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AFAR Media - Travel...
Visit Corpus Christi, TX for Beaches and Outdoor Adventure
6 months ago
Working Theorys
New Social App Who am I? And other urgent existential questions.
9 months ago
Londonist
See Three New Morphing Sculptures By Nick Hornby Trio of incredible shape-changing sculptures hit town.
a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024 Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
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Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
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VC is a tool, not a religion We raised over $27,000,000 then realized we should be growing out of our own revenue instead. Day 1...
a year ago
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a year ago
We raised over $27,000,000 then realized we should be growing out of our own revenue instead. Day 1 – We started bootstrapping, then changed our minds…
Seth's Blog
Transforming two-sided markets AI agents are going to overhaul the way we think about buying and selling. Uber already did this in...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
AI agents are going to overhaul the way we think about buying and selling. Uber already did this in a small way. They organized the drivers, and now they organize the riders. Hailing a cab was already sort of anonymous, but with competition and structure, AI will continue to get...
Strange Loop Canon
Discovery is the original sin of the modern age technology, living post scarcity, and how to find what you want
a year ago
Acko.net
The Coddling of the Professional Mind "The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The...
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"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling." – Thomas Sowell I'm not one to miss an important milestone, so let me draw your attention...
Seth's Blog
What’s a “techie”? A friend’s email said, “I know many of my readers aren’t techies and you’re thinking of putting this...
a year ago
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A friend’s email said, “I know many of my readers aren’t techies and you’re thinking of putting this newsletter aside…” We should get clear about what we’re talking about when we say “techie.” I’m going to argue that involves a combination of two things: But someone who says,...
TheCollector
The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time undefined
a year ago
Flashbak
The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919) William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
a year ago
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a year ago
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
Epic Web Dev
Understanding the Order of JavaScript Module Evaluation on the Web (tip) Discover the order in which JavaScript modules are evaluated on the web. From server index to entry...
a year ago
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a year ago
Discover the order in which JavaScript modules are evaluated on the web. From server index to entry server and client, we trace the flow of evaluation.
TheCollector
History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction undefined
11 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.29.0 Fully revamped Paths experience enables you to better explore what actions your users take. New...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Fully revamped Paths experience enables you to better explore what actions your users take. New features include multivariate feature flags, private projects and DAU/WAU/MAU graphs.
MMapped blog
IC internals: the ICP ledger
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher 2020-06-04 Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog...
over a year ago
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Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher 2020-06-04 Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog design has changed. I’m keeping this post up since it will still be useful for those wanting to implement a theme switcher on their own site. I recently added a fairly...
Commoncog
The Capital Cycle What a famous investing framework — part of the modern canon of value investing — tells us about the...
a year ago
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What a famous investing framework — part of the modern canon of value investing — tells us about the expertise of capital in business.
AFAR Media - Travel...
Tips for Traveling with Neurodivergent Kids
a year ago
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2024 / Los Angeles]
over a year ago
diamond geezer
Tube 160 Treasure Hunt Are you at a loose end tomorrow? Do you like looking at station architecture? Would you like a...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Are you at a loose end tomorrow? Do you like looking at station architecture? Would you like a surprise birthday gift from TfL? If the answer to all these questions is yes then why not take part in the Tube 160 Treasure Hunt? You even get to travel round central London for...
NeuroLogica Blog
Nadir Crater – A Double Tap for Dinosaurs? It is now generally accepted that 66 million years ago a large asteroid smacked into the Earth,...
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3 months ago
It is now generally accepted that 66 million years ago a large asteroid smacked into the Earth, causing the large Chicxulub crater off the coast of Mexico. This was a catastrophic event, affecting the entire globe. Fire rained down causing forest fires across much of the globe,...
The Rational Walk
Two Sides of the Same Coin Savings and consumption are joined at the hip. The more we consume during our working years, the...
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11 months ago
Savings and consumption are joined at the hip. The more we consume during our working years, the longer it will take to achieve financial independence.
The Honest Broker
The Death of the Slow Dance (and Other Emerging Trends) My latest briefing paper on the state of the creative economy
a year ago
SOCKS
Man Ray, Mathematical Objects (1934-36) The collection of 19th-century three-dimensional models of algebraic and differential equations at...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
The collection of 19th-century three-dimensional models of algebraic and differential equations at the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris made a great impression on Surrealist artists. Allegedly, after Max Ernst brought these wood, metal, wire, and plaster forms to Man Ray’s...
Ben Borgers
Majoring in more
over a year ago
The Rational Walk
Dollar General: Value or Value Trap? I spent Labor Day weekend reading about this beaten down retailer. This article provides some...
a year ago
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a year ago
I spent Labor Day weekend reading about this beaten down retailer. This article provides some initial thoughts about the company as well as the overall retail landscape.
On Test Automation
The test automation quadrant, or a different way to look at your tests Like many others working in software testing, and more specifically in automation, I have been...
4 weeks ago
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4 weeks ago
Like many others working in software testing, and more specifically in automation, I have been introduced to the concept of the test automation pyramid early on in my career. While this model has received its share of criticism in the testing community over the years, I still use...
Contemporist...
This Modern Mountain Home Was Designed With Distinctly Separate Wings CLB Architects has sent us photos of a mountain retreat they designed in a densely forested area of...
a year ago
Louwrentius
20 disk 18 TB RAID 6 storage based on Debian Linux This system is no longer operational and has been decomissioned (2017) This is my NAS storage server...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This system is no longer operational and has been decomissioned (2017) This is my NAS storage server based on Debian Linux. It uses software RAID and 20 one terrabyte hard drives. It provides a total usable storage capacity of 18 terrabytes in a single RAID 6 array. One of the...
Elad Blog
Transcript & Video: Claire Hughes Johnson Fireside Chat on Scaling People I interview Claire about her new book "Scaling People". Thanks to Stripe for hosting.
a year ago
Mazdak
Google's Gemini Enters the AI Arena: Ready to Take on OpenAI? Get ready for a new contender in the world of large language models (LLMs): Google's Gemini! This...
a year ago
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a year ago
Get ready for a new contender in the world of large language models (LLMs): Google's Gemini! This powerful AI is set to shake things up, potentially rivaling big names like OpenAI and Microsoft. What's the Buzz About Gemini? Gemini comes in three flavors:
balajis.com
Prompts are Tiny Programs And prompt engineering is a subset of software engineering.
11 months ago
TheCollector
Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur? undefined
6 months ago
Seth's Blog
Product and process What do we get in exchange for our work? There’s pay, of course, and the satisfaction of a job well...
a year ago
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a year ago
What do we get in exchange for our work? There’s pay, of course, and the satisfaction of a job well done. There’s stress and human interaction, learning and physical exertion. We get the drama of what might happen next and the delight of actually pulling it off. And mostly we get...
Maps Mania
The Rise & Fall of National Rail Networks
a year ago
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 🪄 Growth Magic
5 months ago
Home on Erik...
Stuff that bothers me: “100x faster than Hadoop” The simple way to get featured on big data blog these days seem to be Build something that does 1...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The simple way to get featured on big data blog these days seem to be Build something that does 1 thing super well but nothing else Benchmark it against Hadoop Publish stats showing that it's 100x faster than Hadoop $$$ Spark claims their 100x faster than Hadoop and there's a...
