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TheCollector
Who Are the Klu Klux Klan? undefined
4 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Stepped Brick Extension Makes Space For A Soft Warm Blush Kitchen Architecture and interior design firm Bradley Van Der Straeten, has shared photos of a home in...
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8 months ago
Architecture and interior design firm Bradley Van Der Straeten, has shared photos of a home in England that received a new stepped brick extension with views of the garden. When the front door is open, you can see all the way through to the rear garden. A stepped form took shape...
Varun's Notes
Generative AI Builds Bridges Between Creative Mediums On architecting a new Internet paradigm for rapid content creation and sharing.
over a year ago
Noahpinion
Why so many of us were wrong about missile defense Writing about military spending is difficult.
8 months ago
The Marginalian
The Value of Being Wrong: Lewis Thomas on Generative Mistakes In praise of our "property of error, spontaneous, uncontrolled, and rich in possibilities."
a year ago
Notes on software...
Interpreting TypeScript In addition to providing a static type system and compiler for a superset of JavaScript, TypeScript...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In addition to providing a static type system and compiler for a superset of JavaScript, TypeScript makes much of its functionality available programmatically. In this post we'll use the TypeScript compiler API to build an interpreter. We'll build off of a...
Cognitive...
My Own AI Server Cluster When a16z generously sponsored Dolphin, I had some compute budget, and because the original...
a year ago
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a year ago
When a16z generously sponsored Dolphin, I had some compute budget, and because the original dolphin-13b was a flop, I had some time to go back to the drawing board. When I was ready to train the next iteration, I reconsidered whether to rent or buy the compute for the build. I...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Automated Data Scraping with Github Actions A neat trick I discovered from Mikeal Rogers
over a year ago
Matt Blewitt
Long Distance Relationships I’ve been managing a fully remote, fully distributed team, covering timezones from UTC-8 through...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I’ve been managing a fully remote, fully distributed team, covering timezones from UTC-8 through UTC+10, for the last couple of years. Through that time, I’ve learned a lot on organising work, interpersonal relationships, and ultimately how to overcome a lack of promximity to my...
Seth's Blog
Effect vs affect In a culture fascinated by attitude, gloss and performance, it’s easy to believe that adopting an...
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a year ago
In a culture fascinated by attitude, gloss and performance, it’s easy to believe that adopting an affect is precisely what you need to make a difference. In fact, the persistent, generous work that happens when no one is looking is what actually makes a difference. Looking the...
TokyoDev
Mental Health in the Japanese Tech Industry Working in a fast-paced environment such as tech, combined with moving to a homogenous country as a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Working in a fast-paced environment such as tech, combined with moving to a homogenous country as a foreigner (such as Japan where standing out is not considered to be an exceptionally good thing) understandably takes a toll on someone’s mental health. At the same time, language...
Diaries of Note
Work under any circumstances Benjamin Robert Haydon was a 19th-century British artist and writer whose career was plagued by...
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Benjamin Robert Haydon was a 19th-century British artist and writer whose career was plagued by financial hardship and legal troubles. Born in 1786, Haydon’s passion for historical painting led him down a tumultuous path, as mounting debts and controversial public statements...
TheCollector
The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas undefined
a year ago
Passing Time
Hemiphytophilia A journal entry about a house plant
11 months ago
TheCollector
Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg undefined
4 months ago
Open Culture
Hear Edgar Allan Poe Stories Read by Iggy Pop, Jeff Buckley, Christopher Walken, Marianne Faithful &... In 1849, a little over 175 years ago, Edgar Allan Poe was found dead in a Baltimore gutter under...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
In 1849, a little over 175 years ago, Edgar Allan Poe was found dead in a Baltimore gutter under mysterious circumstances very likely related to violent election fraud. It was an ignominious end to a life marked by hardship, alcoholism, and loss. After struggling for years as the...
xkcd.com
Car Wash
a year ago
The Berkeley...
Fully Autonomous Real-World Reinforcement Learning with Applications to Mobile Manipulation Reinforcement learning provides a conceptual framework for autonomous agents to learn from...
a year ago
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a year ago
Reinforcement learning provides a conceptual framework for autonomous agents to learn from experience, analogously to how one might train a pet with treats. But practical applications of reinforcement learning are often far from natural: instead of using RL to learn through trial...
The Oatmeal - Comics...
The teaser trailer for my Exploding Kittens Netflix series just dropped! After four years of work, I am finally sharing one minute of glorious footage! View on my website
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI's invisible instructions What meme prompts can teach us about better interface design.
2 months ago
Daniel Miessler
Podcast Audio Quality: AI-based Post-processing vs. Hardware I’ve been podcasting since 2015 and got really into audio when the plague started. Like…too much....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been podcasting since 2015 and got really into audio when the plague started. Like…too much. Anyway. I’ve been obsessed with podcast audio quality for years, and have been through so…many…iterations of my setup. I started with a Yeti (still a great mic). Did the...
Archinect - Features
10 Tips for Overcoming and Preventing Burnout in Architecture If you’re experiencing burnout in your architecture role, you’re likely not alone. In 2023,...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
If you’re experiencing burnout in your architecture role, you’re likely not alone. In 2023, Archinect’s Mental Health Survey found burnout to be a common theme among those who told us they were experiencing stress at work. Our community has also raised the issue among themselves,...
Classical Wisdom
Why Read Modern Books? Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Bulletproof Components Somewhere buried in my dusty basement lives a signed copy of Dan Cederholm's classic book...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Somewhere buried in my dusty basement lives a signed copy of Dan Cederholm's classic book Bulletproof Web Design. I purchased it during my first trip to An Event Apart in 2007. This book meant a lot to me back then, and almost 15 years later, many of its concepts still hold...
TheCollector
Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say undefined
3 weeks ago
TheCollector
How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt) undefined
3 months ago
ntietz.com blog
How Cryptology Can Fix Identity Theft Identity theft is a huge problem, costing Americans more than $4.5 billion in 2012. Identity theft...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Identity theft is a huge problem, costing Americans more than $4.5 billion in 2012. Identity theft victims frequently lose time and money and undergo significant mental hardships while dealing with the fallout. It can happen a few different ways, but one large attack vector is...
Home on Erik...
The hacker's guide to uncertainty estimates It started with a tweet: New years resolution: every plot I make during 2018 will contain...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It started with a tweet: New years resolution: every plot I make during 2018 will contain uncertainty estimates — Erik Bernhardsson (@bernhardsson) January 7, 2018 Why? Because I've been sitting in 100,000,000 meetings where people endlessly debate whether the monthly number of...
DYNOMIGHT
Why doesn’t advice work? In ancient India, there was a long-running feud between the Pandavas and the Kauravas. Duryodhana,...
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6 months ago
In ancient India, there was a long-running feud between the Pandavas and the Kauravas. Duryodhana, leader of the Kauravas, planned a huge war to end things forever. Krishna warned that this would lead to the total destruction of both sides and made every effort to forge a...
I Have No Idea What...
The Problem With Slack In deciding what startup to start, I’ve been thinking about what problem space I want to tackle. An...
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over a year ago
In deciding what startup to start, I’ve been thinking about what problem space I want to tackle. An area that’s drawing my attention is team communication and collaboration, especially for knowledge workers. This is for several reasons: With the trend towards distributed/hybrid...
Retail Design Blog
Good Morning Sunshine bakery design by studio SAY The design of the cafe was carefully curated to reflect the brand’s values and create a warm,...
