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Trying to Understand...
No Left Turn Workers and Peasants we are not.
4 months ago
Electronics etc…
The HP 423A and a Beginner’s Deep Dive into RF Crystal Detectors MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [...
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MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [ ['$', '$'], ["\\(", "\\)"] ], displayMath: [ ['$$', '$$'], ["\\[", "\\]"] ], processEscapes: true, skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre',...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #205 Books I read in Q2, Buffett's estate plan, The magic of compounding, How to read a book, Portfolio...
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Books I read in Q2, Buffett's estate plan, The magic of compounding, How to read a book, Portfolio rebalancing, Ben Graham in 1955, Sam Walton, LBJ, Robert Moses, The origins of language
Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language See you again soon
a year ago
HTMHell
#9 Cookie Consent from Hell Bad code <body> <header>…</header> <main>…</main> <footer>…</footer> <div...
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Bad code <body> <header>…</header> <main>…</main> <footer>…</footer> <div class="cookie_consent modal"> <p>We use cookies…</p> <div class="cookie_consent__close"> <i class="fa fa-times"></i> </div> <div class="cookie_consent__ok">OK</div> ...
Transit Maps
Book Review: “Iconic Transit Maps” by Mark Ovenden, 2024 After 2003’s Metro Maps of the World and 2015’s Transit Maps of the World (our review here), this is...
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After 2003’s Metro Maps of the World and 2015’s Transit Maps of the World (our review here), this is Mark Ovenden’s third offering on the subject of global transit maps and diagrams. The question to be asked, then, is simply – is a new book on the same subject worth it? In a...
The Map is Mostly...
Audiobooks Are Books and They’re Also Practice Speak low if you speak love. — Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing I’m very fond of audiobooks....
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Speak low if you speak love. — Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing I’m very fond of audiobooks. There is something endearing, maybe even romantic, about the act of listening. I get this same sense often in early photographs of radio listeners, that they appreciate the romance of...
Louwrentius
Achieving 2.3 GB/s with 16 x 4 TB drives I'm in the process of building a new storage server to replace my 18 TB NAS. The server is almost...
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over a year ago
I'm in the process of building a new storage server to replace my 18 TB NAS. The server is almost finished, it's now down to adding disk drives. I'm using the HGST 4 TB 7200 RPM drive for this build (SKU 0S03356) (review). I have not bought all drives at once, but slowly adding...
Open Culture
Stanley Kubrick’s Annotated Copy of Stephen King’s The Shining The web site Overlook Hotel has posted pictures of Stanley Kubrick’s personal copy of Stephen King’s...
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The web site Overlook Hotel has posted pictures of Stanley Kubrick’s personal copy of Stephen King’s novel The Shining. The book is filled with highlighted passages and largely illegible notes in the margin—tantalizing clues to Kubrick’s intentions for the movie. The site...
wingolog
whippet progress update: feature-complete! Greetings, gentle readers. Today, an update on recent progress in the embeddable...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Greetings, gentle readers. Today, an update on recent progress in the embeddable garbage collection library.Whippet When I started working on Whippet, two and a half years ago already, I was aiming to make a new garbage collector for . In the beginning I was just focussing on...
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Reclaiming the City, Reclaiming Words: Póli Gynaikón – City of Women Contributed by Maria Paganopoulou Photo: Maria Paganopoulou. Delfys Feminist Archive,...
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Contributed by Maria Paganopoulou Photo: Maria Paganopoulou. Delfys Feminist Archive, Athens. License: All Rights Reserved. Covers of the magazine Póli Ginaikón Marsha Rowe, editor of the groundbreaking feminist magazine Spare Rib, famously recalled: “Suddenly, words...
Common Edge
What Happened to New York City Public Housing, and How Can We Fix It? The former chief architect for NYCHA on what ails the the system.
8 months ago
Writing - Andreas...
Why I don’t give investment advice When people ask for advice on personal investing, I’ve found they are either looking for...
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a year ago
When people ask for advice on personal investing, I’ve found they are either looking for confirmation that what they do is great (it’s usually not) or some sort of secret sauce for outperforming the market (which doesn’t exist). So people are inevitably disappointed by the...
Aaron's Essays
When to Shut Down Your Company I originally wrote this essay four years ago and published it over at YC's blog at the time. A...
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over a year ago
I originally wrote this essay four years ago and published it over at YC's blog at the time. A number of recent conversations I've had with founders made me realize that the framework below remains useful. As the market continues through its downswing, more founders will face...
Steve Klabnik
Narratives
over a year ago
davidyat.es
Review: Bezos
3 months ago
TheCollector
4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know undefined
a year ago
Internal Tech Emails
Google and AI | Elon Musk on Tesla comp Such a deep ML system could well be developed outside of Google-- at Microsoft, Baidu, Yandex,...
10 months ago
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Such a deep ML system could well be developed outside of Google-- at Microsoft, Baidu, Yandex, Amazon, Apple, or even a startup.
Tinloof - Blog
Figma for developers: all you need to know If you're a frontend developer, you are probably spending as much time on VS Code as on Figma. This...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you're a frontend developer, you are probably spending as much time on VS Code as on Figma. This quick read highlights some of the goodies that I personally use to speed up my workflow. A word of caution
Wuthering...
