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Anecdotal Evidence
'That Gravity Stayed Him Somehow' In the second volume of his Johnsonian Miscellanies (Clarendon Press, 1897), George Birkbeck Hill...
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In the second volume of his Johnsonian Miscellanies (Clarendon Press, 1897), George Birkbeck Hill collects anecdotes from the writer and clergyman Thomas Campbell, including this: “Talking of suicide, Boswell took up the defence for argument’s sake, and the Doctor said that some...
Open Culture
The Steampunk Clocks of 19th-Century Paris: Discover the Ingenious System That Revolutionized... A middle-class Parisian living around the turn of the twentieth century would have to budget for...
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5 months ago
A middle-class Parisian living around the turn of the twentieth century would have to budget for services like not just water or gas, but also time. Though electric clocks had been demonstrated, they were still a high-tech rarity; installing one in the home would have been...
TheCollector
What Is Magical Realism in Literature? undefined
a year ago
Math Is Still...
How Does Math Keep Secrets? Cryptography is the thread that connects Julius Caesar, World War II and quantum computing, and it...
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6 months ago
Cryptography is the thread that connects Julius Caesar, World War II and quantum computing, and it now lies under nearly every part of modern life. In this week’s episode, computer scientist Boaz Barak and co-host Janna Levin discuss the past and future of secrecy. ...
Wuthering...
Plato's Republic - justice, fantasy and censorship - We'll ask Homer not to be angry I had ambitions to write about Plato’s Republic with some thoroughness, but I guess I will just...
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I had ambitions to write about Plato’s Republic with some thoroughness, but I guess I will just pursue one point.  Good enough. I have been separating Socrates from Plato, an imaginative exercise based on circular criteria.  The more Socratic of the Socratic dialogues are...
Louwrentius
Using InfiniBand for cheap and fast point-to-point Networking InfiniBand networking is quite awesome. It's mainly used for two reasons: low latency high...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
InfiniBand networking is quite awesome. It's mainly used for two reasons: low latency high bandwidth As a home user, I'm mainly interested in setting up a high bandwidth link between two servers. I was using quad-port network cards with Linux Bonding, but this solution has some...
Maps Mania
The Sad State of Local News 2023
11 months ago
Oykun
1 Simple Approach to Discover Your Design Career Path As designers, we can sometimes feel lost in our design career and it applies to all of us from...
a year ago
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a year ago
As designers, we can sometimes feel lost in our design career and it applies to all of us from Junior to Senior levels. We either have no idea where we are going or get lazy and lost in our comfort zone. If I've based the advice purely on
TheCollector
4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence undefined
2 months ago
Koos Looijesteijn -...
The terminal for the 21st century "Warp is a blazingly fast, rust-based terminal reimagined from the ground up to work like a modern...
over a year ago
Wanderingspace
Eclipse 2024 from Space https://twitter.com/ThePlanetaryGuy
9 months ago
Flashbak
Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965) In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain...
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7 months ago
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling. – Ballade du concours de Blois by François Villon     … Continue reading "Strange And...
TheCollector
What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland? undefined
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Painstakingly Logical and Precise' A thought that never occurred to me but feels self-evidently right:  “In the course of a reading...
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A thought that never occurred to me but feels self-evidently right:  “In the course of a reading life, one often stumbles on excellent prose writers never before encountered; such discoveries, however, are less likely in poetry. First-rate poetry is a more manageable quantity....
Rest of World -...
Turn it up: Rest of World’s 2023 global party playlist Impress your friends by queuing up these chart-topping pop songs from the countries we cover.
a year ago
TheCollector
Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works undefined
8 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
“If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they… “If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they...
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to choose job titles in your early stage startup One huge mistake some startups make is using titles to establish and reinforce hierarchy. This is...
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One huge mistake some startups make is using titles to establish and reinforce hierarchy. This is dangerous for two reasons: Iteration and speed…
Trying to Understand...
No Cheers for Authoritarianism Remind me what it was, exactly ....
over a year ago
Old Structures...
Reality Is Better Looking Above, another hotel appointment card, this time from the Gilsey House. The hotel was completed in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Above, another hotel appointment card, this time from the Gilsey House. The hotel was completed in 1871, with that incredible cast-iron facade constructed by Daniel Badger. It’s still there, over 150 years later, now apartments. The engraving on the card really doesn’t do the...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, December 2022 The Ware for December 2022 is shown below. Turning this into a suitable Name that Ware-style entry...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The Ware for December 2022 is shown below. Turning this into a suitable Name that Ware-style entry was a bit tough, but I think maybe I hit a balance between leaving enough clues, and giving it away. We’ll see shortly! I have a lot more to say about this ware: I will give proper...
Maps Mania
245 Russian Military Targets at Risk
5 months ago
Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: Zuck Kisses the Ring Plus! A collection of LA wildfire takes
3 weeks ago
Londonist
Burns Night 2024 In London: Parties, Suppers And Ceilidhs To Celebrate This Year Kilt up and raise a dram to Robert Burns on 25 January.
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why I Won't Choose To Be A Manager I recently decided that I will not _choose_ to be a manager. This is how I arrived at that...
over a year ago
Londonist
Where To Get Your Fill Of The Best Food And Drink In Islington Marvellous macarons, superb sushi... and Karen's Diner.
10 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Leaderless Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You can send me hatemail, but you have to get...
a year ago
Wrong Side of...
What will become of the Sensitive Young Men? Wrong Side of History round-up #59
2 days ago
Christopher Butler
Periodical 16 – Useful Lifetimes One’s moral progress is measured in unexpected moments. Good morning! The house is full of the...
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11 months ago
One’s moral progress is measured in unexpected moments. Good morning! The house is full of the aroma of baking muffins, which my daughter requested I make first thing this morning. I happily obliged. She and my son are munching away at them as I type this. – What’s the...
Noahpinion
Hispanics as the new Irish A historical analogy to help us understand the present moment.
a year ago
Maps Mania
The Medici Map Room
a month ago
Calculated Risk
Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-December 2024 Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market;...
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a month ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-December 2024 A brief excerpt: Earlier this week, in Part 1: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-December 2024 I reviewed home inventory, housing...
orlp.net - Blog...
