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: entertainment.ha.com License: All Rights Reserved. Original WAR IS OVER! postcard. The War Is Over! campaign for peace was launched 50 years ago this week by Yoko Ono & John Lennon. On December 15, 1969, a series of billboards, leaflets,...
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Fathy Boundjadj
Forking Chrome to turn HTML into SVG I've been working on a program called html2svg, it converts web pages to SVG. It's based on a fork...
over a year ago
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Forking Chrome to turn HTML into SVG

from Fathy Boundjadj [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I've been working on a program called html2svg, it converts web pages to SVG. It's based on a fork of Chromium to support modern web standards. This post explains most patches. Take a picture Chromium is built on top of Blink: an HTML engine forked from WebKit, and Skia: a 2D...
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Tech and Tea
Comparison and joy: a complicated relationship Comparison from a place of enough-ness
over a year ago
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Comparison and joy: a complicated relationship

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over a year ago
Comparison from a place of enough-ness
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Open Culture
Watch The Cure Perform a Three-Hour Concert in London, Celebrating the Release of Their New Album httpv://www.youtube.com/live/_aWDlaxvEZo Last Friday, The Cure celebrated the release of their new...
8 months ago
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Watch The Cure Perform a Three-Hour Concert in London, Celebrating the Release of Their New Album

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8 months ago
httpv://www.youtube.com/live/_aWDlaxvEZo Last Friday, The Cure celebrated the release of their new album, Songs of a Lost World, with a three-hour set at the Troxy in London. The band kicked off the show by performing all eight tracks from the album, before then playing another...
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A Smart Bear
p-Hacking your A/B tests Half of your "successful" A/B tests are false-positives. This is why, and how to fix it.
7 months ago
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p-Hacking your A/B tests

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

7 months ago
Half of your "successful" A/B tests are false-positives. This is why, and how to fix it.
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TheCollector
What Were the Cities Paul’s Letters Reached? The Apostle Paul, following his conversion to Christianity, became not only a literary champion for...
2 months ago
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What Were the Cities Paul’s Letters Reached?

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago
The Apostle Paul, following his conversion to Christianity, became not only a literary champion for the defense of the faith, but an evangelist who travelled throughout the Roman Empire establishing and encouraging churches in major cities.  According to Acts and Paul’s writings,...
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Arduino Blog
This maker designed a custom flight controller for his supercapacitor-powered drone Basic drones are very affordable these days—you can literally find some for less than the cost of a...
6 months ago
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This maker designed a custom flight controller for his supercapacitor-powered drone

from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

6 months ago
Basic drones are very affordable these days—you can literally find some for less than the cost of a fast food drive-thru meal. But that doesn’t mean drones are easy to control. That is actually quite difficult, but manufacturers are able to work off of established reference...
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journal – Winnie Lim
thoughts about human intelligence after watching korean game shows We started watching korean variety shows since they started appearing on Netflix. I think it started...
a month ago
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thoughts about human intelligence after watching korean game shows

from journal – Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life

a month ago
We started watching korean variety shows since they started appearing on Netflix. I think it started with Physical 100 which gave me the push I needed to get started on my own...
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The Pragmatic...
Why did Google close its coding competitions after 20 years? Why did the company do so? I’ve talked with people involved in organizing the competition for more...
over a year ago
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Why did Google close its coding competitions after 20 years?

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Why did the company do so? I’ve talked with people involved in organizing the competition for more details
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Anecdotal Evidence
'I Can't Quite Recall Your Name' My first high-school reunion was postponed for a year by the COVID-19 lockdown. We met in 2021 for...
5 months ago
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'I Can't Quite Recall Your Name'

from Anecdotal Evidence [alt+shift+b] in literature

5 months ago
My first high-school reunion was postponed for a year by the COVID-19 lockdown. We met in 2021 for the fifty-first at a supper club on the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland. Lake Erie was a hundred yards to the north and when conversation lagged, I could watch the ore boats moving down...
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TheCollector
What Did Karl Marx Say About Climate Change? Karl Marx didn’t say anything specific about climate change yet in many ways predicted it. Living...
2 months ago
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What Did Karl Marx Say About Climate Change?