Notes on Aristotle's Poetics - What are the conditions on which the tragic effect depends? Aristotle did not invent literary criticism with Poetics(late 4th c. BCE, maybe) – we just read The...
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Aristotle did not invent literary criticism with Poetics(late 4th c. BCE, maybe) – we just read The Frogs – but for centuries it was the base of Western literary criticism, not a source of insight but rather a set of rules.  The Unities, the Tragic Flaw, catharsis, the ranking of...
Common Edge
When Is Architectural Symbolism Hypocrisy? Like or loathe it, symbolism over substance has a long tradition.
7 months ago
Diaries of Note
Dear diary, I don’t want to die Éva Heyman spent much of her brief life in the company of her grandparents following the divorce of...
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Éva Heyman spent much of her brief life in the company of her grandparents following the divorce of her parents when she was a young child. On her thirteenth birthday, in February of 1944, as her home country of Hungary was taken over by the Nazis, she began a diary that would...
This Space
A modern heretic Literature can be defined by the sense of the imminence of a revelation which does not in fact...
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over a year ago
Literature can be defined by the sense of the imminence of a revelation which does not in fact occur. I used this line, apparently from Borges, as an epigram to an essay in the early days of online writing. I can't remember what book it came from and after searching I found a...
Artificial Ignorance
I fell for a deepfake Elon Musk’s cryptocurrency scam bait A lesson in deepfakes, Ponzi schemes, and YouTube algorithm manipulation.
6 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important? undefined
5 months ago
Koos Looijesteijn -...
The Climate Game — Can you reach net zero? I lost my position as global minister for future generations because I spent my effort points to...
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over a year ago
I lost my position as global minister for future generations because I spent my effort points to fast to reach net zero.
General Robots
Nailing the Demo So You Want to Do Robots: Part 9.   If you work with robots at some point you are going to have to...
a year ago
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a year ago
So You Want to Do Robots: Part 9.   If you work with robots at some point you are going to have to do a demo for an Important Person. This could be a VC, a potential customer, an executive or a journalist
Anecdotal Evidence
'Shaping Tombs in Words' At KaboomBooks a man about my age was standing in front of the “S” shelves in fiction. I routinely...
a year ago
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a year ago
At KaboomBooks a man about my age was standing in front of the “S” shelves in fiction. I routinely stop there hoping to find hardback copies of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s novels to replace my disintegrating paperbacks. On a nearby step-ladder I noticed a stack of such Singer titles...
TheCollector
5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained undefined
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
How Many Flights Get Canceled On Average Each Day?
a year ago
The Works in...
The San Diego infinite housing glitch How a bonus ADU program allows 'granny towers' in gardens
2 months ago
Oxide Computer...
Moore's Scofflaws Years ago, Jeff Bezos famously quipped that "your margin is my opportunity." This was of course...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Years ago, Jeff Bezos famously quipped that "your margin is my opportunity." This was of course aimed not at Amazon’s customers, but rather its competitors, and it was deadly serious: customers of AWS in those bygone years will fondly remember that every re:Invent brought with it...
Open Culture
Download 1,000+ Digitized Tapes of Sounds from Classic Hollywood Films & TV, Courtesy of the... Watch enough classic movies — especially classic movies from slightly downmarket studios — and...
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Watch enough classic movies — especially classic movies from slightly downmarket studios — and you’ll swear you’ve been hearing the very same sound effects over and over again. That’s because you have been hearing the very same sound effects over and over again: once recorded or...
TheCollector
How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country undefined
a month ago
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 28 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
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New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs six other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
Map of the Week
MapFailbruary Challenge Days 1-14 Those of you who follow me on my Twitter and Mastodon feeds know that I spent February doing yet...
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a year ago
Those of you who follow me on my Twitter and Mastodon feeds know that I spent February doing yet another map challenge. Like November’s 30 Day Map Challenge, only this one encourages you to fail. The #mapfail hashtag is popular and somewhat contentious among cartographers....
Irrational...
Executive
5 months ago
The Modern House
How two lifelong friends built a space-savvy home to share on an awkward site in Homerton
a year ago
diamond geezer
The Vyne NATIONAL TRUST: The Vyne Location: Sherborne St John, Basingstoke, RG24 9HL [map] Open: 10am-5pm...
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NATIONAL TRUST: The Vyne Location: Sherborne St John, Basingstoke, RG24 9HL [map] Open: 10am-5pm (House open 11am-3pm) Admission: £15.00 Website: nationaltrust.org.uk/hampshire/the-vyne Four word summary: slimmed-down Tudor pile Time to allow: a couple of hours The Vyne to show...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 060: Another CEO gone March 29, 2024.
8 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'As Sensitive As Anyone Else' “In common with James Jones, Gina Berriault knows that ill-educated or inarticulate people are as...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
“In common with James Jones, Gina Berriault knows that ill-educated or inarticulate people are as sensitive as anyone else. She renders their speech with a fine and subtle ear for the shy or strident inaccuracies, for the bewilderment of missed points and for the dim, sad rhythms...