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a month ago
The design of the cafe was carefully curated to reflect the brand’s values and create a warm, inviting atmosphere. Natural...
Coding Horror
Electric Geek Transportation Systems I've never thought of myself as a "car person". The last new car I bought (and in fact, now that I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've never thought of myself as a "car person". The last new car I bought (and in fact, now that I think about it, the first new car I ever bought) was the quirky 1998 Ford Contour SVT. Since then we bought a VW station wagon
TheCollector
What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays? undefined
3 months ago
XO Capital - Field...
493.5% ROI - Exiting Sheet.Best 💡 Side note. To build our community up a bit, we're putting a cohort together to help 5 people buy...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
💡 Side note. To build our community up a bit, we're putting a cohort together to help 5 people buy their first saas company. If this one is successful and we can add some value, we'll do another one! Jump in our discord to stay informed!
Rest of World -...
A local ride-hailing service can’t beat Uber and Bolt, so its drivers are beating up their rivals Shesha was launched as a fair-minded local competitor to Western companies in South Africa. It has...
2 months ago
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Shesha was launched as a fair-minded local competitor to Western companies in South Africa. It has acquired an ugly reputation for intimidating drivers and passengers.
Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
a year ago
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a year ago
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
A Beautiful Site
Dynamic Slots Web Component authors already know how powerful slots are, but what if you could do even more with...
a year ago
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a year ago
Web Component authors already know how powerful slots are, but what if you could do even more with them? Here's an interesting technique to use (or abuse) slots in your custom elements. I've been calling the pattern dynamic slots. Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at how...
Jonas Hietala
Minor site updates As it happens I got a little tired of the syntax highlighter Pandoc uses so on a whim I started...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As it happens I got a little tired of the syntax highlighter Pandoc uses so on a whim I started looking at moving to Pygments as my highlighter. With some searching around I found a blog post about just that! That’s lucky because while I like Haskell, I’ve never really grocked it...
somethingaboutmaps
The Unnecessary Peril of the Fuller Projection Throughout my career, I’ve heard a variety of rumors and conflicting opinions about whether or not...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Throughout my career, I’ve heard a variety of rumors and conflicting opinions about whether or not you can get in trouble for using the Fuller projection. Let's find out if it's true.
Diaries of Note
Complete silence Born in 1903 in Okayama Prefecture, Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was an extraordinary figure whose life and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Born in 1903 in Okayama Prefecture, Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was an extraordinary figure whose life and work took on a poignant significance following the bombing of Hiroshima. Serving as the director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital, he found himself at the epicentre of...
Rest of World -...
Forget a U.S. ban — TikTok is thriving in its second-biggest market TikTok Shop, the controversial app’s ambitious next phase, has caught fire in Indonesia. “This is...
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TikTok Shop, the controversial app’s ambitious next phase, has caught fire in Indonesia. “This is truly the year of TikTok,” says one seller.
Stat Significant
The Rise of Faith-Based Films: A Statistical Analysis The economics and origins of the faith-based film industry.
3 months ago
Old Structures...
Non-Demolished When the West Side Highway – the limited access, elevated highway that was demolished in the 1970s...
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6 months ago
When the West Side Highway – the limited access, elevated highway that was demolished in the 1970s and 80s – was planned in the 1920s, it made sense. From a viewpoint any later than about 1940 it was a terrible mistake. Bad planning and little maintenance doomed the old highway,...
TheCollector
What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages? undefined
2 months ago
Maps Mania
Sea Level Rise Maps
a year ago
Moneyness
Kraken v Kraken, or how to protect the public from crypto exchange failures It's been a full year since FTX International and FTX-US collapsed, and the shocking thing is –...
a year ago
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a year ago
It's been a full year since FTX International and FTX-US collapsed, and the shocking thing is – there is still no regulated crypto venue in the U.S.! You'd think some lessons would have been learnt. To best protect the public from the Sam Bankman-Frieds of the world, what the...
abdz.do - Have you...
Y2K Aesthetics Art Series by Anatolii Babii Y2K Aesthetics Art Series by Anatolii Babii AoiroStudio0124—23 ...
a year ago
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a year ago
Y2K Aesthetics Art Series by Anatolii Babii AoiroStudio0124—23 Anatolii Babii is a digital artist whose series we are featuring, is heavily influenced by the nostalgia of the Y2K era. His latest series titled "Y2K Aesthetics" is a collection of...
Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962) So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Back away Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The hard part is keeping your nostrils motionless...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The hard part is keeping your nostrils motionless until you hear the footsteps fade away. Today's News:
swyx's site RSS Feed
How To Google Your Errors ---
over a year ago
The Honest Broker
In Search of Dupree Bolton (Part 2 of 2) I conclude the story of my quest to find a legendary jazz musician who disappeared in the early...
9 months ago
A Beautiful Site
Design Systems Aren't Cheap Buttons are one of my favorite components. On the surface they seem simple, but in practice, they...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Buttons are one of my favorite components. On the surface they seem simple, but in practice, they tend to be much more involved. In a post by Nathan Curtis entitled And you thought buttons were easy?, he demonstrates how costs can quickly skyrocket to $1,000,000 when one arm of...
Vitalik Buterin's...
An approximate introduction to how zk-SNARKs are possible
over a year ago
Calculated Risk
Question #3 for 2025: What will the unemployment rate be in December 2025? Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of...
a week ago
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a week ago
Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of these questions concern real estate (inventory, house prices, housing starts, new home sales), and I posted thoughts on those in the newsletter (others like GDP and employment will...
A Beautiful Site
Import/restore MySQL files from the command line I don't use this very often, but when I do I always spend a decent amount of time trying to figure...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I don't use this very often, but when I do I always spend a decent amount of time trying to figure it out online. Here are the steps to import a large SQL file from the command line. Upload the SQL file to the server that your MySQL database is on Execute the following command...
NeuroLogica Blog
Harvesting Energy from Water Vapor I did not plan to write yet another post about energy, but this popped up and I had to write about...
a year ago
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a year ago
I did not plan to write yet another post about energy, but this popped up and I had to write about it. UMASS researchers have produced a device that generates electricity by harvesting charge from water vapor. They write: The common feature of these materials is that they are...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Why Hungary Is an Epic Vacation for Culture Lovers
a year ago
Stoic Simple
Seneca’s Writing on Stoicism and Philosophy Seneca is one of the most prominent philosophers within the Stoic tradition, known for his...
a year ago
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a year ago
Seneca is one of the most prominent philosophers within the Stoic tradition, known for his contributions to ethical theory and his reflections on human nature. Understanding Seneca's philosophy and applying his teachings can lead to a more fulfilling and meaningful life. This...
Vadim Kravcenko
Habits of great software engineers The role of a software developer often gets distilled down to a singular activity: coding. While...
a year ago
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a year ago
The role of a software developer often gets distilled down to a singular activity: coding. While coding is undeniably the […] The post Habits of great software engineers appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Anecdotal Evidence
'Interior Decoration Doesn't Count" Just last week, and not for the first time, I had a dream set in Kay’s Books in downtown Cleveland,...
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9 months ago
Just last week, and not for the first time, I had a dream set in Kay’s Books in downtown Cleveland, where I visited often as a kid and worked in 1975. I was in the basement in the general hardback fiction section where I saw the copy of Under the Volcano I bought there forty-nine...