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago
Karl Marx didn’t say anything specific about climate change yet in many ways predicted it. Living through the rise of the Industrial Revolution, he witnessed the emerging ecological consequences of rapid industrialization. In this context, he believed that the exploitation of...
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Weighty Thoughts
AI's Future in Lung Disease and Medicine A conversation with two radiologists—who are also experts in AI—about how AI can shape clinical...
7 months ago
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AI's Future in Lung Disease and Medicine

from Weighty Thoughts [alt+shift+b] in AI

7 months ago
A conversation with two radiologists—who are also experts in AI—about how AI can shape clinical practice and patient experiences
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The Rational Walk
Measuring Competence Measuring competence is straight forward in many fields, such as carpentry and dentistry, but not as...
9 months ago
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Measuring Competence

from The Rational Walk [alt+shift+b] in finance

9 months ago
Measuring competence is straight forward in many fields, such as carpentry and dentistry, but not as clear when it comes to investing.
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Yale E360
If software engineering roles were chess pieces, what would they be? Chess is booming, and tech is burning to the ground. It's inevitable, soon, that Chess is going to...
over a year ago
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If software engineering roles were chess pieces, what would they be?

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Chess is booming, and tech is burning to the ground. It's inevitable, soon, that Chess is going to acquire the entire tech industry. And when Chess acquires us, they'll replace us and take our software engineering jobs1. Then we'll be stuck playing their game, and we'll be...
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Anecdotal Evidence
"This, Books Can Do . . ." At age ten I attended the grand opening of the new public library in Parma Heights, Ohio, within...
4 months ago
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"This, Books Can Do . . ."

from Anecdotal Evidence [alt+shift+b] in literature

4 months ago
At age ten I attended the grand opening of the new public library in Parma Heights, Ohio, within easy walking distance of our house. Next door was Yorktown Lanes, the bowling alley dedicated two years earlier. Across the road was the municipal swimming pool where my mother had...
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Matt Blewitt
Building a PostgreSQL Extension, Line by Line I’ve been working on a particular problem - how to offer logical replication for a very large number...
a year ago
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Building a PostgreSQL Extension, Line by Line

from Matt Blewitt [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
I’ve been working on a particular problem - how to offer logical replication for a very large number of Postgres databases, where I don’t have the ability (or capacity) to liaise with the users of the databases one-to-one. In order to mitigate some of the limitations, I wanted to...
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exist
Continued Fraction Streams
over a year ago
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Continued Fraction Streams

from exist [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
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Both Are True
wait no that last email wasn't supposed to get cut off !!! this one has the May schedule for the BATCAVE 🦇🦇 Hey also should teach a workshop in how to send...
2 months ago
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wait no that last email wasn't supposed to get cut off !!!

from Both Are True [alt+shift+b] in life

2 months ago
this one has the May schedule for the BATCAVE 🦇🦇 Hey also should teach a workshop in how to send emails good and how you definitely should send a follow up immediately after that is KEY
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A Smart Bear
AI startups require new strategies: This time it's actually different The typical dynamics between startups and incumbents do not apply in AI as they did in previous...
a year ago
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AI startups require new strategies: This time it's actually different

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
The typical dynamics between startups and incumbents do not apply in AI as they did in previous technology revolutions like mobile and the Internet. Ignore this at your peril.
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Vadim Kravcenko
Contracts you should never sign When it comes to software engineering and the IT industry in general, contracts are a necessary part...
over a year ago
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Contracts you should never sign

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
When it comes to software engineering and the IT industry in general, contracts are a necessary part of doing business. […] The post Contracts you should never sign appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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nanoscale views
Science slow down - not a simple question I participated in a program about 15 years ago that looked at science and technology challenges...
a week ago
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Science slow down - not a simple question

from nanoscale views [alt+shift+b] in science

a week ago
I participated in a program about 15 years ago that looked at science and technology challenges faced by a subset of the US government. I came away thinking that such problems fall into three broad categories. Actual science and engineering challenges, which require...
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Atoms vs Bits
Privileges and Obligations Unfortunately they often come bundled together
over a year ago
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Privileges and Obligations

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over a year ago
Unfortunately they often come bundled together
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The Changelog
O, Sunlight! “O, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.” – Roman Payne There is much beauty in...
over a year ago
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O, Sunlight!

from The Changelog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
“O, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.” – Roman Payne There is much beauty in this world, much hope, much life. All we need to do is pause, breathe, and take a moment to see it. It might be as simple as the gift of sunlight. I hope you all have … Continue...
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Infinite Scroll
Internet Book Club: 'Because Internet' How the internet is changing the English language
4 months ago
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Internet Book Club: 'Because Internet'

from Infinite Scroll [alt+shift+b] in creative

4 months ago
How the internet is changing the English language
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Flashbak
Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles “My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
a year ago
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The making of pictures is to writing what laughing gas is to the Asian influenza.'” – Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death     Kurt Vonnegut liked to draw. Other writers, notably J.R.R....
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Language-Level Toll Roads I’m trying to put my finger on something, but I can’t quite figure out what it is — hence this post....
over a year ago
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Language-Level Toll Roads