Classical Wisdom
Events Listing Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The importance of institutional redundancy Every system built by a single institution has points of failure that can bring the entire system...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Every system built by a single institution has points of failure that can bring the entire system down.  Even in organizations that have…
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Six Another year as a founder CTO, and let me tell you, it’s been one for the books. I can’t remember a...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Another year as a founder CTO, and let me tell you, it’s been one for the books. I can’t remember a time in my life that was more demanding and emotionally draining. Those early years were filled with hard work, but we were also full of energy, ambition to build, and the sense...
Noahpinion
New technologies, new totalitarians Thanks to smartphones, social media, and globalization, liberalism faces a new and terrifying kind...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Thanks to smartphones, social media, and globalization, liberalism faces a new and terrifying kind of opponent.
Out-of-Pocket Blog
How To Make Your Own Card Game | Out-Of-Pocket Want to bring a board or card game to life? Here's what you can expect in terms of costs and money...
a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back Tactile controls are back in vogue. Apple added two new buttons to the iPhone 16, home appliances...
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Tactile controls are back in vogue. Apple added two new buttons to the iPhone 16, home appliances like stoves and washing machines are returning to knobs, and several car manufacturers are reintroducing buttons and dials to dashboards and steering wheels. With this...
Global Inequality...
Would Lenin have approved of the IMF? An indispensable organization
a month ago
Maps Mania
Weather or Not
7 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Happiness Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Why do people keep choosing autonomy over animal...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Why do people keep choosing autonomy over animal pleasure in movies?! It makes no sense! Today's News:
Nat Eliason's...
My Masterclass on Better Storytelling 2 Years in 2 Hours
5 months ago
Jason Crawford
Reflections on six months of fatherhood To be fed from a spoon requires three distinct skills. First, you must open your mouth when the...
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To be fed from a spoon requires three distinct skills. First, you must open your mouth when the spoon approaches. Second, you must close your mouth around the spoon once it has fully entered the mouth (and not before). Third, you must swallow the food that remains in your mouth...
TheCollector
4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon undefined
2 months ago
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Windows 3 Windows becomes competitive
a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
on seeing my self as a canvas I am not sure why, but I don’t have much interest in life. I have been this way for as long as I can...
a year ago
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I am not sure why, but I don’t have much interest in life. I have been this way for as long as I can remember, though I am not sure if my...
The Marginalian
Fox and Bear: A Tender Modern Fable About Reversing the Anthropocene, Illustrated in Cut-Cardboard... An antidote to the civilizational compulsions that rob human nature of nature.
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The default state of a startup is failure If you are starting a company and wondering why nothing good seems to happen unless you force it to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you are starting a company and wondering why nothing good seems to happen unless you force it to happen, that’s because the world wants…
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Best Things to Do in Abu Dhabi
a year ago
The American Scholar
“Daybreak in Alabama” by Langston Hughes Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Daybreak in Alabama” by Langston Hughes appeared first on...
5 months ago
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Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Daybreak in Alabama” by Langston Hughes appeared first on The American Scholar.
The Modern House
Surman Weston’s light-led creation of a family home in south London
9 months ago
Making software...
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME 2023-11-02 The dwm window manager is my standard "go-to" for most of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME 2023-11-02 The dwm window manager is my standard "go-to" for most of my personal laptop environments. For desktops with larger, higher resolution monitors I tend to lean towards using GNOME. The GNOME DE is fairly solid for my own purposes. This...
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Know Ourselves? The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
3 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
A new 'Privacy Shield' won't solve big tech's GDPR problem Ten years ago today, the European Commission published the first draft of the General Data...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ten years ago today, the European Commission published the first draft of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). But, as the recent ruling in…
AFAR Media - Travel...
President Biden Creates Emmett Till National Monument
a year ago
Diaries of Note
I must learn to think Isabelle Eberhardt was an explorer and writer whose brief but extraordinary life was marked by...
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a year ago
Isabelle Eberhardt was an explorer and writer whose brief but extraordinary life was marked by curiosity and defiance. Born in Geneva in 1877 to an anarchist father and a mother of Russian descent, it was in 1897 that she finally visited North Africa, a place she had longed to...
Society's Backend
The Problem with American Emergency Alerts In a world of self-driving cars and human-like chatbots, shouldn't the best technologies would be...
a year ago
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a year ago
In a world of self-driving cars and human-like chatbots, shouldn't the best technologies would be used for life-saving applications?
James Vaughan's blog
Putting the Casio F-91W band on an Apple Watch
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
I'm moving my projects off GitHub It's time for me to leave GitHub behind and move to another forge. I'm not necessarily advocating...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It's time for me to leave GitHub behind and move to another forge. I'm not necessarily advocating for anyone else to do the same, but if my reasons resonate with you then you may want to consider it. I also don't expect this post to... matter, if that makes sense1. I'm not a...
TokyoDev
Announcing the 2023 TokyoDev Developers Survey The 2023 edition of the TokyoDev Developer Survey [is now...
a year ago
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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)...
The Marginalian
Anne Morrow Lindbergh on Embracing Change in Relationships and the Key Pattern for Nourishing Love "All living relationships are in process of change, of expansion, and must perpetually be building...
10 months ago
Epic Web Dev
What Is A Test Boundary? (article) Learn automated testing essentials: prepare code, execute actions, verify outcomes. Discover the...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Learn automated testing essentials: prepare code, execute actions, verify outcomes. Discover the importance of mocking and setting proper test boundaries.