The Pragmatic...
Should you optimize for all-cash compensation, if possible? Although still rare in the industry, companies like Netflix and Shopify let employees choose how...
a year ago
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a year ago
Although still rare in the industry, companies like Netflix and Shopify let employees choose how much of their total compensation is stock. What are the approaches to take?
bt RSS Feed
Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll 2019-06-20 When thinking about writing, designing and ultimately...
over a year ago
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Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll 2019-06-20 When thinking about writing, designing and ultimately publishing an ebook, most people don’t think of using a static site generator. Having products like Amazon Publishing, LaTeX or even Microsoft Word available, why should you use...
Construction Physics
What Happened to the US Machine Tool Industry? Machine tools – machines that cut or form metal – are the heart of industrial civilization....
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Machine tools – machines that cut or form metal – are the heart of industrial civilization. Sometimes called “mother machines” (because they’re machines that make other machines), machine tools are required to make almost everything. Nearly every manufactured good is made using...
HTMHell
Boosting testing efficiency: how semantic HTML transforms End-to-End testing by Stefania Mellai Semantic and accessible HTML serves as a powerful tool, enhancing not only human...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Stefania Mellai Semantic and accessible HTML serves as a powerful tool, enhancing not only human interaction but also the efficiency of software systems. For instance, when users fill out forms with clear labels and accessible input fields, this reduces errors and ensures...
Global Inequality...
Three steps to freedom Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
10 months ago
TheCollector
George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia undefined
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Bringing It All Back Home If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
TheCollector
Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good? undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know undefined
4 months ago
TheCollector
The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know undefined
10 months ago
Patrick Kayongo
River Flows Crouched on the side of his bed, Tambu sat sobbing. He had slammed the door to his bedroom and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Crouched on the side of his bed, Tambu sat sobbing. He had slammed the door to his bedroom and needed time out after yet another fight with his parents.  I really don’t belong here. They’ll never understand me. They’re so toxic and oppressive. I don’t know how much longer I can...
Stephen Diehl
Exotic Programming Ideas: Part 4 (Datalog)
over a year ago
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Unmistakable Ms. Marvel is set largely in Jersey City. Despite being the second-largest city in New Jersey,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Ms. Marvel is set largely in Jersey City. Despite being the second-largest city in New Jersey, Jersey City does not have much of a visual image. If you asked the average person in the New York metropolitan area to name a physical landmark there, it’s likely they would draw a...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#36) The silent majority and the Palestine protests; immigration is fine; batteries make solar work;...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
The silent majority and the Palestine protests; immigration is fine; batteries make solar work; building warships in Japan; the decels of the Right
A Beautiful Site
Netscape support ending in February 2008 On December 28th, 2007, the Netscape Blog announced that AOL is ending support for Netscape web...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
On December 28th, 2007, the Netscape Blog announced that AOL is ending support for Netscape web browsers effective February 1, 2008. This doesn't come as much of a surprise, considering the significant decline in Netscape's marketshare over the past decade to more competative...
The Rational Walk
New Articles Moving to Newsletter Effective today, I will no longer post new articles to this website, rationalwalk.com. All new...
a year ago
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a year ago
Effective today, I will no longer post new articles to this website, rationalwalk.com. All new articles will be posted on my Substack at newsletter.rationalwalk.com.
Maps Mania
The Chain Restaurants of America
10 months ago
Rest of World -...
Shopee, the juggernaut that fended off Amazon Featuring a whirlwind of discounts, the Sea Group-owned app is popular from Indonesia to Taiwan.
a year ago
The Honest Broker
How to Read Greek Tragedy in a Netflix World If you dare
4 months ago
Londonist
Fears Over Redevelopment Of Surbiton Station Public consultation now open.
a year ago
Elad Blog
Early days of AI Rather then view LLMs, Transformers, and diffusion models as part of a continuum with past "AI", it...
a year ago
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a year ago
Rather then view LLMs, Transformers, and diffusion models as part of a continuum with past "AI", it is worth thinking of this as an entirely new era and discontinuity from the past
Retail Design Blog
Pescada Porto Located in Iulius Mall Timisoara, Pescada Porto offers a luxurious fish dining experience. Designed...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Located in Iulius Mall Timisoara, Pescada Porto offers a luxurious fish dining experience. Designed by NKN, the space features a...
Quantum Frontiers
The Book of Mark, Chapter 2 Late in the summer of 2021, I visited a physics paradise in a physical paradise: the Kavli Institute...
a year ago
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a year ago
Late in the summer of 2021, I visited a physics paradise in a physical paradise: the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP). The KITP sits at the edge of the University of California, Santa Barbara like a bougainvillea bush at … Continue reading →
TheCollector
Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences undefined
4 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Hunter-Gatherers and Childcare What is “natural” for humans? It’s often hard to say, and in my opinion this is a highly overused...
a year ago
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a year ago
What is “natural” for humans? It’s often hard to say, and in my opinion this is a highly overused concept. Primarily this is because humans are adaptable – we adapt to our environment, our situation, and our culture. So it is “natural” for us not to have a natural state. But this...
swyx's site RSS Feed
10x-ing Svelte (Svelte Summit 2022 Talk Notes) Some show notes for my Svelte Summit talk for those who are looking for all the references and cut...
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Netlify Year One > Update: I have since [left Netlify](https://dev.to/swyx/farewell-netlify-1alo).
over a year ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Powered by a Whisper As promised, today we are going to take a journey to the heart of the web. The web has become...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As promised, today we are going to take a journey to the heart of the web. The web has become bloated and gluttonous. We need hungry scalpels, sharp mental x-acto knives to cut away the excess. What will we find at the center? Is there a truth worth saving at the heart of the...
Stories by Andrej...
ICML accepted papers institution stats
over a year ago
RhysTranter.com
Adolphe Tanquerey on the Psalter A quiet evening reading from Tanquerey’s The Spiritual Life, first published in 1923
7 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 072: The new new Claude June 21, 2024.
6 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence? undefined
a year ago
Josh Thompson
"A delicate mix of chess... and bear wrestling" Over the last few weeks I’ve found myself needing to break down “why” of sport climbing (I’ll refer...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Over the last few weeks I’ve found myself needing to break down “why” of sport climbing (I’ll refer to sport as “lead” climbing from here on out. Sorry, trad climbers). If someone is enjoying top roping, (or bouldering) why should they take on the work of learning to lead climb,...
History Today Feed
The Great Fire of Smyrna The Great Fire of Smyrna JamesHoare Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
Folklore.org:...
What Hath Woz Wrought The first product I developed for Apple
a year ago
devonzuegel.com
No Kings: How Do You Make Good Decisions Efficiently in a Flat Organization? At Doist we believe that open and sincere communication improves our decision-making process. That’s...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
At Doist we believe that open and sincere communication improves our decision-making process. That’s why we’ve built a culture that encourages feedback at all levels of decision-making: from purely technical solutions to team and product management. We built our team...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, January 2024 The Ware for January 2024 is shown below. I picked up this little gizmo at a junk shop in Akihabara....
11 months ago
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11 months ago
The Ware for January 2024 is shown below. I picked up this little gizmo at a junk shop in Akihabara. I actually have no idea what the original purpose was, so I’m curious to see if anyone can convince me as to what this thing did, presumably for many years and millions of times....
