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bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware August 2024 Last month’s Ware was a peak programming meter driver board made by JC Broadcast, taken from an...
9 months ago
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Winner, Name that Ware August 2024

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

9 months ago
Last month’s Ware was a peak programming meter driver board made by JC Broadcast, taken from an Audix broadcast console. Thanks again to Howie M for contributing the ware! Howie hypothesized that the four mounting holes would be a dead give-away, in his words: The meters, typical...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ism Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: St. Peter just taps the crudely drawn No Girls...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ism

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: St. Peter just taps the crudely drawn No Girls Allowed sign made by God. Today's News: Whoever made the A City on Mars wikipedia entry, bless you. Now when people argue against stuff that we didn't actually say, I'm just linking...
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Commoncog
Lia DiBello and Neil Sahota on Human-AI Symbiosis Lia DiBello and Neil Sahota join Cedric Chin to talk about a human-first, expertise-oriented...
5 months ago
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Lia DiBello and Neil Sahota on Human-AI Symbiosis

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5 months ago
Lia DiBello and Neil Sahota join Cedric Chin to talk about a human-first, expertise-oriented approach to AI in real world domains.
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Why use feature flags? Benefits, types and use cases, explained What is a feature flag? Feature flags (aka feature toggles) are a powerful tool to help improve your...
over a year ago
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Why use feature flags? Benefits, types and use cases, explained

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

over a year ago
What is a feature flag? Feature flags (aka feature toggles) are a powerful tool to help improve your product. They enable engineering teams to…
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cave Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Would you rather sit with friends watching shadows...
a month ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cave

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a month ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Would you rather sit with friends watching shadows on the bigscreen or spending your time arguing with Plato about whether poetry should be legal? Today's News:
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Josh Thompson
How to be an awesome belayer For the next few posts I am going to geek out on sport climbing. If you’re not a climber (or a sport...
over a year ago
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How to be an awesome belayer

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

over a year ago
For the next few posts I am going to geek out on sport climbing. If you’re not a climber (or a sport climber), these are not for you. All of this information is in the context of sport climbing on trustworthy protection - not trad climbing! How to belay when your climber is in...
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Flashbak
Émile-Allain Séguy’s Insectes, 1925 – A Hymn To Nature In 20 Beautiful Illustrated Plates “Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no...
5 months ago
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Émile-Allain Séguy’s Insectes, 1925 – A Hymn To Nature In 20 Beautiful Illustrated Plates

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

5 months ago
“Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
The Strange Case of the Danish Aarhus Mafia Why are so many CS pioneers from Denmark?
over a year ago
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The Strange Case of the Danish Aarhus Mafia

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

over a year ago
Why are so many CS pioneers from Denmark?
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TheCollector
How Did Augustus Become Rome’s Longest-Reigning Emperor? Rome’s shift from an oligarchic Republic to an authoritative Empire was a bloody one fueled in part...
a week ago
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How Did Augustus Become Rome’s Longest-Reigning Emperor?

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

a week ago
Rome’s shift from an oligarchic Republic to an authoritative Empire was a bloody one fueled in part by the traditional Roman hatred of the idea of kingship. Julius Caesar lived for less than two months after he was named “dictator for life,” but after his successor Octavian was...
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Seth's Blog
Widespread resistance Steve Pressfield defines Resistance as the inertia, stories and excuses we manage to create to avoid...
a year ago
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Widespread resistance

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

a year ago
Steve Pressfield defines Resistance as the inertia, stories and excuses we manage to create to avoid powerful or creative work. Writer’s block, procrastination, overconfidence, or a belief in un-delivered talent are all symptoms of resistance. Knowing that it has a name helps us...
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detreville
Newsletter 1: What's next? This is the first in a series of newsletters covering this blog
over a year ago
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Newsletter 1: What's next?

from detreville [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
This is the first in a series of newsletters covering this blog
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Arduino Blog
Turning a desk mat into a MIDI drum kit Playing drums is a lot of fun, but drum sets are very big and very loud. They also aren’t cheap....
7 months ago
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Turning a desk mat into a MIDI drum kit

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

7 months ago
Playing drums is a lot of fun, but drum sets are very big and very loud. They also aren’t cheap. Those factors keep them from being an option for many people who would otherwise be interested. Conventional electronic drum sets are much quieter and a bit more compact, but they...
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Londonist
Theatreship: London's Newest Cultural Venue Is On A Boat Cinema, theatre, lecture hall, bar...
a year ago
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Theatreship: London's Newest Cultural Venue Is On A Boat

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a year ago
Cinema, theatre, lecture hall, bar...
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A Beautiful Site
IE8 burns the Acid 2 test An internal build of IE8 is reported to have passed the Acid 2 test. This is great news, as...
over a year ago
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IE8 burns the Acid 2 test