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I’m trying to put my finger on something, but I can’t quite figure out what it is — hence this post. Maybe by the end of writing, I’ll have figured it out. Deno recently launched their KV storage. Being a fan of deno, I looked at it with interest. Here’s a sample: const kv =...
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
Zero-setup bundle size checker We all love keeping bundle size under control. There are many great tools that help you with that —...
over a year ago
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Zero-setup bundle size checker

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
We all love keeping bundle size under control. There are many great tools that help you with that — webpack-bundle-analyzer, bundlesize, size-limit, what not. But sometimes you you're lazy, or you're stuck choosing the tool, or the project is too small to justify spending extra...
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 048: The Robot Constitution January 5, 2024.
a year ago
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AI Roundup 048: The Robot Constitution

from Artificial Ignorance [alt+shift+b] in AI

a year ago
January 5, 2024.
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Commoncog
Mental Strength in Judo; Mental Strength in Life Results of a four month accelerated expertise experiment in Judo. Or: "I expected to learn about...
over a year ago
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Mental Strength in Judo; Mental Strength in Life

from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance

over a year ago
Results of a four month accelerated expertise experiment in Judo. Or: "I expected to learn about deliberate practice but instead learnt a ton about my mental shortcomings."
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Raptitude.com
Feedback is What Makes Everything Work The other day I closed a savings account at a tiny credit union branch. I expected it to take about...
a year ago
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Feedback is What Makes Everything Work

from Raptitude.com [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
The other day I closed a savings account at a tiny credit union branch. I expected it to take about five minutes, but the teller took so long that I started to experience time distortion. I knew it had been at least fifteen minutes, but perhaps it was much longer. Twenty-five...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bat Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You ever imagine how you'd feel if there were...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bat

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You ever imagine how you'd feel if there were constant fights between anonymous well-armed vigilante factions. Eventually everyone would just move to the suburbs. Today's News:
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Rest of World -...
Chinese EV sellers found a loophole to export cars around the world A gray market grows for Chinese EVs in Russia, the Middle East, and beyond.
a year ago
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Chinese EV sellers found a loophole to export cars around the world

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
A gray market grows for Chinese EVs in Russia, the Middle East, and beyond.
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Rest of World -...
The AI project pushing local languages to replace French in Mali’s schools RobotsMali uses ChatGPT, Google Translate, and other AI tools in hopes of helping young students...
a year ago
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The AI project pushing local languages to replace French in Mali’s schools

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
RobotsMali uses ChatGPT, Google Translate, and other AI tools in hopes of helping young students learn faster and stay in school.
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Rest of World -...
How Microsoft and the UAE got caught in the crossfire of the U.S.-China tech war Geopolitical tensions have ensnared Microsoft’s deal for AI company G42.
a year ago
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How Microsoft and the UAE got caught in the crossfire of the U.S.-China tech war

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
Geopolitical tensions have ensnared Microsoft’s deal for AI company G42.
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Blog posts of...
Managing Remote Teams - A Crash Course Hey folks, I haven’t been blogging for quite some time, so everything is a bit rusty for me, but i...
over a year ago
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Managing Remote Teams - A Crash Course

from Blog posts of Andreas Klinger [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
Hey folks, I haven’t been blogging for quite some time, so everything is a bit rusty for me, but i thought this article might be u...
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Louwrentius
Benchmarking cheap SSDs for fun, no profit (be warned) The price of Solid-state drives (SSDs) has dropped significantly over the last few years. It's now...
over a year ago
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Benchmarking cheap SSDs for fun, no profit (be warned)

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
The price of Solid-state drives (SSDs) has dropped significantly over the last few years. It's now possible to buy a 1TB solid-state drive for less than €60. However, at such low price points, there is a catch. Although cheap SSDs do perform fine regarding reads, sustained write...
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One Useful Thing
It is starting to get strange. Let's talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter & Microsoft Copilot
over a year ago
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It is starting to get strange.

from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
Let's talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter & Microsoft Copilot
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Seth's Blog
The missing post I had a great idea for a post, my best blogging of the year, in fact. I worked it all out when I was...
over a year ago
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The missing post

