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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Offensive AI Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm slightly regretting not having this as the...
over a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Offensive AI

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

over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm slightly regretting not having this as the twist ending to a comedic novel. Gimme a few years. Today's News: One week until BEA WOLF DAY!
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mtlynch.io
Reset Month No update this month I’m skipping my normal retrospective this month, as I sold TinyPilot and am...
a year ago
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Reset Month

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

a year ago
No update this month I’m skipping my normal retrospective this month, as I sold TinyPilot and am taking some time to figure out my next project. Retrospectives will resume in July.
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Classical Wisdom
Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
over a year ago
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Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes

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over a year ago
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
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Flashbak
Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967 It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
10 months ago
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Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967

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10 months ago
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and not finished until 1967. All 26 letters are created in individual gouaches on paper, in exotic human form (and later formed print editions). This exhibit was a hit when it was first...
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Paul Graham: Essays
How Not to Die
over a year ago
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How Not to Die

from Paul Graham: Essays [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
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TheCollector
What Is the History of Maritime Trade in the Indian Ocean? (Pre-European) To understand the history of the Indian Ocean trade, it is important to firstly understand its...
2 months ago
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What Is the History of Maritime Trade in the Indian Ocean? (Pre-European)

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago
To understand the history of the Indian Ocean trade, it is important to firstly understand its location and geographical coverage. The Indian Ocean derives its name from India. The water body got its name from early European explorers who named it so due to its close proximity to...
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Working Theorys
One-Round Wonder | Theory No. 23 Can a startup have the best of both bootstrapped and venture funded paths?
a year ago
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One-Round Wonder | Theory No. 23

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a year ago
Can a startup have the best of both bootstrapped and venture funded paths?
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Weighty Thoughts
Writing, Originality, and Why Does Anyone Care What I Write About? Musings, Insecurities, and Thoughts on Writing a Book (or Substack)
6 months ago
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Writing, Originality, and Why Does Anyone Care What I Write About?

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6 months ago
Musings, Insecurities, and Thoughts on Writing a Book (or Substack)
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Irrational...
Diagnosis in engineering strategy. Once you’ve written your strategy’s exploration, the next step is working on its...
4 months ago
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Diagnosis in engineering strategy.

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4 months ago
Once you’ve written your strategy’s exploration, the next step is working on its diagnosis. Diagnosis is understanding the constraints and challenges your strategy needs to address. In particular, it’s about doing that understanding while slowing yourself down from deciding how...
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Open Culture
Simone de Beauvoir Explains “Why I’m a Feminist” in a Rare TV Interview (1975) In Simone de Beauvoir’s 1945 novel The Blood of Others, the narrator, Jean Blomart, reports on his...
11 months ago
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Simone de Beauvoir Explains “Why I’m a Feminist” in a Rare TV Interview (1975)

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11 months ago
In Simone de Beauvoir’s 1945 novel The Blood of Others, the narrator, Jean Blomart, reports on his childhood friend Marcel’s reaction to the word “revolution”: It was senseless to try to change anything in the world or in life; things were bad enough even if one did not meddle...
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Abishek Muthian
False Accusation False accusation for children especially if the accusation goes totally against their values can...
over a year ago
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False Accusation

from Abishek Muthian [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
False accusation for children especially if the accusation goes totally against their values can have profound negative consequences. When I was in grade school(early 2000, India), I went out to take a photo-copy(xerox) of a study material in a shop nearby school. After I...
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Open Culture
RIP David Sanborn: See Him Play Alongside Miles Davis, Randy Newman, Sun Ra, Leonard Cohen and... It’s late in the evening of Saturday, October 28th, 1989. You flip on the television and the...
a year ago
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RIP David Sanborn: See Him Play Alongside Miles Davis, Randy Newman, Sun Ra, Leonard Cohen and Others on His TV Show Night Music

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a year ago
It’s late in the evening of Saturday, October 28th, 1989. You flip on the television and the saxophonist David Sanborn appears onscreen, instrument in hand, introducing the eclectic blues icon Taj Mahal, who in turn declares his intent to play a number with “rural humor” and...
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Computer Ads from...
Commodore Magazine Interviews Epyx (1989) They discuss the early days of computer game company.
5 months ago
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Commodore Magazine Interviews Epyx (1989)

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5 months ago
They discuss the early days of computer game company.
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Josh Thompson
December 2016 Goals December 19th seems a bit late to write about December’s goals, huh? Nonetheless, I’ve had some, and...
over a year ago
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December 2016 Goals

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over a year ago
December 19th seems a bit late to write about December’s goals, huh? Nonetheless, I’ve had some, and I will still have them through the end of the month. I did post a review of November a few days ago. This should really be rolled into that. A “monthly review/going forward”...
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Arduino Blog
This robot can dynamically change its wheel diameter to suit the terrain  A vehicle’s wheel diameter has a dramatic effect on several aspects of performance. The most obvious...
5 months ago
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This robot can dynamically change its wheel diameter to suit the terrain 

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

5 months ago
A vehicle’s wheel diameter has a dramatic effect on several aspects of performance. The most obvious is gearing, with larger wheels increasing the ultimate gear ratio — though transmission and transfer case gearing can counteract that. But wheel size also affects mobility over...
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Dr Alun Withey
To Tip or Not To Tip: A Victorian Traveller’s Perspective Like it or not, tipping is a big part of hospitality and the service industry. Debates about how...
6 months ago
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To Tip or Not To Tip: A Victorian Traveller’s Perspective

from Dr Alun Withey [alt+shift+b] in history

6 months ago
Like it or not, tipping is a big part of hospitality and the service industry. Debates about how much/whether to tip rumble on, but they are not new. Even in the 18th and 19th centuries, travellers were complaining about the amount of unwanted or unexpected extras they had to pay...
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Blog posts of...
Startup Mentoring Sessions: How to be a decent, maybe even good startup mentor. How to be the perfect startup mentor? I don’t know. But following the best practices mentioned in...
over a year ago
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Startup Mentoring Sessions: How to be a decent, maybe even good startup mentor.

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

over a year ago
How to be the perfect startup mentor? I don’t know. But following the best practices mentioned in this article I got personally at...
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Flashbak
1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
a year ago
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
The Locker Room Talk of Mentors and Minions I saw myself at 22, lifting a wheel, struggling under its weight to attach it to a car. Behind me...
over a year ago
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The Locker Room Talk of Mentors and Minions

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

over a year ago
I saw myself at 22, lifting a wheel, struggling under its weight to attach it to a car. Behind me was an experienced mechanic who has mastered the heavier machinery. He worked with skill, with a quickness that hid the forces he was wielding, making the power required to rip tires...
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NeuroLogica Blog
DNA Nanorobot Kill Switch for Cancer How’s that for a provocative title? But it is technically accurate. The title of the paper in...
a year ago
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DNA Nanorobot Kill Switch for Cancer

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

a year ago
How’s that for a provocative title? But it is technically accurate. The title of the paper in question is: “A DNA robotic switch with regulated autonomous display of cytotoxic ligand nanopatterns.” The study is a proof of concept in an animal model, so we are still years away...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Maximizing capacity utilization as a startup premise In stark contrast to other major airlines, Southwest has been profitable for 40 years. If Southwest...
over a year ago
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Maximizing capacity utilization as a startup premise

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over a year ago
In stark contrast to other major airlines, Southwest has been profitable for 40 years. If Southwest had one core “startup premise” it was…
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Seth's Blog
Two kinds of instructions The more common, easier to execute sort: Instructions to remind people who already know what to do,...
3 months ago
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Two kinds of instructions

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

3 months ago
The more common, easier to execute sort: Instructions to remind people who already know what to do, what to do. The more essential and harder to create kind: Instructions for people who don’t know what to do. It’s a mistake to assume that just because you know all the steps, the...
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journal – Winnie Lim
thoughts on the suicidal mind [tw: suicide] I watched Roadrunner, a documentary about Anthony Bourdain, and it left me a lot of...
a year ago
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thoughts on the suicidal mind

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

a year ago
[tw: suicide] I watched Roadrunner, a documentary about Anthony Bourdain, and it left me a lot of thoughts as someone who has struggled with my own existence my entire life. Though I am writing...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'What a Delight in Being a Discoverer!' The library catalogue said Walter Savage Landor’s Poems, the 1964 Centaur Press edition selected and...
3 months ago
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'What a Delight in Being a Discoverer!'

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

3 months ago
The library catalogue said Walter Savage Landor’s Poems, the 1964 Centaur Press edition selected and introduced by Geoffrey Grigson, had not been checked out by another patron (hardly surprising) and should be on the shelf. I couldn’t find it. Not a good sign. That could mean the...
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Classical Wisdom
ALL HAIL CAESAR??? Should We Glorify Caesar? And Those Like Him?
4 months ago
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ALL HAIL CAESAR???

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4 months ago
Should We Glorify Caesar? And Those Like Him?
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The Marginalian
The Messiah in the Mountain: Darwin on Wonder and the Spirituality of Nature Here we are, matter yearning for meaning, each of us a fragile constellation of chemistry and chance...
a year ago
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The Messiah in the Mountain: Darwin on Wonder and the Spirituality of Nature

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a year ago
Here we are, matter yearning for meaning, each of us a fragile constellation of chemistry and chance hurtling through a cold cosmos that has no accord for our wishes, takes no interest in our dreams. “I can’t but believe that all that majesty and all that beauty, those fated and...
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Herbert Lui
The natural game When Charles Duhigg attended his Harvard Business School class’s 15-year reunion, he was surprised...
5 months ago
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The natural game

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

5 months ago
When Charles Duhigg attended his Harvard Business School class’s 15-year reunion, he was surprised to discover how many of his former classmates were miserable. One of them was earning over a million dollars a year, and said to him, “If you spend 12 hours a day doing work you...
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Seth's Blog
Willfully uninformed Access to information used to be scarce. We ranked college libraries on how many books they had, and...
a year ago
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Willfully uninformed

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

a year ago
Access to information used to be scarce. We ranked college libraries on how many books they had, and time at the microfilm reader was booked in advance. Today, if there’s something I don’t know, it’s almost certainly because I haven’t cared enough to find out. I don’t understand...
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Working Theorys
What I Talk About When I Talk About Reading Optimize your life for good conversations.
a year ago
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Reading

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a year ago
Optimize your life for good conversations.
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Transit Maps
Historical Map: Union Pacific Annual Report Map, 1980 Here’s an absolutely cracking diagrammatic map that appeared as a fold-out sheet in Union Pacific...
11 months ago
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Historical Map: Union Pacific Annual Report Map, 1980

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

11 months ago
Here’s an absolutely cracking diagrammatic map that appeared as a fold-out sheet in Union Pacific annual reports from about 1978 through 1981, maybe slightly longer. I first saw this as a photograph of a partial part of the map, but it didn’t take me too long to find the whole...
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On the Arts
How to Start Learning About Aesthetics Three ways to improve your knowledge about aesthetics, art theory, and the philosophy of art.
over a year ago
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How to Start Learning About Aesthetics

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over a year ago
Three ways to improve your knowledge about aesthetics, art theory, and the philosophy of art.
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Tony Dinh's...
$500K milestone – my reflections after 1 year of building Typing Mind Also in this issue: one-off purchase vs. subscription, selling Xnapper, and other updates from me in...
a year ago
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$500K milestone – my reflections after 1 year of building Typing Mind

from Tony Dinh's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

a year ago
Also in this issue: one-off purchase vs. subscription, selling Xnapper, and other updates from me in Feb 2024
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The American Scholar
“Little Sleep’s-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight” by Galway Kinnell Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Little Sleep’s-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight” by...
2 months ago
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“Little Sleep’s-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight” by Galway Kinnell

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2 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Little Sleep’s-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight” by Galway Kinnell appeared first on The American Scholar.
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TheCollector
Knights Templar & the Creation of Modern Banking Of all the knightly orders born of the Crusades, none are as well known or as heavily mythologized...
6 days ago
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Knights Templar & the Creation of Modern Banking

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

6 days ago
Of all the knightly orders born of the Crusades, none are as well known or as heavily mythologized as the Knights Templar. From Dan Brown conspiracy thriller novels like The Da Vinci Code to the best-selling Assassin’s Creed video game franchise, the Knights Templar have long...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
REST Endpoint + CRUD with AWS Lambda and DynamoDB in 2 minutes A lightning fast overview of everything you need to know to set up a REST endpoint with full CRUD...
over a year ago
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REST Endpoint + CRUD with AWS Lambda and DynamoDB in 2 minutes