The Modern House
Five things to do and see this April The clocks have sprung forward and the spring chicks are chirping: yes, April has arrived. But it’s...
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a year ago
The clocks have sprung forward and the spring chicks are chirping: yes, April has arrived. But it’s not only those longer, lighter evenings luring us out of the house; this month’s brilliant list of cultural and culinary must-dos and -sees is equally tempting – even […]
Seth's Blog
The unwarranted smile When we do something nice for someone, a ‘thank you’ and a smile is nice to receive. And, in many...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
When we do something nice for someone, a ‘thank you’ and a smile is nice to receive. And, in many parts of human culture, it’s a bit expected. But when something goes wrong, if we drop a plate or miss a turn or make someone late, it’s particularly delightful and memorable if we...
Data Boutique
How Data Boutique Works Making Web Data Purchases Easy
a year ago
The Forney Flyer
I'm Still Here Wow, it's been nothing but crickets chirping here on my blog for quite a while, but I'm still here!...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Wow, it's been nothing but crickets chirping here on my blog for quite a while, but I'm still here! Those long periods of silence on my blog are indicative of how super busy it's been here. The summer was a blur, and it hasn't slowed down since.
Construction Physics
How did solar power get cheap part II (note: all quotes are from Nemet’s How Solar Energy Became Cheap unless otherwise noted.) Welcome to...
a year ago
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a year ago
(note: all quotes are from Nemet’s How Solar Energy Became Cheap unless otherwise noted.) Welcome to Part II of “How did Solar Power Get Cheap?” To recap Part I, the modern solar photovoltaic (PV) cell was invented at Bell Labs in 1954. Early markets were almost entirely...
Tony Dinh's...
Nov 2024: My first million! $1M in annual revenue, B2B sales, SOC 2, resellers, grow team, and other updates in November 2024.
a month ago
Steve Klabnik
The CXX Debate
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
AI is making Philippine call center work more efficient, for better and worse BPO workers say AI tools are monitoring their calls, assisting them with customers, and scoring...
3 weeks ago
Ryan Mulligan
Center Items in First Row with CSS Grid Imagine the following section on a website: A collection of elements, like a series of cards with...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Imagine the following section on a website: A collection of elements, like a series of cards with marketing information, are presented in a grid display. The elements are arranged in rows of three. When there are an odd number of elements left over, they will be center-aligned...
Artificial Ignorance
YC is now 80% AI startups (S24) Analyzing the latest companies out of "AI Combinator"
2 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work? undefined
11 months ago
The Rational Walk
GEICO Prioritizes Profits Over Market Share Berkshire Hathaway's auto insurer has returned to consistent profitability in 2023 but at the price...
a year ago
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Berkshire Hathaway's auto insurer has returned to consistent profitability in 2023 but at the price of ceding market share that will be costly to regain in the future.
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things to start your week (#50) Permitting reform; industrial policy progress; China stimulus/bailouts; men and politics; wokeness;...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Permitting reform; industrial policy progress; China stimulus/bailouts; men and politics; wokeness; tariffs; a bad union demand
Open Culture
An Oscar-Winning Animation of Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea” Painted on 29,000 Frames... Ernest Hemingway’s romantic adventure of man and marlin, The Old Man and the Sea, has perhaps spent...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Ernest Hemingway’s romantic adventure of man and marlin, The Old Man and the Sea, has perhaps spent more time on high school freshman English reading lists than any other work of fiction, which might lead one to think of the novel as young adult fiction. But beyond the book’s...
Weighty Thoughts
News Roundup: May 15, 2024 Open AI announcements, DeepSeek-v2, and TSMC Arizona
7 months ago
Old Structures...
The Story Can Be Oversimplified The title of this blog post is true of a lot of narrative history. Simple stories are more effective...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
The title of this blog post is true of a lot of narrative history. Simple stories are more effective on an emotional level, and are easier to tell. So we often tell them. For example, Wikipedia (my go-to source for oversimplified explanations) states that the 1916 New York zoning...
Diaries of Note
The degradation machine is running Jean Guéhenno was a French essayist and intellectual known for his unwavering commitment to freedom...
a year ago
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a year ago
Jean Guéhenno was a French essayist and intellectual known for his unwavering commitment to freedom and truth during a period when both were under severe threat. In the midst of World War II, France had become an eerie silhouette of its former self, ruled by a government that had...
journal – Winnie Lim
how we were loved profoundly influences how we live and love a personal review of "A general theory of love"
a year ago
Diaries of Note
When in my hand thy pulse is prest, I feel it alter mine Born in Yorkshire in 1791, Anne Lister was a landowner famed for keeping detailed diaries that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Born in Yorkshire in 1791, Anne Lister was a landowner famed for keeping detailed diaries that totalled over four million words, a sixth of which was written in a code she devised to conceal her sexuality and intimate encounters. Discovered and deciphered by a descendant in the...
diamond geezer
Unblogged 1984 30 unblogged things I did in September 1984 They didn't have blogs or the internet forty years ago,...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
30 unblogged things I did in September 1984 They didn't have blogs or the internet forty years ago, indeed my Sinclair ZX81 wasn't capable of much, but here are 30 things I didn't digitally publish at the time. To help you get your bearings I was 19 and most of this is the end...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Sharding Yourself An advanced tip for high-volume writers.