Citation Needed
Issue 62 – Grassroots Coinbase’s Stand With Crypto Alliance fudges the numbers, a (former) crypto industry CEO has a...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Coinbase’s Stand With Crypto Alliance fudges the numbers, a (former) crypto industry CEO has a meltdown, and another exchange suffers a nine-figure hack.
TheCollector
A Brief History of Chile undefined
3 months ago
Marian's Blog
BTduino documentation The BTduino app sends data using the serial interface of a microcontroller and a bluetooth...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The BTduino app sends data using the serial interface of a microcontroller and a bluetooth connection. The concept of the protocol is to send all data in text form. Each set of data consists of the name and the value, seperated by a colon. This way of communication is not the...
davidyat.es
Print stylesheets
10 months ago
Stoic Simple
Stoic Advice on Losing a Loved One: Ask Marcus Aurelius Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from...
a year ago
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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...
TheCollector
Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot? undefined
6 months ago
Andrew Fraknoi –...
Two Eclipses of the Sun Coming to North America 2023-24 Two eclipses of the Sun will be visible in North America during the 2023-24 school year. The post...
a year ago
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a year ago
Two eclipses of the Sun will be visible in North America during the 2023-24 school year. The post Two Eclipses of the Sun Coming to North America 2023-24 appeared first on Andrew Fraknoi - Astronomy Lectures - Astronomy Education Resources.
Open Culture
How Georges Méliès A Trip to the Moon Became the First Sci-Fi Film & Changed Cinema Forever (1902) If you happen to visit the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, do take the time to see the Musée Méliès...
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a month ago
If you happen to visit the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, do take the time to see the Musée Méliès located inside it. Dedicated to la Magie du cinéma, it contains artifacts from throughout the history of film-as-spectacle, which includes such pictures as 2001: A Space Odyssey...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Inland Northwest, Day 6 (County-Centric) We were now between race days again, with two races down and one more to go. So we could do pretty...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
We were now between race days again, with two races down and one more to go. So we could do pretty much whatever we wanted now and I decided to focus on some county counting. It was all virgin territory to me and I intended to cover as much of it as I could during […] The post...
Probably...
What size is that correlation? This article is related to Chapter 6 of Probably Overthinking It, which is available for preorder...
a year ago
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a year ago
This article is related to Chapter 6 of Probably Overthinking It, which is available for preorder now. It is also related to a new course at Brilliant.org, Explaining Variation. Suppose you find a correlation of 0.36. How would you characterize it? I posed this question to the...
TheCollector
Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy undefined
9 months ago
Home on Erik...
Machine, Platform, Crowd I just bought Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future and discovered that it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I just bought Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future and discovered that it mentions my blog – in particular the post When machine learning matters. Ok, I lied a little bit. I didn't discover it serendipitously.
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...
Castles in the Sky
The Unlikely Connection Between Fiction and Travel Castles in the Sky #44
a year ago
TheCollector
The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III undefined
9 months ago
Josh Thompson
Rails Migration: When you can't add a uniqueness constraint because you already have duplicates I get to occasionally contribute to the Wombat Security dev blog. I wrote the following for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I get to occasionally contribute to the Wombat Security dev blog. I wrote the following for development.wombatsecurity.com. This post has been updated to reflect some lessons learned while running this migration in production. Don’t leave a column without an index at any point in...
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 8: Life happens, and databases are hard I'm two-thirds of the way done with my RC batch now. Eight weeks down, four weeks to go. The last...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'm two-thirds of the way done with my RC batch now. Eight weeks down, four weeks to go. The last two weeks have been difficult for me because of life happening. Week 7 was hard because I had some travel to help my parents, and that just takes me out of my routine and is...
TheCollector
6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim undefined
a month ago
TokyoDev
2019 International Developer in Japan Survey Results *This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).* If you're an...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
*This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).* If you're an international software developer looking for a job in Japan, it can be hard to tell what your market rate is. Sure, there's data (in Japanese) for the market as a whole, but that...
Probably...
Too many bronze medals? In a recent video, Hank Green nerd-sniped me by asking a question I couldn’t not answer. At one...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
In a recent video, Hank Green nerd-sniped me by asking a question I couldn’t not answer. At one point in the video, he shows “a graph of the last 20 years of Olympic games showing the gold, silver, and bronze medals from continental Europe. And it “shows continental Europe having...
Mazdak
A Brighter Outlook for Home Buyers in 2024? The Federal Reserve's recent announcement of potential interest rate cuts in 2024 has sent ripples...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Federal Reserve's recent announcement of potential interest rate cuts in 2024 has sent ripples through the housing market, sparking both excitement and cautious optimism among prospective buyers and existing homeowners alike. While the prospect of lower mortgage rates is...
Blog posts of...
How global media communication changes in a transparent world These are crowdaggregated pictures from Syria (across basically all social media channels). No media...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
These are crowdaggregated pictures from Syria (across basically all social media channels). No media publisher inbetween. Authenti...
Rest of World -...
Women in South Africa’s gig economy feel forced to work extra hours for free Women who work as domestic cleaners with SweepSouth, an on-demand app, say clients frequently ask...
a year ago
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a year ago
Women who work as domestic cleaners with SweepSouth, an on-demand app, say clients frequently ask them to do unpaid work, and the company hasn’t responded to their complaints.
Londonist
Tate Britain Reveals Grenfell-Inspired Staircase Chris Ofili's Requiem unveiled.
a year ago
Confessions of a...
Two Threads, One Core: How Simultaneous Multithreading Works Under the Hood Ever wondered how your CPU handles two tasks at once? Discover the magic of Simultaneous...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Ever wondered how your CPU handles two tasks at once? Discover the magic of Simultaneous Multithreading and see what’s really going on inside.
NeuroLogica Blog
Plan To Build First Commercial Fusion Reactor How close are we to having fusion reactors actually sending electric power to the grid? This is a...
3 days ago
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3 days ago
How close are we to having fusion reactors actually sending electric power to the grid? This is a huge and complicated question, and one with massive implications for our civilization. I think we are still at the point where we cannot count on fusion reactors coming online...
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 2-3 September 2023 A vintage sale, a David Bowie club night, and a wealth of festivals to kickstart September.
a year ago
A small freedom area...
Exploring intricate execution mysteries by reversing a crackme It's been a very long time since I've done some actual reverse engineering work. Going through a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It's been a very long time since I've done some actual reverse engineering work. Going through a difficult period currently, I needed to take a break from the graphics world and go back to the roots: understanding obscure or elementary tech stuff. One may argue that it was most...
Overcoming Bias
Capitalism, Govt Causes Culture Woes? Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
3 months ago
Diaries of Note
I am going to do my best Yoko Moriwaki was born in Japan in 1932 on the picturesque island of Itsukushima, better known to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Yoko Moriwaki was born in Japan in 1932 on the picturesque island of Itsukushima, better known to locals as Miyajima, and until war broke out in 1941 her childhood was a happy one, filled with simple joys. In 1944, with the conflict casting a heavy shadow, her father was called...