TheCollector
Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger? undefined
4 months ago
99% Invisible
The 15 Minute City In February 2023, over two thousand people took to the streets in Oxford, England to protest their...
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In February 2023, over two thousand people took to the streets in Oxford, England to protest their local government. They were wearing yellow vests and chanting slogans about the municipality’s new traffic policies. But most notably, many of them were vocally angry about a new...
History Today Feed
Free French Bombers Over France Free French Bombers Over France JamesHoare Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Pivoting My Hunch cofounders and I frequently ask ourselves: “If we were to start over today, would we build...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My Hunch cofounders and I frequently ask ourselves: “If we were to start over today, would we build our product the same way we had so far…
TheCollector
When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children? undefined
2 months ago
Open Culture
How A Charlie Brown Christmas, and Its Beloved Soundtrack Album, Almost Never Happened A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of seasonal depression, and culminates in the recitation of a Bible verse, all to a jazz score. It was not, safe to say, the special that CBS had expected, to say nothing of its sponsor, the...
Maps Mania
Some More Maps of Sounds
6 months ago
Londonist
Things To Look Forward To In London In 2024 The biggest things happening in the capital over the next 12 months.
a year ago
TheCollector
10 Forgotten US Presidents undefined
4 months ago
Joel Gascoigne
Pricing your product: It doesn't have to be so complicated * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the last week...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the last week I’ve talked with a few early stage startup founders about pricing. It seems pricing is often a large block for many. It’s understandable, since there are so many decisions to...
Oykun
Easy steps to start investing in the stock market Invest in long term, Diversify, Don't stress to time the market, Stay calm ... It is not that...
6 months ago
Koos Looijesteijn
Beautiful shadows have beautiful colors
5 months ago
TheCollector
Two Paintings Once Stolen by Nazis Are Donated to the Louvre Museum undefined
7 months ago
TokyoDev
Childcare Options in Japan Though arranging childcare in Japan can be tricky, there are a wide variety of options available....
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Though arranging childcare in Japan can be tricky, there are a wide variety of options available. Services will vary greatly depending on your location, the ages of your children, and the time of year. This article explores all of the most common childcare offerings, to get you...
Transit Maps
Submission – New Official Map: “Harmonized” Montréal Metropolitan Transit Services Map, 2023 A flurry of people have submitted this brand new map out of Montréal for review, so let’s get...
a year ago
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a year ago
A flurry of people have submitted this brand new map out of Montréal for review, so let’s get straight to it! First of all, it’s important to note that is part of a new suite of maps and wayfinding signage that’s been in development since 2018, Using Montréal’s iconic “black...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Clapping Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is actually the answer to most Zen...
3 months ago
Common Edge
What’s to Become of the Mess That Is Penn Station? A talk with architecture critic Justin Davidson about the thorny knot of issues involved at New...
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A talk with architecture critic Justin Davidson about the thorny knot of issues involved at New York’s most conflicted transportation-entertainment site.
Vitalik Buterin's...
Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later
over a year ago
Folklore.org:...
Reality Distortion Field Bud defines Steve's unique talent
a year ago
Notes on software...
How do databases execute expressions? Databases are fun. They sit at the confluence of Computer Science topics that might otherwise not...
a year ago
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a year ago
Databases are fun. They sit at the confluence of Computer Science topics that might otherwise not seem practical in life as a developer. For example, every database with a query language is also a programming language implementation of some caliber. That doesn't include all...
Anecdotal Evidence
'I Hope This Explanation Is Wrong' One of life’s unsolved puzzles, especially for readers and writers: How can certain arrangements of...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
One of life’s unsolved puzzles, especially for readers and writers: How can certain arrangements of words encountered in childhood or youth, and revisited regularly for a lifetime, still inspire delight, while others, in effect, evaporate before we hear them? In the latter...
Jonas Hietala
Life and Shields Time is running out! At least the more technical parts are mostly done. The ships have an acceptable...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Time is running out! At least the more technical parts are mostly done. The ships have an acceptable AI, they have rechargeable shields and they can now even be killed. Currently the game is far too easy, but it’s starting to look a little cooler at least.
The Honest Broker
How I Take Notes In response to reader requests, I share my 3 levels of note-taking
a year ago
Society's Backend
Why Rust Isn't Killing C++ And a consideration for choosing a language
8 months ago
xkcd.com
Professional Oaths
a year ago
Louwrentius
Linux Software RAID benchmarking script Just a small post. To benchmark your Linux software RAID array as setup with MDADM, please use...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Just a small post. To benchmark your Linux software RAID array as setup with MDADM, please use my new benchmark script. I used this script to create these results. You may need to configure some values within the header of this file to make it fit your enviroment. ...
alexwlchan
Testing JavaScript without a (third-party) framework Last week Julia Evans posted Writing Javascript without a build system, and it resonated with my own...
a year ago
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a year ago
Last week Julia Evans posted Writing Javascript without a build system, and it resonated with my own experience. A lot of my websites (including this one) are content sites with just a bit of interactivity sprinkled on top, where I prefer writing vanilla JS over using complex...
Londonist
See A Flock Of 50 Sheep Herded Over Southwark Bridge This September By a celebrity.
a year ago
Matt Blewitt
Table Stakes This is a short post on what I see are table stakes for any new user-facing service, security-wise....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a short post on what I see are table stakes for any new user-facing service, security-wise. Mostly focused on user-focused, rather than intra-service, considerations.
Passing Time
Media in Review 2023 Time is your most valuable asset. Thank you for spending some of it with me.
a year ago
Marcus on AI
Satya Nadella and the three stages of scientific truth A textbook case in how good ideas are often initially throttled
a month ago
XO Capital - Field...
Everything I've learned about buying small software businesses over the past 4 years 💡 We started out buying 1 business for $25k in 2020. Our deals are now around $1M - $2M purchase...
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2 weeks ago
💡 We started out buying 1 business for $25k in 2020. Our deals are now around $1M - $2M purchase price. So my notes below relate to a mostly linear path from $25k to ~$2M. XO has been a tough ride. We had some wins, some losses and overall haven&
Seth's Blog
Spam 3.0 Any fully open system of digital communication will corrode over time. Bad messages will crowd out...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Any fully open system of digital communication will corrode over time. Bad messages will crowd out the good ones. The new normal: Someone finds a database of every residential property, then another of cell phones. An AI is trained to call every homeowner, every day, asking if...
sancho.dev
query-json: jq written in Reason
over a year ago
Cremieux Recueil
Did Unions End Long Work Hours? Is it growth or organized labor that's more responsible for giving us shorter workdays?
4 months ago
TheCollector
What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient? undefined
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ethics Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Quick thankyou to patreon subscriber/friend Dave...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Quick thankyou to patreon subscriber/friend Dave Luebke for making this joke more legible. Today's News:
Posts on Made of...
Systems that defy detailed understanding Last week, I wrote about the mindset that computer systems can be understood, and behaviors can be...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Last week, I wrote about the mindset that computer systems can be understood, and behaviors can be explained, if we’re willing to dig deep enough into the stack of abstractions our software is built atop. Some of the ensuing discussion on Twitter and elsewhere lead me to write...
Applied Cartography
Talking to customers You say that these numbers mean dial it down. I say they mean dial it up. You haven't gotten...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
You say that these numbers mean dial it down. I say they mean dial it up. You haven't gotten through. There are people you haven't persuaded yet. These number mean dial it up. Otherwise you're like the French radical, watching the crowd run by and saying, "There go my people. I...