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pino Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I am prepared for your call Hollywood. It's...
2 months ago
TheCollector
Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus? undefined
8 months ago
Jonas Hietala
August theme: Bare Minimum This time I’ll be following my inspiring site and declare Bare Minimum as the theme for my next...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This time I’ll be following my inspiring site and declare Bare Minimum as the theme for my next game. This could really be anything, from graphics to user interaction… But I’ve got an idea. It’ll be a real challange for me to make but hopefully I’ll have a game in a few weeks...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
“Meaningful” startups There is generally a lot of enthusiasm in the startup world these days. But some observers worry...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There is generally a lot of enthusiasm in the startup world these days. But some observers worry that too many startups are working on…
Mazdak
What is QSBS? As a small business owner, you know the importance of every dollar. You pour your heart and soul...
a year ago
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a year ago
As a small business owner, you know the importance of every dollar. You pour your heart and soul into your company, and you want to see it thrive. But taxes can eat into your profits, leaving you feeling frustrated and discouraged. That's where QSBS (Qualified Small Business...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 36 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
a year ago
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a year ago
New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs seven other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this...
Stoic Simple
Stoicism Simplified: an Easy Overview of What Stoics Believe by Enda Harte For me, there are six important first steps that I prioritized for practicing Stoicism...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Enda Harte For me, there are six important first steps that I prioritized for practicing Stoicism (referenced in the diagram above), and I wanted to use this opportunity to go over each of these in a little more detail. Hopefully you’ll get an understanding of what they mean,...
bt RSS Feed
Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer 2022-12-08 Introduction I’ve made the switch...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer 2022-12-08 Introduction I’ve made the switch to Alpine Linux as my main laptop/desktop hybrid workstation and I love it - warts and all. This post will follow my process building my Alpine Linux “installer” I used for this...
Londonist
Previously Off-Limits Areas Of Buckingham Palace To Open To The Public Including the room behind that world-famous balcony.
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Construction Physics
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I was checking out the CashNotify app today and I noticed a beautiful style for highlighting text in their testimonials: Most textual highlights use a boring rectangle background color, but this stands out and looks gorgeous. I was really hoping they were using a simple <mark>...
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This tweet has been seen thousands of times since it was posted on the 82nd anniversary of Britain and France declaring war on Germany. Not that the coincidence means much. At least, no more than what the general population, interest and powerful mean here, or indeed what poetry...
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I offended a reader by referring to Samuel Taylor Coleridge as “a brilliant windbag junkie.” Let’s consider each part of the epithet. “Brilliant”? Without question. He wrote three incontestably good poems but Coleridge is an early specimen of the “public intellectual,” bristling...
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Tests communicate a lot of information, to readers, other developers, and even our future selves. Well-written tests focus on a single unit of behaviour that can be described in a brief sentence, and we can use that sentence as the name of the test.
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Here’s a thought: blogging is like compositing. The banana is what you’re after. But as a byproduct of the banana you get the peel. And if you compost, you can make good use of the peel. Similarly, whatever you’re building is what you’re after. But as a byproduct of whatever...
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Gagan Biyani: Building Silicon Valley Startups My guest today is Gagan Biyani, the current CEO of an education startup (where I’m both an investor...
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My guest today is Gagan Biyani, the current CEO of an education startup (where I’m both an investor and an advisor) that helps teachers run Cohort-Based Courses on the Internet and has students from around the world. Gagan also founded a multi-billion dollar online education...
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5 TILs about Node.js Fundamentals from the Node.js Design Patterns Book 5 Things I Learned about Node.js Fundamentals from the Node.js Design Patterns Book
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Mole Rocket (1965) Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
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Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing. Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965. When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
The Pragmatic...
Pollen’s enormous debt left behind: exclusive details Two months after the startup went bankrupt, administrators have summarized the $80M+ debt the...
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Two months after the startup went bankrupt, administrators have summarized the $80M+ debt the company has accumulated, most of which will not be paid. The highest offer to buy Pollen’s business assets - but without its liabilities - currently stands at only $250K. Details.
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Best Of Londonist: 13-19 November 2023 The very best of Londonist from the past week.
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why i love hong kong Hong Kong still seems like the same place in many ways, but it feels different. I don’t know how...
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Hong Kong still seems like the same place in many ways, but it feels different. I don’t know how much of it is due to the changes in me or the changes...
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Remote work will break the US monopoly on global talent Remote work is creating a new economic niche, and countries that put in the work to fill it will...
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Remote work is creating a new economic niche, and countries that put in the work to fill it will finally be able to compete with the US to attract talent. This is the once-in-a-generation opportunity for small, stable countries to grow, diversify, and up-skill their...
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Why we prefer computers over consoles when introducing kids to gaming I grew up gaming on consoles like Nintendo 64 and Gamecube. I have a lot of fond memories playing...
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I grew up gaming on consoles like Nintendo 64 and Gamecube. I have a lot of fond memories playing games with my brothers on those devices. But as my own kids have gotten older, my wife and I have decided to first introduce them to gaming with computers, instead of consoles. The...
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Expanding possibilities: Blues Wireless amplifies Opta’s connectivity Blues Wireless and Arduino have joined forces to create the game-changing Blues Wireless for Arduino...