Seeking Wisdom
Attention is all you need – Part 1 This is the 10th post in my series on building a toy GPT. Read my earlier posts first for better...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is the 10th post in my series on building a toy GPT. Read my earlier posts first for better understanding. I asked ChatGPT to complete the sentence given the phrase: “I chose that bank for”. It completed the sentences sensibly. Here are the four sentences it generated: In...
Irrational...
Getting a job as an engineering executive. I started my first executive job search when I was 25. Eventually, I got an offer to lead...
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over a year ago
I started my first executive job search when I was 25. Eventually, I got an offer to lead engineering at a startup with four engineers, which I turned down to join Uber. It wasn’t until a decade later that I joined Calm and started my first executive role. If you start...
journal – Winnie Lim
on imagining myself as a game character On most days, I don’t feel like doing anything. This non-feeling taken to the extreme, can also mean...
a year ago
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On most days, I don’t feel like doing anything. This non-feeling taken to the extreme, can also mean I may not feel like living. Everything including breathing itself can feel like a chore. I am not...
NeuroLogica Blog
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We’ve noticed an unusual training pattern in fine-tuning LLMs. At first we thought it’s a bug, but now we think it shows LLMs can learn effectively from a single example.
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In advertising, using emotion is entirely logical. Creative agencies have made this case consistently. But in 2013 Les Binet and Peter Field bought some much-needed data to the discussion. In their seminal report, The Long and The Short of It, the duo analysed 30 years of...
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There are lots of reasons to cloak your terrain in a fluffy ephemeral layer of mist. It gives an overall sense of the slope and elevation trends in your view, it showcases meandering river valleys in a charming realism, hilltops peak through with clarity and drama…and it just...
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This article is informed primarily by my experiences as a deaf American living in Japan for the last 16 years. Even though I do not have a mobility disability, I have also included notes about mobility accessibility because I also have some awareness of those through relatives. I...
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CircleCI customers returned from the holiday break to be told to urgently rotate their secrets, which were probably leaked. What does this leak mean for companies using a CI provider and how can you prepare for a CI vendor being compromised?
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Data outlasts Code, yet Code keeps winning My recent End of Localhost piece on Hacker News came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving...
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My recent End of Localhost piece on Hacker News came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving into blaming beginners for not knowing the same parts of the stack that they consider mandatory:
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When a non-expert brings a strong point of view to a complex discussion, the words might not mean what they seem to mean. What might be being said is, “I’m worried. I’m afraid. I don’t understand. I am looking for solace.” Answering emotional word salad with logical insight...
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The following is inspired by Amy Hoy. I’ve got a secret to share: I’m working on building a product (of the digital variety) that will be so damn goodpeople will pay me $100 or more to get it.  I’ve got a lot of bits and pieces of it littered around the internet, my computer,...
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Welcome, dear readers, to a mind-bending adventure into the labyrinth of the human psyche. We're going to embark on an odyssey through the catacombs of cognition, the jungles of the subconscious, and a wild ride into the boundless depths of human behavior—with four psychological...
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I’ve had an idea rolling around my head. I suspect that “being curious” will correlate well with positive outcomes in my life, on pretty much any time horizon, be it days, weeks, or decades. Curiosity feels like a tolerable antidote to boredom, though boredom in and of itself is...
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Many moons ago I made a short-lived attempt to do some shorter-form reviews of sandwich shops, street food joints, delis and the like, places that are perhaps noteworthy but for which the usual 1000+ words could be considered overkill. This resolution didn't last long, partly...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It's a little unfair that he always has God mode switched on, though. Today's News: Final 4 hours. So relieved to stop posting about it.
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For many young people in Paris, it’s a right of passage to live in a very small, very French type of apartment, called a “chambre de bonne.” Literally, a maid’s room. A chambre de bonne is usually one small room, on the top floor of a five- or six-story apartment building, and...
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Authenticity is for amateurs. We want the surgeon, the broadcaster or the musician to show up fully, as the best version of themselves. We know you might be tired from an overnight shift, and authentically feel like phoning it in, but hey, this is the only aorta I’ve got, and I’d...
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Highlights My loved ones and I are safe and healthy. WanderJest is on hiatus due to the nationwide shutdown. I’m working on a product to help investors rebalance their portfolios. COVID-19 and me Obviously, the most relevant thing to happen in the last month has been the global...
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I’ve been a vim vim fan for a while now and with some recent configs I’m starting to feel pretty confident and happy with it. For those who don’t know it’s basically a text editor, like notepad, but with a lot of keycommands which allows you to edit code (and text in general)...
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How to be an awesome belayer For the next few posts I am going to geek out on sport climbing. If you’re not a climber (or a sport...
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For the next few posts I am going to geek out on sport climbing. If you’re not a climber (or a sport climber), these are not for you. All of this information is in the context of sport climbing on trustworthy protection - not trad climbing! How to belay when your climber is in...
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The Grenfell Report The “phase 2” report on the Grenfell has recently been published by the official inquiry panel:...
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The “phase 2” report on the Grenfell has recently been published by the official inquiry panel: here. The New Civil Engineer has a good short summary here: “Grenfell disaster: ‘culmination of decades of failure by government and construction industry’” In one sense there are few...
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Shopify's tutorial is awesome for getting started, but doesn't let you deploy onto Vercel. In this article, I'll show you how.
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In my second book (shameless plug alert) – The Skeptics’ Guide to the Future – my coauthors and I try to imagine both the utopian and dystopian versions of the future, brought about by technology, either individually or collectively. This topic has come up multiple times recently...
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How an alliance between psychologists and advertisers at the turn of the 20th century taught us how to measure (and monetize) human attention.
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A manual I recently read listed the “cons” of having a meeting virtually: To be accurate, every one of these points should have “so far” added. The videogame market is far bigger than the box office of Hollywood films. The people who play video games at home for hours at a time...
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Rest of World gave pollution monitors to riders in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh so they could gather data on what they breathe.
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Here’s yet another big post on money and income and saving and reading. I tried to write everything on my mind in one massive letter, so I could write a really detailed answer once, rather than a less-useful but less-thoughtful email that I can never reuse. Hey there, I’m...
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For a few months, I had issues with my Wi-Fi network. The 2.4 GHz network would be fine, but the 5 GHz one would suddenly stop working and completely disappear from the available Wi-Fi networks. OpenWRT upgrades also didn’t improve the situation. This was very annoying. After...
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Array 1.10.0 This is our most exciting release to date. Here we go: 🎉 You have to try the new toolbar out -...
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This is our most exciting release to date. Here we go: 🎉 You have to try the new toolbar out - you can walk through your own website or app and see…
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Childlike involves wonder. It’s the ability to see the world with fresh eyes and create magic. Childish, on the other hand, is living as if there are no consequences. Over time, we’ve gotten very good at meauring the long and short-term consequences of our actions. And good at...
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With the sound off If you’re watching a YouTube clip or a talking head, you can probably tell whether or not you...
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If you’re watching a YouTube clip or a talking head, you can probably tell whether or not you disagree with someone even with the sound off. And we judge a book or an article on the layout and appearance long before we’ve read all the words. Human beings invented symbolic logic...
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A Sometimes Disagreeable Foreign Land, Part 1 My off-hand comment yesterday about a Baedeker guide made me think that I should look to see what a...