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

over a year ago
I had a great idea for a post, my best blogging of the year, in fact. I worked it all out when I was driving, but when I arrived, it was gone. Vanished. So I went searching for it, trying out dozens of possible ideas. I never found it. But I did find five other […]
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Arduino Blog
Export data from Arduino Cloud to AWS S3 Managing your IoT data just got a whole lot easier — Arduino Cloud, now lets you send your time...
6 months ago
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Export data from Arduino Cloud to AWS S3

from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

6 months ago
Managing your IoT data just got a whole lot easier — Arduino Cloud, now lets you send your time series data straight to AWS S3. With this seamless connection, organizing and analyzing your data is a breeze. In case you don’t know, Arduino Cloud is a robust, integrated platform...
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Jonas Hietala
Preventing Firefox from creating Desktop directories With a fresh firefox installation I found that it kept creating a ~/Desktop directory. But I found...
over a year ago
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Preventing Firefox from creating Desktop directories

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
With a fresh firefox installation I found that it kept creating a ~/Desktop directory. But I found how to turn it off. Edit ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs...
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Yale E360
Consider Part-Time Work It has long been predicted that with more automation and more technology, we could all work less and...
over a year ago
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Consider Part-Time Work

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
It has long been predicted that with more automation and more technology, we could all work less and have more leisure time, but we continue to fall short of that promise. In many ways, we're working harder and longer, with more stress, than previous generations did. I think that...
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Working Theorys
Weekend Theorys No. 1 "Healthy” social apps, the folly of the "one-two punch," and side projects that command respect
a year ago
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Weekend Theorys No. 1

from Working Theorys [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
"Healthy” social apps, the folly of the "one-two punch," and side projects that command respect
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bt RSS Feed
CSS Video Backgrounds CSS Video Backgrounds 2018-04-16 With the release of Safari 11.1 on macOS and Safari on iOS 11.3,...
over a year ago
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CSS Video Backgrounds

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
CSS Video Backgrounds 2018-04-16 With the release of Safari 11.1 on macOS and Safari on iOS 11.3, developers now have the ability to support background videos (mp4 support only - at the time of this article) with pure CSS. Example: .video-background { background-image:...
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Josh Thompson
12 Lessons Learned While Publishing Something Every Day for a Month A month ago, I decided to publish something every day for at least thirty days. I read a few others...
over a year ago
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12 Lessons Learned While Publishing Something Every Day for a Month

from Josh Thompson [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago
A month ago, I decided to publish something every day for at least thirty days. I read a few others who did something similar, and discussed all the benefits. I’ve found myself struggling with creating something and then making it public. (Public here, on another project, or at...
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Asterisk
The Misery Bomb Children across the Western world are getting less happy. If we can’t find a way to reverse the...
a year ago
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The Misery Bomb

from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Children across the Western world are getting less happy. If we can’t find a way to reverse the trend, it might have an outsized impact on their future.
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Notes on software...
A paper reading club at work; databases and distributed systems research I started a paper reading club this week at work, focused on databases and distributed systems...
a year ago
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A paper reading club at work; databases and distributed systems research

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
I started a paper reading club this week at work, focused on databases and distributed systems research. I posted in a general channel about the premise and asked if anyone was interested. I clarified the intended topic and that discussions would be asynchronous over email, run...
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Home on Erik...
When machine learning matters I joined Spotify in 2008 to focus on machine learning and music recommendations. It's easy to...
over a year ago
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When machine learning matters

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
I joined Spotify in 2008 to focus on machine learning and music recommendations. It's easy to forget, but Spotify's key differentiator back then was the low-latency playback. People would say that it felt like they had the music on their own hard drive.
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The Changelog
See The World Through the Eyes of a Child, and You Are Free Because we see things so often, we see them less and less. Those who live in thanksgiving daily,...
over a year ago
22

See The World Through the Eyes of a Child, and You Are Free

from The Changelog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Because we see things so often, we see them less and less. Those who live in thanksgiving daily, however, have a way of opening their eyes and seeing the wonders and beauties of this world as though seeing them for the first time. – Joseph Wirthlin Today is about dirt. I had to...
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Rest of World -...
The most important news from Apple isn’t about AI Reuniting the world’s text messages — one app at a time.
a year ago
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The most important news from Apple isn’t about AI

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
Reuniting the world’s text messages — one app at a time.
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The Rational Walk
The Digest #195 BHE Investor Conference, United States vs. Apple, Ajit Jain interview, Flaws in medical studies,...
a year ago
104

The Digest #195

from The Rational Walk [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
BHE Investor Conference, United States vs. Apple, Ajit Jain interview, Flaws in medical studies, Pursuing happiness, Mitsubishi Corporation, Robert Cialdini interview
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Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.05.24 - Mattress Store New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
a month ago
16