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Blues Wireless and Arduino have joined forces to create the game-changing Blues Wireless for Arduino Opta, unveiled this week at the Automate Show in Chicago. The expansion module is an affordable solution to enhance connectivity options for Arduino Opta micro PLCs, and marks a...
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The Changelog
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I’ve been getting annoyed with Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian) for years now. It’s a fork of Debian, but manages to omit some of the most useful things. So I’ve decided to migrate all of my Pis to run pure Debian. These are my reasons: Raspberry Pi OS has, for years now, specified...
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How Good Are American Roads? We’re in an era where US infrastructure is getting a lot of attention.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Underwear Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later this turns out to be foreplay. Today's News:
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Artificial Diamond Boom The history of aluminum, and what is now happening in the artificial diamond market, may tell us...
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The history of aluminum, and what is now happening in the artificial diamond market, may tell us something about a post-scarcity world. Aluminum is the most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust. However, it like to form with other elements and therefore it was very difficulty to...
Quanta Magazine
‘Groups’ Underpin Modern Math. Here’s How They Work. What do the integers have in common with the symmetries of a triangle? In the 19th century,...
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What do the integers have in common with the symmetries of a triangle? In the 19th century, mathematicians invented groups as an answer to this question. The post ‘Groups’ Underpin Modern Math. Here’s How They Work. first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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On The Importance of 15-5 Updates We had a delightful discussion on the importance of writing weekly updates in this week's [Coding...
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We had a delightful discussion on the importance of writing weekly updates in this week's [Coding Career Community meetup](https://learninpublic.org/#community). I rarely get so excited about an idea I immediately know I need to start doing it, so I'm choosing to write it up to...
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We’re entering a golden age of engineering biology A guest post by Joshua March and Kasia Gora
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In the Milky Way’s Stars, a History of Violence Our galaxy's stars keep a record of its past. By reading those stories, astronomers are learning...
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Our galaxy's stars keep a record of its past. By reading those stories, astronomers are learning more about how the Milky Way came to be — and about the galaxy we live in today. The post In the Milky Way’s Stars, a History of Violence first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Nigeria’s dating app for people who want to stop dating and get hitched already What started out as a matchmaking WhatsApp group has turned into a popular dating app with over 2.1...
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Array 1.11.0 Annotations, filtering all functionality by cohorts, retention table filtering and many, many...
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Annotations, filtering all functionality by cohorts, retention table filtering and many, many bugfixes. It's all in this PostHog update. If you're…
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Dark mode by local sunlight Dark mode is increasingly appearing as an option on websites, but why not have it enable...
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Dark mode is increasingly appearing as an option on websites, but why not have it enable automatically?
TheCollector
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A Beginner's Guide to Mining Siacoin This guide is out of date. This post describes mining Sia with a desktop graphics card (GPU), but...
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This guide is out of date. This post describes mining Sia with a desktop graphics card (GPU), but custom mining hardware is now available for Sia. The custom hardware has made Sia GPU mining non-viable. This guide will still work, but you may never reach payout, even with a...
TheCollector
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HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 1 Check out our new series! This is the first episode of a five-part pilot series to gauge your...
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Check out our new series! This is the first episode of a five-part pilot series to gauge your interest in "How It's Made"-esque heavy construction videos. Drop a comment or send me an email to let me know what you think! Watch on YouTube above or ad-free on Nebula here.
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How to use Web Components with Next.js and TypeScript In [my livestream today](https://dev.to/swyx/make-your-own-dev-to-cms-livestream-part-4-6em) I had...
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In [my livestream today](https://dev.to/swyx/make-your-own-dev-to-cms-livestream-part-4-6em) I had the need to bring in a spinner component to show work in progress in my app. However found that existing React spinners were too heavy. That's when I had the idea to use web...
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RSS is still pretty great I think a lot about information and information consumption. The way the Internet made information...
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I think a lot about information and information consumption. The way the Internet made information readily available is phenomenal. Sadly, the signal-to-noise ratio here is pretty low. For me, consuming RSS feeds[1] offers the best way to read the kind of high-quality information...
AI Snake Oil
ChatGPT is a bullshit generator. But it can still be amazingly useful The philosopher Harry Frankfurt defined bullshit as speech that is intended to persuade without...
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The philosopher Harry Frankfurt defined bullshit as speech that is intended to persuade without regard for the truth. By this measure, OpenAI’s new chatbot ChatGPT is the greatest bullshitter ever. Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained to produce
The Honest Broker
It's Open Mic Day: Tell Us What You're Doing Here's a chance to pitch your own project
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AVC
Read Write Own Chris Dixon, who leads the A16Z crypto fund, and has been an entrepreneur, VC, and friend of mine...
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Chris Dixon, who leads the A16Z crypto fund, and has been an entrepreneur, VC, and friend of mine for over twenty years, has written a book called Read Write Own that is available for pre-order now and will start shipping at the end of the month. Chris gave me a copy right before...
Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians Uncover a New Way to Count Prime Numbers To make progress on one of number theory’s most elementary questions, two mathematicians turned to...
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To make progress on one of number theory’s most elementary questions, two mathematicians turned to an unlikely source. The post Mathematicians Uncover a New Way to Count Prime Numbers first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Best Practice Open Source Repo Setup Quick and simple ways to set up Open Source Repos with Best Practices
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CONTEMPORIST
Plants Are Encouraged To Grow Over The Exterior Of This New House Giles Miller Studio has shared photos of their first completed residential property in Kent,...