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My off-hand comment yesterday about a Baedeker guide made me think that I should look to see what a nineteenth-century European guidebook had to say about New York and I was not disappointed. The guidebooks put out by the Baedecker company since the 1830s are famous for their...
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Notes on the acquisition process Ten years ago, startup financing was an insider’s game. Since then, the topic has been widely...
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Ten years ago, startup financing was an insider’s game. Since then, the topic has been widely discussed on blogs, to the great benefit of…
Style over Substance
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My newest purchase was a bit of a gamble. I bought a $500 Phase One H20 digital back for my Hasselblad 500EL/M medium format camera. Or, simply put, I bought an expensive old gadget for my even older analog camera, making it a digital camera. A gadget that was released in the...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: That than which is a perfectly acceptable English language construction, deal with it. Today's News:
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: On the one hand there's data and on the other there's the tiny angry man in my brain who is VERY persuasive. Today's News: Another lovely review for A City on Mars.
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Mono screen printing is a great technique if you want to create beautiful painterly prints but achieve the flatness of a screen print. It allows you to incorporate multiple colours in one layer and play with brush strokes and mark making.  When working with this technique,...
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Happy New Year: GIF decoder in SQL An implementation of GIF decoder and ASCII renderer in PostreSQL. The post Happy New Year: GIF...
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An implementation of GIF decoder and ASCII renderer in PostreSQL. The post Happy New Year: GIF decoder in SQL appeared first on EXPLAIN EXTENDED.
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Domination through iteration. Be sure to continue adapting and maximize your current audience rather than chase more pageviews. The post Weeks 35-39: A $526 Day and a Breakthrough appeared first on Scott DeLong.
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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...
HTMHell
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by Lara Aigmüller “HTML is easy.”, “Frontend development is easier than backend development.”, “Updating the UI should be a simple task once the backend is ready.”—these and other similar statements reached my ears time and again during my career as a web developer. Very often,...
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When markets are in turmoil, like they have been for most of this year, I like to have a buy-and-hold mindset when it comes to making new investments. It is hard to know when you’ve reached the bottom and can start buying again, but if you think about a ten or twenty-year hold,...
TheCollector
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Working on legacy code Take your time If you rush, you might miss some implications of your changes and cause more work in...
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Take your time If you rush, you might miss some implications of your changes and cause more work in the long run. So, do it right the first time. Secondly, since you’ll be in the code anyway, take some time to ensure that it will survive unchanged for another stretch of...
Casey Handmer's blog
SLS is still a national disgrace Four years ago, unable to find a comprehensive summary of the ongoing abject failure known as the...
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Four years ago, unable to find a comprehensive summary of the ongoing abject failure known as the NASA SLS (Space Launch System), I wrote one. If you’re unfamiliar with the topic, you should read it first.  It is hard to …
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Hello friends! I want to start by saying we wish you the very best during this unprecedented time in which we are all united. Our thoughts go out to everyone working hard to help those in need. We wish you and your families health and resilience. Hard at work…​ and growing A lot...
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ThinkPad keyboards were once well known for their great layouts, feel and functionality. This included the media playback control keys. On the ThinkPad T430, the new chiclet keyboard layout moved the media keys to the function row. Still there, but less convenient to access. The...
Anecdotal Evidence
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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...
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Using the same strategies I've used to build millions of subscribers across multiple newsletters, you can do it too. The post How To Build A Profitable Newsletter In 2024 appeared first on Scott DeLong.
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Chiang Mai is a city that is buzzing with creative energy, though I am not sure why. Is it the long history of their hill tribes and their crafts? I thought I’ll...
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Every generation needs their own apocalypse Danish 8th, 9th, and 10th graders vote in a mock election every year in Denmark. The results for...
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Danish 8th, 9th, and 10th graders vote in a mock election every year in Denmark. The results for 2024 were a startling refutation of the idea that young people must be inherently left-leaning. The dominating winner was Liberal Alliance, a center-right party that speaks to the...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On Jun 11, 2023, a fuel tanker truck caught fire on an exit underneath Interstate 95 in Northeast Philadelphia. The fire severely damaged the northbound bridge, eventually causing it to collapse. Sadly, the...
Castles in the Sky
Have you quit social media? Do you want to? I am looking for feedback on an idea I'm writing an essay about.
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Whether you’re a collector or a new devotee, there’s a renewed energy in the industry and an explosion of interest as online auction shopping gives all the convenience of mass-produced decor without the environmental impact. The benefits of decorating with antiques are almost...
Steve Klabnik
Should you learn C to "learn how the computer works"?
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Marcus on AI
Sam Altman thinks that AGI is basically a solved problem. I don’t. Here’s why. Yesterday Sam Altman claimed in a new blog post that “We are now confident we how to build AGI as we...
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Yesterday Sam Altman claimed in a new blog post that “We are now confident we how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it”, alleging that OpenAI (which has not demonstrated AGI) was now on to new and better things.
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The duplication crisis: the other replication crisis How bad publishing incentives hinder long-term thinking in computational biology research
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Aaron's Essays
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The venture capital industry was built on the premise that both capital and high quality companies are scarce. For most of the history of the industry, this has been true. I remember sitting at demo day in 2011 and marveling at the fact that the combined capital of all the VCs in...
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Good Enough In general, you move faster and feel a lot less stress once you realize - You don't need "the best",...
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In general, you move faster and feel a lot less stress once you realize - You don't need "the best", you just need "good enough".
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Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 18-24 September 2023 Things to do for under a fiver.
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Steve Klabnik
Seriously: numbers: use them!
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African History...
Africa and Europe during the age of mutual exploration: a Swahili traveler's description of 19th... The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on...
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The unreleased Commodore HHC-4's secret identity Once upon a time (and that time was Winter CES 1983), Commodore announced what was to be their one...
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Once upon a time (and that time was Winter CES 1983), Commodore announced what was to be their one and only handheld computer, the Commodore HHC-4. It was never released and never seen again, at least not in that form. But it turns out that not only did the HHC-4 actually exist,...
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Link – David Sleight's personal website stuntbox.com is a beautifully-designed personal website. I especially love the simplicity and...
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stuntbox.com is a beautifully-designed personal website. I especially love the simplicity and readability of his article pages.
The Architectural...
Architects vs. the Public: A Surprising Study Sheds Light on Aesthetic Preferences Do architects have a different taste in buildings compared to the rest of us? A recent Swedish study...
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Do architects have a different taste in buildings compared to the rest of us? A recent Swedish study delves into this question, and the findings are intriguing. In the study “Green City Branding – How People Respond to the Built Environment“, people were asked to rate five...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Dow 10,000 and economic reflexivity People who criticize Obama’s economic policies forget that, around the beginning of this year, a lot...
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People who criticize Obama’s economic policies forget that, around the beginning of this year, a lot of serious people thought we were…
Arduino Blog
Explore two ways to white label with Arduino Cloud We’re excited to announce a brand-new feature called “Custom Branding,” which allows Enterprise plan...
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We’re excited to announce a brand-new feature called “Custom Branding,” which allows Enterprise plan users to white label their workspace and enhance the overall user experience. This announcement is exciting because it empowers businesses to create a truly tailored environment...
Christian Selig
Waterfield's weirdly compact Apple Vision Pro Case Disclosure: Waterfield sent this in exchange for a review. Yeah, that probably colors something on a...