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

over a year ago
A lightning fast overview of everything you need to know to set up a REST endpoint with full CRUD capability with AWS Lambda, DynamoDB and AWS Amplify in 2 minutes.
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: A Somber Location One of the less-well-known memorials in Manhattan is the African Burial Ground National Monument at...
11 months ago
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It Looked Familiar: A Somber Location

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

11 months ago
One of the less-well-known memorials in Manhattan is the African Burial Ground National Monument at Duane and Elk Streets, where free Blacks excluded from New York’s general cemetery in the seventeenth cenutry buried their dead. Here’s a photo of the memorial, a stone circle...
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Molson Hart's Blog -...
Being an Amazon Seller in 2021; Year in Review I’m the founder and CEO of Viahart (est. 2010), an e-commerce focused educational toy company. We...
over a year ago
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Being an Amazon Seller in 2021; Year in Review

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

over a year ago
I’m the founder and CEO of Viahart (est. 2010), an e-commerce focused educational toy company. We did $8.8 million in sales in 2021. This article is going to tell you what it was like to run this business in 2021 vs. 2020, amidst threats like the Amazon aggregators, supply chain...
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David Crawshaw
Everyone a writer "The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a...
over a year ago
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Everyone a writer

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

over a year ago
"The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a potential writer within him, so that the entire human species has good reason to go down into the streets and shout: we are all writers! For everyone is pained by the thought of...
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Common Edge
What I Learned From Six Recessions in Architecture Life is imperfect, and architects understand this better than most.
7 months ago
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What I Learned From Six Recessions in Architecture

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7 months ago
Life is imperfect, and architects understand this better than most.
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Classical Wisdom
Plato On Knowledge What is True?
a year ago
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Plato On Knowledge

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a year ago
What is True?
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Quantum Frontiers
The first and second centuries of quantum mechanics At this week’s American Physical Society Global Physics Summit in Anaheim, California, John Preskill...
3 months ago
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The first and second centuries of quantum mechanics

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

3 months ago
At this week’s American Physical Society Global Physics Summit in Anaheim, California, John Preskill spoke at an event celebrating 100 years of groundbreaking advances in quantum mechanics. Here are his remarks. Welcome, everyone, to this celebration of 100 years of … Continue...
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Yale e360
With 'Big Beautiful Bill,' U.S. to Reverse Course on Clean Energy The Republican spending bill, signed into law Friday, will reset the course for the U.S. energy...
3 days ago
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With 'Big Beautiful Bill,' U.S. to Reverse Course on Clean Energy

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

3 days ago
The Republican spending bill, signed into law Friday, will reset the course for the U.S. energy sector, analyses show. The law rapidly phases out tax credits for wind, solar, and electric cars, while making it cheaper to drill and mine for fossil fuels on federal lands.  Read...
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Seth's Blog
Opening the pod bay door A brand new episode of Akimbo this week, all about artificial intelligence. Part one of of two on...
over a year ago
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Opening the pod bay door

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over a year ago
A brand new episode of Akimbo this week, all about artificial intelligence. Part one of of two on mediocrity and the choices we’re going to need to make. And, a while in the making, an experimental AI chat bot that has been trained on all 5,000,000 words of this blog. You can...
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Londonist
Things To Do In London In The Easter Holidays 2024 Family-friendly events in the capital this spring.
a year ago
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Things To Do In London In The Easter Holidays 2024

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a year ago
Family-friendly events in the capital this spring.
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bt RSS Feed
This Site is Now a Shinobi Website This Site is Now a Shinobi Website 2022-05-13 Update 2024: this website is now built with wruby My...
over a year ago
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This Site is Now a Shinobi Website

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

over a year ago
This Site is Now a Shinobi Website 2022-05-13 Update 2024: this website is now built with wruby My personal website is now an RSS-focused blog, generated from a collection of plain text files. But before we get into greater details about the switch, let me first introduce the...
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Style over Substance
My Home Assistant setup (2023 edition) For the past few years, I have been running Home Assistant to make my apartment a smart home. It’s...
over a year ago
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My Home Assistant setup (2023 edition)

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

over a year ago
For the past few years, I have been running Home Assistant to make my apartment a smart home. It’s become such a hobby of mine that I’ve even started coding add-ons for it. While there are other popular automation platforms, Home Assistant’s versatility blows the rest out of the...
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This Space
The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgaard I began reading The Morning Star without any prior knowledge of the contents, just as I had begun...
over a year ago
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The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgaard

from This Space [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago
I began reading The Morning Star without any prior knowledge of the contents, just as I had begun reading every other book of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s since receiving an ARC of the first volume of My Struggle long before he shone above us like the morning star in this novel. This...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
How to select your angel investors I’ve seen a number of situations recently that are something like the following.  A VC firm signs a...
over a year ago
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How to select your angel investors

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

over a year ago
I’ve seen a number of situations recently that are something like the following.  A VC firm signs a term sheet with an early stage company…
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Louwrentius
Linux: get a list of al disks and their size To get a list of all disk drives of a Linux system, such as this: Disk /dev/md0: 58.0 GB Disk...
over a year ago
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Linux: get a list of al disks and their size

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over a year ago
To get a list of all disk drives of a Linux system, such as this: Disk /dev/md0: 58.0 GB Disk /dev/md1: 2015 MB Disk /dev/md5: 18002.2 GB Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB Disk /dev/sdb: 60.0 GB Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.1 GB Disk /dev/sdd: 1000.1 GB Disk /dev/sde: 1000.1 GB Disk /dev/sdf: 1000.1...
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Abhishek Chakraborty
The Perks of Being Resourceful Mark Watney is hands down one of my favourite characters from a movie or a book. Apart from his...
over a year ago
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The Perks of Being Resourceful

from Abhishek Chakraborty [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
Mark Watney is hands down one of my favourite characters from a movie or a book. Apart from his one-liners and uplifting sense of humour (even in the direst of situations), what makes Mark Watney standout from the rest of us is his limitless resourcefulness.
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Open Culture
The Evolution of Hokusai’s Great Wave: A Study of 113 Known Copies of the Iconic Woodblock Print The most widely known work by the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japanese artist Hokusai,...
a year ago
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The Evolution of Hokusai’s Great Wave: A Study of 113 Known Copies of the Iconic Woodblock Print

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a year ago
The most widely known work by the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japanese artist Hokusai, 神奈川沖浪裏, is usually translated into English as The Great Wave off Kanagawa. That version of the title reflects the iconic scene depicted in the image well enough, though I can’t help but...
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Louwrentius
Which file system for a large storage array under Linux? There are many file systems available under Linux, however only a few of them can be used for a...
over a year ago
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Which file system for a large storage array under Linux?

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over a year ago
There are many file systems available under Linux, however only a few of them can be used for a large storage array. I am assuming that you want to create a single file system. I don't care if you use LVM or other layers beneath, this is about which file system to use. I will...
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Mind Mine
transformations surrender & renew
6 months ago
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transformations

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6 months ago
surrender & renew
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Ken Shirriff's blog
Inside an IBM/Motorola mainframe controller chip from 1981 In this article, I look inside a chip in the IBM 3274 Control Unit.1 But before I discuss the chip,...
11 months ago
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Inside an IBM/Motorola mainframe controller chip from 1981

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11 months ago
In this article, I look inside a chip in the IBM 3274 Control Unit.1 But before I discuss the chip, I need to give some background on mainframes. (I didn't completely analyze the chip, so don't expect a nice narrative or solid conclusions.) Die photo of the Motorola/IBM SC81150...
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Global Inequality...
Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy Why the liberal project will fail
a year ago
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Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy

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a year ago
Why the liberal project will fail
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Diaries of Note
The ultimate bovine humiliation Anne Lamott was thirty-five, single, and newly sober when she gingerly entered the world of...
a year ago
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The ultimate bovine humiliation

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a year ago
Anne Lamott was thirty-five, single, and newly sober when she gingerly entered the world of motherhood. Already a seasoned novelist born in 1954 in San Francisco, this transformative period of her life became the foundation for her first foray into non-fiction, Operating...
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, January 10, 2025 Hey folks, Fireside this week! I’m currently working on a post “On the Gracchi” taking a somewhat...
6 months ago
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Fireside Friday, January 10, 2025

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6 months ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! I’m currently working on a post “On the Gracchi” taking a somewhat darker look at everyone’s favorite Roman reformers (though hardly the same black takedowns Alexander and Cleopatra got) , which will hopefully be ready for next week. Before we dive...
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Citation Needed
Wind the clock A message to those asking “what do I do now?”
8 months ago
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Wind the clock

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8 months ago
A message to those asking “what do I do now?”
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samwho.dev
Dude, where's my main?
over a year ago
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Dude, where's my main?

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over a year ago
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David Heinemeier...
Finished software One of the driving aspirations behind once.com is the notion that not all software needs to evolve...
a year ago
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Finished software

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

a year ago
One of the driving aspirations behind once.com is the notion that not all software needs to evolve forever. We’ve become so used to digital services being malleable that we’ve confused the possibility of software updates with their necessity. Some software can simply be finished,...
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Wrong Side of...
Team Islam and Team France Reflections on ‘Reflections on the Revolution in Europe’, Part Five
3 months ago
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Team Islam and Team France

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3 months ago
Reflections on ‘Reflections on the Revolution in Europe’, Part Five
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The Universe of...
David McShane's mural with 18 Franks, revealed Yesterday I offered Gentle Readers a chance to identify the 18 famous Franks in David McShane's...
7 months ago
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David McShane's mural with 18 Franks, revealed

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7 months ago
Yesterday I offered Gentle Readers a chance to identify the 18 famous Franks in David McShane's mural. Benjamin Franklin Frankie Avalon Detail of ornament from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts building, designed by architect Frank Furness A frankfurter Aretha...
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The Honest Broker
Nine Observations on the Avant-Garde Has it disappeared? Does anybody care? Should they?
11 months ago
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Nine Observations on the Avant-Garde

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11 months ago
Has it disappeared? Does anybody care? Should they?
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Don Melton
A metastasis in America America is sick. And I don’t just mean with COVID-19. The bad news is that removing the ugly, orange...
over a year ago
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A metastasis in America

from Don Melton [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
America is sick. And I don’t just mean with COVID-19. The bad news is that removing the ugly, orange tumor in the White House next week will not be enough to affect a cure. The malignancy has spread. It didn’t even start with the presidency. We’ve been brewing and self-dosing a...
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Jorge Arango
LLMs Give You Power User Abilities LLMs are a general-purpose technology with seemingly endless use cases. Among my favorite is...
5 months ago
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LLMs Give You Power User Abilities

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5 months ago
LLMs are a general-purpose technology with seemingly endless use cases. Among my favorite is unlocking the potential of other technologies. For example, all modern “desktop” OSs come with shell environments. If you know a bit of scripting, you can automate tasks in ways that go...
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Words and Buttons...
Bi-whatever transformations An interactive explanation of how polynomial transformations such as trilinear or biquadratic or...
over a year ago
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Bi-whatever transformations

from Words and Buttons Online [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
An interactive explanation of how polynomial transformations such as trilinear or biquadratic or even linear-cubic work, and how to craft your own that fits your particular task the best.
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The Codist
Giving Junior Engineers Control Of A Six Trillion Dollar System Is Nuts For some purpose, the DOGE people are burrowing their way into all US Federal Systems. Their...
5 months ago
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Giving Junior Engineers Control Of A Six Trillion Dollar System Is Nuts

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

5 months ago
For some purpose, the DOGE people are burrowing their way into all US Federal Systems. Their complete control over the Treasury Department is entirely insane. Unless you intend to destroy everything, making arbitrary changes to complex computer systems will result in destruction,...
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Society's Backend:...
All Machine Learning Resources and Updates 7/8/24 Everything I've been reading
a year ago
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All Machine Learning Resources and Updates 7/8/24

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a year ago
Everything I've been reading
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Calculated Risk
Friday: Personal Income & Outlays Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Personal Income...
6 months ago
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Friday: Personal Income & Outlays

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

6 months ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Personal Income and Outlays for November. The consensus is for a 0.4% increase in personal income, and for a 0.5% increase in personal spending. And for the PCE price index to increase 0.2%, and...
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Elad Blog
AI: Startup Vs Incumbent Value In each technology wave the value, revenue, market cap, profits and great people captured by...
over a year ago
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AI: Startup Vs Incumbent Value