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

over a year ago
An internal build of IE8 is reported to have passed the Acid 2 test. This is great news, as Microsoft is showing more and more progress towards incorporating web standards into Internet Explorer, even though IE7 has remained dormant since it's release back in October 2006. The...
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Home on Erik...
New approximate nearest neighbor benchmarks As some of you may know, one of my side interests is approximate nearest neighbor algorithms. I'm...
over a year ago
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New approximate nearest neighbor benchmarks

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

over a year ago
As some of you may know, one of my side interests is approximate nearest neighbor algorithms. I'm the author of Annoy, a library with 3,500+ stars on Github as of today. It offers fast approximate search for nearest neighbors with the additional benefit that you can load data...
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TheCollector
Hallstatt Culture: What Do We Know About the Earliest Celtic Culture? The Hallstatt culture was the first culture of peoples that can truly be considered “Celtic.” This...
3 months ago
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Hallstatt Culture: What Do We Know About the Earliest Celtic Culture?

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3 months ago
The Hallstatt culture was the first culture of peoples that can truly be considered “Celtic.” This period was preceded by the Central European Urnfield and Tumulus cultures of the late and middle European Bronze Age. Neither are commonly accepted as “Celtic” cultures, but rather,...
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Common Edge
Our Cities Aren’t Dead Yet! Forget the “doom loops,” there are plenty of indicators that urban centers are recovering.
a year ago
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Our Cities Aren’t Dead Yet!

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

a year ago
Forget the “doom loops,” there are plenty of indicators that urban centers are recovering.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Stripe Goes No-Code — Stripe Payment Links Explained Stripe has entered the No Code market in a big way! I take a crack at explaining what it's doing and...
over a year ago
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Stripe Goes No-Code — Stripe Payment Links Explained

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

over a year ago
Stripe has entered the No Code market in a big way! I take a crack at explaining what it's doing and why.
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Rest of World -...
An Indian edtech that helps students live out their study-abroad dreams Leverage Edu, which has raised $70 million, is among the few profitable edtech companies in the...
a year ago
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An Indian edtech that helps students live out their study-abroad dreams

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

a year ago
Leverage Edu, which has raised $70 million, is among the few profitable edtech companies in the country.
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Platformer
How OpenAI is building a path toward AI agents Building a GPT-based copy editor showcases their promise — but the risks ahead are real
a year ago
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How OpenAI is building a path toward AI agents

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a year ago
Building a GPT-based copy editor showcases their promise — but the risks ahead are real
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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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diamond geezer
Hopper fares The Hopper fare was introduced in September 2016, allowing bus and tram passengers to take one extra...
3 months ago
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Hopper fares

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

3 months ago
The Hopper fare was introduced in September 2016, allowing bus and tram passengers to take one extra journey for free within 60 minutes of tapping in. Two years later it was extended to allow unlimited journeys within an hour, saving Londoners even more money and enabling some...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Post Bootcamp Mindmap What are all the things you can do to improve as a developer after graduating from college or...
over a year ago
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Post Bootcamp Mindmap

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

over a year ago
What are all the things you can do to improve as a developer after graduating from college or bootcamp?
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Articles
Stop screen sucking
over a year ago
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Stop screen sucking

from Articles [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
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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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Arduino Blog
Seaside Sweeper keeps beaches pristine Without anyone caring for them, beaches quickly become trash-covered swaths of disappointment. That...
a year ago
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Seaside Sweeper keeps beaches pristine

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

a year ago
Without anyone caring for them, beaches quickly become trash-covered swaths of disappointment. That care is necessary to maintain the beautiful sandy havens that we all want to enjoy, but it requires a lot of labor. A capstone team of students from the University of Colorado...
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The Honest Broker
12 Predictions on the Future of Song Investing Who will eventually own all the dead stars of rock & roll?
a year ago
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12 Predictions on the Future of Song Investing

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a year ago
Who will eventually own all the dead stars of rock & roll?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024 Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
12 months ago
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Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024

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12 months ago
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
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Birchtree
📕 I mildly recommend: Life as No One Knows It (members post) A new book explaining assembly theory, a new way of thinking about the question of "what is life?"
6 months ago
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📕 I mildly recommend: Life as No One Knows It (members post)

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

6 months ago
A new book explaining assembly theory, a new way of thinking about the question of "what is life?"
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Construction Physics
Why Did Supersonic Airliners Fail? Progress in aviation has traditionally been associated with speed. Following the Wright Brothers’...
a year ago
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Why Did Supersonic Airliners Fail?