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Disclosure: Waterfield sent this in exchange for a review. Yeah, that probably colors something on a deep-down, subconscious level, but I won’t say anything that I don’t truly believe. Unlike a phone or laptop, the Vision Pro is one of those products that is particularly tricky...
diamond geezer
20 Centuries in 1 City 10 Centuries In 1 Day may not have been a very good walk. London's a Roman city, can we do 20...
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10 Centuries In 1 Day may not have been a very good walk. London's a Roman city, can we do 20 centuries? 16th-21st century This is the easy bit. 21st century Gherkin (2004) I'm going to pick The Shard (2013). It's still the tallest building in western Europe. 20th...
Classical Wisdom
The Cyclops A Misunderstood Monster?
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
No game this month Well here I am in the end of the month - without a game. It’s a failure I know but once again I lack...
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over a year ago
Well here I am in the end of the month - without a game. It’s a failure I know but once again I lack inspiration and then it’s really hard to do something. Instead I’ve been thinking of something I could do that would make me wanna code like really bad again. I’m thinking of...
Paul Graham: Essays
Founder Control
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Noahpinion
Decoupling isn't phoney The global trading system is starting to rearrange itself, and it's mostly not Biden's doing.
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Map of the Week
Pictorial Bird's Eye Map of Banff Here is a really nice pictorial map of Banff, showing the mountains, rivers, railroads and...
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a year ago
Here is a really nice pictorial map of Banff, showing the mountains, rivers, railroads and hotels.   Mountains are listed with their elevations. A quiet corner at the end of Lake Minnewanka, and some sky above the ice field. Browse the whole map here.
Applied Cartography
Notes from April Welcome to spring, bona fide and humid. Lots of writing this month: I wrote about spending the past...
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Welcome to spring, bona fide and humid. Lots of writing this month: I wrote about spending the past two years as an independent technologist. On the media side of things: brief words on Murderville (meh), The Parallax View (incredible), This is Personal (meh), Cribsheet...
The Pragmatic...
The Roots of Today's Modern Backend Engineering Practices What accidentally taking down Amazon.com in 1997 taught Joshua Burgin; tech industry veteran and one...
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What accidentally taking down Amazon.com in 1997 taught Joshua Burgin; tech industry veteran and one of Amazon’s first 100 employees
Math Is Still...
The Quest to Decode the Mandelbrot Set, Math’s Famed Fractal For decades, a small group of mathematicians has patiently unraveled the mystery of what was once...
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For decades, a small group of mathematicians has patiently unraveled the mystery of what was once math’s most popular picture. Their story shows how technology transforms even the most abstract mathematical landscapes. The post The Quest to Decode the Mandelbrot Set,...
Rest of World -...
Using AI to build the “definitive” Spanish writing tool Abraham López is the CEO of Correcto, an AI-powered grammar tool.
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
"We leverage the billions of dollars spent on the consumer mobile phone business" NYTimes has an excellent profile of Planet Labs, a startup that makes low-cost satellites: These...
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
The World Is Run By People No Smarter Than You This post was written as a reflection at the first Dev Writers Retreat. It's been really weird doing...
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This post was written as a reflection at the first Dev Writers Retreat. It's been really weird doing this in the PermaParty city while the world seemingly falls apart outside. Here's my attempt to make sense of it.
The Marginalian
Ursula K. Le Guin on Change, Menopause as Rebirth, and the Civilizational Value of Elders "Into the space ship, Granny."
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Rest of World -...
Muzz, the world’s largest Muslim dating app, is struggling in India India is home to 172 million Muslims, and the world’s second-largest market for dating apps. But...
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India is home to 172 million Muslims, and the world’s second-largest market for dating apps. But Indian women say Muzz is a bad match.
Rest of World -...
ElevenLabs’ first Indian partnership banks on AI voice clones to make audio stories faster and... Pocket FM creators can convert scripts to audio in English and German with one click. The company...
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Pocket FM creators can convert scripts to audio in English and German with one click. The company plans to add more languages as it expands across Europe and Latin America this year.
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...
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Working Theorys
Companionship Content is King | Theory No. 29 Why short-form video has a ceiling & how companionship content escapes it.
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Old Structures...
Bragging Combined With Public Service I highly recommend the soon-to-be-released book The Elements of Construction: N. Clifford Ricker,...
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I highly recommend the soon-to-be-released book The Elements of Construction: N. Clifford Ricker, Architecture, and the University of Illinois and not just because I wrote on chapter of it. Marci Uihlein, the editor, an architect and engineer, and a professor of architecture at...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Possible Verdicts Are Five' As binary thinking -- a rush to judgment about books, food, our fellow humans and just about...
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As binary thinking -- a rush to judgment about books, food, our fellow humans and just about everything else -- becomes harsher and more fashionable, interesting conversation withers. Have you noticed how quickly people dismiss a subject before it has been pondered and probed?...
TheCollector
1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End undefined
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A Beautiful Site
Getting it right To my awesome users: I've been taking some time to reimagine what Postleaf should have been. Yes,...
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To my awesome users: I've been taking some time to reimagine what Postleaf should have been. Yes, the betas were pretty awesome, but they weren't what I wanted them to be in terms of design, code, and function. I can do better, and you deserve nothing less than my very best. The...
Ralph Ammer
The perfect drawing tool The emotional rollercoaster I experience in art supply stores can be summarised in one word: greed. ...
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The emotional rollercoaster I experience in art supply stores can be summarised in one word: greed.  I want every single pen, every brush, every quill, and a sheet of every paper, ranging from crude cardboard to magnificent handcrafted Japanese washi. And yes, I need papyrus. And...
Retail Design Blog
House of B Store by Another D Studio We believe a brand’s core identity is created through the values of brand founders. We worked to...
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We believe a brand’s core identity is created through the values of brand founders. We worked to expand and deepen...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Color Theory Scams, Exposing How Designers Manipulate You With Color I am here to give you permission to call them out next time you hear color jargon. It is time...
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I am here to give you permission to call them out next time you hear color jargon. It is time someone exposed the babble for what it is, manipulation.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing Phil Leggetter, our new head of Developer Relations We’re proud to announce a new hire; Phil Leggetter will head up Developer Relations at PostHog....
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We’re proud to announce a new hire; Phil Leggetter will head up Developer Relations at PostHog. Developer relations sits at the intersection of…
Good Enough
TIL: Tapback Keyboard Shortcuts If you use Mac, and you use Messages on your Mac, you will probably know that in the not-too-distant...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you use Mac, and you use Messages on your Mac, you will probably know that in the not-too-distant past, simple reactions to messages were added: what Apple calls Tapbacks. These are great for a quick way to say yes (or no, or WTF!?!), but they are a bit of a pain to actually...
Irrational...
Onboarding peer executives. While many companies build out an elaborate Engineering onboarding program, the process for...
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While many companies build out an elaborate Engineering onboarding program, the process for onboarding new executives tends to be an ad-hoc, chaotic affair. There usually is an executive onboarding process, but it’s used too infrequently to ever get excellent. Part of the problem...
Folklore.org:...
First day with the Macintosh team Rod Holt, who remember every technical detail in the world, forgot he hired me
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Val Sopi
One year since "setting sail" <p><i>For context, read <a href="https://valsopi.com/setting-sail">this article</a>...