Extracting and Depositing Bits Suppose you have a 64-bit word and wish to extract a couple bits from it. For example you just...
a year ago
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a year ago
Suppose you have a 64-bit word and wish to extract a couple bits from it. For example you just performed a SWAR algorithm and wish to extract the least significant bit of each byte in the u64. This is simple enough, you simply perform a binary AND with a mask of the bits you wish...
Joel Gascoigne
For the first few people, hire from your network * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * We’re lucky...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * We’re lucky enough to have reached the stage with Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] where we have had to start to think about growing the team. For the first 10 months the team consisted of just...
Seth's Blog
Sincerity is expected Well, not always. That’s why it’s so important. We don’t expect an actor to tell the truth. That’s...
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Well, not always. That’s why it’s so important. We don’t expect an actor to tell the truth. That’s their job. Musicians and other performers are playing a role. And social niceties encourage us to put on a smile and share appreciation, even in situations where it might not be...
TheCollector
Who Was George Eliot? undefined
9 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Berlin Conference? undefined
4 months ago
Wuthering...
Metamorphoses, cantos 7 through 10 - more Heroides, more gore, more of everything - What meen my... Metamorphoses is fluid, quick, and ever-changing.  Let’s look at cantos VII through X, which...
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Metamorphoses is fluid, quick, and ever-changing.  Let’s look at cantos VII through X, which have their share of famous stories, stories famous, or as famous as they are, because of Metamorphoses.  Venus and Adonis, Baucis and Philemon, Orpheus and Eurydice, Pygmalion.  Icarus –...
Both Are True
forget thanksgiving its time for fearsharing a new holiday
a year ago
Contemporist...
A Glass-Enclosed Library And Home Office Creates A Separate Space Inside This Apartment Canadian design firm Level Studio has shared photos of a loft apartment located in a building that...
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Canadian design firm Level Studio has shared photos of a loft apartment located in a building that was once home to offices but has been converted into residential apartments.
swyx's site RSS Feed
writing Advice Some thoughts on writing your first few writings
over a year ago
The personal website...
Virtue ethics Virtue ethics was one of the earliest attempts at defining a language and a logic around ethics. The...
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Virtue ethics was one of the earliest attempts at defining a language and a logic around ethics. The effort to identify and understand virtues began in Ancient Greece and continues to this day. What is a virtue? The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy defines a virtue as “an...
diamond geezer
Unblogged October 31 unblogged things I did in October Tue 1: Two new developments in Barking & Dagenham are...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
31 unblogged things I did in October Tue 1: Two new developments in Barking & Dagenham are over-egging transport links in their roadside marketing. Barking Riverside says 'Perfectly connected' when the reality is a half-hourly boat, a train to Barking or non-express buses....
seangoedecke.com RSS...
How LLMs work Over the last few weeks I’ve been playing around with the excellent llama2.c repository, which is...
a year ago
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a year ago
Over the last few weeks I’ve been playing around with the excellent llama2.c repository, which is basically a simple one-file C…
Laetitia@Work
The Mystery of Mastery Laetitia@Work #64
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Netlify Environment Variables We usually use Environment Variables as (global) variables, but did you know they can literally...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We usually use Environment Variables as (global) variables, but did you know they can literally configure your environments as well?
Stoic Simple
What Influence Did Stoicism Have on Early Christianity? Stoicism and Christianity are two of the most influential philosophical and religious traditions in...
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Stoicism and Christianity are two of the most influential philosophical and religious traditions in human history. Both have helped shape our understanding of the world and our place in it. While they seem quite distinct from one another, there are many overlapping themes and...
The Map is Mostly...
Audiobooks Are Books and They’re Also Practice Speak low if you speak love. — Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing I’m very fond of audiobooks....
a year ago
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Speak low if you speak love. — Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing I’m very fond of audiobooks. There is something endearing, maybe even romantic, about the act of listening. I get this same sense often in early photographs of radio listeners, that they appreciate the romance of...
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 9-10 September 2023 30+ events, including a new food festival, beautiful boats and Open House London.
a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
A Brief History of the World’s First Planetarium In 1912, Oskar von Miller, an electrical engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum, had an idea:...
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9 months ago
In 1912, Oskar von Miller, an electrical engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum, had an idea: Could you project an artificial starry sky onto a dome, as a way of demonstrating astronomical principles to the public? It was such a novel concept that when von Miller approached...
Maggie Appleton
DeepSeek If you're not distressingly embedded in the torrent of AI news on Twixxer like I reluctantly am, you...
a week ago
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a week ago
If you're not distressingly embedded in the torrent of AI news on Twixxer like I reluctantly am, you might not know what DeepSeek is yet. Bless you.
TheCollector
Ben Franklin in Politics: The Founding Father Who Was Never President undefined
a month ago
Society's Backend
How to Use Benchmarks to Build Successful Machine Learning Systems And what benchmarks mean for real-world applications
6 months ago
The American Scholar
Double Exposure On our first memories The post Double Exposure appeared first on The American Scholar.
2 months ago
Noahpinion
Biden should run on a message of abundance Things are going pretty well in America, and Biden's policies have largely helped.
a year ago
Marcus on AI
An AI rumor you won’t want to miss Converging evidence that the core hypothesis driving generative AI may be wrong
2 months ago
diamond geezer
Sadiq's third manifesto Sadiq's manifesto has finally been published so let's take a look (mainly so there's a blogpost to...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Sadiq's manifesto has finally been published so let's take a look (mainly so there's a blogpost to check at the end of his term in 2028). Title: A fairer, safer, greener London for everyone Pages: 67 Top 10 pledges 1) Free school meals 2) Freeze TfL fares 3) 40,000 new...
alexwlchan
Tag your infrastructure-as-code resources with a link to their definitions The aspiration of infrastructure-as-code tools is that you use them to manage everything. You create...
a year ago
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a year ago
The aspiration of infrastructure-as-code tools is that you use them to manage everything. You create all your resources by writing a file that defines them, and any time you change something, you update the definition in that file. It’s a nice idea, but easier said than...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Who should learn to program? Recently, there’s been a lot of talk in the tech world and beyond about getting more people to learn...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Recently, there’s been a lot of talk in the tech world and beyond about getting more people to learn computer programming. I think this is a…
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Building an Infinite Spreadsheet As of late, I’ve been working on Quadratic: an infinite canvas spreadsheet that runs code. Think...