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

a year ago
Progress in aviation has traditionally been associated with speed. Following the Wright Brothers’ flight in 1903, aircraft speeds steadily increased each decade, and increasing aircraft speeds was one of the primary goals of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA’s...
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Calculated Risk
Asking Rents Mostly Unchanged Year-over-year Today, in the Real Estate Newsletter: Asking Rents Mostly Unchanged Year-over-year Brief excerpt:...
6 months ago
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Asking Rents Mostly Unchanged Year-over-year

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

6 months ago
Today, in the Real Estate Newsletter: Asking Rents Mostly Unchanged Year-over-year Brief excerpt: Another monthly update on rents. Welcome to the January 2025 Apartment List National Rent Report. The national median monthly rent closed out 2024 at $1,373 in December, after...
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Arduino Blog
Tecnoseta revives the silk industry with open-source innovation The silk industry has a rich history in Italy, but modern challenges have brought this centuries-old...
5 months ago
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Tecnoseta revives the silk industry with open-source innovation

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

5 months ago
The silk industry has a rich history in Italy, but modern challenges have brought this centuries-old tradition to the brink of decline. Once a cornerstone of the rural economy in Italy, with a strong presence in Zagarolo, Rome, silk production has dwindled in the country due to...
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ToughSF
NTER: Nuclear Thermal-Electric Rocket There is a type of nuclear propulsion that can have most of the acceleration of a nuclear thermal...
over a year ago
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NTER: Nuclear Thermal-Electric Rocket

from ToughSF [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
There is a type of nuclear propulsion that can have most of the acceleration of a nuclear thermal rocket but also the high Isp of an electric thruster.  Let’s have a look at nuclear ‘thermal-electric’ engines and their advantages. The title image is from 'dV: Rings of...
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Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Phone Setup 2020 Throughout 2019 I was using Android, which was an interesting experiment. Using the minimalist...
over a year ago
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Phone Setup 2020

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

over a year ago
Throughout 2019 I was using Android, which was an interesting experiment. Using the minimalist launcher by Blloc, it really made me aware of my phone usage and encouraged me to reduce not just my screen time, but also the number of apps I installed in the first place. This year...
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Dreams of Space -...
My Weekly Reader September 11, 1961 September 11, 1961 So I came across another "stash" of old Weekly Readers that I am going to share...
a month ago
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My Weekly Reader September 11, 1961

from Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera [alt+shift+b] in history

a month ago
September 11, 1961 So I came across another "stash" of old Weekly Readers that I am going to share for the next few weeks. I have written before how these tiny newspaper appeared in our classrooms every week during the school year (and the summer too). I really love how our...
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AI Snake Oil
Eighteen pitfalls to beware of in AI journalism A checklist for avoiding hype
over a year ago
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Eighteen pitfalls to beware of in AI journalism

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over a year ago
A checklist for avoiding hype
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Common Edge
Going for Zero: “Building Reuse Is Climate Action” Carl Elefante makes the case for the importance of rehabilitating buildings instead of erecting new...
a month ago
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Going for Zero: “Building Reuse Is Climate Action”

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a month ago
Carl Elefante makes the case for the importance of rehabilitating buildings instead of erecting new ones.
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Remains of the Day
Revisionist commentary I don't know that I'm aware of enough entries in this category to even consider it one, but I'm a...
over a year ago
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Revisionist commentary

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over a year ago
I don't know that I'm aware of enough entries in this category to even consider it one, but I'm a sucker for the union of political and film satire as embodied in alternate film commentaries. I was reminded of it when seeing The People's History of Tattooine which was first one...
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Herbert Lui
Good prose The lyrics from a good song will put your feelings into words better than you could have. That’s...
5 months ago
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Good prose

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

5 months ago
The lyrics from a good song will put your feelings into words better than you could have. That’s really the songwriter’s only job. Similarly, the prose from a blog post, article, or book should put your feelings into words better than you could have as well. A good piece of prose...
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 Make Better Documents Stop formatting everything to death. — Anil Dash Visit original link → or View on nazhamid.com →
a year ago
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🔗 Make Better Documents

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a year ago
Stop formatting everything to death. — Anil Dash Visit original link → or View on nazhamid.com →
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Alex Meub
Apple Captive Network Assistant Slowness Problems on iOS We were trying to launch a new captive portal page design for a customer and we ran into the...
over a year ago
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Apple Captive Network Assistant Slowness Problems on iOS

from Alex Meub [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
We were trying to launch a new captive portal page design for a customer and we ran into the strangest issue. Only on iOS devices, we’d see extreme slowness and unresponsive behavior in the Apple Captive Network Assistant (CNA). Over the course of several days, we made multiple...
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Yale e360
Amid Devastation in Gaza, a Deepening Environmental Wound The ongoing war in the Gaza Strip has obliterated crops and trees, according to a new assessment of...
a month ago
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Amid Devastation in Gaza, a Deepening Environmental Wound

