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tonsky.me
Where Should Visual Programming Go? There’s a wonderful article by Sebastian Bensusan: “We need visual programming. No, not like that.”...
11 months ago
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Where Should Visual Programming Go?

from tonsky.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

11 months ago
There’s a wonderful article by Sebastian Bensusan: “We need visual programming. No, not like that.” (the dot is part of the title ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). In it, Sebastian argues that we shouldn’t try to replace all code with visual programming but instead only add graphics where it makes...
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Calculated Risk
BEA: Real GDP increased at 2.3% Annualized Rate in Q4 From the BEA: Gross Domestic Product, 4th Quarter and Year 2024 (Advance Estimate) Real gross...
5 months ago
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BEA: Real GDP increased at 2.3% Annualized Rate in Q4

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

5 months ago
From the BEA: Gross Domestic Product, 4th Quarter and Year 2024 (Advance Estimate) Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2024 (October, November, and December), according to the advance estimate released by the U.S....
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Oxide Computer...
March 2020 Update Hello friends! I want to start by saying we wish you the very best during this unprecedented time in...
over a year ago
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March 2020 Update

from Oxide Computer Company Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
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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Data Boutique
How to Price Web Scraped Data 5 Factors that Drive Data Pricing
a year ago
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How to Price Web Scraped Data

from Data Boutique [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
5 Factors that Drive Data Pricing
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Yale e360
Building a digital vigil for those we've lost This post is hard to write in a lot of ways. It's more personal than most I've written. This is...
a year ago
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Building a digital vigil for those we've lost

from Yale e360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
This post is hard to write in a lot of ways. It's more personal than most I've written. This is presumptively a tech blog, and this piece is about so much more than technology. But it's important. Making things, software or otherwise, is ultimately about people. One of the ways I...
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Joel Gascoigne
What is your coming soon page for? > "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect." - Mark...
over a year ago
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What is your coming soon page for?

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
> "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain When you’re building a startup, it’s very important to question assumptions. I think one of these assumptions which needs to be questioned is the initial few steps people
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./techtipsy
You can use almost anything as a key file for your encrypted storage device Imagine that you have an unencrypted drive containing your private data and one day it starts...
7 months ago
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You can use almost anything as a key file for your encrypted storage device

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

7 months ago
Imagine that you have an unencrypted drive containing your private data and one day it starts throwing a bunch of errors. You have backups of the data so you’ve got that part covered, but would you feel comfortable sending the drive in to be warrantied? You have no control over...
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CONTEMPORIST
A House That Blends Into The Color Palette Of The Surrounding Desert Design and development office Industry of All Nations has recently completed ‘The Landing House’, a...
a year ago
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A House That Blends Into The Color Palette Of The Surrounding Desert

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Design and development office Industry of All Nations has recently completed ‘The Landing House’, a new modern home that’s integrated into the rugged natural landscape of the Mojave Desert, With a backdrop of California’s Joshua Tree National Park, the home has been designed as a...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
We just made PostHog Open Source 1000x more scalable via ClickHouse We're excited to announce a major under-the-hood upgrade for PostHog Open Source! Over the past few...
over a year ago
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We just made PostHog Open Source 1000x more scalable via ClickHouse

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

over a year ago
We're excited to announce a major under-the-hood upgrade for PostHog Open Source! Over the past few weeks, our team have been hard at work moving over…
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escape the algorithm
The perfect pecan pie will never exi— Cutting a slice of longing
7 months ago
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The perfect pecan pie will never exi—

from escape the algorithm [alt+shift+b] in creative

7 months ago
Cutting a slice of longing
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The Perry Bible...
Turn That Frown The post Turn That Frown appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.
11 months ago
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Turn That Frown

from The Perry Bible Fellowship [alt+shift+b] in literature

11 months ago
The post Turn That Frown appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.
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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...
a year ago
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Leonard Bernstein Introduces the Moog Synthesizer to the World in 1969, Playing an Electrified Version of Bach’s “Little Fugue in G”

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

a year ago
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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Steve Klabnik
Memory Safety is a Red Herring
a year ago
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Memory Safety is a Red Herring

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

a year ago
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TheCollector
Why H.G. Wells’ “The Time Machine” Is a Timely Warning to the World In his first published work of fiction, the British writer and futurist Herbert George Wells...
a month ago
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Why H.G. Wells’ “The Time Machine” Is a Timely Warning to the World

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

a month ago
In his first published work of fiction, the British writer and futurist Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) shot to literary fame, marking the beginning of a career that would rival his celebrated French predecessor, author Jules Verne. Their popular works would practically corner...
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Sometimes It Works...
4 Years In 4 Years In What lies ahead ¶4 Years In I’ve been at Elvie 4 years already! I can’t quite believe...
over a year ago
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4 Years In

from Sometimes It Works :: simonhamp.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
4 Years In What lies ahead ¶4 Years In I’ve been at Elvie 4 years already! I can’t quite believe how quickly the time has gone by or the amazing things we’ve accomplished as a team. 2020 was by far the hardest year, but in many ways the most rewarding and exciting so far because...
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Rest of World -...
China’s EV giant BYD is picking up speed in Jordan How Jordan became a battleground for Chinese EVs.
over a year ago
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China’s EV giant BYD is picking up speed in Jordan

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

over a year ago
How Jordan became a battleground for Chinese EVs.
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Open Culture
How a Bach Canon Works. Brilliant. Brilliant. This moving manuscript depicts a single musical sequence played front to back and then...
a year ago
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How a Bach Canon Works. Brilliant.

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

a year ago
Brilliant. This moving manuscript depicts a single musical sequence played front to back and then back to front. Give the video a little time to unfold and enjoy.
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Articles
Your secret success fantasy
over a year ago
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Your secret success fantasy

from Articles [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
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Quanta Magazine
The Scientist Who Decodes the Songs of Undersea Volcanoes In the rumbles and groans of underwater volcanoes, Jackie Caplan-Auerbach finds her favorite...
a year ago
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The Scientist Who Decodes the Songs of Undersea Volcanoes

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
In the rumbles and groans of underwater volcanoes, Jackie Caplan-Auerbach finds her favorite harmonies — and clues to the Earth’s interior. The post The Scientist Who Decodes the Songs of Undersea Volcanoes first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Wuthering...
Ovid's Metamorhpses, Canto 6 - the sexual assaults - Because the lewdness of the Gods was so blazed... Back to Ovid. First, I have just begun Paul Barolsky’s Ovid and the Metamorphoses of Modern Art...
a year ago
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Ovid's Metamorhpses, Canto 6 - the sexual assaults - Because the lewdness of the Gods was so blazed in it.

from Wuthering Expectations [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
Back to Ovid. First, I have just begun Paul Barolsky’s Ovid and the Metamorphoses of Modern Art from Boticelli to Picasso (2014), a work of art history about Ovid written in the spirit of Ovid.  The book is of the highest interest, and is a long way from the catalogue of...
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A Smart Bear
Ignoring the Wisdom of Crowds Discover how to leverage the wisdom of the crowds, but also when to avoid it, as it can easily lead...
9 months ago
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Ignoring the Wisdom of Crowds

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

9 months ago
Discover how to leverage the wisdom of the crowds, but also when to avoid it, as it can easily lead you astray.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Mime Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really this caption can work for any comic. Today's...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Mime

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

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really this caption can work for any comic. Today's News:
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One Useful Thing
What happens when AI reads a book 🤖📖 And some prompts that might be useful when it does.
over a year ago
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What happens when AI reads a book 🤖📖

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

over a year ago
And some prompts that might be useful when it does.
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The Honest Broker
An Analysis of 47 Million Transactions Tells an Amazing Story about the Music Business Forget about streaming—physical merchandise is now the key to success
over a year ago
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An Analysis of 47 Million Transactions Tells an Amazing Story about the Music Business

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

over a year ago
Forget about streaming—physical merchandise is now the key to success
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bt RSS Feed
Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu 2019-04-26 I love the idea of stripping away as much CSS as possible,...
over a year ago
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Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu

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

over a year ago
Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu 2019-04-26 I love the idea of stripping away as much CSS as possible, while still maintaining the original UI concept. Let’s build out a demo example with a simple menu dropdown element. Interesting facts about our final CSS menu: Total weight 121 bytes...
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CONTEMPORIST
A New Home Overhanging The Water’s Edge In Alaska Architecture firm Prentiss + Balance + Wickline has shared photos of a home they completed in...
8 months ago
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A New Home Overhanging The Water’s Edge In Alaska

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

8 months ago
Architecture firm Prentiss + Balance + Wickline has shared photos of a home they completed in Alaska, that overlooks inlet waters and is balanced on the edge of a rock wall. The home’s geometry is defined by two tall shed roof structures with a connector between them. Along the...
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The Marginalian
Swan Sky: A Bittersweet Vintage Japanese Meditation on Love, Loss, and the Eternal Consolations of... To me, what makes the majestic migration of birds so moving is that it is a living spell against...
a year ago
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Swan Sky: A Bittersweet Vintage Japanese Meditation on Love, Loss, and the Eternal Consolations of Belonging

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

a year ago
To me, what makes the majestic migration of birds so moving is that it is a living spell against abandonment. No one is leaving and no one is being left in this unison of movement along a vector of common purpose. It is the only instance I know of a transition that is not a...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
JavaScript Is Enabled by Default in Web Browsers It’s easy to talk bad about JavaScript (or at least its abuse) like it’s some kind of malware. But...
a year ago
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JavaScript Is Enabled by Default in Web Browsers

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

a year ago
It’s easy to talk bad about JavaScript (or at least its abuse) like it’s some kind of malware. But it’s worth remembering that JavaScript is enabled by default in web browsers. JavaScript is not so terrible, so harmful, so taboo, so something you shouldn’t use that it’s turned...
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Mazdak
Binance CEO Steps Down and Pleads Guilty as Part of $4.3 Billion Settlement Binance is the world's largest crypto exchange, and CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao is the most powerful...
a year ago
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Binance CEO Steps Down and Pleads Guilty as Part of $4.3 Billion Settlement

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
Binance is the world's largest crypto exchange, and CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao is the most powerful player in the industry. This deal puts an end to a years-long investigation into Binance. The deal: CZ agreed to pay $50 million in fines and is prohibited from operating or managing...
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Articles
Your idea needs a passionate believer
over a year ago
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Your idea needs a passionate believer

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over a year ago
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Londonist
Multicultural Soho Shines In This AI-Enhanced Video From The 1950s Super-sharp footage of 50s Soho.
a year ago
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Multicultural Soho Shines In This AI-Enhanced Video From The 1950s

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a year ago
Super-sharp footage of 50s Soho.
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Bryan Braun - Blog
Capability makes your life simpler If you can tolerate discomfort, then you can camp much lighter. Camping lighter means you spend less...
11 months ago
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Capability makes your life simpler

from Bryan Braun - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

11 months ago
If you can tolerate discomfort, then you can camp much lighter. Camping lighter means you spend less time and energy packing, setting-up, tearing down, and unpacking. The same goes for travel. Fewer clothes and shoes means less luggage to carry, manage, and lose. You can board...
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A Smart Bear
Jason Cohen: About the author Thanks for visiting. As a four-time entrepreneur, both bootstrapped and fundraised, resulting in two...
over a year ago
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Jason Cohen: About the author

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

over a year ago
Thanks for visiting. As a four-time entrepreneur, both bootstrapped and fundraised, resulting in two exits and two unicorns, I’ve been writing about startups for 16 years. I hope you’ll find it useful! As founder # Currently I’m the Chief Innovation Officer of WP Engine, which I...
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Construction Physics
The Technological Innovations that Produced the Shale Revolution Part One of Hot Rocks: Commercializing Next-Generation Geothermal Energy
a year ago
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The Technological Innovations that Produced the Shale Revolution

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

a year ago
Part One of Hot Rocks: Commercializing Next-Generation Geothermal Energy
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bt RSS Feed
Menu Toggle with Pure CSS Menu Toggle with Pure CSS 2020-10-19 When thinking through navigation designs for mobile devices...
over a year ago
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Menu Toggle with Pure CSS

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

over a year ago
Menu Toggle with Pure CSS 2020-10-19 When thinking through navigation designs for mobile devices sometimes the best option is to store away the content behind a toggle button. This button would then display the menu items upon interaction. Let me show you how to create such an...
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Retail Design Blog
Shamobo by Gutsulyak.Studio A lifestyle brand, Shamobo, introduces a series of bowling-shaped stainless-steel thermal efficient...
12 months ago
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Shamobo by Gutsulyak.Studio

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

12 months ago
A lifestyle brand, Shamobo, introduces a series of bowling-shaped stainless-steel thermal efficient bottles that keep beverages cold or hot for...
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Quanta Magazine
The Tiny Physics Behind Immense Cosmic Eruptions A new theory describes how particle interactions fuel fast magnetic reconnection, the process behind...
over a year ago
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The Tiny Physics Behind Immense Cosmic Eruptions