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As of late, I’ve been working on Quadratic: an infinite canvas spreadsheet that runs code. Think Figma (infinite canvas) meets Excel (spreadsheet) meets VSCode (IDE). In addition to formulas (e.g. SUM(A1:A5)) every cell in Quadratic can be the result of code (right now it’s...
Arduino Blog
Receive an alert when your device goes offline in Arduino Cloud You’re managing a network of IoT sensors that monitor air quality across multiple locations....
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You’re managing a network of IoT sensors that monitor air quality across multiple locations. Suddenly, one of the sensors goes offline, but you don’t notice until hours later. The result? A gap in your data and a missed opportunity to take corrective action. This is a common...
mtlynch.io
Resurrecting a Dead Library: Part Two - Stabilization In this post, I demonstrate how to retrofit automated tests onto an untested legacy library. This is...
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In this post, I demonstrate how to retrofit automated tests onto an untested legacy library. This is part two of a three-part series about how I resurrected ingredient-phrase-tagger, a library that uses machine learning to parse cooking ingredients (e.g., “2 cups milk”) into...
Asterisk
The Virtue of Wonder: Martha Nussbaum’s Justice for Animals Martha Nussbaum’s latest book challenges us to change the way we think — and feel — about animals....
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Martha Nussbaum’s latest book challenges us to change the way we think — and feel — about animals. What role can wonder and awe play when pathos comes up short?
Joel on Software
Progress on the Block Protocol Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents...
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over a year ago
Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents published on the web are in HTML. HTML has a little bit of… Read more "Progress on the Block Protocol"
Transit Maps
Unofficial Maps: Two new takes on the London Underground by Kenneth Field Back in 2019, Ken showcased an experimental alternative Tube Map based on a diamond motif (read the...
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over a year ago
Back in 2019, Ken showcased an experimental alternative Tube Map based on a diamond motif (read the Transit Maps review here) that had mixed reactions from the community. He went away and absorbed that feedback, and – like a glutton for punishment – he’s back with not one, but...
Hundred Rabbits
captain what is this After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
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over a year ago
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
Jonas Hietala
Rewriting my Neovim config in Lua This screenshot betrays just how much productive time was wasted setting this up. I’ve got tons of...
a year ago
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a year ago
This screenshot betrays just how much productive time was wasted setting this up. I’ve got tons of things to do; clean the bathrooms, prototype an idea for a SaaS and ponder world peace. So naturally the procrastination took over and I rewrote my Neovim configuration in...
TheCollector
The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might undefined
a year ago
Wrong Side of...
Will the last young professional to leave Britain turn off the lights? 'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
a month ago
Darek Kay
Open Graph images: Format compatibility across platforms While redesigning my photography website, I've looked into the Open Graph (OG) images, which are...
2 months ago
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While redesigning my photography website, I've looked into the Open Graph (OG) images, which are displayed when sharing a link on social media or messaging apps. Here's an example from WhatsApp: For each photo that I publish, I create a WebP thumbnail for the gallery. I wanted...
Ian's Blog
Hardware-Accelerated Video Encoding with Intel Arc on Redhat Linux I've been wanting hardware-accelerated video encoding on my Linux machine for quite a while now, but...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I've been wanting hardware-accelerated video encoding on my Linux machine for quite a while now, but ask anybody who's used a Linux machine and they'll tell you of the horrors of Nvidia or AMD drivers. Intel, on the other hand, seems to be taking things in a much different, much...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Earned Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Kelly didn't like this one, but twitter did, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Kelly didn't like this one, but twitter did, and twitter, let me tell you, is very smart. Today's News: It's the last day that sales of Bea count toward our NYT bestseller total! The list is normally dominated by major franchises,...
Math Is Still...
Is Perpetual Motion Possible at the Quantum Level? A new phase of matter called a “time crystal” plays with our expectations of thermodynamics. The...
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A new phase of matter called a “time crystal” plays with our expectations of thermodynamics. The physicist Vedika Khemani talks with Steven Strogatz about its surprising quantum behavior. The post Is Perpetual Motion Possible at the Quantum Level? first appeared on...
Math Is Still...
Math That Connects Where We’re Going to Where We’ve Been Recursion builds bridges between ideas from across different math classes and illustrates the power...
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Recursion builds bridges between ideas from across different math classes and illustrates the power of creative mathematical thinking. The post Math That Connects Where We’re Going to Where We’ve Been first appeared on Quanta Magazine
HTMHell
Enforcing better HTML markup with Eleventy While what we mean is usually very clear to us, others may decode our messages differently from what...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
While what we mean is usually very clear to us, others may decode our messages differently from what we intended. This is especially true on the web, where there are many ways to consume content. The language, browser type, device model, using a screen reader, navigating with or...
Posts on Made of...
Record/Replay testing in Sorbet In 2017 and 2018, I (along with Paul Tarjan and Dmitry Petrashko) was a founding member of the...
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In 2017 and 2018, I (along with Paul Tarjan and Dmitry Petrashko) was a founding member of the Sorbet project at Stripe to build a gradual static typechecking system for Ruby, with the aim of enhancing productivity on Stripe’s millions of lines of Ruby, and eventually producing a...
TheCollector
What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Mexico? undefined
3 months ago
Jonas Hietala
A small LED Cube As a follow up of my hobby project goals this autumn I have now completed the smallest goal there. I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As a follow up of my hobby project goals this autumn I have now completed the smallest goal there. I got started a little with soldering by constructing a small 3x3x3 LED cube. Although extremely hard to see in this picture it actually worked without a hitch! It’s not the...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bea Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks, everyone. It took about 5 years to get from...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks, everyone. It took about 5 years to get from the beginning to here. It's as a good of a thing as I can write, and I hope you enjoy it. Today's News: The most frequently asked question is the age range for Bea Wolf readers,...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 28 August-3 September 2023 Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 4 On ripping out product analytics, updating the pricing page, and adding multi-region monitoring
a year ago
devonzuegel.com
Part 6: Is the proposed new city in California climate resilient? A new city has been proposed in California, and I’ve never been more captivated by a vision for the...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
A new city has been proposed in California, and I’ve never been more captivated by a vision for the future of my home state in my lifetime. This post is part of a series I’m writing about this bold proposal. One of the biggest questions I had when I first learned about this...