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

a month ago
The ongoing war in the Gaza Strip has obliterated crops and trees, according to a new assessment of the impact. Read more on E360 →
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Birchtree
A clear-eyed look at LLM energy use Andy Masley: A Cheat Sheet for Why Using ChatGPT Is Not Bad for the Environment If you want to...
2 months ago
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A clear-eyed look at LLM energy use

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2 months ago
Andy Masley: A Cheat Sheet for Why Using ChatGPT Is Not Bad for the Environment If you want to prompt ChatGPT 40 times, you can just stop your shower 1 second early. If you normally take a 5 minute shower, set a timer for 299 seconds instead, and you’
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Alice GG
Managing your Kubernetes cluster using Helm and Terraform In a previous post, I explained how to manage a Kubernetes cluster with FluxCD. This showed a way to...
over a year ago
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Managing your Kubernetes cluster using Helm and Terraform

from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
In a previous post, I explained how to manage a Kubernetes cluster with FluxCD. This showed a way to implement a GitOps workflow, which means using a Git repository as the source of truth for the state of your cluster. Flux introduces multiple new objects in your Kubernetes...
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Classical Wisdom
Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia? Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
a year ago
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Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?

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a year ago
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
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Computer Things
New Blog Post: "A Perplexing Javascript Parsing Puzzle" I know I said we'd be back to normal newsletters this week and in fact had 80% of one already...
3 months ago
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New Blog Post: "A Perplexing Javascript Parsing Puzzle"

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 months ago
I know I said we'd be back to normal newsletters this week and in fact had 80% of one already written. Then I unearthed something that was better left buried. Blog post here, Patreon notes here (Mostly an explanation of how I found this horror in the first place). Next week I'll...
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Stoic Simple
What Does Stoicism Teach About Fate and Destiny? Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for centuries, with roots that can be traced back to...
over a year ago
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What Does Stoicism Teach About Fate and Destiny?

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over a year ago
Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for centuries, with roots that can be traced back to ancient Greece. It is a philosophy that emphasizes personal ethics, logic, and rationality, which are often used to help individuals cope with the hardships and unpredictability of...
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Abishek Muthian
Time-constrained person Time is a human constructfor now, integral to both personal life and the well being of the society...
over a year ago
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Time-constrained person

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over a year ago
Time is a human constructfor now, integral to both personal life and the well being of the society at large. From waking up to the alarm in the morning to going to sleep on time so we could wake up to that alarm, We've come with average amount of time to do all tasks. If suddenly...
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nanoscale views
NSF, quo vadis? There is a lot going on.  Today, some words about NSF. Yesterday Sethuraman Panchanathan, the...
2 months ago
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NSF, quo vadis?

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2 months ago
There is a lot going on.  Today, some words about NSF. Yesterday Sethuraman Panchanathan, the director of the National Science Foundation, resigned 16 months before the end of his six year term.  The relevant Science article raises the possibility that this is because, as an...
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Herbert Lui
Where you work changes how you work My first internship was at Virtual Team Builders, a company that helped companies work remotely. I...
3 months ago
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Where you work changes how you work

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3 months ago
My first internship was at Virtual Team Builders, a company that helped companies work remotely. I had no idea this was even possible. I would go on to work remotely, or in a hybrid workplace, for most of my career. Working remotely doesn’t necessarily mean working from home....
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The Works in...
Fixing retail with land value capture How to create beautiful shopping streets everywhere
a year ago
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Fixing retail with land value capture

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a year ago
How to create beautiful shopping streets everywhere
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Commoncog
Marvel Studios’s Origin Story The creation of Marvel Studios was contingent on some very creative financial dealmaking. A story of...
a year ago
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Marvel Studios’s Origin Story

from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
The creation of Marvel Studios was contingent on some very creative financial dealmaking. A story of superb capital expertise in action.
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Financing risk Startups that raise seed funding face the risk of not being able to raise additional money. This is...
over a year ago
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Financing risk

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

over a year ago
Startups that raise seed funding face the risk of not being able to raise additional money. This is what is sometimes known as “financing…
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Jonas Hietala
A Week of Headache This was supposed to be a productive week with lots and lots of Perl and Ada but instead I’ve had...
over a year ago
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A Week of Headache