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

over a year ago
In each technology wave the value, revenue, market cap, profits and great people captured by startups versus incumbents differs. In some waves it all goes to startups, while in others it goes to incumbents or is split between them. Unexpectedly, the prior wave of
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TheCollector
6 Terrible Historical Facts About Typhus Epidemic typhus is one of the oldest diseases known to affect humankind, and despite advances in...
2 months ago
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6 Terrible Historical Facts About Typhus

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago
Epidemic typhus is one of the oldest diseases known to affect humankind, and despite advances in modern medicine, it continues to be a contemporary concern. Often infiltrating human existence hand in hand with disasters such as war and weather phenomena, typhus has demonstrated a...
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The Works in...
Cheap ornament and status games Was modernism originally a way to signal taste instead of wealth?
8 months ago
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Cheap ornament and status games

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8 months ago
Was modernism originally a way to signal taste instead of wealth?
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Calculated Risk
ISM® Services Index Decreases to 52.8% in January (Posted with permission). The ISM® Services index was at 52.8%, down from 54.0% last month. The...
5 months ago
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ISM® Services Index Decreases to 52.8% in January

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

5 months ago
(Posted with permission). The ISM® Services index was at 52.8%, down from 54.0% last month. The employment index increased to 52.3%, from 51.3%. Note: Above 50 indicates expansion, below 50 in contraction. Services PMI® at 52.8% January 2025 Services ISM® Report On...
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Don't Worry About...
AI CoT Reasoning Is Often Unfaithful A new Anthropic paper reports that reasoning model chain of thought (CoT) is often unfaithful. They...
3 months ago
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AI CoT Reasoning Is Often Unfaithful

from Don't Worry About the Vase [alt+shift+b] in AI

3 months ago
A new Anthropic paper reports that reasoning model chain of thought (CoT) is often unfaithful. They test on Claude Sonnet 3.7 and r1, I’d love to see someone try this on o3 as well.
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pcloadletter
Surely dark UX doesn't work in the long run I was just feeling pretty good—I published my article about RSS and it's being pretty...
a year ago
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Surely dark UX doesn't work in the long run

from pcloadletter [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
I was just feeling pretty good—I published my article about RSS and it's being pretty well-received. I decided a fitting way to celebrate was to head on over to Feedly and catch up on some reading! I clicked on an engineers blog feed to check out here latest couple posts. I...
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Ian Betteridge
Ten Blue Links, “rapid evolution of form” edition 1. Why should Trump deliver for anyone but Trump? This Bloomberg piece forgets one important fact:...
7 months ago
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Ten Blue Links, “rapid evolution of form” edition

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7 months ago
1. Why should Trump deliver for anyone but Trump? This Bloomberg piece forgets one important fact: Donald Trump is not going to be on the ticket next time. He doesn’t have to deliver a dime for ordinary voters, and will act accordingly.  2. You can now sync Apple Passwords with...
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Marcus on AI
Irony too funny for words Oops
5 months ago
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Irony too funny for words

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5 months ago
Oops
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NeuroLogica Blog
How To Keep AIs From Lying We had a fascinating discussion on this week’s SGU that I wanted to bring here – the subject of...
3 months ago
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How To Keep AIs From Lying

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

3 months ago
We had a fascinating discussion on this week’s SGU that I wanted to bring here – the subject of artificial intelligence programs (AI), specifically large language models (LLMs), lying. The starting point for the discussion was this study, which looked at punishing LLMs as a...
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The Ruffian
What makes the perfect creative brief? And how to write a brief for yourself
a year ago
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What makes the perfect creative brief?

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a year ago
And how to write a brief for yourself
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
My investing theses | Out-Of-Pocket Hit up ya boi
a year ago
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My investing theses | Out-Of-Pocket

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a year ago
Hit up ya boi
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Londonist
A Brief History Of The Metropolitan Line The world's first underground railway.
a year ago
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A Brief History Of The Metropolitan Line

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a year ago
The world's first underground railway.
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Old Structures...
Messy First I apologize for the reflections and glare artifacts in the picture: trying to get a decent...
6 months ago
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Messy

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

6 months ago
First I apologize for the reflections and glare artifacts in the picture: trying to get a decent photo through a clean and polished storefront window on a sunny day is a frustrating endeavor. But at least that gives a second meaning to the post title. Second – but really first –...
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Carl Barenbrug RSS...
099 + Framer 099 Supply is a collaborative project that builds tools for creators. We began with a catalogue of...
a year ago
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099 + Framer

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

a year ago
099 Supply is a collaborative project that builds tools for creators. We began with a catalogue of photorealistic product mockups made for Photoshop. And we're continuing to grow this collection slowly, but we recognised that we need to diversify. So we're building out a new...
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The Marginalian
Imagine Water Otherwise: Robert Macfarlane on the Personhood of Rivers and the Meaning of Aliveness “Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river,” Borges wrote in his timeless...
a month ago
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Imagine Water Otherwise: Robert Macfarlane on the Personhood of Rivers and the Meaning of Aliveness

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a month ago
“Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river,” Borges wrote in his timeless “refutation” of time. “No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life,” Nietzsche wrote a century earlier in his directive on how to find yourself....
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xkcd.com
Definition of e
over a year ago
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Definition of e

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over a year ago
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again Sweet merciful Jesus, stop talking. Unless you are one of a tiny handful of businesses who know...
12 months ago
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🔗 I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again

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

12 months ago
Sweet merciful Jesus, stop talking. Unless you are one of a tiny handful of businesses who know exactly what they're going to use AI for, you do not need AI for anything - or rather, you do not need to do anything to reap the benefits. Artificial intelligence, as it exists and is...
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Open Culture
Ella Fitzgerald Sings Cream’s “Sunshine of Your Love” (1969) In 1969, Ella Fitzgerald released Sunshine of Your Love, a live album recorded at the Venetian Room...
4 months ago
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Ella Fitzgerald Sings Cream’s “Sunshine of Your Love” (1969)

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4 months ago
In 1969, Ella Fitzgerald released Sunshine of Your Love, a live album recorded at the Venetian Room in The Fairmont San Francisco. Recorded by music producer Norman Granz, the album featured contemporary pop songs that showcased Fitzgerald’s ability to transcend jazz standards....
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devonzuegel.com
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...
over a year ago
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Remote work will break the US monopoly on global talent

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

over a year ago
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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Jonas Hietala
ghc 8.8.3 cannot find cabal 3.0.0.0 packages I’ve been using cabal to manage my Haskell dependencies for years, but when I last updated my system...
over a year ago
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ghc 8.8.3 cannot find cabal 3.0.0.0 packages

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

over a year ago
I’ve been using cabal to manage my Haskell dependencies for years, but when I last updated my system it suddenly stopped working. I installed my dependencies with cabal install xmonad, and checked that it’s installed under ~/.cabal: $ ls .cabal/bin/ xmonad@ But still when I...
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Abhishek Chakraborty
Black Swan Bias: Rare Events Don’t Happen Everyday There’s wisdom in the saying, “Lightning never strikes (the same place) twice.” Black Swan events...
over a year ago
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Black Swan Bias: Rare Events Don’t Happen Everyday

from Abhishek Chakraborty [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
There’s wisdom in the saying, “Lightning never strikes (the same place) twice.” Black Swan events maybe rare but the distortions caused by them don’t disappear for a long time.
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Open Culture
Optical Poems by Oskar Fischinger: Discover the Avant-Garde Animator Despised by Hitler & Dissed by... At a time when much of animation was consumed with little anthropomorphized animals sporting white...
4 months ago
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Optical Poems by Oskar Fischinger: Discover the Avant-Garde Animator Despised by Hitler & Dissed by Disney

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

4 months ago
At a time when much of animation was consumed with little anthropomorphized animals sporting white gloves, Oskar Fischinger went in a completely different direction. His work is all about dancing geometric shapes and abstract forms spinning around a flat featureless background....
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computers are bad
2024-07-31 just disconnect the internet So, let's say that a security vendor, we'll call them ClownStrike, accidentally takes down most of...
11 months ago
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2024-07-31 just disconnect the internet

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

11 months ago
So, let's say that a security vendor, we'll call them ClownStrike, accidentally takes down most of their Windows install base with a poorly tested content update. Rough day at the office, huh? There are lots of things you could say about this, lots of reasons it happens this way,...
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Seeking Wisdom
How a Machine Learns How a fly helped Descartes to invent the Cartesian plane René Descartes (1596 – 1650), the famous...
a year ago
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How a Machine Learns

from Seeking Wisdom [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
How a fly helped Descartes to invent the Cartesian plane René Descartes (1596 – 1650), the famous philosopher and mathematician, was lying in his bed, eyes fixed on a fly on the ceiling. As he pondered how to accurately describe the fly’s position, Descartes visualized the...
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The Map is Mostly...
Sketches of Beauty, Shades of Remoteness A little moth asked the other day, what makes something beautiful? I wonder and doubt if I could...
over a year ago
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Sketches of Beauty, Shades of Remoteness

from The Map is Mostly Water [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
A little moth asked the other day, what makes something beautiful? I wonder and doubt if I could ever give a fulfilling answer. As a topic it is almost too monumental to touch. Certainly to write about all at once. But maybe we can glance at it from time to time. So, a short...
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Josh Thompson
Metaprogramming in Ruby: method_missing I’m working through Metaprogramming in Ruby It’s a great read. There are examples in the books, but...
over a year ago
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Metaprogramming in Ruby: method_missing

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

over a year ago
I’m working through Metaprogramming in Ruby It’s a great read. There are examples in the books, but I wanted to take them out and apply them to some easy Exercisms. I feel some disclosure may be useful. In no way, at all, should you ever implement any of the “solutions” I’m...
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TheCollector
What Is Black History Month? Originating in the United States, BHM has become an annual celebration of the history and...
4 months ago
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What Is Black History Month?

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4 months ago
Originating in the United States, BHM has become an annual celebration of the history and achievements of black people in many countries across the world, such as the UK and Canada. The months predominantly used for celebration are February and October, with the celebrations...
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Articles
2022 year in review
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2022 year in review

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Londonist
London's Working Class History Celebrated With 8 Exciting New Projects Historic England announces new funding.
a year ago
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London's Working Class History Celebrated With 8 Exciting New Projects

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a year ago
Historic England announces new funding.
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Ink & Switch
Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built...
a month ago
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Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps

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a month ago
The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.
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The Wandering...
Constructing the Pattern on the Sala de la Barca Ceiling I was flipping through Owen Jones’s Grammar of Ornament a couple months ago, and my eye was caught...
a year ago
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Constructing the Pattern on the Sala de la Barca Ceiling

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a year ago
I was flipping through Owen Jones’s Grammar of Ornament a couple months ago, and my eye was caught by this handsome pattern I had not noticed before. This is Jones’s Plate XLII, in the chapter on designs from the Alhambra in Granada, Spain. He calls it, “Part of the ceiling of...
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Cremieux Recueil
Food Deserts Are Not Real They're more like bad habit neighborhoods
9 months ago
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Food Deserts Are Not Real

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9 months ago
They're more like bad habit neighborhoods
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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
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5 best investments during high interest rates

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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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bt RSS Feed
Hosting a Jekyll Site on Sourcehut Hosting a Jekyll Site on Sourcehut 2021-12-06 I recently decided to switch my personal, static...
over a year ago
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Hosting a Jekyll Site on Sourcehut

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over a year ago
Hosting a Jekyll Site on Sourcehut 2021-12-06 I recently decided to switch my personal, static site’s hosting from Netlify to sourcehut pages. The process went fairly smoothly with only a couple minor hiccups; nothing rage-inducing. After everything was up and running smoothly, I...
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The Rational Walk
The Use of Letters As Mark Twain said, a person who won't read has no real advantage over a person who can't read. It...
over a year ago
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The Use of Letters

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over a year ago
As Mark Twain said, a person who won't read has no real advantage over a person who can't read. It makes no sense to refuse to learn vicariously.
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Common Edge
Declaration of Independence From Sprawl Toward the New Urban Place and away from the Industrial Development Complex.
a year ago
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Declaration of Independence From Sprawl

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a year ago
Toward the New Urban Place and away from the Industrial Development Complex.
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Calculated Risk
Wednesday: ADP Employment, ISM Services, Beige Book Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. mortgage...
4 months ago
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Wednesday: ADP Employment, ISM Services, Beige Book

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4 months ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. mortgage purchase applications index. ADP Employment Report for February. This report is for private payrolls only (no government). The consensus is for 140,000 payroll jobs added in February,...
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AFAR Media - Travel...
A New Nobu Opens at Hotel del Coronado With Ocean Views
2 months ago
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A New Nobu Opens at Hotel del Coronado With Ocean Views

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2 months ago
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
A Lambo for the People If you count eyeballs, the zombie-mobileis the most popular story I have written. This week instead...
over a year ago
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A Lambo for the People

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over a year ago
If you count eyeballs, the zombie-mobileis the most popular story I have written. This week instead of my normal essay I want to simply point you to a show that will surely appeal to fans of car design and haters of the crossover.
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Tech and Tea
When your post hits #1 on Hacker News A behind-the-scenes look at my initial reaction 😬, all the stats, cross-posting to Medium, and...
a year ago
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When your post hits #1 on Hacker News

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a year ago
A behind-the-scenes look at my initial reaction 😬, all the stats, cross-posting to Medium, and lessons learned
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Retail Design Blog
Eterno Health Studio: A Holistic Wellness Hub with Café, Sauna, and Fitness in Frankfurt Eterno Health Studio in Frankfurt introduces an innovative approach to wellness, merging holistic...
9 months ago
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Eterno Health Studio: A Holistic Wellness Hub with Café, Sauna, and Fitness in Frankfurt

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9 months ago
Eterno Health Studio in Frankfurt introduces an innovative approach to wellness, merging holistic health services with a modern, thoughtfully designed...
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Vadim Kravcenko
How to determine app idea is technically feasible as a non-technical founder? Congratulations on finding an idea worth pursuing. So let’s talk about feasibility and understanding...
a year ago
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How to determine app idea is technically feasible as a non-technical founder?