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
A new theory describes how particle interactions fuel fast magnetic reconnection, the process behind solar flares and other astrophysical jets. The post The Tiny Physics Behind Immense Cosmic Eruptions first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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devonzuegel.com
Urban sprawl is a tragedy of the commons We tend to choose larger homes than we want our neighbors to choose. The result: sprawling...
over a year ago
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Urban sprawl is a tragedy of the commons

from devonzuegel.com [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
We tend to choose larger homes than we want our neighbors to choose. The result: sprawling development that doesn't match what people actually want from their communities. People aim to maximize access and space when deciding where to live. All things equal, most people like...
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Quanta Magazine
In the Gut’s ‘Second Brain,’ Key Agents of Health Emerge Sitting alongside the neurons in your enteric nervous system are underappreciated glial cells, which...
a year ago
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In the Gut’s ‘Second Brain,’ Key Agents of Health Emerge

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Sitting alongside the neurons in your enteric nervous system are underappreciated glial cells, which play key roles in digestion and disease that scientists are only just starting to understand. The post In the Gut’s ‘Second Brain,’ Key Agents of Health Emerge first...
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Old Structures...
Reuse, Well Done From Carol Highsmith’s archive, a Target store in Brooklyn in 2018. If you’re going to reuse an old...
10 months ago
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Reuse, Well Done

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

10 months ago
From Carol Highsmith’s archive, a Target store in Brooklyn in 2018. If you’re going to reuse an old theater for your big-box store, why not reuse the marquee and vertical knife sign for advertising?
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David Crawshaw
UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8 UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8 2018-10-31 On Halloween this year I learned two scary...
over a year ago
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UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8 2018-10-31 On Halloween this year I learned two scary things. The first is that a young toddler can go trick-or-treating in your apartment building and acquire a huge amount of candy. When they are this young they have no interest in the...
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The Works in...
The prehistoric psychopath Life in the state of nature was less violent than you might think. But this made them vulnerable to...
3 months ago
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The prehistoric psychopath

from The Works in Progress Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in science

3 months ago
Life in the state of nature was less violent than you might think. But this made them vulnerable to a few psychopaths.
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Are people more willing to pay for digital goods on mobile devices? Mary Meeker’s [ ](images/screen-shot-2009-12-27-at-11-51-18-am.png) The assertion seems to be that...
over a year ago
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Are people more willing to pay for digital goods on mobile devices?

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

over a year ago
Mary Meeker’s [ ](images/screen-shot-2009-12-27-at-11-51-18-am.png) The assertion seems to be that there is something special about the…
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Seth's Blog
Velocity and possibility The art of project management includes the dance between velocity and possibility. If you describe...
a year ago
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Velocity and possibility

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

a year ago
The art of project management includes the dance between velocity and possibility. If you describe the outcome with specificity and remove as many variables as possible, you’ll get the work done with more speed, higher reliability and less cost. That velocity, though, might...
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Classical Wisdom
[Last Chance] The Essential Greeks Starting TOMORROW - January 15th, 2025
5 months ago
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[Last Chance] The Essential Greeks

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5 months ago
Starting TOMORROW - January 15th, 2025
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Classical Wisdom
What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live? Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
7 months ago
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What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?

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7 months ago
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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David Heinemeier...
Design for the web without Figma By all accounts, Figma has been an amazing tool for designers. We've used it extensively at...
over a year ago
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Design for the web without Figma

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
By all accounts, Figma has been an amazing tool for designers. We've used it extensively at 37signals, and I'm sure most every other software shop has too. Adobe didn't pay $20 billion for nothing. But we don't do the bulk of our design work with or in Figma when developing...
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TheCollector
The 8 Must-See Rooms at the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) is home to one of the world’s most spectacular...
3 months ago
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The 8 Must-See Rooms at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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3 months ago
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) is home to one of the world’s most spectacular collections of art, sculpture, and artifacts. The museum offers a wide array of exhibits spread across multiple galleries, from a fully reconstructed Egyptian temple to mosaics and...
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Global Inequality...
To be young, perchance to dream A review of Miloš Vojinović's “The political ideas of the Young Bosnia”
6 months ago
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To be young, perchance to dream

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6 months ago
A review of Miloš Vojinović's “The political ideas of the Young Bosnia”
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Rest of World -...
What the AI boom is getting wrong (and right), according to Hugging Face’s policy chief Irene Solaiman on tackling racial bias, language equity, consent, and why there are so many AI...
a year ago
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What the AI boom is getting wrong (and right), according to Hugging Face’s policy chief

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

a year ago
Irene Solaiman on tackling racial bias, language equity, consent, and why there are so many AI girlfriends.
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Ink & Switch
Jacquard 03 · Fine-grained provenance Connecting parts of source and build files as a universal primitive
9 months ago
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Jacquard 03 · Fine-grained provenance

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9 months ago
Connecting parts of source and build files as a universal primitive
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Herbert Lui
Slow is smooth and smooth is fast In the industrial era, the people that did more stuff—faster—added more value to the world....
4 months ago
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Slow is smooth and smooth is fast

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4 months ago
In the industrial era, the people that did more stuff—faster—added more value to the world. Efficiency was the buzzword. That’s no longer the case. Now, slow is smooth, and smooth is fast. We are already bumping up on the limits of how fast we can do our work—and we will never...
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Making software...
Text Align: Justify Text Align: Justify 2019-05-22 The text-align property is fairly well known in the world of CSS,...
over a year ago
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Text Align: Justify

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

over a year ago
Text Align: Justify 2019-05-22 The text-align property is fairly well known in the world of CSS, even among those just starting out with the language. Values such as center, left and right are used often with this property, but a more forgotten option is justify. What does...
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Blog - Mac Pierce
+ / - , Actualization Reposting some writing I did a while back on the subject of how additive manufacturing is...
over a year ago
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+ / - , Actualization

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over a year ago
Reposting some writing I did a while back on the subject of how additive manufacturing is necessarily a destructive process.
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Retail Design Blog
The Gallery of the Kings Museo Egizio by OMA + Andrea Tabocchini Architecture The Gallery of the Kings, which houses a collection of colossal statues from the ancient Egyptian...
7 months ago
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The Gallery of the Kings Museo Egizio by OMA + Andrea Tabocchini Architecture

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

7 months ago
The Gallery of the Kings, which houses a collection of colossal statues from the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes (modern-day...
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Computer Ads from...
The Grand Stand Joystick Stabilizer Support & Score Enhancer
7 months ago
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The Grand Stand

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7 months ago
Joystick Stabilizer Support & Score Enhancer
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Contemporist...
Inside a Quietly Modern Home Inspired by Rural Sheds Tucked into the sloping terrain of Ballybrew, a quiet townland in County Wicklow, Ireland, this...
a month ago
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Inside a Quietly Modern Home Inspired by Rural Sheds

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

a month ago
Tucked into the sloping terrain of Ballybrew, a quiet townland in County Wicklow, Ireland, this contemporary home by DUA (Design Urbanism Architecture) doesn’t shout for attention, it listens.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Single Line Comments in CSS Brad Frost noted on Twitter how he recently made a website with plain HTML, CSS, JS, etc., and found...
over a year ago
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Single Line Comments in CSS

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

over a year ago
Brad Frost noted on Twitter how he recently made a website with plain HTML, CSS, JS, etc., and found himself missing some of the ergonomics from Sass. Having mostly abandoned Sass on personal projects, I was curious what he felt was missing. He mentioned nesting media queries,...
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How to Be a Stoic
The Ethics of the Family in Seneca, VI: rewriting the family Seneca wrote his famous letters to Lucilius near the end of his life. They are not just...
over a year ago
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The Ethics of the Family in Seneca, VI: rewriting the family

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over a year ago
Seneca wrote his famous letters to Lucilius near the end of his life. They are not just philosophical letters to a friend, but a structured curriculum in Stoic philosophy, as the entries are meant to be read in sequence, with the reader assuming the role of Lucilius. Moreover,...
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99% Invisible
Your Own Personal Jesus The most popular image of Jesus Christ in the world—a white man with blue eyes, wavy brown hair, and...
4 months ago
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Your Own Personal Jesus

from 99% Invisible [alt+shift+b] in architecture

4 months ago
The most popular image of Jesus Christ in the world—a white man with blue eyes, wavy brown hair, and a soft, peaceful gaze—comes from Head of Christ, a 1940 painting by Chicago artist Warner Sallman. It’s been reproduced over a billion times, shaping how millions imagine Jesus....
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AFAR Media - Travel...
10 Best Places to Travel in September 2023
a year ago
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10 Best Places to Travel in September 2023

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a year ago
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African History...
Textile trade and Industry in the kingdom of Kongo: 1483-1914 the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
a year ago
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Textile trade and Industry in the kingdom of Kongo: 1483-1914

from African History Extra [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
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The Rational Walk
The Digest #209 Berkshire's conservatism, Weschler's IRA, National Indemnity, A Defense of Andrew Left, Inflation...
10 months ago
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The Digest #209

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

10 months ago
Berkshire's conservatism, Weschler's IRA, National Indemnity, A Defense of Andrew Left, Inflation hammers the poor, Felony convictions as footnotes, Immanuel Nobel, Eisenhower and D-Day
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NeuroLogica Blog
The Lunar Cycle and Suicide Does the lunar cycle affect human behavior? This seems to be a question that refuses to die, no...
over a year ago
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The Lunar Cycle and Suicide

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

over a year ago
Does the lunar cycle affect human behavior? This seems to be a question that refuses to die, no matter how hard it is to confirm any actual effect. It’s now a cultural idea, deeply embedded and not going anywhere. A recent study, however, seems to show a correlation between...
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Eric Bailey
a11y is web accessibility For better or worse, I spend a decent amount of time on social media. When you read it regularly,...
over a year ago
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a11y is web accessibility

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

over a year ago
For better or worse, I spend a decent amount of time on social media. When you read it regularly, you start to notice that there’s an ebb and flow to the kinds of things that get brought up. People post ideas and observations, followed by reactions, counter-reactions,...
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alexwlchan
Turning off ECS tasks overnight using an EventBridge Schedule At work, we have a bunch of ECS services that run 24/7, even though they don’t need to. For example,...
over a year ago
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Turning off ECS tasks overnight using an EventBridge Schedule

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
At work, we have a bunch of ECS services that run 24/7, even though they don’t need to. For example, we have a staging version of our website, where we test new changes before they’re deployed to the live site. We’re only making changes during UK office hours, so running the...
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The Universe of...
Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more English has a pattern of common patronymic names. For example, "John Peters" and "John Peterson"...
7 months ago
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Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more

from The Universe of Discourse [alt+shift+b] in history

7 months ago
English has a pattern of common patronymic names. For example, "John Peters" and "John Peterson" are someone whose father was named "Peter". ("Peters" should be understood as "Peter's".) Similarly we have John Williams and John Williamson, John Roberts and John Robertson, John...
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A Beautiful Site
What is my browser? This tool will tell you Last week I wrote about how to get faster and better help from support. One of my suggestions was to...
over a year ago
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What is my browser? This tool will tell you

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

over a year ago
Last week I wrote about how to get faster and better help from support. One of my suggestions was to tell them what browser, OS, etc. you're using. Here's a free tool that will make that so much easier. As soon as you visit About My Browser, it will show you what browser and...
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Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: Phase 2 Gestures Some of the techniques we use to handle events and gestures in our prototypes
a year ago
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Ink Note Fall 2023: Phase 2 Gestures

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a year ago
Some of the techniques we use to handle events and gestures in our prototypes
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Josh Thompson
Depression I’m starting to write more regularly these days. For a long time, I’ve hardly written anything, or...
over a year ago
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Depression

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

over a year ago
I’m starting to write more regularly these days. For a long time, I’ve hardly written anything, or only written when external circumstances required me to write something. For example, when I give a talk, I always create a page to “support” the talk, that I can link to in slides,...
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Rest of World -...
When Nigeria banned Twitter, Koo had a golden opportunity, and squandered it Even the government officials who championed the Twitter competitor have stopped using it.
a year ago
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When Nigeria banned Twitter, Koo had a golden opportunity, and squandered it

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a year ago
Even the government officials who championed the Twitter competitor have stopped using it.
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Classical Wisdom
What Makes a Hero? The Ancient Ideals of Heroism: Odysseus and Aeneas
2 months ago
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What Makes a Hero?