Transit Maps
15% Off All Prints in the “Transit Maps” Store Just a reminder that the best way to support the site is by buying a print from our online store,...
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Just a reminder that the best way to support the site is by buying a print from our online store, because you get something awesome in return! We’re having a Thanksgiving/Black Friday/Small Business Saturday/Cyber Monday sale with 15% off all prints. Choose from my original...
Posts on Made of...
Graceful behavior at capacity Suppose we’ve got a service. We’ll gloss over the details for now, but let’s stipulate that it...
a year ago
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a year ago
Suppose we’ve got a service. We’ll gloss over the details for now, but let’s stipulate that it accepts requests from the outside world, and takes some action in response. Maybe those requests are HTTP requests, or RPCs, or just incoming packets to be routed at the network layer....
Asterisk
A Chinese Internet Phrasebook The latest slang on Weibo reveals a world of cynicism, ennui — and concrete pasta.
2 months ago
Old Structures...
Travelog: Advertising Claims It’s truly embarassing how much time I spent looking at this old ad painted on a building in Bath...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
It’s truly embarassing how much time I spent looking at this old ad painted on a building in Bath and wondering what “richestin cream” was. As a slight consolation, note the drain branch directly left of the word “richest”: if you’re putting interior plumbing drains on the...
TheCollector
Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview undefined
2 months ago
Blog posts of...
Quick tips for hiring remotely You are most likely already experienced with hiring so think of this more as a quick FYI focusing on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You are most likely already experienced with hiring so think of this more as a quick FYI focusing on hiring remotely… What issues...
HTMHell
Submit to the Quirks of HTML by Felix Hessenberger It was on a cold February evening. I had been working on a client project,...
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by Felix Hessenberger It was on a cold February evening. I had been working on a client project, building an order item list—nothing out of the ordinary. To adjust an item’s quantity, the user would open a popup form with a single input field, type a number, and hit...
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The Tinkerbell Griftopia
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Wait the Piña Colada song is about what?! hint: its not about frikkin piña coladas I can tell you that right now
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Confessions of a...
Predation of juvenile reef fish in coral patches at Ningaloo Reef The second research article I have decided to discuss is one I had the pleasure to be involved with!...
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The second research article I have decided to discuss is one I had the pleasure to be involved with!  In fact, it was the first paper I was a co-author on, after linking up with the Department of Environment and Conservation through an ANNiMS internship program.  The paper was...
Lighthouse Blog
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Understanding easing and cubic-bezier curves in CSS The easing curve can make or break any animation on the web. Let's look at the science of CSS...
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The easing curve can make or break any animation on the web. Let's look at the science of CSS cubic-bezier curves, and the art of using them to make the best web animations possible.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Software is What We Learned Along the Way Trent absolutely nails it: [the why is] where I provide the most value as a designer. I am not...
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Trent absolutely nails it: [the why is] where I provide the most value as a designer. I am not merely the picker of fonts, the dropper of shadows, the executor of deliverables. My greatest value as a designer lies in orchestrating the process and gathering insights — applying...
Common Edge
The ‘Social Landscapes’ of Lee Friedlander For six decades, the photographer’s ability to offer a complex narrative about America in a single...
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For six decades, the photographer’s ability to offer a complex narrative about America in a single image was always unique.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
User Feedback I was listening to ShopTalkShow #544 where Dave mentions his craving for frank, almost brutal, user...
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I was listening to ShopTalkShow #544 where Dave mentions his craving for frank, almost brutal, user feedback on the app they’re building (Luro) and it reminded me of something I wanted to write down. At a previous gig, we hired a head of user research who helped formalize and...
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In-depth: PostHog vs Google Analytics 4 Want to understand how PostHog and Google Analytics 4 (GA4) are different? Here's the short answer:...
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Want to understand how PostHog and Google Analytics 4 (GA4) are different? Here's the short answer: Google Analytics is primarily designed for…
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It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Blind Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The great part is it gets funnier every time it's...
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I’m 28, and can’t figure out how to start on FatFIRE – what would you do in my shoes? From: TazTo: FvL Hi FvL I’ve read your blog on and off for the past year or three. I graduated from...
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From: TazTo: FvL Hi FvL I’ve read your blog on and off for the past year or three. I graduated from the London School of Economics in 2017 after which I went through the hardest few years of my life mentally and ended up unemployed or in dead-end low paid jobs. I currently work...
The Works in...
Notes on Progress: In pursuit of decent coffee No great stagnation in home espresso
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Open Culture
Patti Smith Reads Her Final Letter to Robert Mapplethorpe, Calling Him “the Most Beautiful Work of... If you go to hear Patti Smith in concert, you expect her to sing “Beneath the Southern Cross,”...
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If you go to hear Patti Smith in concert, you expect her to sing “Beneath the Southern Cross,” “Because the Night,” and almost certainly “People Have the Power,” the hit single from Dream of Life. Like her 1975 debut Horses, that album had a cover photo by Robert...
Seth's Blog
Which sort of sinecure? Sooner or later, we find a place to hide. A place of security or sustenance. A place of safety. That...
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Sooner or later, we find a place to hide. A place of security or sustenance. A place of safety. That sort of foundation can give us peace of mind and open the door to possibility. But, it’s possible that we can turn it into a trap as well. A situation so perfectly created that...
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know undefined
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Psychology & Spirituality: Exploring the Intersection With Carl Jung’s Analytical Psychology undefined
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Diaries of Note
The hell with you, Jack, I am looking after myself In March of 1942, following the two-week Battle of Java, Canadian RAF Lieutenant Robert Wyse became...
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In March of 1942, following the two-week Battle of Java, Canadian RAF Lieutenant Robert Wyse became one of thousands of Allied personnel captured by Japanese forces on the island, and for more than three gruelling years he lived as a prisoner of war in various camps. In a subtle...
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Flashbak
Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
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The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
CONTEMPORIST
Traditional Materials And Forms Were Adapted To A Modern Language For This House Mel­bourne-based archi­tec­ture and inte­ri­or design stu­dio Splinter Society, has shared photos of...
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Mel­bourne-based archi­tec­ture and inte­ri­or design stu­dio Splinter Society, has shared photos of modern rear addition they recently completed for a home in Australia. The designers retained the existing floor plan, roofing tiles, gable forms, small brick garage, simple...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Make Ethereum Cypherpunk Again
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Home on Erik...
The lane next to you is more likely to be slower than yours Saw this link on Hacker News the other day: The Highway Lane Next to Yours Isn’t Really Moving Any...
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over a year ago
Saw this link on Hacker News the other day: The Highway Lane Next to Yours Isn’t Really Moving Any Faster The article describes a phenomenon unique to traffic where cars spread out when they go fast and get more compact when they go slow.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“Just” One Line From Jeremy Keith’s piece “Responsibility”: Dropping in one line of JavaScript seems like a...
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From Jeremy Keith’s piece “Responsibility”: Dropping in one line of JavaScript seems like a victimless crime. It’s just one small script, right? But JavaScript can import more JavaScript. “It’s just one line of code” is a pitch you hear all the time. It might also be the biggest...
TheCollector
How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism? undefined
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Focusing on Healthcare’s Administrative Costs Is Misguided Substantial thinking about healthcare reform starts with acknowledging that administrative bloat...