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a year ago
Congratulations on finding an idea worth pursuing. So let’s talk about feasibility and understanding if it’s at all possible to […] The post How to determine app idea is technically feasible as a non-technical founder? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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TheCollector
A Journey Through Dante’s Inferno: A Brief Guide Over the centuries, Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy has often been declared the pinnacle of the...
3 months ago
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A Journey Through Dante’s Inferno: A Brief Guide

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3 months ago
Over the centuries, Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy has often been declared the pinnacle of the medieval literary mind. Other critics, looking ahead, have called it a brilliant artistic harbinger of the coming European Renaissance. The renowned Anglo-American poet T.S. Eliot...
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Wanderingspace
ISS Looks Like a Toy These animated gifs of The International Space Station look just like metal toys — but they are...
over a year ago
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ISS Looks Like a Toy

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over a year ago
These animated gifs of The International Space Station look just like metal toys — but they are real. Each frame is taken with ground based amateur telescopes and then pieced together with common image software like Adobe Photoshop. It is incredible to me that there are people...
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The Marginalian
Annie Dillard on Unselfconsciousness Walking through the white-walled gallery at the graduation show of one of New York’s most esteemed...
a month ago
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Annie Dillard on Unselfconsciousness

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a month ago
Walking through the white-walled gallery at the graduation show of one of New York’s most esteemed art schools, between beautiful young people with Instagram faces, I was struck to see project after project take up as its subject the least durable, most illusory aspect of human...
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dthompson
Guile-SDL2 0.8.0 released I'm happy to announce that Guile-SDL2 0.8.0 has been released! Guile-SDL2 provides Guile Scheme...
over a year ago
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Guile-SDL2 0.8.0 released

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over a year ago
I'm happy to announce that Guile-SDL2 0.8.0 has been released! Guile-SDL2 provides Guile Scheme bindings for the SDL2 C shared library. The bindings are written in pure Scheme using Guile's foreign function interface. New bindings in this...
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bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware November 2022 The ware for November 2022 is a Keithley 2110-240. I’ll give Rodrigo F. the win, but I’m curious how...
over a year ago
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Winner, Name that Ware November 2022

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over a year ago
The ware for November 2022 is a Keithley 2110-240. I’ll give Rodrigo F. the win, but I’m curious how he knew it was the -240 version; I did not expect someone to discern the line voltage rating from the photos! Also, thank you Ian Mason for the lucid explanation of the exposed...
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99% Invisible
Valley So Low In 2008, a billion gallons of toxic sludge spewed across 300 acres of Tennessee in the middle of the...
5 months ago
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Valley So Low

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5 months ago
In 2008, a billion gallons of toxic sludge spewed across 300 acres of Tennessee in the middle of the night. It was just before Christmas. At the time, Jared Sullivan was in high school and remembers the disaster. For over fifty years a power company called the Tennessee Valley...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Engaged Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Panels 3 and 4 are the last 10 years of Internet...
over a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Engaged

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over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Panels 3 and 4 are the last 10 years of Internet summarized. Today's News: For the three of you who read this blog, we're doing a livechat about Bea Wolf in 30 minutes on instagram!
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Maps Mania
Millions Flee War, Floods, and Persecution
5 months ago
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Millions Flee War, Floods, and Persecution

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5 months ago
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Old Structures...
Baseball in New York 1 With both the Mets and Yankees playing league championship games yesterday, this seems like a good...
8 months ago
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Baseball in New York 1

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

8 months ago
With both the Mets and Yankees playing league championship games yesterday, this seems like a good time to discuss some of the oddities of New York’s relationship to the game of baseball. And the best place to start is just how many professional teams there have been here. Most...
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Overcoming Bias
Respect The Social Wild While most foragers had great respect for nature, our farmer-era ancestors had less resepct.
4 months ago
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Respect The Social Wild

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4 months ago
While most foragers had great respect for nature, our farmer-era ancestors had less resepct.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Semi-Automatic npm and GitHub Releases with `gh-release` and `auto-changelog` A snippet I use all the time
over a year ago
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Semi-Automatic npm and GitHub Releases with `gh-release` and `auto-changelog`

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over a year ago
A snippet I use all the time
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Inverted Passion
Why you will skim this article Most likely, you’re going to read this sentence and hit the back button. Still here? Good, then...
a year ago
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Why you will skim this article

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a year ago
Most likely, you’re going to read this sentence and hit the back button. Still here? Good, then you’re likely to scan through a few paragraphs in this article and then give up. (Unless, you’re a long-time reader and trust that my writing is worthy of your time. More on this...
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Unpacked
AI-enabled SaaS vs Moatless AI Several enterprise SaaS companies have announced generative AI features recently, which is a direct...
a year ago
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AI-enabled SaaS vs Moatless AI

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a year ago
Several enterprise SaaS companies have announced generative AI features recently, which is a direct threat to AI startups that lack sustainable competitive advantage
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Left To Write
My 3 Principals To Become A Copywriter What I’ve figured out so far as a 1 man Ad-agency
over a year ago
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My 3 Principals To Become A Copywriter

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over a year ago
What I’ve figured out so far as a 1 man Ad-agency
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Arduino Blog
MKR Keylock is an open-source IoT keypad for your front door The age-old combination of physical locks and keys, although reliable, also comes with a few...
4 months ago
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MKR Keylock is an open-source IoT keypad for your front door

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4 months ago
The age-old combination of physical locks and keys, although reliable, also comes with a few drawbacks, such as when you lose the key or you want to share access with someone else remotely. Davide Gomba has recognized this and built the MKR Keylock project as a way to address...
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The American Scholar
A Messy Mix The post A Messy Mix appeared first on The American Scholar.
a year ago
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A Messy Mix

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a year ago
The post A Messy Mix appeared first on The American Scholar.
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HTMHell
Boost website speed with prefetching and the Speculation Rules API by Schepp Everybody loves fast websites, and everyone despises slow ones even more. Site speed...
6 months ago
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Boost website speed with prefetching and the Speculation Rules API

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6 months ago
by Schepp Everybody loves fast websites, and everyone despises slow ones even more. Site speed significantly contributes to the overall user experience (UX), determining whether it feels positive or negative. To ensure the fastest possible page load times, it’s crucial to design...
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The Marginalian
Mars and Our Search for Meaning: A Planetary Scientist’s Love Letter to Life "It is the search for infinity, the search for evidence that our capacious universe might hold life...
a year ago
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Mars and Our Search for Meaning: A Planetary Scientist’s Love Letter to Life

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a year ago
"It is the search for infinity, the search for evidence that our capacious universe might hold life elsewhere, in a different place or at a different time or in a different form."
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99% Invisible
Broken Plexus (3 of 3): Addressing Sensational Paradoxes of Peripheral Nerve Damage Peripheral neuropathy feels paradoxical at times, as sensory nerve damage can lead both to extreme...
2 months ago
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Broken Plexus (3 of 3): Addressing Sensational Paradoxes of Peripheral Nerve Damage

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2 months ago
Peripheral neuropathy feels paradoxical at times, as sensory nerve damage can lead both to extreme hypersensitivity on the one hand, as well as sections of complete numbness on … well, that very same injured hand. The impacts of such damage can be felt most persistently in the...
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somethingaboutmaps
Challenging the Idea of a Bad Map We’re just a couple of weeks away from the 30 Day Map Challenge, an annual celebration of...
a year ago
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Challenging the Idea of a Bad Map

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a year ago
We’re just a couple of weeks away from the 30 Day Map Challenge, an annual celebration of cartographic creativity. I know some of you are already brainstorming about what you might do this year. Each day has a prompt, and you’re encouraged to make a map that day that is based on...
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Seth's Blog
The broomstick objection Every founder, leader, sales rep and person on a dating app has heard this. Why did the Wizard ask...
9 months ago
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The broomstick objection

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9 months ago
Every founder, leader, sales rep and person on a dating app has heard this. Why did the Wizard ask Dorothy to bring him the broomstick of the Wicked Witch? It’s not because he needed a broomstick. It’s because he wanted Dorothy to go away. If you send someone away to get...
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Isabel Unraveled
how to be a domestic goddess notes from nigella & myself
3 months ago
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how to be a domestic goddess

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3 months ago
notes from nigella & myself
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One Useful Thing
Working with AI: Two paths to prompting Don't overcomplicate things
a year ago
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Working with AI: Two paths to prompting

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a year ago
Don't overcomplicate things
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Strange Loop Canon
Seeing Like A Network Dark Forests, Dense Networks
a year ago
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Seeing Like A Network

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a year ago
Dark Forests, Dense Networks
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Irrational...
Modeling impact of LLMs on Developer Experience. In How should you adopt Large Language Models? (LLMs), we considered how LLMs might impact a...
9 months ago
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Modeling impact of LLMs on Developer Experience.

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9 months ago
In How should you adopt Large Language Models? (LLMs), we considered how LLMs might impact a company’s developer experience. To support that exploration, I’ve developed a system model of the developing software at the company. In this chapter, we’ll work through: Summary results...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Captchas Turned Notification Exploits When my site analytics reported a large number of inbound traffic from Hacker News clones, I got...
7 months ago
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Captchas Turned Notification Exploits

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

7 months ago
When my site analytics reported a large number of inbound traffic from Hacker News clones, I got curious and started clicking links.[1] I like to visit links. I am connoisseur of it. I love the feeling of landing on something you didn’t expect — which is precisely what...
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Noahpinion
Toward a shallower future Adversity isn't worth the price of adversity.
a year ago
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Toward a shallower future

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a year ago
Adversity isn't worth the price of adversity.
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ToughSF
Nuclear Photon Rockets: Flashlights to the Stars In this post, we will have a look at the concept of using a nuclear photon rocket for interstellar...
over a year ago
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Nuclear Photon Rockets: Flashlights to the Stars

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over a year ago
In this post, we will have a look at the concept of using a nuclear photon rocket for interstellar travel. They are an old concept that should theoretically be the ultimate form of relativistic propulsion. However, today they are unknown or unpopular. Why might that be the...
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julian.digital
Thoughts on Clubhouse Today marks the 77th day since I got onboarded to Clubhouse. Clubhouse, for those not familiar with...
over a year ago
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Thoughts on Clubhouse

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over a year ago
Today marks the 77th day since I got onboarded to Clubhouse. Clubhouse, for those not familiar with it, is essentially an audio-first social network. It’s kind of a mix between Reddit and a podcast. An interactive radio show. The app lets you jump into different chat rooms and...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'It Is Always Summer, Always the Golden Hour' I fight the urge to wallow in nostalgia but it seeps back in like moisture in an unfinished...
2 days ago
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'It Is Always Summer, Always the Golden Hour'