A Beautiful Site
Downloading a list of URLs automatically I recently needed to download a bunch of files from Amazon S3, but I didn't have direct access to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently needed to download a bunch of files from Amazon S3, but I didn't have direct access to the bucket — I only had a list of URLs. There were too many to fetch one by one, so I wanted to fetch them automatically. Here are a couple ways I found to do that. Using curl # Curl...
The DESK Magazine
A digital tool built like a physical product? Does it seem like there's more bad TV these days? More mediocre writing? More low quality...
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Maison Ferrand Porte Noire cognac by Studio Minerva Introducing Porte Noire cognac, a luxurious creation in partnership with Idris Elba crafted to...
2 months ago
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Introducing Porte Noire cognac, a luxurious creation in partnership with Idris Elba crafted to redefine elegance and sustainability in the...
TokyoDev
Announcing the 2023 TokyoDev Developers Survey The 2023 edition of the TokyoDev Developer Survey [is now...
a year ago
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a year ago
The 2023 edition of the TokyoDev Developer Survey [is now live](https://surveys.tokyodev.com/en-US/survey/tokyodev/2023)! If you’re a software developer living in Japan, please help us by taking it. [Last year’s survey](https://www.tokyodev.com/insights/2022-developer-survey)...
Math Is Still...
First-Year Graduate Student Finds Paradoxical Set No two pairs have the same sum; add three numbers together, and you can get any whole number. ...
a year ago
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a year ago
No two pairs have the same sum; add three numbers together, and you can get any whole number. The post First-Year Graduate Student Finds Paradoxical Set first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works undefined
9 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Fake Fossils In 1931 a fossil lizard was recovered from the Italian Alps, believed to be a 280 million year old...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
In 1931 a fossil lizard was recovered from the Italian Alps, believed to be a 280 million year old specimen. The fossil was also rare in that it appeared to have some preserved soft tissue. It was given the species designation Tridentinosaurus antiquus and was thought to be part...
Anecdotal Evidence
'I Learned Most By the Subject Matters' Fifty years ago this month I walked into Kay’s Books on Prospect Avenue in downtown Cleveland, Ohio,...
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2 weeks ago
Fifty years ago this month I walked into Kay’s Books on Prospect Avenue in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, and asked for a job. I was a twenty-two-year-old college dropout and for the previous year and a half had worked as a cook in a restaurant. I had been coming to Kay’s as a...
TheCollector
Historic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Catches Fire undefined
9 months ago
Flashbak
John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827) “Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death...
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a month ago
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” – The opening lines to Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrated by John Martin     John Milton’s (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) epic poem...
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 18-24 March 2024 Our best articles from the past week.
10 months ago
Maps Mania
How Near do You Live to a Mass Shooting?
a year ago
The Rational Walk
The Iliad Homer's epic poem has much to teach us about human nature if we first take the time to gain an...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Homer's epic poem has much to teach us about human nature if we first take the time to gain an understanding of Greek mythology.
Retail Design Blog
485 MetaGalaxy 485 MetaGalaxy is a designer cluster label dedicated to pushing the boundaries of design and leading...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
485 MetaGalaxy is a designer cluster label dedicated to pushing the boundaries of design and leading future design trends. It...
diamond geezer
River Wogebourne THE UNLOST RIVERS OF LONDON River Wogebourne Shooters Hill → East Wickham → Abbey Wood → Thamesmead...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
THE UNLOST RIVERS OF LONDON River Wogebourne Shooters Hill → East Wickham → Abbey Wood → Thamesmead (5 miles) The Wogebourne is a five mile tributary of the River Thames in the southeast London boroughs of Greenwich and Bexley, that flows generally in a northeasterly direction,...
Style over Substance
CANARY Corrugated Cardboard Cutter The CANARY corrugated cardboard cutter is definitely in my top 10 list of most useful purchases...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The CANARY corrugated cardboard cutter is definitely in my top 10 list of most useful purchases ever. During the COVID-19 lockdowns, we all started shopping online a lot more. The number of cardboard boxes in our house basically quadrupled overnight and cutting them down to size...
Posts on Nikita...
Inside New Query Engine of MongoDB Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in version 7.0. I was one of the people working on this engine during my 2 years in MongoDB and I would like to share some technical details about it. Disclaimer: Prior to writing this...
The Forney Flyer
Living up North, Way back When Here's a shot of the little village where we lived for several years. It was nestled on the banks of...
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Here's a shot of the little village where we lived for several years. It was nestled on the banks of the Koyukuk River, just above the Arctic Circle, not too far South of Gates of the Arctic National Park. There were no roads to the village. You could only get there by airplane...
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What it’s like open sourcing code created for the government Recently I released a project I built for the CDC as open source out into the world. It’s called CDC...
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Recently I released a project I built for the CDC as open source out into the world. It’s called CDC Maps, and I wrote a case study about it…
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How to allow popups in dynamically created webviews in Electron.js My smol menubar project utilizes Electron's special webview tag to dynamically generate a list of...
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My smol menubar project utilizes Electron's special webview tag to dynamically generate a list of sub browser windows for chat. For the last couple months I've had an issue with the SSO popups in this, namely that they just don't work at all, presumably because Electron blocks...
IEEE Spectrum
What If the Worst AI Fear Is AI Fear Itself? It’s been just about a year now—a nonprofit called the Future of Life Institute posted an open...
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It’s been just about a year now—a nonprofit called the Future of Life Institute posted an open letter reflecting people’s darkest fears about artificial intelligence. “Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general tasks,” it said. It called for a pause in...
Notes on software...