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

over a year ago
This was supposed to be a productive week with lots and lots of Perl and Ada but instead I’ve had this big headache all week, and some the week before and it’s gotten pretty bad so I can’t really concentrate on anything really. The electronics assignment was a bitch and it took a...
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Luxagraf:...
Autumn Every year for the past couple of years, when September rolls around we start getting ready to hit...
9 months ago
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Autumn

from Luxagraf: Topographical Writings [alt+shift+b] in life

9 months ago
Every year for the past couple of years, when September rolls around we start getting ready to hit the road, packing away the paddle boards, washing the bus, and burning through the last of the firewood. Sometime around the middle of the month we say goodbye to friends and head...
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Rest of World -...
Pakistan’s China-style firewall is rattling its tech industry Internet speeds in the country have dropped by up to 40% due to the government's efforts to monitor...
10 months ago
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Pakistan’s China-style firewall is rattling its tech industry

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

10 months ago
Internet speeds in the country have dropped by up to 40% due to the government's efforts to monitor internet traffic, said service providers.
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Archinect - Features
Being Laid off Is Tough; So Is Waiting To Be Findings from our recent Archinect Business Survey suggest that many architecture employees do not...
10 months ago
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Being Laid off Is Tough; So Is Waiting To Be

from Archinect - Features [alt+shift+b] in architecture

10 months ago
Findings from our recent Archinect Business Survey suggest that many architecture employees do not feel secure in their current roles. For those facing the looming prospect of layoffs in the coming weeks or months, the emotional strain can be as taxing as that experienced by...
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TheCollector
Who Were King Arthur’s Legendary Wives? In the Arthurian legends, the wife of King Arthur is famously named Guinevere. However, the idea...
a week ago
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Who Were King Arthur’s Legendary Wives?

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

a week ago
In the Arthurian legends, the wife of King Arthur is famously named Guinevere. However, the idea that King Arthur only had a single wife is not something that is seen in Welsh tradition. In fact, even some Latin texts refer to him having multiple wives. In any case, Welsh...
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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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Irrational...
How to get better at strategy? One of the most memorable quotes in Arthur Miller’s The Death of a Salesman comes from Uncle Ben,...
3 months ago
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How to get better at strategy?

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

3 months ago
One of the most memorable quotes in Arthur Miller’s The Death of a Salesman comes from Uncle Ben, who describes his path to becoming wealthy as, “When I was seventeen, I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich.” I wish I could...
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Society's Backend:...
The Attention Thief: Machine Learning as a Monetization Weapon How your greatest asset is silently stolen by technology every day
a year ago
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The Attention Thief: Machine Learning as a Monetization Weapon

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a year ago
How your greatest asset is silently stolen by technology every day
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Paul Cudenec
Rising to our feet How does it make you feel to know that the same people who five years ago assaulted the world with...
3 months ago
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Rising to our feet

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3 months ago
How does it make you feel to know that the same people who five years ago assaulted the world with their Covid scamdemic are today committing genocide in Palestine?
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Seth's Blog
The conspiracy of mediocrity Solo mediocrity is rampant, of course. We know that toasting the bread before making the sandwich...
10 months ago
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The conspiracy of mediocrity

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

10 months ago
Solo mediocrity is rampant, of course. We know that toasting the bread before making the sandwich makes it more delicious, but in service of convenience and speed, we skip a step. It becomes a conspiracy when more than one of us is involved. The freelancer who offers cheap and...
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Tyler Cipriani: blog
Git files hidden in plain sight 🫥 I doubt that it is a good practice to ship the public key used to sign things in the repository in...
a year ago
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Git files hidden in plain sight 🫥

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
I doubt that it is a good practice to ship the public key used to sign things in the repository in the repository itself – Junio C Hamano, git@vger.kernel.org: expired key in junio-gpg-pub Git ships with the maintainer’s public key. But you won’t find it in your worktree—it’s...
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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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Adrian Hanft, III:...
Five Things I Learned After I Left the Marketing Agency World After about 8 years of working at advertising/marketing/design companies I hit a wall. I was...
over a year ago
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Five Things I Learned After I Left the Marketing Agency World

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

over a year ago
After about 8 years of working at advertising/marketing/design companies I hit a wall. I was disappointed in the work I was doing. This is the story of why I became an in-house designer.
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Platformer
Why you can't trust Twitter's encrypted DMs A promised audit hasn't actually happened, sources say. PLUS: Twitter's Turkey problem, and a new...
over a year ago
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Why you can't trust Twitter's encrypted DMs

from Platformer [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
A promised audit hasn't actually happened, sources say. PLUS: Twitter's Turkey problem, and a new CEO
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The Marginalian
The Wild Iris: Louise Glück on the Door at the End of Your Suffering "Whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice."
a year ago
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The Wild Iris: Louise Glück on the Door at the End of Your Suffering

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a year ago
"Whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice."
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The personal website...
The things of everyday design There’s a secret code embedded in every app, website, and interface you use. Underneath your fingers...
over a year ago
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The things of everyday design