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Giles Miller Studio has shared photos of their first completed residential property in Kent, England, that features a sculptural black facade. The house breaks down barriers between the building’s internal spaces and the glade of natural planting and trees that surround it. By...
Business Brainstorms
A/B QR, how to run a business, airport rides, high-growth Asia-Pacific companies, lessons from Keith... Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
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Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “i want to go to a doctor that will run every single...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Southern Heat, Part 2 (Atlanta Revisited) I ventured into familiar territory as we started the trip, back to the same eastside of Atlanta that...
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I ventured into familiar territory as we started the trip, back to the same eastside of Atlanta that I’d explored just four months prior. That wasn’t a coincidence. I enjoyed the area so much that I wanted the whole family to experience it too. So it made perfect sense to fly...
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The Bounding Box Podcast The one where I chat with Rene Rubalcava about the importance of unstructured data-play, the risk of...
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The one where I chat with Rene Rubalcava about the importance of unstructured data-play, the risk of metrics becoming the goal, where to find inspiration, brewing chaos into professional development, and loving our neighbors!
Christopher Butler
Knowledge Work, AI, and Fragile Egos On the connection between time, skills, ideas, and what makes us truly human. Knowledge workers...
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On the connection between time, skills, ideas, and what makes us truly human. Knowledge workers advance through economies by transitioning from selling time to selling labor to selling IP. The notion here is that narrowing the funnel increases the value: everyone has time,...
David Perell
Zena Hitz: Liberal Arts Thinking My guest today is Zena Hitz, a tutor at St John’s and the author of an excellent book called Lost in...
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My guest today is Zena Hitz, a tutor at St John’s and the author of an excellent book called Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life. Her book explores the meaning and the value of learning for its own sake, through images and stories of bookworms,...
diamond geezer
The Overground renaming story The Overground renaming story Sep 2006: The Mayor announced yesterday that he's found a cunning way...
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The Overground renaming story Sep 2006: The Mayor announced yesterday that he's found a cunning way of extending the tube network without forking out billions on new tunnels. He's taking a couple of existing rail services - namely Silverlink's North London line and TfL's East...
Spoon & Tamago
150-Year Old Florist in Yanaka Blossoms with a New Cafe all photos by Takuya Seki courtesy Maru Architects Founded in 1870, Hanaju is a florist that has...
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all photos by Takuya Seki courtesy Maru Architects Founded in 1870, Hanaju is a florist that has served Tokyo’s Yanaka neighborhood for over 150 years. The flower shop is located near the entrance of Yanaka Cemetery and is surrounded by traditional homes and businesses, including...
diamond geezer
10 things to see on the Liberty line The introduction of line names on the Overground is sure to bring sightseers to Havering to see what...
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The introduction of line names on the Overground is sure to bring sightseers to Havering to see what the Liberty line is all about. So here's my tip-top tourist guide to help you find the finest places in the locality, some of which are actually rather fine. 10 things to see on...
Seth's Blog
In search of incompetence Learning is about becoming incompetent on our way to getting better. If you’re not open to the...
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Learning is about becoming incompetent on our way to getting better. If you’re not open to the tension that is caused by knowing you could do better, it’s unlikely you’re willing to do the work to get better. As you’re doing that work, there’s the satisfaction it brings, but also...
TheCollector
How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil? undefined
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TheCollector
What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787? undefined
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Paul Cudenec
Grenfell Tower: a chemicals cover-up This is a news report I wrote for the latest Acorn bulletin over on the Winter Oak site.
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Open Culture
Behold the Kräuterbuch, a Lavishly Illustrated Guide to Plants and Herbs from 1462 When Konrad von Megenberg published his Buch der Natur in the mid-fourteenth century, he won the...
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When Konrad von Megenberg published his Buch der Natur in the mid-fourteenth century, he won the distinction of having assembled the very first natural history in German. More than half a millennium later, the book still fascinates — not least for its depictions of cats,...
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The digital dark side The advent of digital media promised so much. Savvy shoppers would no longer be surreptitiously...
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The advent of digital media promised so much. Savvy shoppers would no longer be surreptitiously swayed by advertising alone. The internet would enable them to research products. Social media would allow them to share their experiences. And ecommence would provide the power...
The Modern House
Nature's way: Botanical stylist Yasuyo Harvey’s stunning transformation of a standard suburban semi
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The Pragmatic...
What Big Tech layoffs suggest for the industry Microsoft, Amazon and Salesforce have announced large layoffs in January. What will these events...
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Microsoft, Amazon and Salesforce have announced large layoffs in January. What will these events mean for the rest of the industry?
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The endangered state of normality When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, I had friends who were socially awkward nerds, friends who...
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When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, I had friends who were socially awkward nerds, friends who were cool but didn't like school at all, friends who were good at school but couldn't muster the will to finish their math homework, and friends who were tomboys. None of these...
macwright.com
On Web Components God, it’s another post about Web Components and stuff, who am I to write this, who are you to read...