Container scheduling strategies for integration testing 14 different databases in Github Actions This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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TheCollector
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Falsehoods Junior Developers believe about becoming Senior These are mostly my thoughts about what I was expecting as a junior and how I perceived senior...
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These are mostly my thoughts about what I was expecting as a junior and how I perceived senior developers. To […] The post Falsehoods Junior Developers believe about becoming Senior appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Wanderingspace
New View of IO from JUNO! From processor Ted Styrk, “The Juno Jupiter orbiter flew by Io, Jupiter's super-volcanic moon, on...
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From processor Ted Styrk, “The Juno Jupiter orbiter flew by Io, Jupiter's super-volcanic moon, on May 16, returning arguably the best imagery of the moon since the Galileo Orbiter around the beginning of this century. Definitely the best since New Horizons in 2006.”
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Post Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Someday I'm gonna have a book in which the comic...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Someday I'm gonna have a book in which the comic sounds like it's going to become controversial and then goes all in on stupid. Today's News: Final week!
Miguel Carranza
The first five employees The main figures of the startup ecosystem are founders and investors. The incentives are not always...
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The main figures of the startup ecosystem are founders and investors. The incentives are not always aligned, and sometimes there is a notable lack of gratitude. But, for the most part, it’s a symbiotic relationship. Founders benefit from capital, and VCs need access to the best...
somethingaboutmaps
Simple Oblique Views in Blender While many people use my Blender shaded relief tutorial, and associate me with the software, I’m...
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While many people use my Blender shaded relief tutorial, and associate me with the software, I’m really not much of a 3D cartographer. I make oblique-view maps only rarely, and when I do, it’s usually in a simplified, abstract style, rather than the detailed, naturalistic...
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Argentina’s dictatorship abducted babies in the 1970s. An AI project imagines them today “Our search is real, but these images aren’t.”
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The Rational Walk
The Digest #156 Flawed clinical studies, AI and employment, Anonymous wealth, Age of the universe, 19th century...
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Flawed clinical studies, AI and employment, Anonymous wealth, Age of the universe, 19th century anarchy, Buffett and Japan, Claude Hopkins, Benjamin Franklin
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Security through diversity Someone asked me the other day whether I thought the United States was vulnerable to a large scale...
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Someone asked me the other day whether I thought the United States was vulnerable to a large scale “cyber” attack. While I have no doubt…
Society's Backend
Open Models Catching Up, SearchGPT Release, Deepfake Victims Protected by Regulation, and More Weekly updates and resources 7/29/24
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The Honest Broker
A 2000-Year-Old Argument Over the Flute Is the Most Important Thing in Our Culture Right Now This bitter debate from ancient times helps us understand today's crisis in music and other creative...
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Thoughts on the Cartographer’s Role in an AI Future A few moments ago I was asked by a student about the “development of cartography over the next 10...
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A few moments ago I was asked by a student about the “development of cartography over the next 10 years.” Here’s my somewhat off-the-cuff response, though my thoughts have been steeping in this for the past year or so. In the next 10 years artificial intelligence, and probably...
Rest of World -...
How Chile’s stolen babies are finding their biological families after decades apart Thousands of Chileans, illegally adopted during the Pinochet dictatorship, are now relying on tech...
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TheCollector
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Christopher Butler
The Big Picture When your clients are persuaded by your point of view and expertise, they will not care what tools...
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When your clients are persuaded by your point of view and expertise, they will not care what tools you use or what processes you follow. They will only care that you deliver on your promise of getting them from Point (A) to Point (B). If your clients become prescriptive of...
PHD Comics
09/10/21 PHD comic: 'Insult to injury' Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com ...
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Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: "Insult to injury" - originally published 9/10/2021 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
The Marginalian
The Heart of Matter: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin on Bridging the Scientific and the Sacred "Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever new-born; you who, by...
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"Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever new-born; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us to go ever further and further in our pursuit of the truth."
Seth's Blog
Nice bike A well-designed bicycle is efficient, inexpensive and delightful. If you use your bike on the right...
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A well-designed bicycle is efficient, inexpensive and delightful. If you use your bike on the right paths, with appropriate goals, it can deliver exactly what you need, while also allowing you to go at your own pace, see what’s going on around you and feel grounded. Until, of...
Making software...
Setting Up Jekyll on Windows Setting Up Jekyll on Windows 2022-09-02 I've recently been playing around with using Windows...
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Setting Up Jekyll on Windows 2022-09-02 I've recently been playing around with using Windows 10 as my daily operating system. So far, it has been going fairly well. Nothing will probably ever feel as "optimized" as running a Linux-based system but it works well for my...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Catch Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I've been doing experiments on this using the...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I've been doing experiments on this using the massive spotlight I keep on my penthouse apartment. Today's News:
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A Home Designed To Walk Up And Around The Green Roof AtelierM has sent us photos of a contemporary home they completed in Capilla del Senor, Argentina,...
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AtelierM has sent us photos of a contemporary home they completed in Capilla del Senor, Argentina, whose design was inspired by geometry and its surroundings.
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At least five interesting things for your weekend (#41) Soviet America (or not); the energy revolution; Trump's tax cuts; the Build-Nothing Country; macro...
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Database, Network, Interface : The Architecture of Information. An exhibition at Archizoom (EPFL),... We are pleased to announce that we are curating an exhibition that will open in September at the...
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We are pleased to announce that we are curating an exhibition that will open in September at the Archizoom Gallery (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland.  In an age characterised by the increasing dematerialisation of cultural production and transmission, Database, Network, Interface...
mtlynch.io
Is It Keto - Month 9 Highlights After six months of consistent gains of ~30% in revenue and traffic, Is It Keto’s growth...
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Highlights After six months of consistent gains of ~30% in revenue and traffic, Is It Keto’s growth finally flattened out. I’m preparing to sell premium meal plans on Is It Keto. I’m ready to make bigger bets on my businesses. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare...
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Allen AI and DeepSeek are Taking Off, Professional Advice for Working in AI, Agentic Web Design, and... Society's Backend Reading List 12-2-2024
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The 2024 Toyama Kei-Truck Gardening Contest The 2024 Kei-Truck Gardening Contest took place over the weekend. In what is perhaps the...