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2 days ago
I fight the urge to wallow in nostalgia but it seeps back in like moisture in an unfinished basement. I take that image from my childhood home. The walls and floor were bare concrete. Stacks of newspaper and lumber felt flesh-like with dampness. Down there it was always chilly,...
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Daniel Miessler
Summary: Andrej Kaparthy on Lex Fridman’s Podcast (Late 2022) 9/10 This is a summary of Andrej Kaparthy’s appearance on Lex Fridman’s podcast in late 2022. My...
over a year ago
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Summary: Andrej Kaparthy on Lex Fridman’s Podcast (Late 2022)

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over a year ago
9/10 This is a summary of Andrej Kaparthy’s appearance on Lex Fridman’s podcast in late 2022. My One-Sentence Summary/Highlight The future of programming is not humans writing code, but neural nets creating weights. Capture Neural networks are mathematical expressions with many...
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Both Are True
i know i should fix my toe fungus, and yet the strange pleasures of refusing to change
a month ago
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i know i should fix my toe fungus, and yet

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a month ago
the strange pleasures of refusing to change
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NeuroLogica Blog
First Mission To Remove Space Debris I know you don’t need one more thing to worry about, but I have already written about the growing...
a year ago
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First Mission To Remove Space Debris

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a year ago
I know you don’t need one more thing to worry about, but I have already written about the growing problem of space debris. At least this update is about a mission to help clear some of that debris – ClearSpace-1. This is an ESA mission which they contracted out to a Swiss...
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The Turn Signal RSS...
Apple's Risky Bet on CarPlay Drivers love CarPlay. Apple's WWDC 22 keynote revealed that And it's easy to see why. Even compared...
a year ago
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Apple's Risky Bet on CarPlay

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a year ago
Drivers love CarPlay. Apple's WWDC 22 keynote revealed that And it's easy to see why. Even compared to the best native infotainment…
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Jonas Hietala
Postmortem: Black and White All this time working on my latest game I thought it sucked and I was trying hard to make it to not...
over a year ago
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Postmortem: Black and White

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over a year ago
All this time working on my latest game I thought it sucked and I was trying hard to make it to not suck. My spirit wasn’t high, just check this post and this but now when it’s done it’s like night and day, or like black and white! I’m damn happy I got it done!! Aah I’ll try to...
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Construction Physics
Building the Bell System If someone was making a list of the most important American companies today, it’s unlikely AT&T...
a year ago
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Building the Bell System

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

a year ago
If someone was making a list of the most important American companies today, it’s unlikely AT&T would be anywhere near the top. It’s large, but not notably so: it came in 32nd in the 2024 Fortune 500 ranking, just above Comcast and below Verizon. Its offerings are not unique:...
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Home on Erik...
In defense of false positives (why you can't fail with A/B tests) Many years ago, I used to think that A/B tests were foolproof and all you need to do is compare the...
over a year ago
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In defense of false positives (why you can't fail with A/B tests)

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over a year ago
Many years ago, I used to think that A/B tests were foolproof and all you need to do is compare the metrics for the two groups. The group with the highest conversion rate wins, right?
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Escaping Flatland
Without looking it up, what do you think? + links
8 months ago
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Without looking it up, what do you think?

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8 months ago
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Londonist
Eid In Trafalgar Square: Muslim Celebrations Return This April End of Ramadan marked in style.
a year ago
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Eid In Trafalgar Square: Muslim Celebrations Return This April

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End of Ramadan marked in style.
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Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 9-15 October 2023 The best articles from the past week.
a year ago
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Best Of Londonist: 9-15 October 2023

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a year ago
The best articles from the past week.
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Calculated Risk
Wednesday: ADP Employment Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. mortgage...
6 months ago
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Wednesday: ADP Employment

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6 months ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. mortgage purchase applications index. ADP Employment Report for December. This report is for private payrolls only (no government). The consensus is for 143,000, down from 146,000 jobs added in...
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The Turn Signal RSS...
Guidelines for Designing an In-Car Voice Assistant I turned all the research that I did for my previous article, about the impact of voice interaction...
over a year ago
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Guidelines for Designing an In-Car Voice Assistant

from The Turn Signal RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
I turned all the research that I did for my previous article, about the impact of voice interaction on driver distraction, into concrete…
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Christopher Butler
The Exodus A product marketing consultant with over a decade of experience is leaving to pursue art,...
5 months ago
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The Exodus

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5 months ago
A product marketing consultant with over a decade of experience is leaving to pursue art, illustration, and poetry. Another designer, burned out on growing her business, is pivoting to focus on fitness instead. These aren’t just isolated anecdotes — they’re part of an emerging...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Idiot Hopefulness or Fathomless Exasperation' When my oldest son was about seven and already a movie enthusiast, we drove up to the Crandall...
3 weeks ago
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'Idiot Hopefulness or Fathomless Exasperation'

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3 weeks ago
When my oldest son was about seven and already a movie enthusiast, we drove up to the Crandall Library in Glens Falls, N.Y. to watch Laurel and Hardy movies. I’d seen a notice in the paper. A film collector brought his own projector and a box of 16mm reels and set up in one of...
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The personal website...
Bottom Line Up Front: write to make decisions faster On April 2nd, 2020, Brett Crozier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt’s commanding officer, was relieved of...
over a year ago
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Bottom Line Up Front: write to make decisions faster

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

over a year ago
On April 2nd, 2020, Brett Crozier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt’s commanding officer, was relieved of command. The Navy’s decision to remove Crozier stemmed from a message that the commander wrote to his superiors. The message concerned a developing emergency aboard the Roosevelt:...
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Open Culture
How Bob Dylan Kept Reinventing His Songwriting Process, Breathing New Life Into His Music On his 84th birthday this past Saturday, Bob Dylan played a show. That was in keeping with not only...
a month ago
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How Bob Dylan Kept Reinventing His Songwriting Process, Breathing New Life Into His Music

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a month ago
On his 84th birthday this past Saturday, Bob Dylan played a show. That was in keeping with not only his still-serious touring schedule, but also his apparently irrepressible instinct to work: on music, on writing, on painting, on sculpture. Even his occasional tweeting draws an...
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Classical Wisdom
Sparta and… Scotland? Laconic wit through the centuries
over a year ago
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Sparta and… Scotland?

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over a year ago
Laconic wit through the centuries
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Eric Bailey
What the Web Still Is
over a year ago
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What the Web Still Is

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over a year ago
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A Beautiful Site
Success Requires Luck I've concluded that successful "makers" have one thing in common: luck. It's not that strategy and...
over a year ago
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Success Requires Luck

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over a year ago
I've concluded that successful "makers" have one thing in common: luck. It's not that strategy and vision don't play a role in success, but nobody — literally nobody — can guarantee that a product or service will be successful. Think about some of the major corporations that...
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Ferd.ca
The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents 2022/11/01 The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents A few weeks ago, a coworker of mine was running...
over a year ago
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The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents

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over a year ago
2022/11/01 The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents A few weeks ago, a coworker of mine was running an incident analysis in Jeli, and pointed out that the overall process was a big drag on their energy level, that it was hard to do, even if the final result was useful. They were...
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Willem's Blog
Tablet as main computer I have been using a tablet as my main computer for quite some time now. In this blog post I share...
over a year ago
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Tablet as main computer

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over a year ago
I have been using a tablet as my main computer for quite some time now. In this blog post I share you my experience on using Surface Pro and iPad Pro to get my work done.
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Birchtree
New estimates have ChatGPT using 10x less power than previously thought Josh You publishing a study on Epoch AI: How Much Energy Does ChatGPT Use? A commonly-cited claim is...
4 months ago
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New estimates have ChatGPT using 10x less power than previously thought

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4 months ago
Josh You publishing a study on Epoch AI: How Much Energy Does ChatGPT Use? A commonly-cited claim is that powering an individual ChatGPT query requires around 3 watt-hours of electricity, or 10 times as much as a Google search. However… We find that typical ChatGPT queries using...
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The Changelog
For the First Time In Years, I’m Excited By My Computer Purchase Some decades back, when I’d buy a new PC, it would unlock new capabilities. Maybe AGP video, or a...
a year ago
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For the First Time In Years, I’m Excited By My Computer Purchase

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a year ago
Some decades back, when I’d buy a new PC, it would unlock new capabilities. Maybe AGP video, or a PCMCIA slot, or, heck, sound. Nowadays, mostly new hardware means things get a bit faster or less crashy, or I have some more space for files. It’s good and useful, but sorta… meh....
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Joshua Smith
Big Bang Fireworks Company Based on 15 Pell Street, Chinatown, NYC. Beauty of Decay Solo Exhibition, DEW, Adelaide....
over a year ago
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Big Bang Fireworks Company

from Joshua Smith [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
Based on 15 Pell Street, Chinatown, NYC. Beauty of Decay Solo Exhibition, DEW, Adelaide. Scratchbuilt 1:20 Scale Miniature created from Wood, MDF, Plastruct, Cardboard, Paper, Plastic Card, Wire, LED Lighting Spraypaint, Chalk pastels. January 2016. SOLD. Private Collection....
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Christopher Butler
Who is the internet for? SEO, Clickless Search, and the AInternet Imagine designing and building a home while its...
5 months ago
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Who is the internet for?

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5 months ago
SEO, Clickless Search, and the AInternet Imagine designing and building a home while its residents continued living in it. What you create is highly customized to them because you observe them living in real time and make what they need. One day, while you’re still working,...
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bookbear express
matchmaking is open :)))
3 months ago
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matchmaking is open

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3 months ago
:)))
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The American Scholar
Femmes Fantastiques Mickalene Thomas and the art of remixing The post Femmes Fantastiques appeared first on The American...
a year ago
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Femmes Fantastiques

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a year ago
Mickalene Thomas and the art of remixing The post Femmes Fantastiques appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Service Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is just a big thank you to Bea Wolf buyers....
over a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Service

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over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is just a big thank you to Bea Wolf buyers. We're already in our 3rd printing and it doesn't come out for a month. If you want a hardcover, lock it in soon - they're gorgeous :D Today's News: Thanks y'all, I mean it. Here's...
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Classical Wisdom
What’s in a name? Is Re-labeling a distraction or disruption?
5 months ago
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What’s in a name?

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5 months ago
Is Re-labeling a distraction or disruption?
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wingolog
conservative gc can be faster than precise gc Should your garbage collector be precise or conservative? The prevailing wisdom is that precise is...
10 months ago
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conservative gc can be faster than precise gc

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

10 months ago
Should your garbage collector be precise or conservative? The prevailing wisdom is that precise is always better. Conservative GC can retain more objects than strictly necessary, making GC slow: GC has to more frequently, and it has to trace a larger heap on each...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - New Word Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Genuinely ashamed how much time was wasted on...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - New Word

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Genuinely ashamed how much time was wasted on this. Today's News:
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Londonist
Win Tickets To The Glowing Land Of Lights Lantern Festival This Winter Free entry for up to six people!
a year ago
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Win Tickets To The Glowing Land Of Lights Lantern Festival This Winter

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a year ago
Free entry for up to six people!
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David Heinemeier...
Enough problems to go around The worst kind of company is usually not the one where there's too much real work to do, but the...
a year ago
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Enough problems to go around

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

a year ago
The worst kind of company is usually not the one where there's too much real work to do, but the kind where there's not enough. It's in this realm the real monsters appear. Without enough real problems to go around, humans are prone to invent fictitious and dreadful ones. This...
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Articles
Public healthcare encourages entrepreneurship I'm a big fan of public healthcare. I don't think I would have started a business if we hadn't had...
over a year ago
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Public healthcare encourages entrepreneurship

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over a year ago
I'm a big fan of public healthcare. I don't think I would have started a business if we hadn't had it.
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TheCollector
Walking Around Vienna: Pro Tips to Understand the City and Its History A walled-in city up until the late 19th century, Vienna has expanded over the last two-plus...
2 months ago
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Walking Around Vienna: Pro Tips to Understand the City and Its History

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2 months ago
A walled-in city up until the late 19th century, Vienna has expanded over the last two-plus centuries to include 23 “districts” and to incorporate a variety of foreign influences into its architecture. Historical figures like Mozart, Beethoven, and Freud have their roots here, as...
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The Rational Walk
The Digest #208 Biden's Withdrawal and Limits of Gaslighting, The CrowdStrike Crash, Munger and Franklin, Steve Jobs...
11 months ago
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The Digest #208

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11 months ago
Biden's Withdrawal and Limits of Gaslighting, The CrowdStrike Crash, Munger and Franklin, Steve Jobs in 1983, Microsoft deep dive, Marks on risk, Luca Delanna on ergodicity, Guadalcanal
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A Smart Bear
Finding Fulfillment What creates a fulfilling existence? Exploring the question from different directions leads to a...
over a year ago
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Finding Fulfillment