Comic for 2025.05.24 - Mattress Store

from Explosm.net [alt+shift+b] in comics

a month ago
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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Retail Design Blog
adidas store by Checkland Kindleysides Sportswear behemoth adidas has upped its retail game with the inauguration of a striking new store...
10 months ago
59

adidas store by Checkland Kindleysides

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

10 months ago
Sportswear behemoth adidas has upped its retail game with the inauguration of a striking new store in Los Angeles. Situated...
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essay – snarfed.org
Policing misinformation Unpopular opinion: I have deep reservations about policing misinformation. I’m a big believer in the...
over a year ago
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Policing misinformation

from essay – snarfed.org [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
Unpopular opinion: I have deep reservations about policing misinformation. I’m a big believer in the demarcation problem: in the general case, there’s no shortcut to determining objective truth. It’s similar to the halting problem in computer science: if we want to know whether a...
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Articles
Expanding my horizons Everything we come up with is a mixture of what we've seen, heard, and experienced.
over a year ago
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Expanding my horizons

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over a year ago
Everything we come up with is a mixture of what we've seen, heard, and experienced.
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TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Sites in Faro, Portugal In Faro, you will marvel at the Moorish and Medieval buildings that stand beside the stunning...
2 months ago
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Faro, Portugal

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In Faro, you will marvel at the Moorish and Medieval buildings that stand beside the stunning Baroque and Neoclassical monuments that define the city’s landscape. In this article, we will show you the city’s iconic must-visit landmarks.   1. Milreu Roman Ruins   Located nine...
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 045: Google's just getting started December 15, 2023.
a year ago
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AI Roundup 045: Google's just getting started

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a year ago
December 15, 2023.
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Florian Bellmann |...
Scripting = Configuration The idea of using a scripting language to write configuration is brilliant. Here is why.
a year ago
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Scripting = Configuration

from Florian Bellmann | Be curious, explore and meditate. [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
The idea of using a scripting language to write configuration is brilliant. Here is why.
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blag
Recurse Center Day 6: B Tree Root B Tree Root: how would you design it?
over a year ago
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Recurse Center Day 6: B Tree Root

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over a year ago
B Tree Root: how would you design it?
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Noahpinion
At least five things to finish your week (#19) Real wages, why North Korea is poor, China's stalled catch-up, the economics of social media, AI...
a year ago
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At least five things to finish your week (#19)

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a year ago
Real wages, why North Korea is poor, China's stalled catch-up, the economics of social media, AI takes some jobs, and a comic about rabbits
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Seth's Blog
The 2 x 4 lessons You’ll need two 8-foot boards and six five-gallon buckets. Each board is a standard 2 x 4, about two...
a year ago
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The 2 x 4 lessons

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a year ago
You’ll need two 8-foot boards and six five-gallon buckets. Each board is a standard 2 x 4, about two inches by four inches in size. And the bucket is about two feet deep. The first lesson is simple: Put the board on the floor and have a colleague walk from one end to the other....
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bookbear express
Dear Bear: how to get over a crush, ex-friends at a wedding, and conflict + weekly recs
3 months ago
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Dear Bear: how to get over a crush, ex-friends at a wedding, and conflict

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3 months ago
+ weekly recs
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Alex Meub
Chromecast Backgrounds I finally had a chance to use my Chromecast over the past few weeks. In doing so I noticed that the...
over a year ago
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Chromecast Backgrounds

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over a year ago
I finally had a chance to use my Chromecast over the past few weeks. In doing so I noticed that the background images that cycle through the home screen are pretty awesome. I looked into it and was able to find the URL that this page uses and pull all the images using a Node...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
The ideal startup career path For most people I know who join or start companies, the primary goal is not to get rich – it is to...
over a year ago
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The ideal startup career path

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over a year ago
For most people I know who join or start companies, the primary goal is not to get rich – it is to work on something they love, with people…
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Birchtree
Raycast does this The gang gets to work defending their Mac login items. Who has the most minimal startup? Who's got...
2 months ago
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Raycast does this

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2 months ago
The gang gets to work defending their Mac login items. Who has the most minimal startup? Who's got the craziest apps? This episode has more new apps mentioned in any episode of Comfort Zone ever! Watch or listen now. Other Things Discussed Chris's hyper key video
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AFAR Media - Travel...
The Best Outdoor Locations in Toronto, Canada
a year ago
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The Best Outdoor Locations in Toronto, Canada