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The 2024 Kei-Truck Gardening Contest took place over the weekend. In what is perhaps the most-Japanese contest, professional gardeners and landscapers compete to create a beautiful, seasonal, and unique landscape , all within the bed of their kei-trucks. This contest originated...
Old Structures...
Once Again, In Plastic The restoration of Notre Dame deserves all the praise that has been heaped upon it, but have I...
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The restoration of Notre Dame deserves all the praise that has been heaped upon it, but have I mentioned recently that my son and I have built the LEGO Notre Dame? We finished our small Notre Dame about a week after the official opening of the large one, but they had a head start...
A Beautiful Site
How to use the PHP ternary operator When I learned how to use the ternary operator years ago, I fell in love with it. What a cool way to...
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When I learned how to use the ternary operator years ago, I fell in love with it. What a cool way to simplify assignments based on a condition. If you're not sure what the ternary operator is or how it works, you're missing out on a really cool piece of programming...
TheCollector
Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies? undefined
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HTMHell
My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red by Declan Chidlow Setting the colour of text on a webpage is usually a simple affair involving...
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by Declan Chidlow Setting the colour of text on a webpage is usually a simple affair involving whipping it out the good ol' CSS color property. But this is HTMHell, dammit. None of that wishy-washy CSS nonsense here. No siree. We use HTML as the good lord intended and shalln't...
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...
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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:
Calculated Risk
FHFA’s National Mortgage Database: Outstanding Mortgage Rates, LTV and Credit Scores Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: FHFA’s National Mortgage Database: Outstanding...
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Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: FHFA’s National Mortgage Database: Outstanding Mortgage Rates, LTV and Credit Scores A brief excerpt: Here are some graphs on outstanding mortgages by interest rate, the average mortgage interest rate, borrowers’ credit...
macwright.com
The one about AI Like everyone, I’ve been thinking about AI. It’s already useful, in a way that the previous big...
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Like everyone, I’ve been thinking about AI. It’s already useful, in a way that the previous big thing, crypto, wasn’t. I don’t think it’ll become generalized AI - I think the AI winter cycle is the base case and human-like intelligence is qualitatively different than LLM, no...
Elad Blog
AI Safety: Technology vs Species Threats There are at least two ways to think about potential threats coming from advanced AI. The...
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There are at least two ways to think about potential threats coming from advanced AI. The conventional view is that AI is just yet another of many tool-based technological advances. Like all technologies, the main threat of AI in this scenario is if a human were to use it for...
Mazdak
Mastering Twitter/X Growth: Strategies to Skyrocket Your Follower Count Twitter/X stands as one of the leading platforms for sharing ideas, connecting with others, and...
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Twitter/X stands as one of the leading platforms for sharing ideas, connecting with others, and building your personal brand. With the right strategies, you can transform your Twitter presence into a thriving community of engaged followers. In this blog post, I'll dive into...
Seeking Wisdom
Hello LLMs! When you are having trouble getting your thinking straight, consider an extreme or simple case. This...
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When you are having trouble getting your thinking straight, consider an extreme or simple case. This will often give you the insight needed to move forward. I nodded in agreement when I read the above lines from the book Maxims for Thinking Analytically. ChatGPT took the world by...
Flashbak
Photos of New York City Stores in 1997 New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
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New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
Lars Lofgren
Forbes Marketplace: The Parasite SEO Company Trying to Devour Its Host Are you sick of Forbes appearing in search results? For topics that Forbes doesn’t have any...
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Are you sick of Forbes appearing in search results? For topics that Forbes doesn’t have any expertise in? Here’s the organic rankings for “best pet insurance”: Forbes ranks #2. Not sure a business website knows how pet insurance actually works. But okay. They also have the #1...
Epic Web Dev
React Server Components: An Optimistic Future (article) React Server Components are going to improve the way we build web applications in a huge way... Once...
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React Server Components are going to improve the way we build web applications in a huge way... Once we nail the abstractions...
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Big L Notation In this post I sketch out `Big L` notation, which plots your learning as a function of `N` years of...
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In this post I sketch out `Big L` notation, which plots your learning as a function of `N` years of experience, with `P` peers.
Math Is Still...
How Failure Has Made Mathematics Stronger The topologist Danny Calegari discusses the inevitability of disappointment in math, and how to...
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The topologist Danny Calegari discusses the inevitability of disappointment in math, and how to learn from it. The post How Failure Has Made Mathematics Stronger first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Steve Klabnik
The next iteration of "Designing Hypermedia APIs"
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Twelve Mile Circle –...
Mitten Accomplished I got a unique opportunity to visit counties in a corner of the Midwest I hadn’t touched much when...
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I got a unique opportunity to visit counties in a corner of the Midwest I hadn’t touched much when my older kid decided to go to college in Michigan. But it didn’t offer a lot of time for my quest, just a four year window before graduation. Even so, I set what I thought was...
TheCollector
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Citation Needed
Issue 73 – Degen volunteer fire brigade Terra founder Do Kwon is finally extradited, the CFPB proposes crypto consumer protections, and...
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Terra founder Do Kwon is finally extradited, the CFPB proposes crypto consumer protections, and Polymarket reaches new lows.
Rest of World -...
Nigeria’s economic crisis is fueling a stunt philanthropy boom A crop of content creators are building fame on MrBeast-style content.
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Observability for Frontend Developers Some thoughts on how frontend developers can also embrace instrumenting their apps for observability
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Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 17-18 February 2024 VAULT Festival returns, plus a cheese market and a day of Lego.
11 months ago
Seth's Blog
“I don’t know” Particularly when it comes to the future. And perhaps about the past. More often than not, we find...
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Particularly when it comes to the future. And perhaps about the past. More often than not, we find ourselves in situations where we don’t know. Where we can’t know. That’s a given. The open question is how often we claim that stance. If it feels uncomfortable or awkward to...
Retail Design Blog
Nodi Coffee by Office AIO Introducing a Fresh Narrative to a Lobby Cafe In the heart of Shanghai’s bustling Jing’an district,...