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God, it’s another post about Web Components and stuff, who am I to write this, who are you to read it Carlana Johnson’s “Alternate Futures for Web Components” had me nodding all the way. There’s just this assumption that now that React is potentially on its way out (after a...
Probably...
What size is that correlation? This article is related to Chapter 6 of Probably Overthinking It, which is available for preorder...
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This article is related to Chapter 6 of Probably Overthinking It, which is available for preorder now. It is also related to a new course at Brilliant.org, Explaining Variation. Suppose you find a correlation of 0.36. How would you characterize it? I posed this question to the...
TheCollector
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Londonist
The Best Music Festivals In London 2024 Party in a field without leaving the capital.
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Old Structures...
Overgrowth It’s worth taking a look at two pictures of Newspaper Row/Printing House Square. First, around 1900:...
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It’s worth taking a look at two pictures of Newspaper Row/Printing House Square. First, around 1900: Second, 1936, from Berenice Abbott’s “Changing New York” project. We have the same line-up in both pictures, from left to right: The World Building, the Tribune Building, the New...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Immeasurable Impact Jerod has a good post on The Changelog contrasting the different ways of measuring impact. One way...
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Jerod has a good post on The Changelog contrasting the different ways of measuring impact. One way to measure impact is breadth (i.e. virality): Virality is all about breadth of impact: your content reaching as many people as possible as fast as possible. This feels great and is...
TheCollector
What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take undefined
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TheCollector
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Wuthering...
The Story of the Stone, fairy tale and realism - Not so wonderful, really, is it? I left the characters of The Story of the Stone as they were buying drapes and tablecloths for a...
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I left the characters of The Story of the Stone as they were buying drapes and tablecloths for a party.  I will rejoin the party planning momentarily. The Story of the Stone is a massive domestic novel about an extended family.  The main plot is the teenage love triangle, but...
Tony Finch's blog
Purple PCBs for Keybird69 I’m a beginner at PCB design, or rather, I haven’t made a PCB since I was at school 30 years ago,...
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I’m a beginner at PCB design, or rather, I haven’t made a PCB since I was at school 30 years ago, and a lot has changed since then! So my aim for Keybird69’s PCB was to learn my way around the design, manufacturing, and assembly process. microcontroller other components key...
Stephen Diehl
The Intellectual Incoherence of Cryptoassets
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TheCollector
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CONTEMPORIST
Exterior Lighting Shows Off The Post And Beam Structure Of This Home Ward + Blake Architects has shared photos of a modern post and beam home they completed in Wyoming,...
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Ward + Blake Architects has shared photos of a modern post and beam home they completed in Wyoming, that’s been placed on a hillside, just above a farmable portion of the site to preserve the ongoing agricultural use of the property. The home has generous roof overhangs that...
AI Snake Oil
Licensing is neither feasible nor effective for addressing AI risks Non-proliferation only benefits incumbents
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TheCollector
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Paolo Amoroso's...
The Boot Sector Games book series <![CDATA[The short ebooks on Intel 8086 Assembly programming Oscar Toledo self published are some of...
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<![CDATA[The short ebooks on Intel 8086 Assembly programming Oscar Toledo self published are some of the best 8086 resources I've seen. After introducing the 8086 instruction set and Assembly, Programming Boot Sector Games describes the source code of several games each of which...
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The road from serfdom Using opt-ins to reform Russia's backwards tsarist agricultural sector
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Sarah Parmenter
The New Macbook Pro with Touchbar I purchased my new MacBook Pro on a flight from London to San Francisco in the Autumn. I felt all...
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I purchased my new MacBook Pro on a flight from London to San Francisco in the Autumn. I felt all futuristic as I secured one of the new machines whilst on a poor internet connection, blazing through the sky. I felt even more nerdy when the Apple Store in Union Square was one of...
diamond geezer
Banksy's animals Over the course of this week, the artist Bansky has been out daily painting an animal at various...
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Over the course of this week, the artist Bansky has been out daily painting an animal at various locations across London. The sequence of events generally goes like this. Overnight: Bansky (or his henchpeople) paint an animal silhouette on a wall somewhere. Early morning: Local...
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Hating Apple goes mainstream This isn't just about one awful ad. I mean, yes, the ad truly is awful. It symbolizes everything...
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This isn't just about one awful ad. I mean, yes, the ad truly is awful. It symbolizes everything everyone has ever hated about digitization. It celebrates a lossy, creative compression for the most flimsy reason: An iPad shedding an irrelevant millimeter or two. It's destruction...
TheCollector
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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...
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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...
Escaping Flatland
On shortcuts and longcuts There’s this design heuristic that if people cut across the grass, you should pave the shortcut they...
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There’s this design heuristic that if people cut across the grass, you should pave the shortcut they make. This gives the path a lovely human fit. But sometimes you want to do the opposite. You want to design ways to get people to take a longer path, a longcut, so they can see or...
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Ten Christmas trees
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Tolkien and Plato
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Dan Quach Blog
Accurate Predictions In November 2020, I read the book Apollo’s Arrow after hearing Dr Christakis on NPR’s Fresh Air....
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In November 2020, I read the book Apollo’s Arrow after hearing Dr Christakis on NPR’s Fresh Air. Somewhere midway through this book, this paragraph stood out to me: “Either way, until 2022, Americans will live in an acutely changed world—they will be wearing masks, for example,...