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

over a year ago
What creates a fulfilling existence? Exploring the question from different directions leads to a framework I’ve used for years for myself and the people around me. I hope it helps you too.
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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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Joshua Smith
Williamsburg Loading Dock Description of artwork The post Williamsburg Loading Dock appeared first on Joshua Smith.
a year ago
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Williamsburg Loading Dock

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a year ago
Description of artwork The post Williamsburg Loading Dock appeared first on Joshua Smith.
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Retail Design Blog
Yohji Yamamoto store by OSO Following last year’s store openings in Shanghai and Beijing, fashion brand Yohji Yamamoto has...
5 months ago
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Yohji Yamamoto store by OSO

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

5 months ago
Following last year’s store openings in Shanghai and Beijing, fashion brand Yohji Yamamoto has inaugurated a new boutique in another...
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Good Enough
You Need Customers to Succeed in Small Business For your small business to survive, you need customers. Not just to buy once. You need them to come...
2 months ago
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You Need Customers to Succeed in Small Business

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2 months ago
For your small business to survive, you need customers. Not just to buy once. You need them to come back, tell their friends, and trust you over time. And yet, too many small businesses make it weirdly hard to talk to them. Well, duh, right? I agree, yet I see small businesses...
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Flashbak
Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986 A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
a year ago
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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986

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a year ago
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city before there was a  Selfridges or Harvey Nichols, and no Bullring as we know it today. Birmingham was a place of subway shops and underground passages that are now filled in and...
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SatPost by Trung...
I want Apple's Vision Pro The Apple Vision Pro has a very appealing use case: "the workplace of your dreams".
over a year ago
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I want Apple's Vision Pro

from SatPost by Trung Phan [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
The Apple Vision Pro has a very appealing use case: "the workplace of your dreams".
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Calculated Risk
January 19th COVID Update: COVID in Wastewater Decreasing Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. For deaths, I'm...
5 months ago
216

January 19th COVID Update: COVID in Wastewater Decreasing

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

5 months ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. For deaths, I'm currently using 4 weeks ago for "now", since the most recent three weeks will be revised significantly. Note: "Effective May 1, 2024, hospitals are no longer required to report...
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Making software...
Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop 2023-05-01 I recently wrote about physically disabling...
over a year ago
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Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop

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over a year ago
Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop 2023-05-01 I recently wrote about physically disabling the WiFi toggle switch on my X201 which was a fun "hack" to an annoying issue I was running into. Since then, the laptop has been running flawlessly. The only other minor issue I had...
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Paul Graham: Essays
Java's Cover
over a year ago
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Java's Cover

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over a year ago
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Solving the decision...
Durable Objects Callbacks are Weird but it's also convenient to solve human-in-the-loop for ai agents
5 months ago
31

Durable Objects Callbacks are Weird

from Solving the decision problem [alt+shift+b] in AI

5 months ago
but it's also convenient to solve human-in-the-loop for ai agents
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 043: Happy birthday, ChatGPT December 1, 2023.
a year ago
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AI Roundup 043: Happy birthday, ChatGPT

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a year ago
December 1, 2023.
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Rest of World -...
Las compañías de autos eléctricos quieren el litio de Argentina. Poco queda para sus ciudadanos. A los habitantes de la Isla Paulino se les prometió baterías de litio para reducir el uso de...
a year ago
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Las compañías de autos eléctricos quieren el litio de Argentina. Poco queda para sus ciudadanos.

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

a year ago
A los habitantes de la Isla Paulino se les prometió baterías de litio para reducir el uso de generadores. El proyecto se frenó. Mientras tanto, las exportaciones de litio crecen.
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Gwern.net Newsletter
May Gwern.net Newsletter Link compilation newsletter with anime GAN updates, links on AI scaling, discussion of GPT-3, and 1...
over a year ago
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May Gwern.net Newsletter

from Gwern.net Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Link compilation newsletter with anime GAN updates, links on AI scaling, discussion of GPT-3, and 1 book review.
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Liz Denys
National Gallery of Art "Walkway to east building," where arguably necessary conveyor belts come with sparkling lights.
over a year ago
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National Gallery of Art

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over a year ago
"Walkway to east building," where arguably necessary conveyor belts come with sparkling lights.
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Noahpinion
Five possible reasons China's productivity slowed down A repost, with some updates.
6 months ago
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Five possible reasons China's productivity slowed down

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6 months ago
A repost, with some updates.
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Old Structures...
Split Personality Live, from Montreal, the Cathedrale Marie Reine du Monde et Saint Jacques: Putting aside the...
7 months ago
59

Split Personality

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

7 months ago
Live, from Montreal, the Cathedrale Marie Reine du Monde et Saint Jacques: Putting aside the building’s architectural merit – and there is a great deal – I find this kind of church interesting structurally. We have at least three very different types of structure here. There’s...
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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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Breck's Blog
Does 3D exist?
2 months ago
17

Does 3D exist?

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2 months ago
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Ben Borgers
It's Fun to Do Things with Care
over a year ago
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It's Fun to Do Things with Care

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The Rational Walk
The Digest #179 Guard your time, Tributes to Charlie Munger, Social media traps, The margin of illusion, AI...
a year ago
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The Digest #179

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

a year ago
Guard your time, Tributes to Charlie Munger, Social media traps, The margin of illusion, AI colonoscopies, Advice on tipping, Alcohol and cardiovascular risks, Nicomachean ethics
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Thinking beyond value-based care | Out-Of-Pocket Maybe there’s more to life than shared savings
9 months ago
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Thinking beyond value-based care | Out-Of-Pocket

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9 months ago
Maybe there’s more to life than shared savings
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Florian Bellmann |...
How to strategically approach technical improvements It's hard to make the right technical decisions in an active project. Particularly improvements...
a year ago
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How to strategically approach technical improvements

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

a year ago
It's hard to make the right technical decisions in an active project. Particularly improvements without direct business value are difficult to manage. In this post, we discuss some learnings from the battlefield on how improvements can be approached.
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Chris Grossack's...
An Empty Product of Nonempty Sets A few days ago I saw a cute question on mse asking about a particularly non-intuitive failing of...
a month ago
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An Empty Product of Nonempty Sets

from Chris Grossack's Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a month ago
A few days ago I saw a cute question on mse asking about a particularly non-intuitive failing of the axiom of choice. I remember when I was an undergrad talking to a friend of mine about various statements equivalent to choice, and being particularly hung up on the same...
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Mind Mine
are relationships actually “hard”? on weak, unconvincing statements and expectations vs. reality
6 months ago
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are relationships actually “hard”?

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6 months ago
on weak, unconvincing statements and expectations vs. reality
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Artificial Ignorance
The Self-Made AI Engineer From writing about ChatGPT to becoming a professional AI engineer.
3 months ago
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The Self-Made AI Engineer

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3 months ago
From writing about ChatGPT to becoming a professional AI engineer.
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The American Scholar
The Rascal of Pont-Aven Reassessing a renowned painter’s troubling life The post The Rascal of Pont-Aven appeared first on...
a month ago
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The Rascal of Pont-Aven

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a month ago
Reassessing a renowned painter’s troubling life The post The Rascal of Pont-Aven appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Construction Physics
The Rise of Steel Part II Welcome to the Rise of Steel part II. We previously looked at the early stages of industrialization...
over a year ago
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The Rise of Steel Part II

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

over a year ago
Welcome to the Rise of Steel part II. We previously looked at the early stages of industrialization of iron and steelmaking, between roughly 1200 and 1850. To briefly recap, making steel was an involved, multistep process. Iron would first be smelted from iron ore in a blast...
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The Diff
How High Does AI's Revenue Per User Get? Plus! The Challenges of Scaling Challengers; The Reddit Loop; Scaling AI by Doing Things That Don't...
7 months ago
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How High Does AI's Revenue Per User Get?

from The Diff [alt+shift+b] in finance

7 months ago
Plus! The Challenges of Scaling Challengers; The Reddit Loop; Scaling AI by Doing Things That Don't Scale Yet; Complete Markets; Legitimacy and Growth
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Quanta Magazine
For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time One computer scientist’s “stunning” proof is the first progress in 50 years on one of the most...
a month ago
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For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time

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a month ago
One computer scientist’s “stunning” proof is the first progress in 50 years on one of the most famous questions in computer science. The post For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Yale e360
As Wind and Solar Grow, China Ships More Coal Overseas A slowing economy and the rapid growth of wind and solar have blunted demand for coal in China....
2 weeks ago
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As Wind and Solar Grow, China Ships More Coal Overseas

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

2 weeks ago
A slowing economy and the rapid growth of wind and solar have blunted demand for coal in China. Increasingly, producers are selling coal overseas. Read more on E360 →
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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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Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 Smart Quotes for Smart People Good typography uses smart quotes, not dumb quotes. — Jason Santa Maria Visit original link → or...
10 months ago
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🔗 Smart Quotes for Smart People

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10 months ago
Good typography uses smart quotes, not dumb quotes. — Jason Santa Maria Visit original link → or View on nazhamid.com →
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Noahpinion
Hispanics as the new Irish A historical analogy to help us understand the present moment.
a year ago
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Hispanics as the new Irish

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a year ago
A historical analogy to help us understand the present moment.
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Citation Needed
Issue 80 – Aimed at benefiting the digital assets industry As the US government lays a very favorable groundwork for the crypto industry, Trump positions...
3 months ago
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Issue 80 – Aimed at benefiting the digital assets industry

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

3 months ago
As the US government lays a very favorable groundwork for the crypto industry, Trump positions himself for maximum personal profit
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xkcd.com
Hydrothermal Vents
a year ago
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Hydrothermal Vents

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a year ago
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TheCollector
Trove of 100 Napoleon Artifacts Heads to Auction A vast and varied collection of artifacts—all related to the life and legacy of Napoleon...
a month ago
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Trove of 100 Napoleon Artifacts Heads to Auction

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

a month ago
A vast and varied collection of artifacts—all related to the life and legacy of Napoleon Bonaparte—is heading to the auction block at Sotheby’s Paris next month. According to Marine de Cenival, head of sales at Sotheby’s Paris, “Few collections have succeeded so well in capturing...
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Good Enough
Season 3, Issue 3: Cosmic Maelstrom 1. Team Full It's exciting times over here at Good Enough HQ! (There is no Good Enough HQ. I'd say...
over a year ago
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Season 3, Issue 3: Cosmic Maelstrom

from Good Enough [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
1. Team Full It's exciting times over here at Good Enough HQ! (There is no Good Enough HQ. I'd say it's in the cloud, but even clouds are now looked down upon as dirtyish things that should not be enjoyed. And not because of air pollution per se, though perhaps because of...
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Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing TagVault Fabric for AirTag Having an AirTag fall out of our camera bag pocket that was then stolen, we wanted something...
over a year ago
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Introducing TagVault Fabric for AirTag

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

over a year ago
Having an AirTag fall out of our camera bag pocket that was then stolen, we wanted something better. So we designed TagVault Fabric Mount for AirTag. It is ultra-flexible to move and flow with your fabric. Discreet, so it doesn't stand out to a would-be thief. And it's...
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Wrong Side of...
Technology indistinguishable from magic Our age of miracles: the medical breakthroughs of 2024
6 months ago
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Technology indistinguishable from magic

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

6 months ago
Our age of miracles: the medical breakthroughs of 2024
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The Diff
Venture and Media Plus! Cluely; Big Tech Sees Like a State; Distribution; Student Loans and Demand Shocks; Rollups
2 months ago
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Venture and Media

from The Diff [alt+shift+b] in finance

2 months ago
Plus! Cluely; Big Tech Sees Like a State; Distribution; Student Loans and Demand Shocks; Rollups
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I Have No Idea What...
Getting to 19,000 monthly clicks: Everything I've learned about SEO as a beginner It’s been a while since my last post! Since then, I’ve been focusing on growing Remote Rocketship....
over a year ago
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Getting to 19,000 monthly clicks: Everything I've learned about SEO as a beginner

from I Have No Idea What I'm Doing [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago
It’s been a while since my last post! Since then, I’ve been focusing on growing Remote Rocketship. I’m super excited to announce that it’s reached $2,000 MRR! 🥳 You may recall from the last post that I mentioned that the only sustainable channel to grow the website is SEO and...
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latest projects -...
Badge [Hardware] A RISC-V LED matrix
a year ago
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Badge

from latest projects - mitxela.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
[Hardware] A RISC-V LED matrix
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Blog - Practical...
When Kitty Litter Caused a Nuclear Catastrophe [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Late in the night of...
2 months ago
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When Kitty Litter Caused a Nuclear Catastrophe

from Blog - Practical Engineering [alt+shift+b] in science

2 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Late in the night of Valentine’s Day 2014, air monitors at an underground nuclear waste repository outside Carlsbad, New Mexico, detected the release of radioactive elements, including americium and plutonium,...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Some Miscellaneous Thoughts on Visual Design Prodded By The Sameness of AI Company Logos Radek Sienkiewicz in a funny-because-its-true piece titled “Why do AI company logos look like...
a month ago
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Some Miscellaneous Thoughts on Visual Design Prodded By The Sameness of AI Company Logos