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a year ago
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diamond geezer
South Croxted Road bus shelter This may be the heritage-nerdiest bus stop in London. It's the bus stop at the end of South...
2 months ago
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South Croxted Road bus shelter

from diamond geezer [alt+shift+b] in travel

2 months ago
This may be the heritage-nerdiest bus stop in London. It's the bus stop at the end of South Croxted Road, close to the foot of Gipsy Hill. It's very old, it's locally listed and it's served by buses on route 3. More to the point it has an incredibly detailed information board...
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Making software...
Proper UI Hierarchy Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and...
over a year ago
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Proper UI Hierarchy

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over a year ago
Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and how designers these days have lost (or willfully forgotten) the skill to create accessible UIs with proper visual hierarchy. A skill which at it's core seems so simple - yet is...
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dthompson
Chickadee 0.8.0 released I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.8.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development...
over a year ago
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Chickadee 0.8.0 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.8.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile. Chickadee aims to provide all the features that parenthetically inclined game developers need to make 2D and 3D games in Scheme. Notable improvements and...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Will Apple’s Vision Pro Change Anything? For the first time in over a decade, Apple has announced a new product designed to change computing....
over a year ago
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Will Apple’s Vision Pro Change Anything?

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
For the first time in over a decade, Apple has announced a new product designed to change computing. There was the transition to personal computing with the Apple computer, then to portable computing with the iPhone, and now they hope to usher in the transition to virtual...
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NeuroLogica Blog
The Alzheimer’s Revolution Decades of complex research and persevering through repeated disappointment appears to be finally...
a year ago
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The Alzheimer’s Revolution

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Decades of complex research and persevering through repeated disappointment appears to be finally paying off for the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s  disease (AD). In 2021 Aduhelm was the first drug approved by the FDA (granted contingent accelerated approval) that is...
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Classical Wisdom
Freud and the Greeks The Classical Roots of Western Psychology
2 weeks ago
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Freud and the Greeks

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2 weeks ago
The Classical Roots of Western Psychology
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ben-mini
Root Canals and Bill Gates In Finding Nemo, there was a scene about a root canal surgery that absolutely terrified me: This...
a year ago
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Root Canals and Bill Gates

from ben-mini [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
In Finding Nemo, there was a scene about a root canal surgery that absolutely terrified me: This could just be me, but I spent a remarkable amount of my childhood worrying about root canals. Horror stories like these created a universal phobia that dentists suck and that’s...
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Wrong Side of...
Rome’s miserable fate The Year of the Plague #3
4 months ago
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Rome’s miserable fate

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4 months ago
The Year of the Plague #3
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Endnotes on 2020: Crypto and Beyond
over a year ago
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Endnotes on 2020: Crypto and Beyond

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over a year ago
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
How useRef turned out to be useMemo's father It's no secret that react's useCallback is just sugar on top of useMemo that saves the children from...
over a year ago
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How useRef turned out to be useMemo's father

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
It's no secret that react's useCallback is just sugar on top of useMemo that saves the children from having to see an arrow chain. As the docs go: useCallback((e) => onChange(id, e.target.value), [onChange, id]); // is equivalent to useMemo(() => (e) => onChange(id,...
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xkcd.com
Advent Calendar Advent Calendar
7 months ago
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Advent Calendar Advent Calendar

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7 months ago
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Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 25-31 December 2023 The best articles from the past week.
a year ago
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Best Of Londonist: 25-31 December 2023

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a year ago
The best articles from the past week.
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TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Sites in North Carolina Originally part of the Carolina Colony granted by King Charles II in 1663, North Carolina became a...
2 months ago
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in North Carolina

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago
Originally part of the Carolina Colony granted by King Charles II in 1663, North Carolina became a separate province in 1712 and one of the original thirteen colonies. In 1776, it made history by being the first colony to officially call for independence through the Halifax...
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Prolost
Mac Studio and Studio Display Mac Studio with M1 Ultra and Apple Studio Display, running Cinema 4D and Redshift. In October of...
over a year ago
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Mac Studio and Studio Display

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over a year ago
Mac Studio with M1 Ultra and Apple Studio Display, running Cinema 4D and Redshift. In October of 2021 I got to test a 14″ MacBook Pro with M1 Max processor. It performed so well, that I, along with many Mac power-users, questioned whether it could replace my desktop Mac. Last...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Checkup on Climate Change There is good evidence that if you want to lose weight, you need to weigh yourself at least weekly....
over a year ago
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Checkup on Climate Change

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
There is good evidence that if you want to lose weight, you need to weigh yourself at least weekly. You need the constant feedback of the scale to adjust your behavior. This is a good general principle – having outcome feedback to measure the effect of what you are doing so you...
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Christopher Butler
object – Wooden Task Lamp I made this in just a couple of hours. We needed just a little bit more light on the desk. I...
a year ago
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object – Wooden Task Lamp

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

a year ago
I made this in just a couple of hours. We needed just a little bit more light on the desk. I made a quick sketch for a lamp I could make at home that would also look fun — if I didn’t screw it up. I gave myself a budget of about $25, which was enough to pick up a utility...
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Irrational...
Slides for Measuring an engineering organization. Last week, I gave a 30 minute talk to a group of CTOs and VP Engineerings in San Francisco about...
over a year ago
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Slides for Measuring an engineering organization.