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Introducing a Fresh Narrative to a Lobby Cafe In the heart of Shanghai’s bustling Jing’an district, Nodi, a brand born...
Posts on Made of...
Why node.js is cool (it's not about performance) For the past N months, it seems like there is no new technology stack that is either hotter or more...
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For the past N months, it seems like there is no new technology stack that is either hotter or more controversial than node.js. node.js is cancer! node.js cures cancer! node.js is bad ass rock star tech!. I myself have given node.js a lot of shit, often involving the phrase...
Willem's Blog
Syncing files seamlessly between smartphone and tablet In order to optimise my workflow, I was looking for a way to seamlessly access the same files on...
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In order to optimise my workflow, I was looking for a way to seamlessly access the same files on both my computer and smartphone. Read along to find out how I did it.
A Beautiful Site
Installing Shoelace in a React App Although Shoelace is a web component library, it ships React wrappers that lets you use the library...
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Although Shoelace is a web component library, it ships React wrappers that lets you use the library idiomatically in React. This video shows you how to install Shoelace in a brand new Create React App. If you found this video helpful, please subscribe to my channel on YouTube...
./techtipsy
I encourage you to write a blog It’s been over 4 years since my first post on this blog. During those 4 years I’ve written over 90...
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It’s been over 4 years since my first post on this blog. During those 4 years I’ve written over 90 posts, received over 1 million clicks, a dozen legitimate reader e-mails and thousands of spam e-mails. And I love it! I’ve found that writing can be very fulfilling and I encourage...
Neil Panchal
How to install PostgreSQL in a custom directory When you install postgresql using apt-get, it runs initdb and automatically creates a main cluster....
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When you install postgresql using apt-get, it runs initdb and automatically creates a main cluster. Typically, the default data directory location is in /var/lib/postgresql/<version>/<cluster>/. There are three ways to install PostgreSQL in a custom directory. Options 1 and 2 are...
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Notes from Amir Shevat on Measuring & Managing Developer Relations Notes from an a16z podcast about developer relations that I thought was valuable
over a year ago
Global Inequality...
The world according to Garegnani I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar...
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I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
David Heinemeier...
Magic machines There's an interesting psychological phenomenon where programmers tend to ascribe more trust to...
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There's an interesting psychological phenomenon where programmers tend to ascribe more trust to computers run by anyone but themselves. Perhaps it's a corollary to imposter syndrome, which leads programmers to believe that if a computer is operated by AWS or SaaS or literally...
Retail Design Blog
Hunkemöller new retail concept Complete store transformation in 10 weeks. A new era begins for Hunkemöller with the introduction of...
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Complete store transformation in 10 weeks. A new era begins for Hunkemöller with the introduction of their innovative retail concept—and...
The Ruffian
Why Does Being Left-Wing Make You Unhappy? The Ideological Well-Being Gap
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Map of the Week
Map of Endangered Languages - Part 2 Last week's post showed a huge number of indigenous languages throughout the world. Here is a...
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Last week's post showed a huge number of indigenous languages throughout the world. Here is a summary (via the Living Tongues Institute) showing hotspots of endangered languages. The above site has a companion living dictionaries site where you can find a language by...
TokyoDev
The 2023 TokyoDev Developer Survey results are live! In October 2023, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. The results are...
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In October 2023, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. The results are now live, please [check them out!](https://2023.surveys.tokyodev.com/en-US) This year’s survey had a total of 713 respondents, up 28% from last year’s survey. This is an amazing...
CONTEMPORIST
Patterned Brickwork Is Featured On The Exterior Of The Ace Hotel In Toronto Photography by Scott Norseworthy Shim-Sutcliffe Architects has sent us photos of the Ace Hotel in...
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Photography by Scott Norseworthy Shim-Sutcliffe Architects has sent us photos of the Ace Hotel in Toronto, Canada, which has a red brick facade that draws guests in with a wood-lined opening. Working closely with the creative agency Atelier Ace, the architects of the hotel...
One Useful Thing
The Homework Apocalypse Fall is going to be very different this year. Educators need to be ready.
a year ago
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Array 1.3.0 Another shiny new integration - PostHog now plays nicely with Android! Like what you see and...
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Another shiny new integration - PostHog now plays nicely with Android! Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your instance. Release notes…
Damn Interesting
Lofty Ambitions One summer day in 1933, in a brief pocket of time between the two World Wars, a British man named...
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One summer day in 1933, in a brief pocket of time between the two World Wars, a British man named Maurice Wilson clutched the stick of his tiny, open air biplane and watched his fuel gauge dwindle. He had only learned to fly two months earlier, but inexperience was not his...
CONTEMPORIST
An Exterior Of Vertical Wood Siding Helps This House Blend Into The Surrounding Forest 77 Architecture Studio has shared photos of a home they designed on the edge of a housing estate...
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77 Architecture Studio has shared photos of a home they designed on the edge of a housing estate near the forest in central Poland, near Warsaw. The house with its vertical wood facade, gives way to the natural beauty of its surroundings, discreetly immersing its architecture...
diamond geezer
Theobalds Grove One Stop Beyond: Theobalds Grove In this series I'm taking the train one stop beyond the Greater...
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One Stop Beyond: Theobalds Grove In this series I'm taking the train one stop beyond the Greater London boundary, getting off and seeing what's there. Today that means Theobalds Grove, one stop beyond Turkey Street on the Southbury Loop, better known these days as the Weaver...
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...
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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...
The Rational Walk
My Years with General Motors General Motors, under the leadership of Alfred P. Sloan, capitalized on the mistakes of Henry Ford...
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General Motors, under the leadership of Alfred P. Sloan, capitalized on the mistakes of Henry Ford in the 1920s to become the dominant American automaker.
macwright.com
Focus For fun, I wrote a raytracer in Zig yesterday. It’s a port of a project I did in 2013, in...
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For fun, I wrote a raytracer in Zig yesterday. It’s a port of a project I did in 2013, in JavaScript. It’s the first time in a while I’ve made a project just for kicks. If you look at the number of GitHub repositories I’ve committed to since 2013, the number is decreasing. Same...
The personal website...
Intuition vs. data At a time when data is king, product designers should place more trust in their intuition. Recently...