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

a month ago
Radek Sienkiewicz in a funny-because-its-true piece titled “Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?“: We made a circular shape [logo] with some angles because it looked nice, then wrote flowery language to justify why our…design is actually profound. As someone who has grown...
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David Crawshaw
Compiler Bomb main[-1u]={1}; codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/69189/build-a-compiler-bomb/69193#69193
over a year ago
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Compiler Bomb

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

over a year ago
main[-1u]={1}; codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/69189/build-a-compiler-bomb/69193#69193
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Max Rozen
The Definitive Guide to Commonly Used Words in React Do some words in React have you scratching your head? Ref? Stateless component? Let's learn some...
over a year ago
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The Definitive Guide to Commonly Used Words in React

from Max Rozen [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago
Do some words in React have you scratching your head? Ref? Stateless component? Let's learn some words!
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Engineer’s Codex
How Google writes clean, maintainable code Google's SWE Book explains their readability process and style guides
a year ago
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How Google writes clean, maintainable code

from Engineer’s Codex [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Google's SWE Book explains their readability process and style guides
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Arduino Blog
The 2024 Arduino Open Source Report is here! Every year, we take a moment to reflect on the contributions we made to the open source movement,...
4 months ago
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The 2024 Arduino Open Source Report is here!

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

4 months ago
Every year, we take a moment to reflect on the contributions we made to the open source movement, and the many ways our community has made a huge difference. As we publish the latest Open Source Report, we are proud to say 2024 was another year of remarkable progress and...
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abdz.do - Have you...
Monterra: sipping on sustainable and vegan wines with stylish packaging design Monterra: sipping on sustainable and vegan wines with stylish packaging design ...
over a year ago
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Monterra: sipping on sustainable and vegan wines with stylish packaging design

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

over a year ago
Monterra: sipping on sustainable and vegan wines with stylish packaging design abduzeedo0217—23 For over a decade, Monterra has been creating top-of-the-line wines sourced from picturesque vineyards in South Australia. But in recent times, the...
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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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Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 One of the most interesting learnings after doing lead gen for 100+ b2b companies: the more...
a year ago
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week

from Business Brainstorms [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
#1 💡 One of the most interesting learnings after doing lead gen for 100+ b2b companies: the more directly your offer is related to one the core b2b “desires”, the easier the sales process. Many offers are only indirectly related to them. A better design might increases...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Kid Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I mean it's frustrating. Why can't we just select...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Kid

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

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I mean it's frustrating. Why can't we just select the year that the sun swallows the Earth and work backward? Today's News:
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Joshua Smith
Liberated X Based on Liberated X Bookshop and Shoe Repairs, Flinders Street, Melbourne. Scratchbuilt 1:20 Scale...
over a year ago
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Liberated X

from Joshua Smith [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
Based on Liberated X Bookshop and Shoe Repairs, Flinders Street, Melbourne. Scratchbuilt 1:20 Scale Miniature created from MDF, Wood, cardboard, chalk pastels, spraypaint, wire, plastruct. Created for VOLTA Art Fair, New York City, March 2017. Photo Credit: Andrew Beveridge/ASB...
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bt RSS Feed
Designers Need Thicker Skin Designers Need Thicker Skin 2017-07-10 I’m not normally one to comment or even really care about...
over a year ago
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Designers Need Thicker Skin

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

over a year ago
Designers Need Thicker Skin 2017-07-10 I’m not normally one to comment or even really care about “drama” within our design industry. Opinions are just that and should just be consumed at face value. But this week I was moderately annoyed with a subset of designers in...
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Patrick Kayongo
River Flows Crouched on the side of his bed, Tambu sat sobbing. He had slammed the door to his bedroom and...
a year ago
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River Flows

from Patrick Kayongo [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Crouched on the side of his bed, Tambu sat sobbing. He had slammed the door to his bedroom and needed time out after yet another fight with his parents.  I really don’t belong here. They’ll never understand me. They’re so toxic and oppressive. I don’t know how much longer I can...
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TheCollector
Jamaican Activist: Who Was Marcus Garvey? To some, Marcus Garvey was a visionary – prophet of Pan-Africanism, pioneer of black pride, freedom...
2 months ago
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Jamaican Activist: Who Was Marcus Garvey?

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago
To some, Marcus Garvey was a visionary – prophet of Pan-Africanism, pioneer of black pride, freedom fighter. His influence sparked black power movements from the Nation of Islam to Rastafari and inspired anti-colonial thinkers around the world. To others, his authoritarian style,...
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Louwrentius
I made my blog solar-powered, then things escalated In 2020 I wondered if I could run my blog on solar power, being inspired by Low-tech Magazine, doing...
over a year ago
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I made my blog solar-powered, then things escalated

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
In 2020 I wondered if I could run my blog on solar power, being inspired by Low-tech Magazine, doing the same thing (but better)1. The answer was 'yes', but only through spring and summer. I live in an apartment complex in The Netherlands and my balcony is facing west. This...
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Haterade
Happy Birthday, Haterade The Terrible Twos. Plus, new merch!
over a year ago
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Happy Birthday, Haterade

from Haterade [alt+shift+b] in creative

over a year ago
The Terrible Twos. Plus, new merch!
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Tom Blomfield
Automating Customer Service at a Startup Customer service can make or break a company; it has been one of the key differentiators as a new...
over a year ago
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Automating Customer Service at a Startup

from Tom Blomfield [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
Customer service can make or break a company; it has been one of the key differentiators as a new generation of startups seeks to compete against incumbents. While people remember examples of awesome customer service, the opposite is also true. At GoCardless, we decided early on...
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The Marginalian
Winnicott on the Psychology of Democracy, the Most Dangerous Type of Person, and the Unconscious... In the late morning of the first day of August in 2023, exactly twenty summers after I arrived in...
9 months ago
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Winnicott on the Psychology of Democracy, the Most Dangerous Type of Person, and the Unconscious Root of Resisting Women Leaders

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

9 months ago
In the late morning of the first day of August in 2023, exactly twenty summers after I arrived in Philadelphia as a lone teenager from a country thirteen centuries America’s senior, I experienced that wonderful capacity for self-surprise as tears came streaming down my face in a...
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Astral Codex Ten
Hidden Open Thread 377.5 ...
2 months ago
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Hidden Open Thread 377.5

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2 months ago
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Articles
The Hierarchy of Needs for new Product Ideas
over a year ago
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The Hierarchy of Needs for new Product Ideas

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over a year ago
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Londonist
Supperclub.Tube: The Tube Carriage Serving A Six-Course Tasting Menu Definitely the best way to spend three hours on the tube.
a year ago
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Supperclub.Tube: The Tube Carriage Serving A Six-Course Tasting Menu

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
Definitely the best way to spend three hours on the tube.
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xkcd.com
Alphabetical Cartogram
a year ago
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Alphabetical Cartogram

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a year ago
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Epic Web Dev
Why you should probably be using SQLite
a year ago
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Why you should probably be using SQLite

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

a year ago
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Quanta Magazine
Across a Continent, Trees Sync Their Fruiting to the Sun European beech trees more than 1,500 kilometers apart all drop their fruit at the same time in a...
a year ago
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Across a Continent, Trees Sync Their Fruiting to the Sun

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

a year ago
European beech trees more than 1,500 kilometers apart all drop their fruit at the same time in a grand synchronization event now linked to the summer solstice. The post Across a Continent, Trees Sync Their Fruiting to the Sun first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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The Honest Broker
Were the First Laws Sung? I make some radical claims in this extract from my new book 'Music to Raise the Dead'
over a year ago
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Were the First Laws Sung?

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

over a year ago
I make some radical claims in this extract from my new book 'Music to Raise the Dead'
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Fairytale Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Kids have precisely three fantasies: nurturing,...
a year ago
39

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Fairytale

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

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Kids have precisely three fantasies: nurturing, power, and retribution. Adults are the same, plus sex and immortality. Today's News:
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Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Madder Cutch & Co. We are screen printers. We presume everyone knows that this is pushing ink through a mesh, which has...
over a year ago
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Meet the Maker: Madder Cutch & Co.

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

over a year ago
We are screen printers. We presume everyone knows that this is pushing ink through a mesh, which has a pattern on it, using a squeegee. In our case, the screen and squeegee are quite big! We print linen by the metre and it is mainly used for home decorations, including...
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Common Edge
The Uneven—but Important—Legacy of Prince Charles, Architecture Critic While his design prescriptions were too narrow, his critique of modern planning principles still...
a year ago
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The Uneven—but Important—Legacy of Prince Charles, Architecture Critic

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

a year ago
While his design prescriptions were too narrow, his critique of modern planning principles still holds resonance.
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Val Sopi
On using time <p>One thing I've gotten really good at over the years is using time in terms of how it affects my...
a year ago
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On using time

from Val Sopi [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

a year ago
<p>One thing I've gotten really good at over the years is using time in terms of how it affects my product-making process.</p><p>Back in the day, when I was greener, I&nbsp;used to rush things, not just for the sake of rushing to get them out of the door —&nbsp;but I would get to...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Jump Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You would just watch your friends jump off a cliff...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Jump

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

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You would just watch your friends jump off a cliff and do NOTHING? Today's News:
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The Honest Broker
The Dying Singer Who Cured Himself with Music The strange case of Leo Kofler
9 months ago
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The Dying Singer Who Cured Himself with Music

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9 months ago
The strange case of Leo Kofler
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Jailbreak Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Of course the risk is that it doesn't work and now...
over a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Jailbreak

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

over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Of course the risk is that it doesn't work and now you're just shouting carburetor at old men. Today's News:
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Epics Collection
12 months ago
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Weekend Roundup

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12 months ago
The Epics Collection
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Anecdotal Evidence
'What He Knows Who Looks Into Life and Sees' Most of my preoccupations lie elsewhere but I retain a casual interest in what used to be called...
4 weeks ago
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'What He Knows Who Looks Into Life and Sees'

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

4 weeks ago
Most of my preoccupations lie elsewhere but I retain a casual interest in what used to be called field biology. That is, the non-molecular, outside-the-laboratory practice of observing plants and animals, even in the middle of Houston. The motives are pleasure, wonder and...
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Rest of World -...
Mexican shoppers say Shein and Temu’s delivery partner is stealing their stuff Former employees at third-party logistics company J&T Express say the high volume of packages from...
10 months ago
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Mexican shoppers say Shein and Temu’s delivery partner is stealing their stuff

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

10 months ago
Former employees at third-party logistics company J&T Express say the high volume of packages from the two Chinese companies has become unmanageable.
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I Have No Idea What...
Working on a new idea, and then discarding it Over the last month, I’ve been exploring a new idea in the cold outbound sales space. The idea is to...
over a year ago
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Working on a new idea, and then discarding it

from I Have No Idea What I'm Doing [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago
Over the last month, I’ve been exploring a new idea in the cold outbound sales space. The idea is to generate personalized cold emails at scale using AI. Currently, there is a trade-off between quantity and quality when it comes to sending cold emails: Either you spend lots of...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Proving Binaries Heydon Pickering has an intriguing video dealing with the question: “Why is everything binary?” The...
3 months ago
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Proving Binaries

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

3 months ago
Heydon Pickering has an intriguing video dealing with the question: “Why is everything binary?” The gist of the video, to me, distills to this insight: The idea that [everything] belongs to one of two archetypes is seductive in its simplicity, so we base everything that we do and...
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Birchtree
Handheld consoles, assemble! Jez Corden writing for Windows Central: EXCLUSIVE: Xbox's New Hardware Plans Begin With a Gaming...
3 months ago
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Handheld consoles, assemble!