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Noahpinion
What just happened in San Francisco politics? A guest post by Armand Domalewski
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journal – Winnie Lim
the capacity to be flexible I woke up yesterday with the intention to run, but the PSI had entered unhealthy ranges due to the...
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I woke up yesterday with the intention to run, but the PSI had entered unhealthy ranges due to the seasonal haze that comes in from Indonesia. When I was younger I used...
Londonist
25 Cheap Ways For Young People To See Culture In London All the best discounts.
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Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright undefined
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Londonist
Concrete Beauty Of The National Theatre Captured In This Abstract Exhibition Amelia Lancaster has been photographing it for over 20 years.
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Rest of World -...
Illegal gold mining influencers are tearing up the Amazon Creators share tips on YouTube and TikTok to bring new miners into the fold and turn criminal...
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Creators share tips on YouTube and TikTok to bring new miners into the fold and turn criminal behavior into money-making content.
Noahpinion
How we'll know if Trump is going to sell America out to China Keep an eye on the export controls. They are the key.
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Blog - Practical...
HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 3 This is the third episode of a five-part pilot series to gauge your interest in "How It's...
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This is the third episode of a five-part pilot series to gauge your interest in "How It's Made"-esque heavy construction videos. Drop a comment or send me an email to let me know what you think! Watch on YouTube above or ad-free on Nebula here.
watchTowr Labs
Check Point - Wrong Check Point (CVE-2024-24919) Gather round, gather round - it’s time for another blogpost tearing open an SSLVPN appliance and...
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Gather round, gather round - it’s time for another blogpost tearing open an SSLVPN appliance and laying bare a recent in-the-wild exploited bug. This time, it is Check Point who is the focus of our penetrative gaze. Check Point, for those unaware, is the vendor responsible for...
Charles Chen
Need for Speed: LLMs Beyond OpenAI with .NET 8 SSE + Channels, Llama3, and Fireworks.ai If your gen AI use case has a need for speed, then it might be time to move beyond OpenAI GPT and...
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If your gen AI use case has a need for speed, then it might be time to move beyond OpenAI GPT and combine that with a backend capable of high-throughput concurrent processing.
pcloadletter
Write code that you can understand when you get paged at 2am The older I get, the more I dislike clever code. This is not a controversial take; it is pretty-well...
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The older I get, the more I dislike clever code. This is not a controversial take; it is pretty-well agreed upon that clever code is bad. But I particularly like the on-call responsiblity framing: write code that you can understand when you get paged at 2am. If you have never...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware January 2024 As I noted when posting the ware, I actually don’t know what its original function was — it’s just a...
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10 months ago
As I noted when posting the ware, I actually don’t know what its original function was — it’s just a gizmo I picked out of a junk bin in Akihabara. Personally, I could not figure out the grabby motion until I actuated the central plunger manually: So, I was impressed that Ian...
Alex Meub
Building an Arcade Stick I’ve been into playing games on my RetroPie machine lately and thought it would be cool to build an...
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over a year ago
I’ve been into playing games on my RetroPie machine lately and thought it would be cool to build an arcade stick (also called a “fight stick”). Here’s the finished product: Materials and Components I had some leftover IKEA oak butcher block from a kitchen project and I thought...
Classical Wisdom
A Book 100 Years in the Making Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
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alexwlchan
Documenting my DNS records I had to change some of my DNS records recently, a phrase which strikes fear into the heart of...
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I had to change some of my DNS records recently, a phrase which strikes fear into the heart of sysadmins everywhere. It all went fine, but I definitely felt like I was playing with fire. My current domain registrar is Hover, and the only way I can manage my domains is through a...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
News is a lousy business for Google too There is a widespread myth that search engines have taken profits away from news websites. A few...
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There is a widespread myth that search engines have taken profits away from news websites. A few months ago, Rupert Murdoch said: “Google…
Raw Thought (from...
Cherish mistakes
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swyx's site RSS Feed
What if Stripe is the next Google? Working out a thought exercise by Paul Graham.
over a year ago
Ralph Ammer
How to see beauty Last summer, I found myself at a farmers market of a small town in Southern France. The air was...
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Last summer, I found myself at a farmers market of a small town in Southern France. The air was alive with chatter and the joy of yet another sunny day ahead. I made my way through tourists, neighbourhood regulars and other early birds. To escape the buzz, I stepped into the...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Illusion Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I got this idea from a story I can't remember, only...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I got this idea from a story I can't remember, only that it had the line 'I will show you the power of illusion' and was, possibly, from the Hindu tradition. Anyone know it? Today's News:
HTMHell
Test-driven HTML and accessibility by David Luhr When I started writing unit tests and following a test-driven development (TDD)...
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by David Luhr When I started writing unit tests and following a test-driven development (TDD) workflow, I was stoked with the immediate feedback and confidence I gained in every line of JavaScript I wrote. TDD improved my software design with simpler, more predictable code. It...
Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Peter Mick Lessons from building and growing Copylime to 6 figures all in public
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TheCollector
Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna) undefined
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Anecdotal Evidence
'The Prejudice Against Humor?' “What is the origin of the prejudice against humor? Why is it so dangerous, if you would keep the...
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11 months ago
“What is the origin of the prejudice against humor? Why is it so dangerous, if you would keep the public confidence, to make the public laugh? Is it because humor and sound sense are essentially antagonistic? Has humanity found by experience that the man who sees the fun of life...
ToughSF
Nuclear Conversion for Starship There has been much discussion about converting the SpaceX Starship to use nuclear propulsion. It...
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over a year ago
There has been much discussion about converting the SpaceX Starship to use nuclear propulsion. It would allow for a great increase in specific impulse and a massive extension of mission capabilities. But is it actually worthwhile? The image above is modified from...
Platformer
The people who want to end Section 230 may have botched their case But even a ruling against the plaintiffs in Gonzalez vs. Google could hurt internet freedoms,...
a year ago
Ink & Switch
02 · Tracking provenance Automatically tracking provenance in computational documents
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Maps Mania
The Lost Pathfinder Game
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MASSIVE New Model Releases from Google, OpenAI, and Meta Change the AI Landscape Society's Backend Reading List 12-16-2024
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Quanta Magazine
The Computer Scientist Peering Inside AI’s Black Boxes Cynthia Rudin wants machine learning models, responsible for increasingly important decisions, to...
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Cynthia Rudin wants machine learning models, responsible for increasingly important decisions, to show their work. The post The Computer Scientist Peering Inside AI’s Black Boxes first appeared on Quanta Magazine
journal – Winnie Lim
biometrics pre, during & post-covid A couple of weeks ago I received a notification from my apple watch that there were some new health...
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A couple of weeks ago I received a notification from my apple watch that there were some new health trends from the health app: Obviously this is because I had covid: being...
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Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know undefined
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Good Code, Testable Code (article) Learn what testability means, how it relates to code complexity, and why it's essential for...
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Learn what testability means, how it relates to code complexity, and why it's essential for effective testing.
Londonist
Tiddles - The Fat Cat Of Paddington Station He even had his own fridge.
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Construction Physics
Building Fast and Slow Part IV: Construction of the World Trade Center This is Part IV in a series comparing the construction of the Empire State Building and the World...
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over a year ago
This is Part IV in a series comparing the construction of the Empire State Building and the World Trade Center. Part I covers the design and construction of the Empire State Building, Part II covers the initial development of the World Trade Center, and Part III covers the
diamond geezer
Wealdstone and Whetstone Two London suburbs (and thus two tube stations) are named after lumps of rock at the side of the...