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At a time when data is king, product designers should place more trust in their intuition. Recently I attended Front, a product management conference in Salt Lake City. There, Maggie Crowley, product manager for a company called Drift, presented a case study in redesigning a...
Mazdak
A Review and Analysis of "The Laws of Human Nature" by Robert Greene Robert Greene, the author of the controversial bestseller "The 48 Laws of Power," takes a different...
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Robert Greene, the author of the controversial bestseller "The 48 Laws of Power," takes a different approach in his 2018 book, "The Laws of Human Nature." Instead of focusing on acquiring power over others, he dives deep into the intricate workings of human psychology, unveiling...
NeuroLogica Blog
Light and Distance in an Expanding Universe Commenter Lal asks in the topic suggestions: “Media reports that light has been travelling from that...
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Commenter Lal asks in the topic suggestions: “Media reports that light has been travelling from that distant galaxy for 13 and a half billion years, which I assume is true, but this neither represents the original nor the current distance to that galaxy in terms of light years. I...
TheCollector
How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting? undefined
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nanoscale views
APS March Meeting 2023, Day 3 There is vigorous discussion taking place on the Day 2 link regarding the highly controversial claim...
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There is vigorous discussion taking place on the Day 2 link regarding the highly controversial claim of room temperature superconductivity.   Highlights from Wednesday are a hodgepodge because of my meanderings: The session about quantum computing hardware was well attended,...
TheCollector
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Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach undefined
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Diaries of Note
I never saw daffodils so beautiful Born in the English county of Cumberland on Christmas Day, 1771, Dorothy Wordsworth was an author,...
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Born in the English county of Cumberland on Christmas Day, 1771, Dorothy Wordsworth was an author, poet, and diarist arguably best known as the sister to Romantic poet William Wordsworth. Close throughout their lives, it was on 15th April, 1802, shortly after taking a walk with...
Rest of World -...
Disturbed by tragic deaths, Indian students are raging against celebrity YouTube teachers Students feel betrayed by the lack of support from these educators who enjoy near-cult popularity.
6 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Odiseo Gastronomic and Leisure Center by Clavel Arquitectos Odiseo is the result of the desire to create a big urban leisure complex, which wants to become a...
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Seth's Blog
Promo creep Hustle harder. Run more ads. Spam people. Interrupt. Make the logo bigger. Post again. Post again....
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Hustle harder. Run more ads. Spam people. Interrupt. Make the logo bigger. Post again. Post again. Add more blurbs. Push the press release to irrelevant people. Do one more ad. Use AI to create faux intimacy. Get the word out. Burn trust. Get more attention. In the last forty...
TheCollector
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Willem's Blog
Free from the iCloud: Escaping Apple Photos Recently I freed myself from Apple Photos, using free software to manage my photo library. Read...
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Recently I freed myself from Apple Photos, using free software to manage my photo library. Read along to find out what software I use and how to make it play nice with your devices.
Ben Borgers
We’re All Powered by Electric Meat
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As most of you probably know, X has several different mechanisms for copy-paste, used by different applications in different ways. I know some people who use them deliberately, juggling two pieces of text in different clipboards at once, but for me, it’s always just been...
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We were now officially between races. A day earlier I ran a half-marathon in Pendleton, Oregon and I had to do it again in Clarkston, Washington the following day. So this was the rest day, or at least it was for me. Most participants in the Mainly Marathons Northwest series...
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The “const” keyword in JavaScript is used to create constants, variables that can't change. Curiously, though, we do seem to be able to edit objects and arrays that are created using “const”. In this tutorial, we're going to dig into the incredibly-important distinction between...
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Information is the (other) currency of venture capital Many seasoned entrepreneurs have had the following experience.  A VC eagerly wants to meet with you....
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I’ve recently switched to Conkeror as my primary browser. It started life as a Firefox extension, but nowadays it’s a standalone app built on top of Mozilla’s xulrunner, so it uses the Gecko rendering engine. What it is, is an emacs implemented in Javascript, for the web. This...
the jsomers.net blog
More people should write More people should do what I’m doing right now. They should sit at their computers and bat the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
More people should do what I’m doing right now. They should sit at their computers and bat the cursor around — write full sentences about themselves and the things they care about. I have a selfish reason for my demand: I have a lot of friends who are thoughtful, but keep their...
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JavaScript: the First 20 Years by Allen Wirfs-Brock and Brendan Eich A link to the 190 page history of JS by its original creator and the editor of ES6.
over a year ago
Electronics etc…
Increasing Frequency Counter Precision with Linear Regression MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [...
a year ago
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a year ago
MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [ ['$', '$'], ["\\(", "\\)"] ], displayMath: [ ['$$', '$$'], ["\\[", "\\]"] ], processEscapes: true, skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre',...
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 27, 2024 (Year in Review) Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year...
a month ago
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a month ago
Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year reflection on the state of the project, along with a brief ‘what’s on the stove’ coverage of what may be coming up. Also, here’s a cat picture: In terms of the project itself, 2024 was,...
Applied Cartography
Why your marketing site should be separate In Notes on buttondown.com and How Buttondown uses HAProxy, I outlined the slightly kludgy way we...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
In Notes on buttondown.com and How Buttondown uses HAProxy, I outlined the slightly kludgy way we serve buttondown.com both as a marketing site (public-facing, Next/Vercel, largely just content pushed by non-developers) and an author-facing app (behind a login, Django/Heroku/Vue)...
./techtipsy
So you want to migrate to Kubernetes: observations from a software developer Kubernetes: everyone wants to do it, regardless of their scale and business objectives.1 Common...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Kubernetes: everyone wants to do it, regardless of their scale and business objectives.1 Common justifications include better scalability, cost savings, standardization and being super modern and stuff. It’s the future! In my personal experience, Kubernetes is far from the...
TheCollector
Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93 undefined
9 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
Getting to the top of the GPT Store (and building an AI-native search engine, too) Listen now | A conversation with Christian Salem, founder and CPO of Consensus.
9 months ago
Noahpinion
Why China's economy ran off the rails A short, simplistic, but fairly reasonable story.
a year ago