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2 months ago
The Ancient Ideals of Heroism: Odysseus and Aeneas
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Charles Chen
TypeScript is not a Programming Language If you're struggling with TypeScript, reshaping your perspective might help.
a year ago
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TypeScript is not a Programming Language

from Charles Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
If you're struggling with TypeScript, reshaping your perspective might help.
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Farnam Street
Chesterton’s Fence: A Lesson in Second Order Thinking A core component of making great decisions is understanding the rationale behind previous decisions....
over a year ago
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Chesterton’s Fence: A Lesson in Second Order Thinking

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

over a year ago
A core component of making great decisions is understanding the rationale behind previous decisions. If we don’t understand how we got “here,” we run the risk of making things much worse. *** When we seek to intervene in any system created by someone, it’s not enough to view...
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Dan Quach Blog
Digital Ghosts, Wisdom, and Tennis Matchmaking Digital Ghosts My mom recently had a free consultation from her electric company to assess replacing...
2 weeks ago
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Digital Ghosts, Wisdom, and Tennis Matchmaking

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

2 weeks ago
Digital Ghosts My mom recently had a free consultation from her electric company to assess replacing her propane water heater with an electric water pump heater.  She forwarded the assessment report to me, and I spent some time reviewing and researching the program. Despite...
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Christopher Butler
Your Own Personal Picture Collection Many years ago, when I was a student at RISD, one of my favorite places to visit was the Clipping...
a year ago
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Your Own Personal Picture Collection

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

a year ago
Many years ago, when I was a student at RISD, one of my favorite places to visit was the Clipping File. It was an extension of the RISD Library — a vast collection of printed images and clippings organized with a card catalogue. If you ever needed source imagery for a project...
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The DESK Magazine
Our favorite portfolios launched with Semplice in August 2022 Every week, we handpick two portfolios created with Semplice to feature on our Showcase. These are...
over a year ago
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Our favorite portfolios launched with Semplice in August 2022

from The DESK Magazine [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
Every week, we handpick two portfolios created with Semplice to feature on our Showcase. These are the best of the best, chosen by yours truly from hundreds of beautiful submissions
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Elad Blog
Hiring Executives & Bad Advice When your company hits strong product market fit, your company will be sucked into a vortex of...
over a year ago
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Hiring Executives & Bad Advice

from Elad Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
When your company hits strong product market fit, your company will be sucked into a vortex of customer demand and experience a Cambrian explosion of internal org complexity simultaneously. Things will initially seem to just truck along as usual, and then suddenly everything at...
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Solving the decision...
smol party: Hello Wololo! Founder to founder, Shawn and I swap stories and thoughts on building a startup
over a year ago
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smol party: Hello Wololo!

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over a year ago
Founder to founder, Shawn and I swap stories and thoughts on building a startup
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Strange Loop Canon
Progress when benefits are worth tallying the human cost of technological leaps
a year ago
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Progress

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a year ago
when benefits are worth tallying the human cost of technological leaps
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Calculated Risk
FDIC: Number of Problem Banks Decreased in Q4 2024 The FDIC released the Quarterly Banking Profile for Q4 2024: Full-Year ROA and Net Income Increased...
4 months ago
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FDIC: Number of Problem Banks Decreased in Q4 2024

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4 months ago
The FDIC released the Quarterly Banking Profile for Q4 2024: Full-Year ROA and Net Income Increased in 2024 Asset Quality Metrics Remained Generally Favorable, Though Weakness in Certain Portfolios Persisted emphasis added Click on graph for larger image. From the FDIC: The...
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Jonas Hietala
2017 in Review In contrast to previous years I haven’t kept up with the blog. For good reason I’d say since we got...
over a year ago
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2017 in Review

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

over a year ago
In contrast to previous years I haven’t kept up with the blog. For good reason I’d say since we got a child in October! It really alters your perspectives and other things suddenly feel a little less important and of course there’s less time to do other stuff. A little late and...
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General Robots
Announcing posetree.py: Wrangling Timestamps and Transforms for Robots A python library for doing pose math for fun and profit. (Although I open sourced it for free so, no...
a year ago
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Announcing posetree.py: Wrangling Timestamps and Transforms for Robots

from General Robots [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
A python library for doing pose math for fun and profit. (Although I open sourced it for free so, no profit for me I guess). Check it out!
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Willem's Blog
Three tips to make a content strategy work Consider these three things to maximise the effect of the words you write for your website, blog or...
over a year ago
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Three tips to make a content strategy work

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Consider these three things to maximise the effect of the words you write for your website, blog or company.
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The Intimate Mirror
Dangerous Safety How genuine safety dissolves both personal and systemic control (Breaking Open: Part 5)
6 months ago
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Dangerous Safety

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6 months ago
How genuine safety dissolves both personal and systemic control (Breaking Open: Part 5)
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Atoms vs Bits
Hanging Upside Down And Right Side Up You'll do it, if it's for you
2 months ago
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Hanging Upside Down And Right Side Up

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2 months ago
You'll do it, if it's for you
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Asterisk
Does Abundance Start at Home? Kelsey Piper and Jasmine Sun talk about microschools, whether localism is the enemy of Abundance,...
2 months ago
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Does Abundance Start at Home?

from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science

2 months ago
Kelsey Piper and Jasmine Sun talk about microschools, whether localism is the enemy of Abundance, and why Chinese bureaucrats are like Growth PMs.
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Odds and Ends of...
Reels are destroying our brains and I hate them It's time for a new moral panic
2 months ago
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Reels are destroying our brains and I hate them

from Odds and Ends of History [alt+shift+b] in technology

2 months ago
It's time for a new moral panic
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Real Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I continue to feel that if math education were...
4 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Real

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

4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I continue to feel that if math education were better everyone would be really freaked out by this. Today's News:
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TheCollector
Arthur Wellesley: The Iron Duke of Wellington Who Beat Napoleon Undoubtedly one of Britain’s greatest heroes, Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington, is known...
4 months ago
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Arthur Wellesley: The Iron Duke of Wellington Who Beat Napoleon

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4 months ago
Undoubtedly one of Britain’s greatest heroes, Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington, is known mainly for his victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, which ended over seven centuries of conflict between England and France.   His influence, however, spread...
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TheCollector
6 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky Before the 19th century, art was centered around naturalistic depictions designed to create a...
5 days ago
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6 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

5 days ago
Before the 19th century, art was centered around naturalistic depictions designed to create a realistic window onto the world. Artists were inspired by history, mythology, and the Bible, with Michelangelo, Caravaggio, and Vermeer representing the pinnacle of artistic expression....
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Louwrentius
What home NAS builders should understand about silent data corruption Introduction When it comes to dealing with storage in a DIY NAS context, two important topics come...
over a year ago
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What home NAS builders should understand about silent data corruption

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Introduction When it comes to dealing with storage in a DIY NAS context, two important topics come up: Unrecoverable read errors (UREs) or what old people like me call 'bad sectors' Silent data corruption (data corruption unnoticed by the storage layers) I get a strong impression...
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mtlynch.io
Is It Keto: Month 13 Highlights I sold my first pre-order for KVM Pi. Finding new ways to monetize Is It Keto is proving...
over a year ago
82

Is It Keto: Month 13

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

over a year ago
Highlights I sold my first pre-order for KVM Pi. Finding new ways to monetize Is It Keto is proving more difficult than I expected. I sold an Enterprise plan for Zestful. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those...
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
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Summary of changes for September 2023

from Hundred Rabbits [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs. Niju,...
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Calculated Risk
CPI Preview The Consumer Price Index for December is scheduled to be released tomorrow. The consensus is for...
5 months ago
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CPI Preview

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

5 months ago
The Consumer Price Index for December is scheduled to be released tomorrow. The consensus is for 0.3% increase in CPI, and a 0.2% increase in core CPI. The consensus is for CPI to be up 2.9% year-over-year and core CPI to be up 3.3% YoY. We expect a 0.25% increase in December...
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Carl Barenbrug RSS...
An Are.na of Wonder and Connection I've been mulling over my presence on social media for a while now. There's only three platforms I...
6 months ago
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An Are.na of Wonder and Connection

from Carl Barenbrug RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

6 months ago
I've been mulling over my presence on social media for a while now. There's only three platforms I actively use, but honestly, it feels like there should only be one — and that one, Are.na, breaks the mould of a typical social media space. You can find me on Instagram, X, and...
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Josh Thompson
Falling into Place I recently started a job with Litmus. A key component of this job search for me was that it be 100%...
over a year ago
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Falling into Place

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

over a year ago
I recently started a job with Litmus. A key component of this job search for me was that it be 100% remote. At my last job, I worked remote regularly, at least one day a week, but the rest of the week, I was in the office. Remote work is becoming established around the world,...
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The Diff
Pathologically High-Margin Businesses Plus! Change My View; Capital Structure; Artificial Sycophancy; Elasticity; Internalizing...
2 months ago
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Pathologically High-Margin Businesses

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2 months ago
Plus! Change My View; Capital Structure; Artificial Sycophancy; Elasticity; Internalizing Externalities
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RhysTranter.com
Easter 2024: A Roman Pilgrimage A selection of the sites visited during a recent Easter pilgrimage to Rome
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Easter 2024: A Roman Pilgrimage

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A selection of the sites visited during a recent Easter pilgrimage to Rome
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Max Rozen
How to style react-select with styled-components or emotion Styling react-select can be annoying. Here's a quick guide on how to do it with popular CSS-in-JS...
over a year ago
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How to style react-select with styled-components or emotion

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over a year ago
Styling react-select can be annoying. Here's a quick guide on how to do it with popular CSS-in-JS libraries.
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Dreams of Space -...
Journey to the Sun (1961) The second promotional comic I wanted to share is Journey to the Sun. It is also from Boys’ and...
2 months ago
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Journey to the Sun (1961)

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2 months ago
The second promotional comic I wanted to share is Journey to the Sun. It is also from Boys’ and Girls’ March of Comics and the only other one I've found that is about space flight.  It was handed to customers of stores that sold Little Yankee Shoes.   Journey to the Sun is a...
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Left To Write
What A Moroccan Uber Driver Can Teach Us About Living Life is simple, but we insist on complicating it
over a year ago
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What A Moroccan Uber Driver Can Teach Us About Living

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Life is simple, but we insist on complicating it
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Seth's Blog
Don’t know, don’t care Clients and customers can be frustrating. Perhaps they don’t know what you know. Perhaps they don’t...
over a year ago
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Don’t know, don’t care

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over a year ago
Clients and customers can be frustrating. Perhaps they don’t know what you know. Perhaps they don’t care. It’s possible to educate and inspire. It might be more productive to find the few that want to go where you do.
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Classical Wisdom
Where did the time go? Important Notice
7 months ago
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Where did the time go?

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Important Notice
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hands Down Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Wings would also be acceptable, as would a thousand...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hands Down

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Wings would also be acceptable, as would a thousand gibbering eyes. Today's News:
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Computer Things
Requirements change until they don't Recently I got a question on formal methods1: how does it help to mathematically model systems when...
2 months ago
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Requirements change until they don't

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2 months ago
Recently I got a question on formal methods1: how does it help to mathematically model systems when the system requirements are constantly changing? It doesn't make sense to spend a lot of time proving a design works, and then deliver the product and find out it's not at all what...
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Contemporist...
This Renovated 1960s Apartment Balances Vintage Charm and Modern Precision Tucked inside a postwar building in Conca D’Oro, a northern neighborhood in Rome defined by dense...
a week ago
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This Renovated 1960s Apartment Balances Vintage Charm and Modern Precision

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Tucked inside a postwar building in Conca D’Oro, a northern neighborhood in Rome defined by dense urban growth and enduring mid-century structures, this apartment project by Italian studio 02A reveals what happens when renovation meets restraint. Housed in a 1960s...
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Contemporist...
Rough And Rugged Materials Are Combined With Modern Forms On This Home Arno Schuurs and Paulien van Noort of design-build firm GetAway Projects BV, has shared photos of a...
a year ago
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Rough And Rugged Materials Are Combined With Modern Forms On This Home

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a year ago
Arno Schuurs and Paulien van Noort of design-build firm GetAway Projects BV, has shared photos of a new home they designed in Gorssel, The Netherlands.
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Working Theorys
Pursuits that can’t scale What you should do "instead of going to therapy”
a year ago
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Pursuits that can’t scale

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a year ago
What you should do "instead of going to therapy”
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TheCollector
What Is the Smallest Country in Africa? The African continent is a big place. It is the second-largest continent and contains 54 countries,...
3 weeks ago
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What Is the Smallest Country in Africa?