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a year ago
Two London suburbs (and thus two tube stations) are named after lumps of rock at the side of the road. Let's visit both. The Weald Stone, Wealdstone What? The Weald Stone is a humpy lump of sarsen stone approximately the same length as a sleeping human. Where? Not in the centre...
Eukaryote Writes...
Internet Harvest (2020, 2) Internet Harvest is a selection of the most succulent links on the internet that I’ve recently...
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over a year ago
Internet Harvest is a selection of the most succulent links on the internet that I’ve recently plucked from its fruitful boughs. Feel free to discuss the links in the comments. Also, semi-intentionally, none of the links in this harvest are COVID-19-related. If you want some...
Arduino Blog
GLEWBOT scales buildings like a gecko to inspect wall tiles A great deal of building maintenance expenses are the result of simple inaccessibility. Cleaning the...
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A great deal of building maintenance expenses are the result of simple inaccessibility. Cleaning the windows are your house is a trivial chore, but cleaning the windows on a skyscraper is serious undertaking that needs specialized equipment and training. To make exterior wall...
Epic Web Dev
Professional Web Forms (workshop) The Professional Web Forms Workshop will equip you for building complex, fully accessible forms that...
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The Professional Web Forms Workshop will equip you for building complex, fully accessible forms that handle validation and file uploads while preventing spam.
Seth's Blog
Practical approaches for more effective teamwork Give credit, take responsibility Get aligned on timeframes Insist on a spec, write one, improve it...
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Give credit, take responsibility Get aligned on timeframes Insist on a spec, write one, improve it Agree on a budget Keep a calendar Don’t hold a grudge Speak up clearly and generously Show your work Share your fears Make promises and keep them Do the reading Talk about people...
TheCollector
The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races undefined
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Style over Substance
Guy’s Cool Tools This is a placeholder post! I’m a huge fan of Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools site and have loved their...
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This is a placeholder post! I’m a huge fan of Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools site and have loved their recommendations for years. So much, so that I even started a Pinterest board filled with my own recommendations. But after a few years of running into the limitations of the form, I...
On Test Automation
On life as an independent contractor right now Before I start: I’m writing this both to clear my head and to vent / rant a little, but also in...
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Before I start: I’m writing this both to clear my head and to vent / rant a little, but also in response to people both from the Netherlands and from abroad who have shown interest in working as an independent contractor over here. As Google Analytics tell me only a small portion...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Probity Was Perhaps the Highest Good' As a newspaper reporter I covered only one capital murder trial. This was in rural Indiana in 1983....
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As a newspaper reporter I covered only one capital murder trial. This was in rural Indiana in 1983. At the age of eighteen, William Spranger had fatally shot a town marshal, William Miner, in the back with the officer’s service revolver. The jury found Spranger guilty and Judge...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Future Spells Only Disaster' Several weeks ago in a post I wrote about Robert Conquest I referred to “the essential books...
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Several weeks ago in a post I wrote about Robert Conquest I referred to “the essential books published in the twentieth century,” and listed some of the titles deserving a place in that category. Most, I wrote, “are not found in the traditionally defined literary categories; that...
Joshua Smith
Luncheonette Description of artwork The post Luncheonette appeared first on Joshua Smith.
a year ago
Flashbak
Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he...
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11 months ago
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he first spotted at a swap meet in Pasadena, California. We don’t know who took these photographs of David Bowie backstage, James Brown meeting and greeting the fans and many other...
Map of the Week
Headwaters When I see a river, I often think about where it comes from and where it goes. I started a mapping...
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When I see a river, I often think about where it comes from and where it goes. I started a mapping project showing this for the Northeastern United States. For the level of detail needed it was necessary to choose a manageable area so I chose where I've lived almost all of my...
The Diff
Meta's Least-Untrusted Clone Model Plus! AI Interfaces; The Many Peaks of Mobile; Borrowing Distribution Networks; Ad Arbitrages; More...
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Plus! AI Interfaces; The Many Peaks of Mobile; Borrowing Distribution Networks; Ad Arbitrages; More YouTube AI IP
TheCollector
How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema? undefined
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James Cheshire
Being creative is reason enough to try different data visualization A simple line chart might be all you need to communicate the patterns in a dataset, but it might not...
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over a year ago
A simple line chart might be all you need to communicate the patterns in a dataset, but it might not be given a second glance. Getting the viewer to work a little harder to interpret and think about a graphic can be a very effective way of generating engagement. This is where the...
TheCollector
The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles undefined
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Maps Mania
Stack Overflown
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Louwrentius
Most Technical debt is just bullshit Introduction I made an offhand remark about technical debt to a friend and he interrupted me,...
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Introduction I made an offhand remark about technical debt to a friend and he interrupted me, saying: "technical debt is just bullshit". In his experience, people talking about technical debt were mostly trying to: cover up bad code cover up unfinished work source1 Calling...
Jonas Hietala
Browse posts with telescope.nvim I’ve used telescope.nvim's find files with require("telescope.builtin").find_files for quite some...
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I’ve used telescope.nvim's find files with require("telescope.builtin").find_files for quite some time. I use find files together with it’s cousin .oldfiles (find recently opened files) all the time for finding source code files, blog posts, and more. But it’s naturally...
Classical Wisdom
Dionysus The God of Wine!
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Dragons Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Dangle-balls is copyright SMBC Industries, All...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Dangle-balls is copyright SMBC Industries, All Rights Reserved Today's News:
The Marginalian
Albert Camus on Writing and the Importance of Stubbornness in Creative Work "There is no greatness without a little stubbornness... Works of art are not born in flashes of...
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Steve Klabnik
Rubinius is awesome
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TheCollector
Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid undefined
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First Loop Fright Breakthrough success and catastrophic failure seem random at first, but they are more systematic...
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Breakthrough success and catastrophic failure seem random at first, but they are more systematic than they appear.
Left To Write
What I Learned In 1 Year of Writing A Newsletter Hey Friends, A year ago — in June 2022 — I started this newsletter. I had so many ideas of what I...
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a year ago
Hey Friends, A year ago — in June 2022 — I started this newsletter. I had so many ideas of what I wanted this newsletter to be: copywriting and creativity, behavioural science, business, or personal essays. But after a year of writing Left to Write,
Ink & Switch
03 · Dynamic history Version control with dynamic history combines the best of auto-saving tools with manually-created...
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Version control with dynamic history combines the best of auto-saving tools with manually-created milestones.
Posts on Made of...
Running Tensorflow on AWS GPUs I’ve been spending some time learning deep learning and tensorflow recently, and as part of that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been spending some time learning deep learning and tensorflow recently, and as part of that project I wanted to be able to train models using GPUs on EC2. This post contains some notes on what it took to get that working. As many people have commented, the environment setup...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Never Forgive Them In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried...
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In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest&
Anecdotal Evidence
'Flow, Like Waters After Summer Show’rs' “As two men sit silent, after having exhausted all their topics of conversation; one says, ‘It is...
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“As two men sit silent, after having exhausted all their topics of conversation; one says, ‘It is very fine weather,’ and the other says, ‘Yes;’—one blows his nose, and the other rubs his eye-brows; (by the way, this is very much in Homer’s manner;) such seems to be the case...
TheCollector
How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold) undefined
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Rest of World -...