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over a year ago
Last week, I gave a 30 minute talk to a group of CTOs and VP Engineerings in San Francisco about measuring engineering organizations. This talk was essentially this blog post, and here are the slides. A few topics worth highlighting: Measurement educates you, and your audience,...
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Open Culture
How the BIC Cristal Ballpoint Pen Became the Most Successful Product in History If you want to see a tour de force of modern technology and design, there’s no need to visit a...
a month ago
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How the BIC Cristal Ballpoint Pen Became the Most Successful Product in History

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a month ago
If you want to see a tour de force of modern technology and design, there’s no need to visit a Silicon Valley showroom. Just feel around your desk for a few moments, and sooner or later you’ll lay a hand on it: the BIC Cristal ballpoint pen, which is described in the Primal Space...
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Seth's Blog
The best possible use I walked by a psychic’s storefront studio. The window said that this person had been reading palms...
a year ago
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The best possible use

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a year ago
I walked by a psychic’s storefront studio. The window said that this person had been reading palms and predicting the future since 1989. It was a large space on a vibrant New York City corner. The rent must be astronomical. Or else the purveyor owns the building. Given that this...
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Quanta Magazine
First-Year Graduate Student Finds Paradoxical Set No two pairs have the same sum; add three numbers together, and you can get any whole number. ...
over a year ago
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First-Year Graduate Student Finds Paradoxical Set

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over a year ago
No two pairs have the same sum; add three numbers together, and you can get any whole number. The post First-Year Graduate Student Finds Paradoxical Set first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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High Signal
Making over $10k a month from a timer app Lukas is making over $10,000 a month just from a timer app. It's totally bootstrapped and there are...
9 months ago
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Making over $10k a month from a timer app

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9 months ago
Lukas is making over $10,000 a month just from a timer app. It's totally bootstrapped and there are no investors.
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blag
Recurse Center Day 7: Basics of ncurses I learnt some basics of ncurses
over a year ago
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Recurse Center Day 7: Basics of ncurses

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over a year ago
I learnt some basics of ncurses
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Basta’s Notes
Don't ask me to embarrass myself. Or: Please Lucy, stop asking me to kick the football.
11 months ago
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Don't ask me to embarrass myself.

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11 months ago
Or: Please Lucy, stop asking me to kick the football.
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Tinloof - Blog
Explain Like I'm Five: React This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and...
over a year ago
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Explain Like I'm Five: React

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over a year ago
This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and terms easy to understand. In this post, we’ll be answering the question: what is React? We’ll look into its origins, usage, explain key terminology and also cover how and why...
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Machine Learning for...
ML for SWEs 5: AI for Education is Bigger Than You Think Machine learning for software engineers 4-4-25
3 months ago
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ML for SWEs 5: AI for Education is Bigger Than You Think

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3 months ago
Machine learning for software engineers 4-4-25
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
New Workflow for Publishing Notes: Content in Dropbox, Code in GitHub I recently changed my workflow around authoring and publishing my site notes.jim-nielsen.com. Here’s...
10 months ago
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New Workflow for Publishing Notes: Content in Dropbox, Code in GitHub

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10 months ago
I recently changed my workflow around authoring and publishing my site notes.jim-nielsen.com. Here’s the rundown. Before Pretty standard JAMstack type stuff. All my notes are markdown files in a git repository that live alongside the code generating the website,...
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Yale E360
Teleportation teleportation does exist from OR to recovery room I left something behind not quite a part of...
9 months ago
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Teleportation

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9 months ago
teleportation does exist from OR to recovery room I left something behind not quite a part of myself —unwelcome guests poisoning me from the inside no longer welcome
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Noahpinion
Welcome to The Future This time it arrived right on schedule.
2 months ago
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Welcome to The Future

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2 months ago
This time it arrived right on schedule.
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Liz Denys
Unintuitive default: who can edit access in Google Docs When you create a new Google Doc, you have the option to share it with others to view or edit....
over a year ago
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Unintuitive default: who can edit access in Google Docs