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3 weeks ago
The African continent is a big place. It is the second-largest continent and contains 54 countries, including the island nations that dot the coastline. While some countries, like Algeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Libya, and Sudan, are huge, there are many others...
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Citation Needed
Issue 52 – I am Sam's low-level culpability Bitcoin prices are spiking. Are we in for another round of crypto mania? Also, Sam Bankman-Fried...
a year ago
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Issue 52 – I am Sam's low-level culpability

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a year ago
Bitcoin prices are spiking. Are we in for another round of crypto mania? Also, Sam Bankman-Fried doesn't want to go to jail for 100 years.
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Articles
Main Street fights back
over a year ago
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Main Street fights back

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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 063: Llama 3 April 19, 2024.
a year ago
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AI Roundup 063: Llama 3

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a year ago
April 19, 2024.
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ben-mini
Modality Switching Online I hate it when my dad leaves me a voicemail. Whenever I open my phone and see the pending voicemail,...
a year ago
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Modality Switching Online

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a year ago
I hate it when my dad leaves me a voicemail. Whenever I open my phone and see the pending voicemail, I roll my eyes. He tends to meander. My dad’s messages can range from 40 seconds to 2 minutes. He typically wants to inform me of something, like an upcoming family event or an...
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Christian Selig
Embedding Godot games in iOS is easy Recently there’s been very exciting developments in the Godot game engine, that have allowed really...
a month ago
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Embedding Godot games in iOS is easy

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a month ago
Recently there’s been very exciting developments in the Godot game engine, that have allowed really easy and powerful integration into an existing normal iOS or Mac app. I couldn’t find a lot of documentation or discussion about this, so I wanted to shine some light on why this...
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The Map is Mostly...
Efforts and Goals and Joy There was joy in concentration, and the world afforded an inexhaustible wealth of projects to...
a year ago
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Efforts and Goals and Joy

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a year ago
There was joy in concentration, and the world afforded an inexhaustible wealth of projects to concentrate on. There was joy in effort, and the world resisted effort to just the right degree, and yielded to it at last. People cut Mount Rushmore into faces; they chipped here and...
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99% Invisible
The Flop House: Megalopolis, with Roman Mars This episode is from our friends at The Flop House, a comedy podcast devoted to the worst in recent...
6 months ago
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The Flop House: Megalopolis, with Roman Mars

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6 months ago
This episode is from our friends at The Flop House, a comedy podcast devoted to the worst in recent film. Roman joins Dan McCoy, Stuart Wellington, and Power Broker co-host Elliott Kalan, to discuss Megalopolis, the recent bankrupting disaster from Francis Ford Coppola. Subscribe...
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The Marginalian
Excellent Advice for Living: Kevin Kelly’s Life-Tested Wisdom He Wished He Knew Earlier "The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished."
a year ago
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Excellent Advice for Living: Kevin Kelly’s Life-Tested Wisdom He Wished He Knew Earlier

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a year ago
"The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished."
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Open Culture
“The Virtues of Coffee” Explained in 1690 Ad: The Cure for Lethargy, Scurvy, Dropsy, Gout & More According to many historians, the English Enlightenment may never have happened were it not for...
a year ago
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“The Virtues of Coffee” Explained in 1690 Ad: The Cure for Lethargy, Scurvy, Dropsy, Gout & More

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a year ago
According to many historians, the English Enlightenment may never have happened were it not for coffeehouses, the public sphere where poets, critics, philosophers, legal minds, and other intellectual gadflies regularly met to chatter about the pressing concerns of the day. And...
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Retail Design Blog
Indika Nature Offices by Arkadia Works Arkadia Works in Jakarta, Indonesia embodies ‘The Elegance of Nature’, integrating natural elements...
3 months ago
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Indika Nature Offices by Arkadia Works

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

3 months ago
Arkadia Works in Jakarta, Indonesia embodies ‘The Elegance of Nature’, integrating natural elements and modern sophistication in a biophilic design,...
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Seeking Wisdom
It’s a treasure trove of health insights! Use Insulin wisely Life on Earth started simple. For nearly 2 billion years, tiny single-celled...
8 months ago
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It’s a treasure trove of health insights!

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8 months ago
Use Insulin wisely Life on Earth started simple. For nearly 2 billion years, tiny single-celled organisms dominated. Then, a lucky accident changed everything. One cell swallowed another, and the swallowed cell became mitochondria, the powerhouse of complex cells. This chance...
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Blog of Simple...
Road to 1 million ARR - July update
a year ago
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Road to 1 million ARR - July update

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a year ago
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bt RSS Feed
Perspective Perspective 2024-08-06 I recently read both Starting Hospice and No Salt posted on Jake’s blog and...
11 months ago
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Perspective

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11 months ago
Perspective 2024-08-06 I recently read both Starting Hospice and No Salt posted on Jake’s blog and was quite moved. I don’t know Jake and have never met him - but his writing and shared experiences give a very real look into his mind and perspective. If you haven’t yet, I...
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Cognitive...
Rise of the Open Source ChatGPT Clones At first there was Open-Assistant, then appeared OpenChatKit, and the newly announced ColossalChat....
over a year ago
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Rise of the Open Source ChatGPT Clones

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over a year ago
At first there was Open-Assistant, then appeared OpenChatKit, and the newly announced ColossalChat. Now three projects (that I know of!) aim to give everybody the ability to create their own ChatGPT clone. The basic components of a ChatGPT clone are: large language model as its...
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Computer Ads from...
Vote for the June 2025 + Post Topic Past ads get a second chance.
a week ago
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Vote for the June 2025 + Post Topic

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a week ago
Past ads get a second chance.
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watchTowr Labs
Is The Sofistication In The Room With Us? - X-Forwarded-For and Ivanti Connect Secure... What's that Skippy? Another Ivanti Connect Secure vulnerability? At this point, regular readers will...
3 months ago
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Is The Sofistication In The Room With Us? - X-Forwarded-For and Ivanti Connect Secure (CVE-2025-22457)

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3 months ago
What's that Skippy? Another Ivanti Connect Secure vulnerability? At this point, regular readers will know all about Ivanti (and a handful of other vendors of the same class of devices), from our regular analysis. Do you know the fun things about these posts? We can copy text...
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Home on Erik...
Microsoft's new marketing strategy: give up I think it's funny how MS at some point realized they are not the cool kids and there's no reason to...
over a year ago
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Microsoft's new marketing strategy: give up

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

over a year ago
I think it's funny how MS at some point realized they are not the cool kids and there's no reason to appeal to that target audience. Their new marketing strategy finally admits what's been long known: the correlation between “business casual” and using Microsoft products:
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tomcritchlow.com
8 Years on the Road Being self-employed feels a bit like being on an extended road trip. Untethered and free, but lonely...
over a year ago
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8 Years on the Road

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over a year ago
Being self-employed feels a bit like being on an extended road trip. Untethered and free, but lonely and unsupported too. Ultimate freedoms combined with shallow roots. Every year I write a recap, around the anniversary of quitting my last job (Oct 24th, 2014). Here’s my recap of...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Some thoughts on the iPhone contact list controversy and app security 1. I’ve heard rumors that lots of apps have been uploading user contact lists for years. One person...
over a year ago
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Some thoughts on the iPhone contact list controversy and app security

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over a year ago
1. I’ve heard rumors that lots of apps have been uploading user contact lists for years. One person who knows the iOS world well told me “if…
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Rest of World -...
Why thousands of Chinese young people use a pink dinosaur as their alias Users adopt the alias “momo” as a way to speak more freely, evade harassment and protect personal...
a year ago
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Why thousands of Chinese young people use a pink dinosaur as their alias

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a year ago
Users adopt the alias “momo” as a way to speak more freely, evade harassment and protect personal privacy on Douban and Xiaohongshu.
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A Beautiful Site
Installing Shoelace in a React App Although Shoelace is a web component library, it ships React wrappers that lets you use the library...
over a year ago
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Installing Shoelace in a React App

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over a year ago
Although Shoelace is a web component library, it ships React wrappers that lets you use the library idiomatically in React. This video shows you how to install Shoelace in a brand new Create React App. If you found this video helpful, please subscribe to my channel on YouTube...
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
over a year ago
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Summary of changes for March 2023

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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March. Summary Of Changes Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom. 100r.co, added a new page: diy carbonation system. Updated Saving fuel, Engine rebuild and...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Supervised Learning: Instance-based Learning and K-Nearest Neighbors Regression isn't the only way. What if we were far, far... lazier about it?
over a year ago
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Supervised Learning: Instance-based Learning and K-Nearest Neighbors

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over a year ago
Regression isn't the only way. What if we were far, far... lazier about it?
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Simply Explained
Good Home Automation Should be Boring I'm a huge fan of Home Assistant to automate various things around the house. I often look at other...
over a year ago
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Good Home Automation Should be Boring

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over a year ago
I'm a huge fan of Home Assistant to automate various things around the house. I often look at other people's setup for inspiration, and one thing struck me. Many people have cluttered dashboards and use Home Assistant to track just about any metric they can.That's quite different...
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
They're Looting The Internet Last week, Meta revealed (in a motion trying to dismiss an FTC anti-monopoly lawsuit) that Instagram...
a year ago
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They're Looting The Internet

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a year ago
Last week, Meta revealed (in a motion trying to dismiss an FTC anti-monopoly lawsuit) that Instagram made an astonishing $32.4 billion in advertising revenue in 2021. That figure becomes even more shocking when you consider Google's YouTube made $28.8 billion in the same period....
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Unfiltered by Tim...
Adults Have Totally Misunderstood How AI Will Affect Society Time to look at the other side of AI (this will affect us all)
4 months ago
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Adults Have Totally Misunderstood How AI Will Affect Society

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4 months ago
Time to look at the other side of AI (this will affect us all)
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Platformer
Apple prepares for a platform shift Will the Reality Pro be the metaverse’s iPhone moment?
over a year ago
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Apple prepares for a platform shift

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over a year ago
Will the Reality Pro be the metaverse’s iPhone moment?
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Ferd.ca
A Commentary on Defining Observability 2024/03/19 A Commentary on Defining Observability Recently, Hazel Weakly has published a great...
a year ago
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A Commentary on Defining Observability

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a year ago
2024/03/19 A Commentary on Defining Observability Recently, Hazel Weakly has published a great article titled Redefining Observability. In it, she covers competing classical definitions observability, weaknesses they have, and offers a practical reframing of the concept in the...
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Raptitude.com
How to Avoid Getting Lost in Thought Say you’re walking through Death Valley, trying to find your way back to the highway. Luckily you’ve...
6 months ago
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How to Avoid Getting Lost in Thought

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6 months ago
Say you’re walking through Death Valley, trying to find your way back to the highway. Luckily you’ve got a good paper map. As you walk, you scan the territory around you for landmarks. You see some large-scale details: hills, rock formations, and gullies. Also some minute ones:...
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Molson Hart's Blog -...
Older Articles I’ve Written In reverse chronological order: Starting a Physical Product Company? You’re Gonna Need a Lawyer...
over a year ago
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Older Articles I’ve Written

from Molson Hart's Blog - Molson Hart [alt+shift+b] in finance

over a year ago
In reverse chronological order: Starting a Physical Product Company? You’re Gonna Need a Lawyer (October 18, 2020) The Right to a Nonconsensus Opinion (June 9, 2020) Never Invest in Anything Made of Metal (May 2, 2020) Simple 3 Step Strategy to Stop the Coronavirus in the...
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Josh Thompson
2016 - Biggest Lesson, Most Dangerous Books I don’t do New Years resolutions, but I like to think back on the last year. I’ll touch on two...
over a year ago
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2016 - Biggest Lesson, Most Dangerous Books

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

over a year ago
I don’t do New Years resolutions, but I like to think back on the last year. I’ll touch on two things: The most important thing I’ve learned this year: Tactical Silence Most dangerous books of 2016 Tactical Silence I suspect that a year from now, I’m going to look back and say...
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Musings on Markets
Return on Equity, Earnings Yield and Market Efficiency: Back to Basics! While I was working on my last two data updates for 2025, I got sidetracked, as I am wont to do, by...
4 months ago
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Return on Equity, Earnings Yield and Market Efficiency: Back to Basics!

from Musings on Markets [alt+shift+b] in finance

4 months ago
While I was working on my last two data updates for 2025, I got sidetracked, as I am wont to do, by two events. The first was the response that I received to my last data update, where I looked at the profitability of businesses, and specifically at how a comparison of accounting...
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Londonist
Things To Do In London On New Year's Eve 31 December events and parties in London.
a year ago
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Things To Do In London On New Year's Eve

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a year ago
31 December events and parties in London.
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History Today Feed
‘The Soldier’s Reward’ and ‘Matchmaking and the Marriage Market...’ review ‘The Soldier’s Reward’ and ‘Matchmaking and the Marriage Market...’ review JamesHoare Tue,...
3 months ago
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‘The Soldier’s Reward’ and ‘Matchmaking and the Marriage Market...’ review

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3 months ago
‘The Soldier’s Reward’ and ‘Matchmaking and the Marriage Market...’ review JamesHoare Tue, 03/18/2025 - 07:59
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Birchtree
The worst product Marques Brownlee ever reviewed dies after 10 months Jay Peters for The Verge: HP Is Buying Humane and Shutting Down the AI Pin Humane is selling “key AI...
4 months ago
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The worst product Marques Brownlee ever reviewed dies after 10 months

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4 months ago
Jay Peters for The Verge: HP Is Buying Humane and Shutting Down the AI Pin Humane is selling “key AI capabilities” to HP for $116 million and will stop selling AI Pin, the company announced today. AI Pins that have already been purchased will continue to function normally
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Robert Caro
Anatomy of a $9 Burglary “Anatomy of a $9 Burglary” is among Caro’s best early writing. When police arrested a criminal, all...
over a year ago
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Anatomy of a $9 Burglary

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over a year ago
“Anatomy of a $9 Burglary” is among Caro’s best early writing. When police arrested a criminal, all signs indicated a simple case of burglar
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essay – snarfed.org
Blockchain’s real world problem A while back, early in the blockchain hype cycle, a startup called Verisart popped up and promised...
over a year ago
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Blockchain’s real world problem

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over a year ago
A while back, early in the blockchain hype cycle, a startup called Verisart popped up and promised to “fix” fine art. Not sure if that painting is real? Can’t find out who owns it, or where they got it? Worried that the gallery you’re emailing is a scammer? Worry no more!...
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TheCollector
Memories From the Mire: 5 Revealing Bog Bodies In prehistoric Northwest Europe, it was not uncommon for the dead to be deliberately placed in the...
2 months ago
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Memories From the Mire: 5 Revealing Bog Bodies

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2 months ago
In prehistoric Northwest Europe, it was not uncommon for the dead to be deliberately placed in the watery pools of peatlands. It was not the customary burial rite at the time, and many of these people ended up in bogs after meeting a very violent end, leading archeologists to...
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The Marginalian
Meeting the Muse at the Edge of the Light: Poet Gary Snyder on Craftsmanship vs. Creative Force It is tempting, because we make everything we make with everything we are, to take our creative...
4 months ago
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Meeting the Muse at the Edge of the Light: Poet Gary Snyder on Craftsmanship vs. Creative Force