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<p><i>For context, read <a href="https://valsopi.com/setting-sail">this article</a> first.</i></p><p><i>TLDR:&nbsp;A year ago, I took out a loan and went all–in pursuing my financial freedom. The words below are an update a year on the day.</i></p><hr><h2>Poetically...
Elad Blog
AI Revolution - Transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs) NLP & AI Revolution - Transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs) Part of the challenge of “AI” is...
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over a year ago
NLP & AI Revolution - Transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs) Part of the challenge of “AI” is we keep raising the bar on what it means for something to be a machine intelligence. Early machine learning models have been quite successful in terms of real world impact. Large...
Internal Tech Emails
Steve Jobs: The more dependent Google is on Apple, the better Actually, the more energy they devote to iPhone, the better. And the more dependent they are on our...
over a year ago
HTMHell
Using SRI to protect from malicious JavaScript At some point of developing a website, there might come a time where we need to progressively...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
At some point of developing a website, there might come a time where we need to progressively enhance using JavaScript. There are few different options of how you add JavaScript. Firstly, we can write our own script using vanilla JS only, and self host the JavaScript file....
Noahpinion
Who's afraid of East Asian management culture? TSMC's difficulties in Arizona aren't due to the mystical superiority of Confucian values.
8 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Neither Angels Nor Devils' A favorite story about Dr. Johnson reminded me of something the late critic John Simon had written...
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A favorite story about Dr. Johnson reminded me of something the late critic John Simon had written on his blog five years ago. In a post titled “Curse Words,” abbreviated by Simon throughout as “CW,” he reviews profanity as used in various settings and languages, including Croat,...
Cheese and Biscuits
The Barn at Moor Hall, Ormskirk In restaurants that offer both an A La Carte and parallel set menu I often play a bit of a thought...
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In restaurants that offer both an A La Carte and parallel set menu I often play a bit of a thought experiment. If there was no such separation of options, and if all the dishes available were priced evenly on the same list, which would I end up going for? Set menus (usually,...
CONTEMPORIST
A White Palette Helps Connect This Heritage Home With Its New Addition Dalecki Design has shared photos of a home they remodeled in Subiaco, Australia, which includes a...
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Dalecki Design has shared photos of a home they remodeled in Subiaco, Australia, which includes a contemporary rear addition and a white color palette throughout. The heritage character of the original house and the bright but calm feeling of the new addition are harmoniously...
Atoms vs Bits
I Have Opinions About The Production Of Pizza The low-hanging fruit of pizza happiness, possibly
a year ago
Programming in the...
Writing Video Games in a Functional Style When I started this blog in 2007, a running theme was "Can interactive experiences like video games...
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over a year ago
When I started this blog in 2007, a running theme was "Can interactive experiences like video games be written in a functional style?" These are programs heavily based around mutable state. They evolve, often drastically, during development, so there isn't a perfect up-front...
TokyoDev
8 Proven Strategies for Making Every Candidate Fall in Love with Your Company Hi there! I am Luke Wilson, a veteran Tech Recruiter with over 15 years of experience in the Japan...
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a year ago
Hi there! I am Luke Wilson, a veteran Tech Recruiter with over 15 years of experience in the Japan market. My recruitment career has taken me across both agency and in-house roles, with the most recent one being at [Indeed](https://www.tokyodev.com/companies/indeed) (a proud...
watchTowr Labs
Pots and Pans, AKA an SSLVPN - Palo Alto PAN-OS CVE-2024-0012 and CVE-2024-9474 It'll be no surprise that 2024, 2023, 2022, and every other year of humanities' existence has been...
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a month ago
It'll be no surprise that 2024, 2023, 2022, and every other year of humanities' existence has been tough for SSLVPN appliances. Anyhow, there are new vulnerabilities (well, two of them) that are being exploited in the Palo Alto Networks firewall and SSLVPN offering, and as ever,...
Louwrentius
'Syslog: the hidden security risk' People sometimes forget that there are also a number of UDP-based services that may pose a threat to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
People sometimes forget that there are also a number of UDP-based services that may pose a threat to the security of your systems. SNMP is a well-known service, notorious for being configured with a default password (or community string). But there is another service that is...
Vadim Kravcenko
How much a CTO makes and where can I find CTO Jobs? Question: Here's the thing, I’m kind of stuck trying to figure out what a CTO actually makes in...
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8 months ago
Question: Here's the thing, I’m kind of stuck trying to figure out what a CTO actually makes in terms of $$$, most of the people in the field are secretive about how much they're getting. It's not just about the money (okay, it's a bit about the money), but also understanding if...
xkcd.com
Origami Black Hole
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Anecdotal Evidence
'We Live Missing Something' Four years late, I’ve read Gary Saul Morson’s “Poet of Loneliness,” his review of Fifty-Two Stories...
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Four years late, I’ve read Gary Saul Morson’s “Poet of Loneliness,” his review of Fifty-Two Stories (Knopf, 2020), a Chekhov translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. I ordered the collection early in the COVID-19 lockdown and will always associate it with the other...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: A Project Tony Stark and Emma Frost – currently in a sham marriage – take a stroll: Bridge 28 in Central Park...
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6 months ago
Tony Stark and Emma Frost – currently in a sham marriage – take a stroll: Bridge 28 in Central Park – currently in restoration – where we’re working: If you don’t see it, look at the iron handrail.
Arduino Blog
Making a car more secure with the Arduino Nicla Vision Shortly after attending a recent tinyML workshop in Sao Paolo, Brazil, Joao Vitor Freitas da Costa...
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Shortly after attending a recent tinyML workshop in Sao Paolo, Brazil, Joao Vitor Freitas da Costa was looking for a way to incorporate some of the technologies and techniques he learned into a useful project. Given that he lives in an area which experiences elevated levels of...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Although Too Many Readers Have Forgotten' My education continues. Here is “Artillery” (Hazards, 1930) by the English poet Wilfrid Wilson...
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My education continues. Here is “Artillery” (Hazards, 1930) by the English poet Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, previously unknown to me:  “All night I sat beside the bed And watched that senseless moaning head Backwards and forwards toss and toss, When suddenly he sat upright And...
Both Are True
Like the mirror and the moon, let's reflect some thoughts on season one and some kind words from paid subscribers!
a year ago
The Universe of...
Stuff I wanted to say to the historic district people but didn't [ Thanks to John Wiersba for noticing that I forgot to publish this. ] A few weeks ago I wrote a...
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3 months ago
[ Thanks to John Wiersba for noticing that I forgot to publish this. ] A few weeks ago I wrote a letter to my neighbors about why I thought it was a bad idea to oppose building more housing in our neighborhood. I didn't write this paragraph: In the past it has often happened that...
The DESK Magazine
mymind updates you might have missed We've released so many improvements and updates for mymind recently, these are old news by now.
2 months ago
TheCollector
Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution undefined
a year ago
Oykun
Designers, charge more $$$ to help yourself and your clients. By charging more $$$, you are lifting up the quality of the outcome and satisfaction.