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

over a year ago
There’s a secret code embedded in every app, website, and interface you use. Underneath your fingers is a hidden world traveled by the interface designers, caught up in a war between the complexities of technology and the breakneck evolution of user needs. These designers speak...
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Asheville Restaurants Refining Appalachian Culinary Traditions
a year ago
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Asheville Restaurants Refining Appalachian Culinary Traditions

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a year ago
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Ink & Switch
Patchwork 04 · Diff visualizations Prototypes to show changes on a document, such as red deletion glyphs and change summaries by...
a year ago
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Patchwork 04 · Diff visualizations

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Prototypes to show changes on a document, such as red deletion glyphs and change summaries by section.
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Naz Hamid
Modus Operandi My operating rules and way of living. This is a m.o. (mo) page, or modus operandi page. It lists out...
2 months ago
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Modus Operandi

from Naz Hamid [alt+shift+b] in literature

2 months ago
My operating rules and way of living. This is a m.o. (mo) page, or modus operandi page. It lists out the way I approach my life and the rules I apply to it to thrive. This is a living document and will be added to as more comes to mind, or as I develop new ones. It is mirrored at...
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Drew Ex Machina
First Pictures: NASA’s Mars Pathfinder – July 4, 1997 During the morning hours of July 4, 1997, I experienced a strange sense of déjà vu as I sat glued to...
over a year ago
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First Pictures: NASA’s Mars Pathfinder – July 4, 1997

from Drew Ex Machina [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
During the morning hours of July 4, 1997, I experienced a strange sense of déjà vu as I sat glued to the television set watching live […]
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devonzuegel.com
Markets in everything at the Duomo You're not allowed inside the Duomo with your shoulders uncovered. We learned this the hard way. I...
over a year ago
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Markets in everything at the Duomo

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

over a year ago
You're not allowed inside the Duomo with your shoulders uncovered. We learned this the hard way. I was wearing a spaghetti strap dress (it's 92℉/33℃ and humid here in Milan), so they stopped my little group at the entrance, after we'd already purchased 3 tickets. Luckily, we...
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The New Oil
The Invisible Way You Can Be Tracked Online
7 months ago
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The Invisible Way You Can Be Tracked Online

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7 months ago
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The Universe of...
Everyday examples of morphisms with one-sided inverses Like almost everyone except Alexander Grothendieck, I understand things better with examples. For...
9 months ago
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Everyday examples of morphisms with one-sided inverses

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

9 months ago
Like almost everyone except Alexander Grothendieck, I understand things better with examples. For instance, how do you explain that $$(f\circ g)^{-1} = g^{-1} \circ f^{-1}?$$ Oh, that's easy. Let be putting on your shoes and be taking off your shoes. And let be putting...
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Overcoming Bias
Arntz-Gray & I Talk Feminism At 6:30-8p ET today, I’ll be talking with Regan Arntz-Gray on
7 months ago
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Arntz-Gray & I Talk Feminism

from Overcoming Bias [alt+shift+b] in history

7 months ago
At 6:30-8p ET today, I’ll be talking with Regan Arntz-Gray on
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devonzuegel.com
The road to hell is paved with asphalt Most roads are paved with asphalt. Unfortunately, there are a lot of problems with asphalt. Bricks,...
a year ago
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The road to hell is paved with asphalt

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

a year ago
Most roads are paved with asphalt. Unfortunately, there are a lot of problems with asphalt. Bricks, cobblestones, and pavers are often much better options, because: 1. Asphalt degrades fast, so once you account for maintenance, it's more expensive it first appears Asphalt...
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Classical Wisdom
Weekly Wisdom Quiz Ancient Egypt, Diogenes, and more!
a month ago
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Weekly Wisdom Quiz

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a month ago
Ancient Egypt, Diogenes, and more!
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Buck on Software
Thinking incrementally about SaaS An overview of the key output of the growth software machine
over a year ago
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Thinking incrementally about SaaS

from Buck on Software [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
An overview of the key output of the growth software machine
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TokyoDev
How to grow your startup through community Over my career, I’ve spent at least one thousand working hours on supporting local developer...
3 months ago
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How to grow your startup through community

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 months ago
Over my career, I’ve spent at least one thousand working hours on supporting local developer communities. My current business, TokyoDev, has spent over 8 million Japanese yen (about 53,000 USD) on community sponsorships. What have I received in return? That depends on your...
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Birchtree
“Retina” is not a static PPI I’m just going to keep posting about this every few months because people keep getting “retina”...
3 months ago
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“Retina” is not a static PPI