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4 months ago
It is tempting, because we make everything we make with everything we are, to take our creative potency for a personal merit. It is also tempting when we find ourselves suddenly impotent, as all artists regularly do, to blame the block on a fickle muse and rue ourselves abandoned...
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Calculated Risk
Wednesday: Housing Starts, FOMC Meeting Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. mortgage...
6 months ago
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Wednesday: Housing Starts, FOMC Meeting

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6 months ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. mortgage purchase applications index. Housing Starts for November. The consensus is for 1.344 million SAAR, up from 1.311 million SAAR. Architecture Billings Index for October (a leading indicator...
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TheCollector
Meet the Prime Ministers: 10 Men Who Served Queen Victoria Who were the ten British prime ministers of Queen Victoria’s reign? What were the highlights of...
2 months ago
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Meet the Prime Ministers: 10 Men Who Served Queen Victoria

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2 months ago
Who were the ten British prime ministers of Queen Victoria’s reign? What were the highlights of their careers, and what did they achieve on behalf of the United Kingdom? Most importantly, what was the nature of their relationship with Queen Victoria herself?   Let us now step...
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Calculated Risk
Housing April 14th Weekly Update: Inventory up 1.6% Week-over-week, Up 33.4% Year-over-year Altos reports that active single-family inventory was up 2.3% week-over-week. Inventory is now up...
2 months ago
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Housing April 14th Weekly Update: Inventory up 1.6% Week-over-week, Up 33.4% Year-over-year

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2 months ago
Altos reports that active single-family inventory was up 2.3% week-over-week. Inventory is now up 12.5% from the seasonal bottom in January and is increasing.   Usually, inventory is up about 5% or 6% from the seasonal low by this week in the year.   So, 2025 is seeing a...
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The Honest Broker
My 12-Month Immersive Course in Humanities—The Final Installment! I deliver on my promise to provide a full survey of arts & culture in just 52 weeks
4 months ago
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My 12-Month Immersive Course in Humanities—The Final Installment!

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4 months ago
I deliver on my promise to provide a full survey of arts & culture in just 52 weeks
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HTMHell
Get that marquee ✨AeStHeTiC✨ With the current Y2K fashion trend and JLo being back together with Ben Affleck, the 2000s are...
over a year ago
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Get that marquee ✨AeStHeTiC✨

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
With the current Y2K fashion trend and JLo being back together with Ben Affleck, the 2000s are having a revival this year. Many brands are jumping onto the boat by creating websites with an “old-school” vibe. SEPRONIC WORLD by Thea Wood on Behance The marquee element is an old...
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Diaries of Note
The sea was alive with great hunchback whales On 28th February, seven years before his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes, was to appear in...
a year ago
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The sea was alive with great hunchback whales

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a year ago
On 28th February, seven years before his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes, was to appear in print, Arthur Conan Doyle left Peterhead on S. S. Hope, a whaling ship led by Captain John Gray that was heading for the Arctic Ocean. Aged twenty and still studying medicine at...
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TheCollector
Treaty of Wuchale: How a Bad Translation Caused a War At the beginning of 1890, Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, one of the only two independent African...
a month ago
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Treaty of Wuchale: How a Bad Translation Caused a War

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a month ago
At the beginning of 1890, Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, one of the only two independent African countries, contacted the leaders of the Western powers to announce his accession to the throne. To his shock, his correspondents informed the emperor that all his diplomatic...
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Josh Comeau's blog
A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries It’s been a couple of years since container queries started landing in browsers… so why isn’t anyone...
8 months ago
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A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

8 months ago
It’s been a couple of years since container queries started landing in browsers… so why isn’t anyone using them? It turns out that container queries are kinda tricky; they’re not as straightforward as media queries. In this tutorial, we’ll break it all down and make sense of...
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Machine Learning for...
Weekly ML for SWEs #13: Avoiding brain rot is the key to success An AI reading list curated to make you a better engineer: 6-24-25
a week ago
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Weekly ML for SWEs #13: Avoiding brain rot is the key to success

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a week ago
An AI reading list curated to make you a better engineer: 6-24-25
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Making software...
Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos 2023-03-09 It has been one week since I retired my...
over a year ago
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Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos

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over a year ago
Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos 2023-03-09 It has been one week since I retired my Eero mesh network setup and replaced it with two Mango Mini Travel Routers (GL-MT300N-V2). There were some obvious reasons to make this switch but I was initially unsure how the...
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Tony Finch's blog
Joining ellipses with matching tangents In my previous entry I wrote about constructing a four-point egg, using curcular arcs that join...
a year ago
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Joining ellipses with matching tangents

from Tony Finch's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
In my previous entry I wrote about constructing a four-point egg, using curcular arcs that join where their tangents are at 45°. I wondered if I could do something similar with ellipses. As before, I made an interactive ellipse workbench to experiment with the problem. I got...
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TheCollector
Exploring Anselm Kiefer’s Playground: La Ribaute, Barjac, France Anselm Kiefer acquired La Ribaute—an old silk factory in Barjac, France—in 1992. The almost 100-acre...
3 months ago
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Exploring Anselm Kiefer’s Playground: La Ribaute, Barjac, France

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3 months ago
Anselm Kiefer acquired La Ribaute—an old silk factory in Barjac, France—in 1992. The almost 100-acre estate comprises buildings, outdoor art installations, subterranean chambers, tunnels, and a five-level concrete amphitheater. The artist lived at the site until 2007, when he...
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Calculated Risk
Question #4 for 2025: What will the participation rate be in December 2025? Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of...
6 months ago
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Question #4 for 2025: What will the participation rate be in December 2025?

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6 months 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...
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Platformer
The Supreme Court reckoning over content moderation is arriving Platforms might have a way around Texas's social media law — unless a separate case makes that...
over a year ago
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The Supreme Court reckoning over content moderation is arriving

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over a year ago
Platforms might have a way around Texas's social media law — unless a separate case makes that illegal, too
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Diaries of Note
One bomb fell about ten feet from the train station Petr Ginz was an extraordinary young Czech-Jewish man who left a lasting impression despite a life...
a year ago
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One bomb fell about ten feet from the train station

from Diaries of Note [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
Petr Ginz was an extraordinary young Czech-Jewish man who left a lasting impression despite a life cut tragically short. Born in 1928, he was fourteen when he was sent to the Theresienstadt Ghetto. While there, he edited Vedem, an underground magazine produced by teenage...
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Herbert Lui
Disorientation When you first land in a new place, where you don’t speak the language, you’re probably going to...
6 months ago
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Disorientation

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

6 months ago
When you first land in a new place, where you don’t speak the language, you’re probably going to make some mistakes. You’ll get in the wrong line at the airport. Queue on the wrong side of the escalator. Realize you’ve unintentionally broken etiquette or convention of some sort....
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Rest of World -...
How a bored NYU graduate captured the absurdity of Chinese diaspora life Meet the creator behind @dongbeicantbefuckedwith — a private meme stash turned viral Instagram...
over a year ago
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How a bored NYU graduate captured the absurdity of Chinese diaspora life

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

over a year ago
Meet the creator behind @dongbeicantbefuckedwith — a private meme stash turned viral Instagram account.
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 The Many Lives of Null Island At risk of ruining the secret for you, Null Island is a long-running inside joke among...
10 months ago
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🔗 The Many Lives of Null Island

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

10 months ago
At risk of ruining the secret for you, Null Island is a long-running inside joke among cartographers. It is an imaginary island located at a real place: the coordinates of 0º latitude and 0º longitude, a location in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa where the Prime...
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macwright.com
I wish there was a better default for database IDs by Every database ID scheme that I’ve used has had pretty serious downsides, and I wish there was a...
a year ago
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I wish there was a better default for database IDs by

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

a year ago
Every database ID scheme that I’ve used has had pretty serious downsides, and I wish there was a better option. The perfect ID would: Be friendly to distributed systems - multiple servers should be able to generate non-overlapping IDs at the same time. Even clients should be able...
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Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Gathering Feedback Although I've effectively stepped away from running Minimalissimo®, it's still a site I adore and...
a year ago
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Gathering Feedback

from Carl Barenbrug RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
Although I've effectively stepped away from running Minimalissimo®, it's still a site I adore and visit pretty much daily for a well-curated dose of minimal design. Manu is doing a sterling job in evolving it, which I'm 100% behind. He's looking to create support through a small...
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Making software...
A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble 2022-09-08 Everyday a new designer begins their journey...
over a year ago
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A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble

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

over a year ago
A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble 2022-09-08 Everyday a new designer begins their journey into the world of [insert design industry here] and it is magical! Having a fresh pair of eyes untainted from the current trends of the time can help improve design as a whole....
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Retail Design Blog
Day and Night Park by CATS In late 2022, the independent bookstore Jetlag Books, based in Beijing, approached us with a...
10 months ago
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Day and Night Park by CATS

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

10 months ago
In late 2022, the independent bookstore Jetlag Books, based in Beijing, approached us with a collaboration opportunity with the Swire...
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Ciitizen And The Patient Data Marketplace | Out-Of-Pocket The path to our personal health record
a year ago
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Ciitizen And The Patient Data Marketplace | Out-Of-Pocket

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a year ago
The path to our personal health record
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Retail Design Blog
Lubna restaurant by Q-BIC When Fondazione Prada was inaugurated almost a decade ago, it was evident that its glorious presence...
4 months ago
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Lubna restaurant by Q-BIC

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

4 months ago
When Fondazione Prada was inaugurated almost a decade ago, it was evident that its glorious presence – indeed, we’re referencing...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
You’re Only As Strong As Your Weakest Point In April 1945, as US soldiers overtook Merkers, Germany, stories began to surface to Army officials...
2 months ago
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You’re Only As Strong As Your Weakest Point

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

2 months ago
In April 1945, as US soldiers overtook Merkers, Germany, stories began to surface to Army officials of stolen Nazi riches stored in the local salt mine. Eventually, the Americans found the mine and began exploring it, ending up at a vaulted door. Here’s the story, as told by Greg...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'The Conception of Life As an Enchanted State' On summer mornings in the mid-nineteen-sixties, I would follow the path behind our house through a...
a month ago
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'The Conception of Life As an Enchanted State'

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

a month ago
On summer mornings in the mid-nineteen-sixties, I would follow the path behind our house through a growth of poplars and sassafras to the place where the white oaks and tulip trees took over. The path ended at the top of the hill where we went sledding in winter. Most mornings...
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The Elysian
Week 7: Boost your essays all over the internet
a year ago
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Week 7: Boost your essays all over the internet

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a year ago
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Size markets using narratives, not numbers Anyone who has pitched VCs knows they are obsessed with market size.  If you can’t make the case...
over a year ago
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Size markets using narratives, not numbers

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

over a year ago
Anyone who has pitched VCs knows they are obsessed with market size.  If you can’t make the case that you’re addressing a possible billion…
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Matt Mullenweg
State of the Word Tokyo It’s a dream come true being here in Tokyo for State of the Word 2024. We’re going to be in an...
6 months ago
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State of the Word Tokyo

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6 months ago
It’s a dream come true being here in Tokyo for State of the Word 2024. We’re going to be in an amazing venue that looks over the city. Most of WordPress and Automattic’s senior leadership is here, and we’ll also have several hundred folks from the local community and press. We’ve...
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Noahpinion
At least five interesting things: Nerdy economics edition (#54) The DBCFT; Construction productivity and regulation; Rationality and complexity; U.S. productivity...
7 months ago
54

At least five interesting things: Nerdy economics edition (#54)

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7 months ago
The DBCFT; Construction productivity and regulation; Rationality and complexity; U.S. productivity growth; Demand-side inflation; Health care monopsony and innovation
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Vitalik Buterin's...
On Nathan Schneider on the limits of cryptoeconomics
over a year ago
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On Nathan Schneider on the limits of cryptoeconomics

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

over a year ago
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Jorge Arango
Smarter AI Begins With Your Business’ Knowledge Pipeline A common question I’m hearing from leaders is “how can I best use AI in my business?” They expect...
2 months ago
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Smarter AI Begins With Your Business’ Knowledge Pipeline

from Jorge Arango [alt+shift+b] in technology

2 months ago
A common question I’m hearing from leaders is “how can I best use AI in my business?” They expect concrete, practical answers — not the platitudes and hype that dominate the media. It’s a fair question: businesses stand to gain significant advantages from judicious use of AI. But...
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Rest of World -...
The man leading Kenyan content moderators’ battle against Meta Nathan Nkunzimana claims Meta and Sama fired content moderators for protesting working conditions...
a year ago
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The man leading Kenyan content moderators’ battle against Meta

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a year ago
Nathan Nkunzimana claims Meta and Sama fired content moderators for protesting working conditions and demanding the right to unionize.
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Hixie's Natural Log
The Spectrum of Openness "Open Source" is a broad spectrum, with various axes. The following is an attempt to describe...
a year ago
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The Spectrum of Openness