9 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review ‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review JamesHoare Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
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Jonas Hietala
Easy setup of a static site on Amazon S3 with SSL I’ve been hosting my site on Amazon S3 for a while now but I never activated SSL for it. I just...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been hosting my site on Amazon S3 for a while now but I never activated SSL for it. I just never got around to it, probably the usual procrastination. When I had to setup a new site for another project I chose to host on Amazon as well. Although there are many other free...
NeuroLogica Blog
Immune Cells to Fight Cancer There is a recent medical advance that you may not have heard about unless you are a healthcare...
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a year ago
There is a recent medical advance that you may not have heard about unless you are a healthcare professional or encountered it from the patient side – CAR-T cell therapy. A recent study shows the potential for continued incremental advance of this technology, but already it is a...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
In Search of Another Gear Most of my miles are a grind. Not unpleasant, but not bliss either. I run, measure my progress, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Most of my miles are a grind. Not unpleasant, but not bliss either. I run, measure my progress, and push myself hoping to get faster.
Noahpinion
On immigration, what Americans want is democratic control Nations - even democratic ones - are exclusive clubs. And that's OK.
2 months ago
Rest of World -...
Mexico botched the end of daylight savings Banal change combined with everyday tech can upend everything in unexpected ways.
a year ago
xkcd.com
Taxiing
a year ago
Lighthouse Blog
Rules improvement: filter based on content
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The Rational Walk
Real Estate Adventures Buying real estate can be intimidating and complicated. This article describes two experiences with...
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9 months ago
Buying real estate can be intimidating and complicated. This article describes two experiences with realtors, one positive and one negative.
Farza's Newsletter
me and satoru iwata were chilling at target and bought some beef jerky I’ve been having a ton of fun lately with ZipSchool. We’re evolving fast in terms of our...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been having a ton of fun lately with ZipSchool. We’re evolving fast in terms of our understanding of the product, problem, user. We’re following the data and have numbers we can point to when making a majority of our decisions. We’re focusing on growth.
Notes on software...
A minimal RocksDB example with Zig I mostly programmed in Go the last few years. So every time I wanted an embedded key-value database,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I mostly programmed in Go the last few years. So every time I wanted an embedded key-value database, I reached for Cockroach's Pebble. Pebble is great for Go programming but Go does not embed well into other languages. Pebble was inspired by RocksDB (and its...
diamond geezer
W12W13W14 Over the weekend TfL withdrew bus route 549, extended route W13 and substantially restructured...
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Over the weekend TfL withdrew bus route 549, extended route W13 and substantially restructured routes W12 and W14. I wrote about the changes last week, and how TfL's information strategy relied substantially on a very complicated map. I went back yesterday to see how the...
Blog - Amy Goodchild
Meaningless My ArtBlocks debut, releasing on 30th May 2023. Find out how the algorithm works and explore some...
a year ago
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a year ago
My ArtBlocks debut, releasing on 30th May 2023. Find out how the algorithm works and explore some conceptual thoughts.
Seth's Blog
But it’s included… Perhaps your wedding package includes a cake. It’s paid for, better eat it. Even if you’re allergic...
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a year ago
Perhaps your wedding package includes a cake. It’s paid for, better eat it. Even if you’re allergic to wheat. Perhaps the amusement park includes as many rides as you like, even if you’re feeling sick or have had quite enough for today. The thing about included is that it’s free....
The Forney Flyer
Still Here... Again. Folks, I'm still alive! I don't just mean that figuratively, I mean it literally. It seem like I've...
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over a year ago
Folks, I'm still alive! I don't just mean that figuratively, I mean it literally. It seem like I've made a lot of excuses on this blog over the past year, for the chunks of time where I seem to disappear for a while. Well, this time I really had a good excuse!  Last October I...
The Diff
Initiations Plus! Alternative Data; Size and Momentum; The Full Audience; Same-Day
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computers are bad
2023-02-17 something up there pt II As we discussed previously, the search for UAP is often contextualized in terms of the events of...
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a year ago
As we discussed previously, the search for UAP is often contextualized in terms of the events of 2017: the public revelation of the AATIP and alien-hunting efforts by Robert Bigelow and Tom DeLonge. While widely publicized, these programs seem to have lead to very little. I...
Matt Mazur
Full Time Indie Hacking: First 3 Months in Review At the end of 2022 I stopped contracting at Help Scout to focus full time on Preceden, a SaaS...
a year ago
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a year ago
At the end of 2022 I stopped contracting at Help Scout to focus full time on Preceden, a SaaS timeline maker tool that I had been running mostly as a side project since 2010. It’s April now so I figured I’d share an update on how things are going. My periodic Friday updates cover...
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...
a year ago
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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
Non ULEZ Compliant Car? TfL Wants You To Give It To Ukraine Help Ukraine, the environment - and get paid!
10 months ago
Spoon & Tamago
Director Ryota Nakano to be Special Guest at Japan Society’s Family Portrait: Japanese Family in... this post is sponsored by Japan Society Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan and Japan...
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10 months ago
this post is sponsored by Japan Society Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan and Japan Society are proud to announce the eighth installment of the ACA Cinema Project film series, Family Portrait: Japanese Family in Flux. The series examines the shifting dynamics and...
Identity Designed
Alon Shabo Designed by Ark, Tel Aviv.
a year ago
Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Shareholder Supremacy I promise you, everything that's happening makes sense. It all feels so chaotic, so utterly,...
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I promise you, everything that's happening makes sense. It all feels so chaotic, so utterly, offensively stupid, so disconnected from reality that it's hard to understand how Meta can run a terrible company with decaying services that's also wildly profitable, or how Meta,...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Shadow Cabinet of Writers' “All of us, probably, have some favorite unfashionable author. Occasionally a minority taste can be...
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3 months ago
“All of us, probably, have some favorite unfashionable author. Occasionally a minority taste can be powerful enough to make for some isolated masterpiece a small niche in literary history -- Henry Green’s Loving and Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Mr. Fortune's Maggot have both...
TheCollector
How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism? undefined
3 months ago
mtlynch.io
Using Nix to Fuzz Test a PDF Parser (Part One) Fuzz testing is a technique for automatically uncovering bugs in software. The problem is that it’s...
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Fuzz testing is a technique for automatically uncovering bugs in software. The problem is that it’s a pain to set up. Read any fuzz testing tutorial, and the first task is an hour of building tools from source and chasing down dependencies upon dependencies. I recently found that...
Louwrentius
Ubuntu and full disk encryption (FDE) Ubuntu is based on Debian Linux. As part of a regular Debian installation, you can choose to create...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ubuntu is based on Debian Linux. As part of a regular Debian installation, you can choose to create an encrypted disk volume based on LUKS. This is different from the option within the Ubuntu installation to encrypt home directories. To be able to install Ubuntu and use full disk...
balajis.com
The Start Of Startup Cities Miami demonstrates that the era of startup cities is now underway.
a year ago
Open Culture
The First Animation That Hayao Miyazaki Directed on His Own: Watch Footage from the Pilot of Yuki’s... Hayao Miyazaki began his career as an animator in 1963, getting in the door at Toei Animation not...
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Hayao Miyazaki began his career as an animator in 1963, getting in the door at Toei Animation not long before the company ceased to hire regularly. Miyazaki’s equally retirement-resistant contemporary Tetsuya Chiba, already well on his way to fame as a mangaka, or comic artist,...