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

3 months ago
I’m just going to keep posting about this every few months because people keep getting “retina” wrong. According to this YouTube video that was recommended to me today, retina on desktop monitors is exactly 218ppi (pixels per inch). Now of course the iPhone 4, which was
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Calculated Risk
Freddie Mac House Price Index Increased in December; Up 4.0% Year-over-year Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Freddie Mac House Price Index Increased in...
5 months ago
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Freddie Mac House Price Index Increased in December; Up 4.0% Year-over-year

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

5 months ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Freddie Mac House Price Index Increased in December; Up 4.0% Year-over-year A brief excerpt: Freddie Mac reported that its “National” Home Price Index (FMHPI) increased 0.54% month-over-month on a seasonally adjusted (SA)...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Replicant Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Scene taken from my forthcoming erotic replicant...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Replicant

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

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Scene taken from my forthcoming erotic replicant pirate romance series. Today's News:
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Chris Grossack's...
Internal Group Actions as Enriched Functors Earlier today this month on the Category Theory Zulip, Bernd Losert asked an extremely natural...
a year ago
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Internal Group Actions as Enriched Functors

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

a year ago
Earlier today this month on the Category Theory Zulip, Bernd Losert asked an extremely natural question about how we might study topological group actions via the functorial approach beloved by category theorists. The usual story is to treat a group $G$ as a one-object...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Skills Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I can also play the ukulele just well enough to be...
3 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Skills

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3 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I can also play the ukulele just well enough to be most irritating. Today's News:
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Blog - Practical...
An Engineer’s Love Letter to Cable-Stayed Bridges [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] I’m Grady, and this is...
4 months ago
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An Engineer’s Love Letter to Cable-Stayed Bridges

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4 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] I’m Grady, and this is Practical Engineering. You know, every once in a while, all the science, technology, economic factors, and stylistic tastes converge into a singular, beautiful idea of absolute...
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Jonas Hietala
Jonas IceCream Stand Ahoy there! This time I’ll take you along for a ride with an arty Tycoon game. Jonas IceCream...
over a year ago
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Jonas IceCream Stand

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

over a year ago
Ahoy there! This time I’ll take you along for a ride with an arty Tycoon game. Jonas IceCream Stand Instructions It should be pretty self-explanatory, it’s a very simply tycoon game. Credits Music: Eric Maskol Steve Chatterton Sound effects: freesound Rest: Me
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Rest of World -...
The hidden cost of cyberwarfare Digital Peace Now is working to raise awareness of the damage done by cyberattacks.
over a year ago
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The hidden cost of cyberwarfare

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over a year ago
Digital Peace Now is working to raise awareness of the damage done by cyberattacks.
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Matt Blewitt
Thoughts on User Safety: 2 Following up from last time, let’s explore the internal and insider fronts when moving beyond...
over a year ago
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Thoughts on User Safety: 2

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

over a year ago
Following up from last time, let’s explore the internal and insider fronts when moving beyond security towards safety for our users.
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Steve Blank
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2025 – Lessons Learned Presentations The videos and PowerPoints embedded in this post are best viewed on steveblank.com We just finished...
3 weeks ago
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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2025 – Lessons Learned Presentations

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3 weeks ago
The videos and PowerPoints embedded in this post are best viewed on steveblank.com We just finished our 10th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. What a year. Hacking for Defense, now in 70 universities, has teams of students working to understand and help solve national...
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alexwlchan
emptydir: look for (nearly) empty directories and delete them I’ve posted a new command-line tool on GitHub: emptydir, which looks for directories which are empty...
a year ago
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emptydir: look for (nearly) empty directories and delete them

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
I’ve posted a new command-line tool on GitHub: emptydir, which looks for directories which are empty or nearly empty, and deletes them. This isn’t a completely trivial problem, because emptiness is deceptive. Consider the following folder. Finder tells us it has 0 items, so it...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Prediction Markets: Tales from the Election
over a year ago
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Prediction Markets: Tales from the Election

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over a year ago
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Greater Still by...
Integrate Are we building apps or infrastructure? ...Yes
a year ago
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Integrate

from Greater Still by Gaby Goldberg [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
Are we building apps or infrastructure? ...Yes
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The Forney Flyer
Latest from Uganda Here's a picture taken while I was doing an early morning pre-flight inspection 2 days ago, on...
over a year ago
81

Latest from Uganda

from The Forney Flyer [alt+shift+b] in travel

over a year ago
Here's a picture taken while I was doing an early morning pre-flight inspection 2 days ago, on Sunday, on a remote strip in South Sudan. It's not normal for us to do flights on Sundays, but we've had an aircraft stuck in that location for a long time now, requiring some TLC...
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Paul Graham: Essays
Crazy New Ideas
over a year ago
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Crazy New Ideas

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over a year ago
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Nat Eliason's...
I'm Writing a Book! Book Update 1
over a year ago
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I'm Writing a Book!