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

a year ago
"Open Source" is a broad spectrum, with various axes. The following is an attempt to describe various ways to look at openness to aid project leaders in determining what they want their project to look like. I originally wrote this for my colleagues at Google, but the concepts...
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A Smart Bear
How startups beat incumbents A startup can beat a large, successful incumbent, if it does things the incumbent can not or will...
a year ago
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How startups beat incumbents

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a year ago
A startup can beat a large, successful incumbent, if it does things the incumbent can not or will not do. Here are those things.
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Flashbak
Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And... Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known...
a year ago
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And Maps

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a year ago
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
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Open Culture
Watch 950 Weather Reports Presented by David Lynch, Straight from His Los Angeles Home Los Angeles is hardly a city known for its varied weather, but if one lives there long enough, one...
5 months ago
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Watch 950 Weather Reports Presented by David Lynch, Straight from His Los Angeles Home

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5 months ago
Los Angeles is hardly a city known for its varied weather, but if one lives there long enough, one does become highly attuned to its many subtleties. (Granted, some of the local phenomena involved, like the notorious Santa Ana winds, can produce far-from-subtle effects.) The late...
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Artificial Ignorance
States are racing ahead of Congress to regulate deepfakes Several states just banned deepfakes in political ads and porn.
a year ago
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States are racing ahead of Congress to regulate deepfakes

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a year ago
Several states just banned deepfakes in political ads and porn.
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CONTEMPORIST
A New Extension Adds A Home Office And Bedroom To This Miami Bungalow Upstairs Studio Architecture has shared photos of a 900 sqft addition in South Miami, Florida, for...
11 months ago
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A New Extension Adds A Home Office And Bedroom To This Miami Bungalow

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11 months ago
Upstairs Studio Architecture has shared photos of a 900 sqft addition in South Miami, Florida, for owners who were looking for a little extra room in their traditional home, that was open to the outdoors, and allowed for a private primary bedroom and studio apart from the main...
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Calculated Risk
Poor Weather Reduced Employment Slightly in February The BLS reported 151 thousand non-farm jobs were added in February.   During the Winter months, I...
3 months ago
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Poor Weather Reduced Employment Slightly in February

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3 months ago
The BLS reported 151 thousand non-farm jobs were added in February.   During the Winter months, I like to look at the weather impact on the report. The BLS reported 404 thousand people were employed in non-agriculture industries, with a job, but not at work due to bad weather. ...
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Diaries of Note
I have drunk of the wine of life at last In 1907, fourteen years before she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, The Age of...
over a year ago
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I have drunk of the wine of life at last

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over a year ago
In 1907, fourteen years before she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton was introduced to Morton Fullerton, a journalist with whom she would embark on a passionate affair. It was months after that first encounter, in October, that she...
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Epic Web Dev
Authentication Strategies & Implementation (workshop) Learn best practices for managing user sessions, passwords, 2FA, email verification, OAuth, and more...
a year ago
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Authentication Strategies & Implementation (workshop)

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a year ago
Learn best practices for managing user sessions, passwords, 2FA, email verification, OAuth, and more in the Authentication Strategies & Implementation Workshop!
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Articles
Useful is forever
over a year ago
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Useful is forever

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The Marginalian
How to Be a Stone: Three Poems for Trusting Time If you want to befriend time — which is how you come to befriend life — turn to stone. Climb a...
a week ago
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How to Be a Stone: Three Poems for Trusting Time

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

a week ago
If you want to befriend time — which is how you come to befriend life — turn to stone. Climb a mountain and listen to the conversation between eons encoded in each stripe of rock. Walk a beach and comb your fingers through the golden dust that was once a mountain. Pick up a...
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Epic Web Dev
Testing Fundamentals (workshop)
a year ago
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Testing Fundamentals (workshop)

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Yale e360
A.I. Model Can Predict When Lightning Will Spark Wildfires Researchers have developed an AI model that can predict with 90 percent accuracy when and where...
3 months ago
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A.I. Model Can Predict When Lightning Will Spark Wildfires

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3 months ago
Researchers have developed an AI model that can predict with 90 percent accuracy when and where lightning will ignite wildfires. Read more on E360 →
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Calculated Risk
Wednesday: Durable Goods Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. mortgage...
3 months ago
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Wednesday: Durable Goods

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

3 months ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. mortgage purchase applications index. Durable Goods Orders for February from the Census Bureau. The consensus is for a 0.7% decrease in durable goods orders.
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Unfiltered by Tim...
Write a Newsletter for 52 Weeks in a Row, and Watch It Change Your Life The big new newsletter opportunity no one saw coming
4 months ago
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Write a Newsletter for 52 Weeks in a Row, and Watch It Change Your Life

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4 months ago
The big new newsletter opportunity no one saw coming
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox...
10 months ago
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica

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10 months ago
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
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Open Culture
How the Moving Image Has Become the Medium of Record: Part 1 Image via Wikimedia Commons How did we get to the point where we’ve come to believe so many lies...
3 months ago
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How the Moving Image Has Become the Medium of Record: Part 1

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3 months ago
Image via Wikimedia Commons How did we get to the point where we’ve come to believe so many lies that 77 million Americans voted into the White House a criminal reality TV star from NBC, one groomed by a reality TV producer from CBS, who then appointed his Cabinet from Fox and X...
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Seth's Blog
Jargon comes and goes Forty years ago in engineering class, it wasn’t unusual to talk about GIGO or FUBAR. These weren’t...
a year ago
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Jargon comes and goes

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

a year ago
Forty years ago in engineering class, it wasn’t unusual to talk about GIGO or FUBAR. These weren’t technical terms, they were mild complaints that signaled insider status and cultural cohesion. In a closed profession, like airplane pilots, the insider jargon lasts for...
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Calculated Risk
Friday: Existing Home Sales Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Existing Home...
4 months ago
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Friday: Existing Home Sales

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

4 months ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Existing Home Sales for January from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). The consensus is for 4.17 million SAAR, down from 4.24 million. University of Michigan's Consumer sentiment index...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Why I'm not a VC (yet) There is too much money chasing too few operators.
over a year ago
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Why I'm not a VC (yet)

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

over a year ago
There is too much money chasing too few operators.
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Machine Learning for...
ML for SWEs 1: Apple Pushing Their AI Back Isn't as Bad as You Think Machine learning for software engineers 3-7-25
3 months ago
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ML for SWEs 1: Apple Pushing Their AI Back Isn't as Bad as You Think

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3 months ago
Machine learning for software engineers 3-7-25
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Irrational...
How to create software quality. I’ve been reading Steven Sinofsky’s Hardcore Software, and particularly enjoyed this quote from a...
a year ago
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How to create software quality.

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
I’ve been reading Steven Sinofsky’s Hardcore Software, and particularly enjoyed this quote from a memo discussed in the Zero Defects chapter: You can improve the quality of your code, and if you do, the rewards for yourself and for Microsoft will be immense. The hardest part is...
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alexwlchan
Localising the `` with JavaScript I’ve been writing some internal dashboards recently, and one hard part is displaying timestamps. Our...
2 months ago
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Localising the `` with JavaScript

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 months ago
I’ve been writing some internal dashboards recently, and one hard part is displaying timestamps. Our server does everything in UTC, but the team is split across four different timezones, so the server timestamps aren’t always easy to read. For most people, it’s harder to...
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Society's Backend:...
Are LLMs the Future?, OpenAI's Model Spec, How AI Will Impact Law Firms, and More Important resources for 2-14-25
4 months ago
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Are LLMs the Future?, OpenAI's Model Spec, How AI Will Impact Law Firms, and More

from Society's Backend: Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

4 months ago
Important resources for 2-14-25
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Seth's Blog
Predicting the past It’s not unusual to encounter conflicting weather reports. One site says it’s going to rain, the...
3 months ago
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Predicting the past

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

3 months ago
It’s not unusual to encounter conflicting weather reports. One site says it’s going to rain, the other insists it won’t. On the other hand, you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. It’s sunny, right now, you can tell. A weather service that said it was...
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TheCollector
What Are the Seven Deadly Sins? The seven deadly sins are pride, envy, wrath, sloth, greed, gluttony, and lust. During early...
2 months ago
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What Are the Seven Deadly Sins?

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago
The seven deadly sins are pride, envy, wrath, sloth, greed, gluttony, and lust. During early Christianity, some Church Fathers identified them as deadly because they damage the believer’s relationship with God and usually lead to other sins. The idea of seven deadly sins has its...
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sbensu
Twitter's Sith and Jedi In Star Wars, hate gives the Sith power from the dark side of the Force beyond what the Jedi can...
a year ago
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Twitter's Sith and Jedi

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a year ago
In Star Wars, hate gives the Sith power from the dark side of the Force beyond what the Jedi can reach. But when they lean into hate, they lose their soul to it. Twitter offers the same bargain as the Force.
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Birchtree
On the new iPhone 16e Today Apple unveiled the iPhone 16e, which they're calling a part of the iPhone 16 lineup now,...
4 months ago
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On the new iPhone 16e

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

4 months ago
Today Apple unveiled the iPhone 16e, which they're calling a part of the iPhone 16 lineup now, rather than this odd duck the SE had been since launch. Honestly, I think this move in particular is interesting and maybe makes a ton of sense, but let's
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Scott Jenson
Thinking with your hands UX is less about technique and more about teamwork. Getting everyone to agree on a common goal is...
over a year ago
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Thinking with your hands

from Scott Jenson [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
UX is less about technique and more about teamwork. Getting everyone to agree on a common goal is where the real magic lives. But too often UX designers inadvertently sabotage that teamwork. Not intentionally, it’s just that, as a group, we UX designers have strong opinions that...
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High Signal
$200k from selling Google Sheets tutorials Andrew Kamphey is a creator who has made $200k from teaching people how to use Google Sheets over...
over a year ago
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$200k from selling Google Sheets tutorials

from High Signal [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago
Andrew Kamphey is a creator who has made $200k from teaching people how to use Google Sheets over the past three years. Think 'Miss Excel' but he's a beardy guy who doesn't dance in his videos. In this interview Andrew shares his marketing wins,
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Artificial Ignorance
A stroll through Google's Model Garden What generative AI capabilities does Google offer to developers?
a year ago
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A stroll through Google's Model Garden

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a year ago
What generative AI capabilities does Google offer to developers?
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GitButler
Git Merge 2024 Git Merge 2024 has wrapped and we all had a heck of a good time. Here's the overview.
9 months ago
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Git Merge 2024

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9 months ago
Git Merge 2024 has wrapped and we all had a heck of a good time. Here's the overview.
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detreville
The IBM 701 "IBM's first computer"
over a year ago
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The IBM 701

from detreville [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
"IBM's first computer"
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diamond geezer
Golden Square 45 45 Squared 23) GOLDEN SQUARE, W1 Borough of Westminster, 60m×60m central well-ish-known one for a...
2 days ago
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Golden Square

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

2 days ago
45 45 Squared 23) GOLDEN SQUARE, W1 Borough of Westminster, 60m×60m central well-ish-known one for a change. Golden Square is one of Soho's largest public spaces, mainly due to a lack of public spaces rather than being particularly large. It lies east of Regent Street and...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Seethe Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is why I went into online boner-jokes. Today's...
5 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Seethe

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5 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is why I went into online boner-jokes. Today's News:
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Raw Thought (from...
Look at yourself objectively
over a year ago
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Look at yourself objectively

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over a year ago
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Louwrentius
Speeding up Linux MDADM RAID array rebuild time using bitmaps Update 2020: Please beware of the impact of random write I/O performance. Please note that with a...
over a year ago
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Speeding up Linux MDADM RAID array rebuild time using bitmaps

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over a year ago
Update 2020: Please beware of the impact of random write I/O performance. Please note that with a modern Linux distribution, bitmaps are enabled by default. They will not help speed up a rebuild after a failed drive. But it will help resync an array that got out-of-sync due to...
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Mazdak
Minimize Taxes, Maximize Inheritance: A Canadian Guide to Estate Planning with Real Estate For Canadians nearing retirement, minimizing probate fees and ensuring smooth inheritance become key...
a year ago
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Minimize Taxes, Maximize Inheritance: A Canadian Guide to Estate Planning with Real Estate

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
For Canadians nearing retirement, minimizing probate fees and ensuring smooth inheritance become key concerns. In this context, real estate, often the largest asset, presents unique challenges and opportunities. While strategies like adding children to titles were once popular,...
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The Elysian
No one buys books Everything we learned about the publishing industry from Penguin vs. DOJ.
a year ago
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No one buys books

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a year ago
Everything we learned about the publishing industry from Penguin vs. DOJ.
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Transit Maps
Unofficial Map: High-Speed Rail of France, 2023 by Lars’ Transport Maps Well, this is just beautiful. Having made my own diagram on the same subject matter way, way back in...
a year ago
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Unofficial Map: High-Speed Rail of France, 2023 by Lars’ Transport Maps

from Transit Maps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

a year ago
Well, this is just beautiful. Having made my own diagram on the same subject matter way, way back in 2011, I think I’m qualified to say that this is a rousing success. The maps have some similarities – routes are colour-coded either by their Paris origin station or operator...
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Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians Prove Hawking Wrong About the Most Extreme Black Holes For decades, extremal black holes were considered mathematically impossible. A new proof reveals...
10 months ago
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Mathematicians Prove Hawking Wrong About the Most Extreme Black Holes