This Chinese startup believes it can take augmented reality glasses mainstream Peng Jin, co-founder and head of commercialization at AR glasses startup Nreal, discusses how his...
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Peng Jin, co-founder and head of commercialization at AR glasses startup Nreal, discusses how his product will revolutionize the display experience.
Explorations of an...
2023 Part 2: Early March through April (Brazil) March On March 4, Laura and I landed in São Paulo. It was our first time in Brazil. Even though we...
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a year ago
March On March 4, Laura and I landed in São Paulo. It was our first time in Brazil. Even though we had planned to spend much of the next two months exploring Brazil, the country is so large that we could only see a small portion of it. We restricted our route to only include...
NeuroLogica Blog
Spider-Man’s Web Shooter I have to admit that my favorite superhero as a kid, and still today, is Spider-Man (and yes, that’s...
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I have to admit that my favorite superhero as a kid, and still today, is Spider-Man (and yes, that’s the correct spelling). There are a number of narrative reasons for this that I grew to appreciate more as I aged. First, Spider-Man is in the sweet spot of super abilities – he is...
RhysTranter.com
These are some of the things that we see on our walks.
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The American Scholar
American Horror Story Jeremy Dauber on our obsession with fear The post American Horror Story appeared first on The...
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Jeremy Dauber on our obsession with fear The post American Horror Story appeared first on The American Scholar.
Old Structures...
Almost Unrecognizeable Most of the 1950s Angelo Rizzuto photos I’ve been discussing recently can be quickly located even if...
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Most of the 1950s Angelo Rizzuto photos I’ve been discussing recently can be quickly located even if their descriptions don’t say were they were taken. The 1957 picture above threw me. We’re looking towards midtown – the Empire State Building makes that obvious – but from what...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Poll: How anxious are you before an interview? From the HackerNews poll: Given the spike in interviewing questions, I’m curious to know: how...
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a year ago
From the HackerNews poll: Given the spike in interviewing questions, I’m curious to know: how anxious are you before an interview? To qualify the choices a bit: Not at all - I feel confident and not worried about the prospect of failure. A little - I’m fairly confident. Maybe the...
Londonist
West End Tickets From £15 - London Theatre Week Has Launched Slashed price seats available till 3 March.
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Trying to Understand...
War, Peace, And That Other Thing. Understanding political violence.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'He Belonged Essentially to the Order of Wags' A gift I prize is seeing the humor in writers not taxonomically labeled “Humorists.” If you tell me...
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10 months ago
A gift I prize is seeing the humor in writers not taxonomically labeled “Humorists.” If you tell me a piece by S.J. Pearlman has made you laugh my response is, “Enjoy yourself.” I don’t find Pearlman as funny as I did when I was a kid, though I’m happy for you. But if you tell me...
Louwrentius
Debian Lenny and Dell S300 H200 and H700 RAID controllers update november 2010: it is reported in the comments that the next release will support these...
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update november 2010: it is reported in the comments that the next release will support these controllers. However, which controllers are supported is not clear. Also, we may have to wait for quite some time before squeeze will be released. Just a quick note: it seems that the...
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I was reading "Real-World Cryptography" and ran across an thought-provoking statement. While talking about why hashes are often represented in hexademical, the author states (emphasis mine): There are other ways to encode binary data for human consumption, but the two most widely...
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I believe the best way to become a 10x engineer is to zoom out and solve for user impact. Engineers and founders need to deeply understand and care…
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I have written many times about the Hour Of Code here at AVC. It is the highlight of the annual Computer Science Education Week which is the first week of December, which is this week. Yesterday Marco Argenti, Goldman Sachs’ CIO, and I went with NYC Schools Chancellor David Banks...
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Orson Welles Narrates an Animated Parable About How Xenophobia & Greed Will Put America Into Decline... More than 50 years and 10 presidential administrations have passed since Orson Welles narrated...
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More than 50 years and 10 presidential administrations have passed since Orson Welles narrated Freedom River. And while it shows signs of age, the animated film, a parable about the role of immigration, race, and wealth in America, still resonates today. Actually, given the...
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It’s interesting to realize that mirrors weren’t perfected until a few hundred years ago. Human beings spend a lot of time considering our own appearance and our own feelings and most of all, our own needs. The market produces a shift. When it’s a fair and open exchange, the...
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There are six points around the Greater London boundary where three counties meet. London/Kent/Surrey Specifically: Biggin Hill/Westerham/Tatsfield Location: Rag Hill To get here take a walk along the quiet twisty country lane that wends between Tatsfield Green and the...
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Bringing the Philippines’ beloved mom-and-pop stores into the 21st century Local startups are working to digitize sari-sari shops, or convenience stores, which are a large...
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Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The band had recently released their fourth album Juju (1981) and were working on their fifth A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982). While other punk bands had imploded, Siouxsie and the...
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Let's Learn CSS Variables! CSS variables (otherwise known as CSS custom properties) give previously impossible superpowers to...
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CSS variables (otherwise known as CSS custom properties) give previously impossible superpowers to CSS developers. This post covers what they are, how they work, and a couple of nifty ways you can implement them on your own website.
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Clojure macros have two modes: avoid them at all costs/do very basic stuff, or go absolutely crazy. Here’s the problem: I’m working on Humble UI’s component library, and I wanted to document it. While at it, I figured it could serve as an integration test as well—since I showcase...
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Drawing repetitive radial artworks I was waiting for a meeting to start the other day, and I was idly doodling in my notebook. I’d just...
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I was waiting for a meeting to start the other day, and I was idly doodling in my notebook. I’d just had a text from a friend about an upcoming trip to Ireland, and she’d sent me the four-leafed clover emoji (🍀), so I was sketching some petal-like shapes. These are a few of my...
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The known unknown knowns we lost When people think of George Orwell's 1984, what usually comes to mind is the orwellianism: a society in the grip of a dictatorial, oppressive regime which rewrote history daily as if it was a casual matter. Not me though. For whatever reason,...
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The quickest way to cut through confusion or disagreement among otherwise amiable and honest folks is to ask questions. Ask early so you don't waste time. But it's not enough to just ask clarifying questions because the answers won't always be clear. Sounds like Human Interaction...
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Running an ESP32 on a battery is a tricky operation. The chip is a powerhouse, and with power comes great responsibility. In this post, I’ll outline how I got an ESP32 to run for over 15 weeks (and counting) on a single 1000mAh battery.
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There are few technical decisions I regret more with Buttondown than the decision to combine the author-facing app, the subscriber-facing app, and the marketing site all under a single domain. Most technical decisions are reversible with sufficient grit and dedication; this one...
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how my curiosity lead me to discover a weird inconsistency with MongoDB where I was able to insert records that conflicted the index constraints
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Aeonik Mono and Aeonik Fono Typefaces abduzeedo0209—23 RM Mono is the monospaced version of RM Neue. Each character in RM Mono fits in a box of the same width (600 units). While developing RM Mono, we also took the time to update RM Neue with a...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I recently received an email asking some advice about co-founders, specifically about whether a 50/50 ownership split makes sense for a startup. This is certainly a topic which has had heated...
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Suppose someone has synthesized or found what they think is a new material. How do people studying materials (condensed matter physicists, materials scientists, materials chemists) figure out what they have and understand its properties? That's the puzzle-solving aspect of...