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over a year ago
When you create a new Google Doc, you have the option to share it with others to view or edit. Viewing permission is straightforward, just view access, but by default, editors have the ability not just to edit the content of the document but also to edit sharing permissions. If...
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computers are bad
2024-01-21 multi-channel audio part 1 Stereophonic or two-channel audio is so ubiquitous today that we tend to refer to all kinds of...
a year ago
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2024-01-21 multi-channel audio part 1

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a year ago
Stereophonic or two-channel audio is so ubiquitous today that we tend to refer to all kinds of pieces of consumer audio reproduction equipment as "a stereo." As you might imagine, this is a relatively modern phenomenon. While stereo audio in concept dates to the late 19th...
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Mind Prison: Notes...
AI Analysis of The JFK Files Notes From the Desk: No. 42 - 2025.03.19
3 months ago
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AI Analysis of The JFK Files

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3 months ago
Notes From the Desk: No. 42 - 2025.03.19
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Quanta Magazine
The Researcher Who Explores Computation by Conjuring New Worlds Russell Impagliazzo studies hard problems, the limits of cryptography, the nature of randomness and...
a year ago
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The Researcher Who Explores Computation by Conjuring New Worlds

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a year ago
Russell Impagliazzo studies hard problems, the limits of cryptography, the nature of randomness and more. The post The Researcher Who Explores Computation by Conjuring New Worlds first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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The Changelog
Why You Should (Still) Use Signal As Much As Possible As I write this in March 2025, there is a lot of confusion about Signal messenger due to the recent...
3 months ago
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Why You Should (Still) Use Signal As Much As Possible

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3 months ago
As I write this in March 2025, there is a lot of confusion about Signal messenger due to the recent news of people using Signal in government, and subsequent leaks. The short version is: there was no problem with Signal here. People were using it because they understood it to be...
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Stoic Simple
Stoic Advice on Time Management Problems: Ask Marcus Aurelius Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from...
over a year ago
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Stoic Advice on Time Management Problems: Ask Marcus Aurelius

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over a year ago
Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from historical records, we created an AI digital personality that spoke with us about how to practice Stoicism in our modern world. This AI persona literally thinks that it's Marcus...
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symmetry magazine
Life along the future DUNE beamline Unseen neutrinos, visible lives: A photographer journeys through the Midwest.
a year ago
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Life along the future DUNE beamline

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a year ago
Unseen neutrinos, visible lives: A photographer journeys through the Midwest.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Let Us Think That We Build Forever' I’ve just learned that the English poet Clive Wilmer died on March 13 at age eighty. I knew him...
3 months ago
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'Let Us Think That We Build Forever'

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3 months ago
I’ve just learned that the English poet Clive Wilmer died on March 13 at age eighty. I knew him first as a friend and champion of Edgar Bowers, Thom Gunn and Dick Davis, a co-translator of the Hungarian poet Miklós Radnóti, a serious reader of John Ruskin and a fine poet in his...
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Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#24) Economists had a good 2023, degrowthers promising growth, the troubles in the humanities, U.S....
a year ago
28

At least five interesting things for your weekend (#24)

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a year ago
Economists had a good 2023, degrowthers promising growth, the troubles in the humanities, U.S. redistribution, and defense production
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TheCollector
Split-Brain: Two Selves in One? We tend to perceive ourselves as something unified and immutable—whether we call it our soul,...
4 months ago
22

Split-Brain: Two Selves in One?

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4 months ago
We tend to perceive ourselves as something unified and immutable—whether we call it our soul, essence, or self. Yet, whenever we try to explain it, the questions start. Is it just perception itself? Could it be composed of several elements or even just be an illusion? There has...
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The Honest Broker
'The Atlantic' Visits Me at Home, and I Win an Award This has been quite a day at The Honest Broker
2 months ago
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'The Atlantic' Visits Me at Home, and I Win an Award

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Having a Baby During the pregnancy of our first child, I kept a journal. I don’t keep journals. I don’t feel like...
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Having a Baby

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During the pregnancy of our first child, I kept a journal. I don’t keep journals. I don’t feel like I have much to say in them. This was different. The whole experience was new, and there was a lot to learn. This post is a cleaning up and stitching together of that journal. It...
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American: Robin de Puy’s Portraits of People of Notice “You can’t lump all Americans together,” she points out. “The project emerged from this thought. Who...
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American: Robin de Puy’s Portraits of People of Notice

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“You can’t lump all Americans together,” she points out. “The project emerged from this thought. Who lives in America? Who are we talking about when we refer to ‘the American’?” – Robin de Puys   In 2015, Dutch photographer Robin de Puy drove 8,000 miles across the US on a Harley...
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