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

10 months ago
For decades, extremal black holes were considered mathematically impossible. A new proof reveals otherwise. The post Mathematicians Prove Hawking Wrong About the Most Extreme Black Holes first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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TheCollector
Agatha Christie: Discover the Woman Behind the Mystery Known as the “Queen of Crime,” Agatha Christie was a prolific novelist and playwright from England....
2 months ago
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Agatha Christie: Discover the Woman Behind the Mystery

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago
Known as the “Queen of Crime,” Agatha Christie was a prolific novelist and playwright from England. Some of her most-known works include books like And Then There Were None and Murder on the Orient Express. She invented beloved fictional detectives like the iconic Hercule Poirot...
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Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 10: Greek Drama Week 10 of the humanities crash course had me reading (and listening to) classic Greek plays. I also...
3 months ago
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Humanities Crash Course Week 10: Greek Drama

from Jorge Arango [alt+shift+b] in technology

3 months ago
Week 10 of the humanities crash course had me reading (and listening to) classic Greek plays. I also listened to the blues and watched a movie starring a venerable recently departed actor. How do they connect? Perhaps they don’t. Let’s find out. Readings The plan for this week...
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Calculated Risk
Realtor.com Reports Active Inventory Up 25.1% YoY What this means: On a weekly basis, Realtor.com reports the year-over-year change in active...
5 months ago
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Realtor.com Reports Active Inventory Up 25.1% YoY

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

5 months ago
What this means: On a weekly basis, Realtor.com reports the year-over-year change in active inventory and new listings. On a monthly basis, they report total inventory. For December, Realtor.com reported inventory was up 22.0% YoY, but still down 15.7% compared to the 2017 to...
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Strange Loop Canon
The Dream AI Hardware
a year ago
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The Dream AI Hardware

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a year ago
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Virtual reality: a new creative medium where the default state is belief The holy grail of virtual reality, the one that’s always been out of reach until now, is presence....
over a year ago
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Virtual reality: a new creative medium where the default state is belief

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

over a year ago
The holy grail of virtual reality, the one that’s always been out of reach until now, is presence. In the VR community, “presence” is a term…
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Classical Wisdom
Three New Year’s Resolutions from Epicurus An Epic Start to the New Year
6 months ago
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Three New Year’s Resolutions from Epicurus

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6 months ago
An Epic Start to the New Year
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Yale e360
Building a demo of the Bleichenbacher RSA attack in Rust Recently while reading Real-World Cryptography, I got nerd sniped1 by the mention of...
a year ago
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Building a demo of the Bleichenbacher RSA attack in Rust

from Yale e360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
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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abdz.do - Have you...
Exploring the Boundaries of 3D with Peter Tarka Exploring the Boundaries of 3D with Peter Tarka AoiroStudio0126—23 ...
over a year ago
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Exploring the Boundaries of 3D with Peter Tarka

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

over a year ago
Exploring the Boundaries of 3D with Peter Tarka AoiroStudio0126—23 Let me start by saying, there is only one 'Peter Tarka' and he has been inspiring us for years now. Peter Tarka is an Art Director and 3D artist based in London, UK, his series...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Go is 80/20 language Go is the most hated programming language. Compared to other languages, it provides 80% of utility...
a week ago
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Go is 80/20 language

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a week ago
Go is the most hated programming language. Compared to other languages, it provides 80% of utility with 20% of complexity. The hate comes from people who want 81% of utility, or 85% or 97%. As Rob Pike said, no one denies that 87% of utility provides more utility than 80%. The...
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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...
11 months ago
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ElevenLabs’ first Indian partnership banks on AI voice clones to make audio stories faster and cheaper

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

11 months ago
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.
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TokyoDev
Announcing the 2023 TokyoDev Developers Survey The 2023 edition of the TokyoDev Developer Survey [is now...
a year ago
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Announcing the 2023 TokyoDev Developers Survey

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a year ago
The 2023 edition of the TokyoDev Developer Survey [is now live](https://surveys.tokyodev.com/en-US/survey/tokyodev/2023)! If you’re a software developer living in Japan, please help us by taking it. [Last year’s survey](https://www.tokyodev.com/insights/2022-developer-survey)...
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BLDGBLOG
Numbers Pool [Image: “Solomon’s Pools & ancient aqueducts…,” via Library of Congress.] There’s a beautiful...
over a year ago
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Numbers Pool

from BLDGBLOG [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
[Image: “Solomon’s Pools & ancient aqueducts…,” via Library of Congress.] There’s a beautiful description over at New Scientist of a hypothetical new form of computing device, a “liquid crystal computer” in which calculations would move “like ripples through the liquid.”...
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Both Are True
my first acting role in LA was playing a hamster Also on set - Kevin Spacey, Sir Ben Kingsley, Mandy Patinkin, and Gary Oldman
a month ago
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my first acting role in LA was playing a hamster

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a month ago
Also on set - Kevin Spacey, Sir Ben Kingsley, Mandy Patinkin, and Gary Oldman
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
Hidden Weaknesses and Outsourced Risk The benefits of not asking for help (even when you desperately need it)
over a year ago
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Hidden Weaknesses and Outsourced Risk

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over a year ago
The benefits of not asking for help (even when you desperately need it)
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Zmowa
over a year ago
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Zmowa

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over a year ago
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Christopher Butler
A Pep Talk for those Who Work Bullshit Jobs How do you know if what you do is actually meaningful? do I work a bullshit job? Perhaps you...
over a year ago
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A Pep Talk for those Who Work Bullshit Jobs

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

over a year ago
How do you know if what you do is actually meaningful? do I work a bullshit job? Perhaps you have already answered this question for yourself and are satisfied with the answer. You may want to read on still. My purpose is not to convince you that your job is or isn’t...
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ribbonfarm
Ribbonfarm is Retiring After several years of keeping it going in semi-retired, keep-the-lights-on (KTLO) mode, I’ve...
8 months ago
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Ribbonfarm is Retiring

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8 months ago
After several years of keeping it going in semi-retired, keep-the-lights-on (KTLO) mode, I’ve decided to officially fully retire this blog. The ribbonfarm.com domain and all links will remain active, but there will be no new content after November 13th, 2024, which happens to be...
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Eric Bailey
Tech metaphors Tired of referencing the same yaks, sheds, and cars over and over again? Here’s a few new metaphors...
over a year ago
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Tech metaphors

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

over a year ago
Tired of referencing the same yaks, sheds, and cars over and over again? Here’s a few new metaphors to drop at your next sprint planning meeting: Winchester Mystery House A mansion in San Jose, California that was once occupied by Sarah Winchester, widow of the eponymous firearms...
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Ben Borgers
Welcome to TikTok
over a year ago
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Welcome to TikTok

from Ben Borgers [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago
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Irrational...
How to get better at strategy? One of the most memorable quotes in Arthur Miller’s The Death of a Salesman comes from Uncle Ben,...
2 months ago
20

How to get better at strategy?

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 months ago
One of the most memorable quotes in Arthur Miller’s The Death of a Salesman comes from Uncle Ben, who describes his path to becoming wealthy as, “When I was seventeen, I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich.” I wish I could...
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TheCollector
Who Are Jannes and Jambres in the Bible? When Paul mentioned Jannes and Jambres in 2 Timothy 3:8, his audience likely knew who these men...
3 months ago
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Who Are Jannes and Jambres in the Bible?

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
When Paul mentioned Jannes and Jambres in 2 Timothy 3:8, his audience likely knew who these men were, but readers today often do not. According to Jewish tradition, they were the magicians who opposed Moses when he called on Pharaoh to release the Israelites from slavery. On...
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Thu Le
50 things I learned in 2024 In 2024, I set a goal to document one interesting thing I learn each week, drawing insights from...
5 months ago
31

50 things I learned in 2024

from Thu Le [alt+shift+b] in life

5 months ago
In 2024, I set a goal to document one interesting thing I learn each week, drawing insights from books, conversations, and everyday life.
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Product Identity
Surf the browser A guest's identity
3 months ago
39

Surf the browser

from Product Identity [alt+shift+b] in design

3 months ago
A guest's identity
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Diaries of Note
The Boy Jones In his journal on 25th March 1841, banker and renowned dandy Thomas Raikes wrote of someone who for...
over a year ago
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The Boy Jones

from Diaries of Note [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
In his journal on 25th March 1841, banker and renowned dandy Thomas Raikes wrote of someone who for three years had been fascinating Londoners. Known to most as ‘The Boy Jones,’ Edward Jones was a teenager who had repeatedly managed to break into Buckingham Palace, and on three...
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Retail Design Blog
Design Infinity Offices by Design Infinity Design Infinity created a human-centric and sustainable design for their space in Dubai, displaying...
a year ago
41

Design Infinity Offices by Design Infinity

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

a year ago
Design Infinity created a human-centric and sustainable design for their space in Dubai, displaying the quality, timeliness, and customer satisfaction...
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Computer Ads from...
A Quick Note and Some Comics An apology and some entertainment
4 months ago
30

A Quick Note and Some Comics

from Computer Ads from the Past [alt+shift+b] in technology

4 months ago
An apology and some entertainment
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nanoscale views
How badly has NSF funding already been effectively cut? This NY Times feature lets you see how each piece of NSF's funding has been reduced this year...
a month ago
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How badly has NSF funding already been effectively cut?

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

a month ago
This NY Times feature lets you see how each piece of NSF's funding has been reduced this year relative to the normalized average spanning in the last decade.  Note: this fiscal year, thanks to the continuing resolution, the actual agency budget has not actually been cut like...
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The American Scholar
Luis Alvaro Sahagún Nuño Ancestral healing The post Luis Alvaro Sahagún Nuño appeared first on The American Scholar.
3 months ago
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Luis Alvaro Sahagún Nuño

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

3 months ago
Ancestral healing The post Luis Alvaro Sahagún Nuño appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Common Edge
It’s Hard for Architects to Be Transparent About Fees If the profession is to survive, however, we have no choice.
7 months ago
73

It’s Hard for Architects to Be Transparent About Fees

from Common Edge [alt+shift+b] in architecture

7 months ago
If the profession is to survive, however, we have no choice.
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Christopher Butler
object – A 20 Year-Old Sketchbook This sketchbook just turned twenty years old. I began keeping it in the final months of my...
over a year ago
65

object – A 20 Year-Old Sketchbook

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

over a year ago
This sketchbook just turned twenty years old. I began keeping it in the final months of my senior year at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). A few friends and I had managed to register for the same elective art history course that spring, and in anticipation of all...
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Seth's Blog
The bitterness loop Spoiled leads to bitter. A sense of entitlement is a trap, because bitterness demands more evidence...
9 months ago
37

The bitterness loop

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

9 months ago
Spoiled leads to bitter. A sense of entitlement is a trap, because bitterness demands more evidence and seeks to maintain dominance over the other emotions. When we’re busy looking for more reasons to be bitter, we’re not taking the time to do generative work, to connect and to...
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FIRE v London
August ’24: From triumph to tragedy Looking back on the month, it was more eventful than Augusts are reputed to be. In the UK we are...
9 months ago
101

August ’24: From triumph to tragedy

from FIRE v London [alt+shift+b] in finance

9 months ago
Looking back on the month, it was more eventful than Augusts are reputed to be. In the UK we are getting used to our new government. And, in some cases, violently testing its boundaries with some summer rioting. We’ve seen some dreadful street behaviour, frequently of a racist /...
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Articles
Fear of launch
over a year ago
6

Fear of launch

from Articles [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
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Londonist
Festival of Railway Modelling Returns To Alexandra Palace Hundreds of mini trains steam into town.
a year ago
66

Festival of Railway Modelling Returns To Alexandra Palace

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
Hundreds of mini trains steam into town.
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Classical Wisdom
Nature in Greek Myth Magical and Medicinal
a year ago
27

Nature in Greek Myth

from Classical Wisdom [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
Magical and Medicinal
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Londonist
The Notable Benches Of London 64 unusual benches in one graphic (you might want to sit down).
a year ago
36

The Notable Benches Of London

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
64 unusual benches in one graphic (you might want to sit down).
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Commoncog
The Story of Samsung How Samsung became the largest chaebol in South Korea, and gained so much power over the country’s...
4 months ago
37

The Story of Samsung

from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance

4 months ago
How Samsung became the largest chaebol in South Korea, and gained so much power over the country’s economy.
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Mazdak
5 best investments during high interest rates Interest rates are rising, and that means it's time to rethink your investment strategy. When...
a year ago
39

5 best investments during high interest rates

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
Interest rates are rising, and that means it's time to rethink your investment strategy. When interest rates rise, the value of existing bonds declines, and stocks can become more volatile. However, there are still a number of investments that can perform well in a high interest...
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mtlynch.io
Chaos Monkeys by Antonio García Martínez An insider’s story about Facebook in the years leading up to its IPO. It’s surprisingly candid — it...
over a year ago
56

Chaos Monkeys by Antonio García Martínez

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

over a year ago
An insider’s story about Facebook in the years leading up to its IPO. It’s surprisingly candid — it names names and exposes internal Facebook discussions that were never meant to be public. An engaging read, but the narrator is painfully obnoxious.
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Wuthering...
Reading The Peony Pavilion with the teens in The Story of the Stone - That garden is a vast and... The teens living in the garden in the YA romantasy The Story of the Stone spend a lot of time...
5 months ago
41