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Some thoughts I had after conversations with a friend who has a terrible manager. This isn't nearly a comprehensive list, but it highlights many of the problems they were experiencing. Maybe my friend's manager will stumble upon it some day. When someone has a grievance, take an...
ntietz.com blog
Building a demo of the Bleichenbacher RSA attack in Rust Recently while reading Real-World Cryptography, I got nerd sniped1 by the mention of...
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Recently while reading Real-World Cryptography, I got nerd sniped1 by the mention of Bleichenbacher's attack on RSA. This is cool, how does it work? I had to understand, and to understand something, I usually have to build it. Well, friends, that is what I did. I implemented RSA...
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Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
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I had a brief exchange with a good friend recently: The housing market is indeed insane. This problem that we’re both discussing is: Unbelievable ($650,000 for a fixer upper) Oppressive (“unjustly inflicting hardship and constraint, especially on a minority or other subordinate...
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Journal readers will know the name Rosh Mahtani – partly because we’ve visited her in the past, but partly because she’s very, very good at what she does. Despite the joy it brings, Rosh started her cult jewellery brand, Alighieri, when she was in an […]
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President Biden's decision to allow Ukraine to fire American missiles deep into Russian territory risks plunging the world into crisis in the finals months of his administration.
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When Hurricane Beryl struck Texas last week it left nearly 2 million Houston area residents and businesses without power. Local power company Center Point Energy's online power outage map has been unavailable since May. Social media user BBQBryan noted that Texas based...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You can of course remove the last name, but then you're causing less damage to a larger group. Figuring out how to maximize damage is left as an exercise for the reader. Today's News:
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I grew up loving Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. My grandmother read it to me before I could read. I read it to myself as soon as I could. I loved the strangeness of it, and the tenderness. As a child mathematician, I loved knowing that a grown mathematician had written it. But...
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Book Poll 2019 I've been feeling like I've skewed too much on empty calories recently. So I ran [this...
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I've been feeling like I've skewed too much on empty calories recently. So I ran [this poll](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1168182079613485056):
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The 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey is now live! By taking this survey, you'll be helping other developers living here better understand the experience of their peers, and also help people considering making the move here understand what working here is actually...
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The importance of Rwanda to the imperialist agenda is confirmed by the fact that alongside Agnes Binagwaho on the Rockefeller Foundation board of trustees we find fellow Rwandan Donald Kaberuka. [156]
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Leverage platform capabilities to quickly launch new products, designing for reusability, flexibility and extensibility.
Open Culture
Leonard Bernstein Introduces the Moog Synthesizer to the World in 1969, Playing an Electrified... When Wendy Carlos released Switched-On Bach in 1968, her “greatest hits” compilation of the Baroque...
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When Wendy Carlos released Switched-On Bach in 1968, her “greatest hits” compilation of the Baroque composer’s music, played entirely on the Moog analog synthesizer, the album became an immediate hit with both classical and pop audiences. Not only was it “acclaimed as real music...
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just bit into a baklava but it was a cement brick damn what a scam It was a fun week. Tough, but fun! Zip doubled in size which is cool. Startups are a cool thing...
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It was a fun week. Tough, but fun! Zip doubled in size which is cool. Startups are a cool thing where learnings really stack on top of each other regardless of the product/company… Going to try our best to keep the growth going into next week! Something that’s going well:...
nanoscale views
New paper - plasmons, excitons, and steering energy We have a new paper out in Nano Letters (arxiv version here), and I wanted to explain a bit about it...
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We have a new paper out in Nano Letters (arxiv version here), and I wanted to explain a bit about it and why I think it's a really cool result.    I've written before about the Purcell Effect.  When we study quantum mechanics, we learn that the rates of processes, like the...
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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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Click to Load Website Images 2021-03-25 In my previous post about switching my Jekyll blog over to PHPetite, I briefly mentioned how I only loaded in article images if the user clicked or tapped the empty file element. In this post, I'm going to quickly breakdown the update I've...
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In April 2019, it was not clear what would happen. Given the importance of the cathedral to the city of Paris, the nation of France, and the cultural heritage of Europe, it was clear that it would be rebuilt after the fire, but in what form and on what schedule were open...
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School sports can have some valuable outputs: And yet, many schools act as if all they have is a trophy shortage. They bench kids who might not (yet) have the physical attributes necessary to win, or they build huge stadiums, go on long road trips, berate students that make an...
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Like porkchops, fame is highly perishable. Writers once read by millions – think of James Michener and, at a far more accomplished level, James Gould Cozzens – have evaporated from literary memory. Newspaper writing and journalism in general are especially biodegradable. Who...
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I meant to post this when I left Calm earlier this year, as a ending note to my post on joining Calm, but instead I got focused on joining Carta and writing An Engineering Executive’s Primer. I’m cleaning out some of my old drafts, and posting this as an artifact of that moment....
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With a tiny bit more planning I made a dinner out the lessons 4 and 5 as the crabcakes were only supposed to be an appetizer: Crabcakes: Surprisingly delicious. Both me and Veronica gives them a 7. Zucchini: While I thought they passed Veronica said “Zucchini is not my thing” and...
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As a business owner, you're constantly seeking ways to optimize your operations, reduce costs, and maximize profits. But have you considered a strategy that not only benefits your business but also sets your children up for financial success? The concept of hiring your children...
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diamond geezer
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Stratford & Bow election roundup my constituency? Leaflets yes • Uma Kumaran (Labour) A letter from Keir with his six pledges, minimal promises. Looks like they sent out millions of these. • Halima Khan (Workers Party) Roughly-folded and left sticking out of all our...
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Thoughts on audiobooks I’m listening more than reading these days, and I find that a good audiobook can make a real impact...
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I’m listening more than reading these days, and I find that a good audiobook can make a real impact on the way I absorb and learn from a book. It’s a once in a century sort of shift in this medium. My new book is now available in audio. It’s not on Audible, at least […]
The American Scholar
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“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing, 1935     In his October 1935 column for Esquire magazine called Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter, Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899–July 2, 1961) shared his tips for writing...
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Hello everyone! Welcome 150 new subscribers since my last issue. I’m glad to have you here! 👋 Here is a quick update from me in April 2022. This should make a nice thumbnail for this page! 😁 🔻 Suffered from high churn In early April, Black Magic observed
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It will never let you down. Bitterness is never-ending, impenetrable and refuses to negotiate. If you give it a chance, it will persist. It lacks nuance or surprise. It’s simply a wall you can lean against, whenever you choose. Consistency is all it has to offer, actually.
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How to plan a killer company offsite in just 8 weeks As a company born at the beginning of the pandemic, PostHog has been fully-remote from its...
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As a company born at the beginning of the pandemic, PostHog has been fully-remote from its inception. Our team is 35+ people distributed across 1…
macwright.com
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Prefer video? You can also watch an intro video that I recorded for this on YouTube. Obsidian Freeform is an extremely small Obsidian plugin that enables totally custom JavaScript-powered frames alongside your notes. I created it because I use Obsidian as my note-taking...
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I’ve been to akihabara twice – once in 2008ish and another in 2018 – but back then I was more interested in looking at the massive electronic stores like yodabashi and bic....
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One Useful Thing
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Aaron's Essays
In defense of exploding term sheets There’s a lot of content out there arguing that exploding term sheets—ones that expire after a set...
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There’s a lot of content out there arguing that exploding term sheets—ones that expire after a set amount of time, whether or not they’re accepted—are bad. Some of this comes from founders who do not appreciate the pressure; some if it comes from VCs who want to emphasize their...