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

3 months ago
Jez Corden writing for Windows Central: EXCLUSIVE: Xbox's New Hardware Plans Begin With a Gaming Handheld Set for Later This Year, With Full Next-Gen Consoles Targeting 2027 Microsoft is working with a PC gaming OEM (think ASUS, Lenovo, MSI, Razer, etc.) on an Xbox-branded gaming...
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Posts on Made of...
Versioning dotfiles in git I’ve been looking for a good solution for versioning and synchronizing my dotfiles between machines...
over a year ago
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Versioning dotfiles in git

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

over a year ago
I’ve been looking for a good solution for versioning and synchronizing my dotfiles between machines for some time. I experimented with keeping all of ~ in subversion for a while, but it never worked out well for me. I’ve finally settled on a solution that I like using git, and so...
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The DESK Magazine
A clean, peaceful place to read your articles without distractions The people who use mymind typically have an intellectual side. They like to think, learn and...
over a year ago
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A clean, peaceful place to read your articles without distractions

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

over a year ago
The people who use mymind typically have an intellectual side. They like to think, learn and challenge themselves on their own time. So we knew this brand new feature was not optional: Reader Mode.
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Articles
Starting a business is easy
over a year ago
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Starting a business is easy

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over a year ago
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Quanta Magazine
How Do Machines ‘Grok’ Data? By apparently overtraining them, researchers have seen neural networks discover novel solutions to...
a year ago
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How Do Machines ‘Grok’ Data?

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

a year ago
By apparently overtraining them, researchers have seen neural networks discover novel solutions to problems. The post How Do Machines ‘Grok’ Data? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Calculated Risk
Personal Income increased 0.8% in February; Spending increased 0.4% The BEA released the Personal Income and Outlays report for February: Personal income increased...
3 months ago
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Personal Income increased 0.8% in February; Spending increased 0.4%

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

3 months ago
The BEA released the Personal Income and Outlays report for February: Personal income increased $194.7 billion (0.8 percent at a monthly rate) in February, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Disposable personal income (DPI)—personal...
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Remains of the Day
The John Wick Universe is Cancel Culture “Si vis pacem para bellum” translated “If you want peace, prepare for...
over a year ago
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The John Wick Universe is Cancel Culture

from Remains of the Day [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
“Si vis pacem para bellum” translated “If you want peace, prepare for war” ...
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Working Theorys
Great Products Have Great Premises The most powerful thing a product can do is give its user a premise.
a year ago
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Great Products Have Great Premises

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

a year ago
The most powerful thing a product can do is give its user a premise.
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The Marginalian
The Courage to Be Yourself: Virginia Woolf on How to Hear Your Soul "Beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself."
a year ago
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The Courage to Be Yourself: Virginia Woolf on How to Hear Your Soul

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

a year ago
"Beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself."
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NeuroLogica Blog
RFK Jr., Joe Rogan, and Vaccines RFK Jr., who is now running for the Democratic presidential nomination, is anti-vaccine. He will...
over a year ago
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RFK Jr., Joe Rogan, and Vaccines

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

over a year ago
RFK Jr., who is now running for the Democratic presidential nomination, is anti-vaccine. He will vehemently deny this, but I don’t buy it for a second. He is simply playing the, “I’m not anti-vaccine, I am pro-safe vaccine” gambit, which is disingenuous and always has been. We...
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Confessions of a...
Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() Discover why 'if not mylist' is twice as fast as 'len(mylist) == 0' by examining CPython's VM...
3 months ago
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Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len()

from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 months ago
Discover why 'if not mylist' is twice as fast as 'len(mylist) == 0' by examining CPython's VM instructions and object memory access patterns.
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Mazdak
TikTok, Netflix, and the Future of Media: Key Insights from 2024's Biggest Winners In 2024, the global media landscape experienced monumental shifts, with platforms like TikTok and...
5 months ago
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TikTok, Netflix, and the Future of Media: Key Insights from 2024's Biggest Winners

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

5 months ago
In 2024, the global media landscape experienced monumental shifts, with platforms like TikTok and Netflix setting unprecedented benchmarks in user engagement, ad revenue, and growth.
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Paul Graham: Essays
How to Do Great Work
over a year ago
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How to Do Great Work

from Paul Graham: Essays [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
Make Fun Of Them Have you ever heard Sam Altman speak? I’m serious, have you ever heard this man say words from his...
a week ago
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Make Fun Of Them

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups

a week ago
Have you ever heard Sam Altman speak? I’m serious, have you ever heard this man say words from his mouth?  Here is but one of the trenchant insights from Sam Altman in his agonizing 37-minute-long podcast conversation with his brother Jack Altman from last week: “I
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Retail Design Blog
Paris Saint Germain Flagship Store by oftn studio Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) is a football club based in Paris, France, that extends its football...
10 months ago
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Paris Saint Germain Flagship Store by oftn studio

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

10 months ago
Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) is a football club based in Paris, France, that extends its football culture into lifestyle products, including...
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Quanta Magazine
A Mutation Turned Ants Into Parasites in One Generation A new genetics study of ant “social parasites” shows how complex sets of features can emerge rapidly...
over a year ago
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A Mutation Turned Ants Into Parasites in One Generation

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

over a year ago
A new genetics study of ant “social parasites” shows how complex sets of features can emerge rapidly and potentially split species. The post A Mutation Turned Ants Into Parasites in One Generation first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here?
a year ago
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Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here?

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

a year ago
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Flashbak
Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some...
a year ago
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Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 107: GPT-4.5 February 28, 2025.
4 months ago
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AI Roundup 107: GPT-4.5

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4 months ago
February 28, 2025.
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IEEE Spectrum
This 1945 TV Console Showed Two Programs at Once As I try to write this article, my friend and I have six different screens attached to three types...
a week ago
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This 1945 TV Console Showed Two Programs at Once

from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in science

a week ago
As I try to write this article, my friend and I have six different screens attached to three types of devices. We’re working in the same room but on our own projects—separate yet together, a comfortable companionship. I had never really thought of the proliferation of screens as...
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Christopher Butler
We Live in the Uncanny Valley Now Making virtual worlds can help us understand the real one, but they’re not places we can live...
over a year ago
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We Live in the Uncanny Valley Now

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

over a year ago
Making virtual worlds can help us understand the real one, but they’re not places we can live permanently. Terebithia, the imaginary world he and his friend Leslie create in the woods would have no meaning, no power, and no purpose. Theirs is a story about real children, in...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Should Japan Release Radioactive Water Into The Pacific? Japan is planning on releasing treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear accident into...
a year ago
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Should Japan Release Radioactive Water Into The Pacific?

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

a year ago
Japan is planning on releasing treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear accident into the ocean. They claim this will be completely safe, but there are protests going on in both Japan and South Korea, and China has just placed a ban on seafood from Japan. In a perfect...
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Common Edge
Wonder and Awe in a James Turrell Skyspace The artist’s latest work, in Manhattan, is both an engineering and a visual marvel that moves the...
7 months ago
86

Wonder and Awe in a James Turrell Skyspace

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

7 months ago
The artist’s latest work, in Manhattan, is both an engineering and a visual marvel that moves the spirit.
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Laetitia@Work
The Authority Gap Laetitia@Work #47
over a year ago
25

The Authority Gap

from Laetitia@Work [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
Laetitia@Work #47
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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
28

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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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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Summary of changes for May 2023

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

over 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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, updated jib cars, and added new recommendations on the...
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Computer Ads from...
Ann Arbor Software's Textra Word Processing The shortest distance between your thoughts and the printed word.
a week ago
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Ann Arbor Software's Textra Word Processing

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

a week ago
The shortest distance between your thoughts and the printed word.
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Seth's Blog
Cheaper than that The race to the bottom has been won. Anything cheaper than what’s on offer is a waste of the...
over a year ago
72

Cheaper than that

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

over a year ago
The race to the bottom has been won. Anything cheaper than what’s on offer is a waste of the customer’s money, because it won’t get the job done. Once we’ve cut every corner, all that’s left is the brutality of less. One slogan is: You’ll pay less than you should have, and waste...
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The Map is Mostly...
Everything I know about gardening I have been sharing pictures of flowers growing around my house, mostly little things like poppies...
over a year ago
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Everything I know about gardening

from The Map is Mostly Water [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
I have been sharing pictures of flowers growing around my house, mostly little things like poppies and roses, or my fields, and several people have asked me to write about gardening, or for gardening advice. But this request encounters a ridiculous shortcoming: I know almost...
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Irrational...
How to get more headcount. One of the recurring challenges that teams face is getting headcount to support their initiatives. A...
7 months ago
68

How to get more headcount.

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

7 months ago
One of the recurring challenges that teams face is getting headcount to support their initiatives. A similar problem is the idea that a team can’t get a favored project into their roadmap. In both cases, teams often create a story about how clueless executives don’t understand...
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Matt Mazur
Redesigning Preceden’s Pricing Page Milan (Preceden’s designer) and I recently wrapped up a project to redesign Preceden’s pricing page....
a year ago
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Redesigning Preceden’s Pricing Page

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

a year ago
Milan (Preceden’s designer) and I recently wrapped up a project to redesign Preceden’s pricing page. Here’s the previous above-the-fold content: And here’s how the new design turned out: Few things to highlight: Very happy with how it turned out. Kudus to Milan for suggesting we...
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AFAR Media - Travel...
8 Lesser-Known Places to Visit in the Nordic Countries
10 months ago
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8 Lesser-Known Places to Visit in the Nordic Countries

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10 months ago
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Yale e360
Volunteers in England Plant Thousands of Trees to Restore Celtic Rainforest Volunteers have planted more than 2,500 native trees on pasture in southwest England, part of a...
5 months ago
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Volunteers in England Plant Thousands of Trees to Restore Celtic Rainforest

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

5 months ago
Volunteers have planted more than 2,500 native trees on pasture in southwest England, part of a larger effort to recreate the temperate rainforest that once dominated much of the British Isles. Read more on E360 →
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Classical Wisdom
At What Cost Should We Have Great Works? Does unearthing the history take away from the grandeur?
a month ago
12

At What Cost Should We Have Great Works?

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

a month ago
Does unearthing the history take away from the grandeur?
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The Ruffian
Leslie's Razors Nine Rules of Thumb For Life
a year ago
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Leslie's Razors

from The Ruffian [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
Nine Rules of Thumb For Life
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The Oatmeal - Comics...
Taking selfies from various angles No one out-pizzas the Keith View on my website
over a year ago
48

Taking selfies from various angles

from The Oatmeal - Comics by Matthew Inman [alt+shift+b] in comics

over a year ago
No one out-pizzas the Keith View on my website
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cup Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: More of the relatable humor you've come to...
a month ago
21

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cup

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

a month ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: More of the relatable humor you've come to appreciate from SMBC. Today's News:
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Basta’s Notes
Matt Basta: purveyor of fake news A story about how I accidentally duped the Bay Area press in 2013
over a year ago
26

Matt Basta: purveyor of fake news

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over a year ago
A story about how I accidentally duped the Bay Area press in 2013
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Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Outperforming everything with anything It's about 100 lines of Python code that generate a linear solver in LLVM intermediate language...
over a year ago
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[Renovated] Outperforming everything with anything

from Words and Buttons Online [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
It's about 100 lines of Python code that generate a linear solver in LLVM intermediate language outperforming C and C++ solutions. Originally published in mid 2018, now completetly rewritten.
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The Solarchitecture...
Mass Timber Architecture (CLT) I. Structural, aesthetic, natural.
4 months ago
42

Mass Timber Architecture (CLT) I.

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

4 months ago
Structural, aesthetic, natural.
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
Seven habits of bad interviewers I’ve been to plenty of bad interviews. Sometimes, only some questions are bad, but usually it goes...
over a year ago
19

Seven habits of bad interviewers

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

over a year ago
I’ve been to plenty of bad interviews. Sometimes, only some questions are bad, but usually it goes further than that. Bizarre questions like “what’s the difference between a number and an array” are just a symptom of deeper issues. Let’s take a step back — why are we...
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Trying to Understand...
One Way Or Another .... We're going to get you.
over a year ago
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One Way Or Another ....

from Trying to Understand the World [alt+shift+b] in history

over a year ago
We're going to get you.
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What We Get Wrong About AI & China Everyone’s afraid of what China can and will do with AI. On the ground, the picture looks a lot more...
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What We Get Wrong About AI & China

from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
Everyone’s afraid of what China can and will do with AI. On the ground, the picture looks a lot more complicated.
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