Reading The Peony Pavilion with the teens in The Story of the Stone - That garden is a vast and lonely place

from Wuthering Expectations [alt+shift+b] in literature

5 months ago
The teens living in the garden in the YA romantasy The Story of the Stone spend a lot of time reading forbidden books, much older YA romantasys.  These books are all famous classical Chinese plays.  Cao Xueqin gives a couple of chapters early on to their reading, including a list...
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African History...
The role of firearms in African military history, and the guns of the Benin kingdom. "The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
8 months ago
50

The role of firearms in African military history, and the guns of the Benin kingdom.

from African History Extra [alt+shift+b] in history

8 months ago
"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Don’t shop your term sheet There are all sorts of protocols in the VC world. Most of them make sense upon further examination,...
over a year ago
29

Don’t shop your term sheet

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

over a year ago
There are all sorts of protocols in the VC world. Most of them make sense upon further examination, but if you’re a first time entrepreneur…
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Herbert Lui
Clocks Centuries ago, clocks were advanced technology. To the members of the Qing dynasty that ruled China...
6 months ago
37

Clocks

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

6 months ago
Centuries ago, clocks were advanced technology. To the members of the Qing dynasty that ruled China from the Forbidden City in Beijing, clocks did more than just tell time and help them organize their day. These very rare, well-decorated, ornate, devices represented status and...
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Asterisk
The Myth of the Loneliness Epidemic Are we really living through a uniquely lonely moment in American history? When it comes to...
8 months ago
32

The Myth of the Loneliness Epidemic

from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science

8 months ago
Are we really living through a uniquely lonely moment in American history? When it comes to friendship, this isn’t the first time that authorities have cried wolf.
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Citation Needed
AI isn't useless. But is it worth it? AI can be kind of useful, but I'm not sure that a "kind of useful" tool justifies the harm.
a year ago
112

AI isn't useless. But is it worth it?

from Citation Needed [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
AI can be kind of useful, but I'm not sure that a "kind of useful" tool justifies the harm.
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Rest of World -...
Foxconn’s iPhone factory is fueling a real estate boom in a small Indian farming town The $2.5 billion “Project Elephant” will be the company’s second-largest factory outside China and...
2 months ago
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Foxconn’s iPhone factory is fueling a real estate boom in a small Indian farming town

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

2 months ago
The $2.5 billion “Project Elephant” will be the company’s second-largest factory outside China and create 40,000 jobs.
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Citation Needed
Issue 53 – Choose rich Euphoria has risen along with crypto prices, but nothing has changed from the last bubble.
a year ago
102

Issue 53 – Choose rich

from Citation Needed [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
Euphoria has risen along with crypto prices, but nothing has changed from the last bubble.
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Tony Finch's blog
Popcorn Another recent food obsession! I think the instigation was a YouTube food video which led me to...
a year ago
55

Popcorn

from Tony Finch's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Another recent food obsession! I think the instigation was a YouTube food video which led me to try making popcorn at home from scratch with Nico. It was enormous fun! And several weeks later it’s still really entertaining to make (especially when a stray kernel pops after I take...
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Old Structures...
A Simple Drawing For A Difficult Structure – Part 1 Continuing from yesterday’s dive, we have an 1870 drawing by Washington Roebling showing the...
a year ago
19

A Simple Drawing For A Difficult Structure – Part 1

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

a year ago
Continuing from yesterday’s dive, we have an 1870 drawing by Washington Roebling showing the relationship of the Brooklyn tower of the Brooklyn Bridge to the caisson that serves as its foundation. There’s a lot going on in this line drawing and it’s worth the time to describe it...
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Nat Eliason's...
10 Things I Learned Losing 10 Million Dollars How to Stay Sane in a Mania
a year ago
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10 Things I Learned Losing 10 Million Dollars

from Nat Eliason's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
How to Stay Sane in a Mania
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abdz.do - Have you...
Delicious brand identity and packaging design for chocolate co. Delicious brand identity and packaging design for chocolate co. ...
over a year ago
92

Delicious brand identity and packaging design for chocolate co.

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

over a year ago
Delicious brand identity and packaging design for chocolate co. abduzeedo0503—23 Beta, a leading design agency, has recently undertaken a packaging design project for Morella Chocolates, a brand that prides itself on offering healthy products...
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Seth's Blog
Calendars are a choice Humans are unique. We give names to the days of the week (we even have weeks). We eat something...
6 months ago
49

Calendars are a choice

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

6 months ago
Humans are unique. We give names to the days of the week (we even have weeks). We eat something different for breakfast than dinner. We chronicle the passage of time. In fact, our chronicling of time is what makes it noticeable. Coordination can only happen when we’re in sync...
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Classical Wisdom
Weekly Wisdom Quiz Cleopatra, Alexander, Socrates
2 months ago
10

Weekly Wisdom Quiz

from Classical Wisdom [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago
Cleopatra, Alexander, Socrates
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Julia Evans
The "current branch" in git Hello! I know I just wrote a blog post about HEAD in git, but I’ve been thinking more about what the...
a year ago
59

The "current branch" in git

from Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Hello! I know I just wrote a blog post about HEAD in git, but I’ve been thinking more about what the term “current branch” means in git and it’s a little weirder than I thought. four possible definitions for “current branch” It’s what’s in the file .git/HEAD. This is how the git...
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mtlynch.io
The Dumbest Task I Ever Outsourced I derive immense satisfaction from outsourcing my chores. All of my friends have heard me encourage...
over a year ago
71

The Dumbest Task I Ever Outsourced

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

over a year ago
I derive immense satisfaction from outsourcing my chores. All of my friends have heard me encourage them to place a higher value on their free time and delegate their errands. Few of them heed my advice, and it’s probably because they know about the time I paid someone $96 to...
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Ben Borgers
elk.sh
over a year ago
12

elk.sh

from Ben Borgers [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago
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Rest of World -...
ShopeeFood underestimates delivery distances. Gig workers in Vietnam are paying the price Rest of World reviewed nearly 50 orders on Vietnam’s second most popular food delivery app, and in...
a year ago
69

ShopeeFood underestimates delivery distances. Gig workers in Vietnam are paying the price

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

a year ago
Rest of World reviewed nearly 50 orders on Vietnam’s second most popular food delivery app, and in most cases, the distance was estimated lower than Google Maps’ estimate.
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Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#41) Soviet America (or not); the energy revolution; Trump's tax cuts; the Build-Nothing Country; macro...
a year ago
69

At least five interesting things for your weekend (#41)

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
Soviet America (or not); the energy revolution; Trump's tax cuts; the Build-Nothing Country; macro data mysteries
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Wuthering...
The sophists and their rehabilitation - they clearly cause the ruin and corruption of their... I have been pursuing the sophists, the great antagonists of Socrates and Plato.  Minimized for...
over a year ago
52

The sophists and their rehabilitation - they clearly cause the ruin and corruption of their followers

from Wuthering Expectations [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago
I have been pursuing the sophists, the great antagonists of Socrates and Plato.  Minimized for centuries in the history of philosophy as, following Plato (but not Socrates), hucksters, they, or some of them, are now taken seriously as an intermediate step between the cosmological...
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Asterisk
From Warp Speed to 100 Days During the COVID pandemic, we learned to design vaccines within weeks. Now, the bottleneck is...
a year ago
18

From Warp Speed to 100 Days

from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
During the COVID pandemic, we learned to design vaccines within weeks. Now, the bottleneck is testing that they work. To get even faster, we need innovations in clinical trial design.
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the singularity is...
A Way Forward “For example, if one believes that affirmative action is good for black people, does it make sense...
2 months ago
25

A Way Forward

from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 months ago
“For example, if one believes that affirmative action is good for black people, does it make sense to demand affirmative action in hostile or dogmatic terms? Obviously it would be more productive to take a diplomatic and conciliatory approach that would make at least verbal and...
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Dan Slimmon
Leading incidents when you’re junior If you’re a junior engineer at a software company, you might be required to be on call for the...
a year ago
106

Leading incidents when you’re junior

from Dan Slimmon [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
If you’re a junior engineer at a software company, you might be required to be on call for the systems your team owns. Which means you’ll eventually be called upon to lead an incident response. And since incidents don’t care what your org chart looks like, fate may place you in...
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Seth's Blog
More vs. better If every building in the shopping district in a big city was owned by one landlord, rents would go...
a year ago
24

More vs. better

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

a year ago
If every building in the shopping district in a big city was owned by one landlord, rents would go up. So would the prices of everything sold. The landlord would keep a significant percentage of each store’s profits and innovation would suffer as well. Google’s monopoly is real....
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The American Scholar
Cats and Dogs The post Cats and Dogs appeared first on The American Scholar.
6 months ago
46

Cats and Dogs

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6 months ago
The post Cats and Dogs appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Marc Astbury
Osaka Team Retreat Recap We just wrapped up our offsite in Osaka, the first time we’ve held a retreat in a location where...
2 months ago
12

Osaka Team Retreat Recap

from Marc Astbury [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 months ago
We just wrapped up our offsite in Osaka, the first time we’ve held a retreat in a location where nobody on the team is a local. With our team now at ~10 people, gone are the days of just a handful of us meeting up and figuring out what to do on the fly. Ensuring […] The post...
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Yale e360
Using git mailmap when names change (or you mess up your email) People change their names for all sorts of reasons. They get married, they transition, or they just...
over a year ago
31

Using git mailmap when names change (or you mess up your email)

from Yale e360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
People change their names for all sorts of reasons. They get married, they transition, or they just decide a different name better suits them. When this happens, things break. Recently I talked about how email address changes break things. Today it's how to fix this issue with...
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The Convivial...
From Common Sense to Bespoke Realities The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 12
over a year ago
50

From Common Sense to Bespoke Realities

from The Convivial Society [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 12
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Matt Blewitt
Service Objects in Rails Let’s kick off 2016 with a whistle-stop tour of one of my favourite OO approaches, Service Objects,...
over a year ago
15

Service Objects in Rails

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

over a year ago
Let’s kick off 2016 with a whistle-stop tour of one of my favourite OO approaches, Service Objects, in the context of Rails.
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mtlynch.io
Editing and Sharing Home Videos with MediaGoblin Goal This tutorial shows you how to edit digitized video captures into smaller clips that you can...
over a year ago
77

Editing and Sharing Home Videos with MediaGoblin

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

over a year ago
Goal This tutorial shows you how to edit digitized video captures into smaller clips that you can publish on your own password-protected MediaGoblin server. You’ll use a free Heroku dyno, so your only ongoing cost for running this private media server is the cost of storage on...
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MMapped blog
The numeric tower fiasco
a year ago
22

The numeric tower fiasco

from MMapped blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
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Never Met a Science
The Whirlpool of the Artificial There are many processes now subsumed under the term “Artificial Intelligence.” The reason we’re...
8 months ago
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The Whirlpool of the Artificial

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8 months ago
There are many processes now subsumed under the term “Artificial Intelligence.” The reason we’re talking about it now, though, is that the websites are doing things we never thought websites could do.
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Open Culture
The Brilliant Engineering That Made Venice: How a City Was Built on Water Many of us have put off a visit to Venice for fear of the hordes of tourists who roam its streets...
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The Brilliant Engineering That Made Venice: How a City Was Built on Water

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11 months ago
Many of us have put off a visit to Venice for fear of the hordes of tourists who roam its streets and boat down its canals day in and day out. To judge by the most visible of its economic activity, the once-mighty city-state now exists almost solely as an Instagramming...
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Stories by Andrej...
ICLR 2017 vs arxiv-sanity
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ICLR 2017 vs arxiv-sanity

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The Elysian
US states should have autonomy—like EU countries All we need to change is taxation.
3 months ago
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US states should have autonomy—like EU countries

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3 months ago
All we need to change is taxation.
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Common Edge
After the Ashes in LA: “The Future Is Right in Front of You” Rebuilding doesn’t have to mean sterile development. Just look at the innovative and resilient ways...
2 months ago
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After the Ashes in LA: “The Future Is Right in Front of You”

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2 months ago
Rebuilding doesn’t have to mean sterile development. Just look at the innovative and resilient ways people are already doing it.
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Daniel Miessler
Napkin Ideas Around What Changes to Expect Post-ChatGPT Work Replacement Talent Magnification Solopreneuers AI Specialists Idea Dominance Use Cases Random...
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Napkin Ideas Around What Changes to Expect Post-ChatGPT

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over a year ago
Work Replacement Talent Magnification Solopreneuers AI Specialists Idea Dominance Use Cases Random Thoughts If you’re reading this you already know the internet is on fire over the new  GPTChatBot from OpenAI. There are people using it to create full virtual machines, to be their...
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
Why is the Boston Marathon So Slow? The perception is that the Boston Marathon is a fast race. True, the winners always post blazing...
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Why is the Boston Marathon So Slow?

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

over a year ago
The perception is that the Boston Marathon is a fast race. True, the winners always post blazing fast times, but what about everyone else? It might surprise you to learn that that the majority of Boston participants perform far below their capabilities.
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