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over a year ago
Book Update 1
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Stephen Diehl
Dive into GHC: Pipeline
over a year ago
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Dive into GHC: Pipeline

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over a year ago
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Internal Tech Emails
"OpenAI is on a path of certain failure" There obviously needs to be immediate and dramatic action or everyone except for Google will be...
5 months ago
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"OpenAI is on a path of certain failure"

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5 months ago
There obviously needs to be immediate and dramatic action or everyone except for Google will be consigned to irrelevance.
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Yale e360
Deadly Encounter: Mountain Lion Attacks Spark Controversy A mountain lion attack that killed a young California man last year has reignited a debate over how...
5 months ago
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Deadly Encounter: Mountain Lion Attacks Spark Controversy

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

5 months ago
A mountain lion attack that killed a young California man last year has reignited a debate over how the big cats should be managed. Some are calling for renewed hunting of the animals, while others are advocating nonlethal methods of instilling a fear of humans in the big...
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Home on Erik...
Detecting corporate fraud using Benford's law Note: This is a silly application. Don't take anything seriously. Benford's law describes a...
over a year ago
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Detecting corporate fraud using Benford's law

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

over a year ago
Note: This is a silly application. Don't take anything seriously. Benford's law describes a phenomenon where numbers in any data series will exhibit patterns in their first digit. For instance, if you took a list of the 1,000 longest rivers of Mongolia, or the average daily...
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Retail Design Blog
ADDITIVE headquarters by NOA For the new interior design project conceived for ADDITIVE’s headquarters in Bolzano, NOA has...
4 months ago
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ADDITIVE headquarters by NOA

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

4 months ago
For the new interior design project conceived for ADDITIVE’s headquarters in Bolzano, NOA has developed a concept inspired by spatial...
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Charlie Becker
Castles in the Sky 31 From the New York Times to the Crowd Work section
over a year ago
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Castles in the Sky 31

from Charlie Becker [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
From the New York Times to the Crowd Work section
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The Elysian
It's ok to live in a fantasyland That's the joy of being a writer.
8 months ago
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It's ok to live in a fantasyland

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8 months ago
That's the joy of being a writer.
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Old Vintage...
Let's give PRO/VENIX a barely adequate, pre-C89 TCP/IP stack (featuring Slirp-CK) TCP/IP Illustrated (what would now be called the first edition prior to the 2011 update) for a...
2 months ago
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Let's give PRO/VENIX a barely adequate, pre-C89 TCP/IP stack (featuring Slirp-CK)

from Old Vintage Computing Research [alt+shift+b] in technology

2 months ago
TCP/IP Illustrated (what would now be called the first edition prior to the 2011 update) for a hundred-odd bucks on sale which has now sat on my bookshelf, encased in its original shrinkwrap, for at least twenty years. It would be fun to put up the 4.4BSD data structures poster...
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David Heinemeier...
Learning to accept defeat against reality A great many smart people terminably hamper their ability to better understand the world by refusing...
a year ago
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Learning to accept defeat against reality

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

a year ago
A great many smart people terminably hamper their ability to better understand the world by refusing to accept defeat when reality proves them wrong. Armed with an intellect that's at once both too proud to recognize it's own failings and cunningly capable of producing...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Novels as Prototypes of the Future Via Robin Rendle’s blog, I found this quote from Jack Cheng (emphasis mine): A novel…is a prototype...
a year ago
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Novels as Prototypes of the Future

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

a year ago
Via Robin Rendle’s blog, I found this quote from Jack Cheng (emphasis mine): A novel…is a prototype of the future. And if the ideas that the tech industry is pursuing feel stagnant…maybe it points to a shortage of compelling fictions for what the world could be. I love that...
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TheCollector
Why Taiwan Is a Hidden Gem for Art Lovers Taiwan’s art scene is often overshadowed by the Asian hubs of Singapore and Hong Kong in Asia....
a month ago
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Why Taiwan Is a Hidden Gem for Art Lovers

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

a month ago
Taiwan’s art scene is often overshadowed by the Asian hubs of Singapore and Hong Kong in Asia. Despite this, it has much to offer. With an art history grounded in indigenous practice and traditional Chinese art forms, the art that emerges from it is unique and a powerful...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Case for Design Engineers, Pt. III Previously: The Case for Design Engineers, Pt. I The Case for Design Engineers, Pt. II I wrote about...
a year ago
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The Case for Design Engineers, Pt. III

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

a year ago
Previously: The Case for Design Engineers, Pt. I The Case for Design Engineers, Pt. II I wrote about the parallels between making films and making websites, which was based on an interview with Christopher Nolan. During part of the interview, Nolan discusses how he enjoys being a...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Cutting to the Bone One potentially positive outcome from the COVID pandemic is that it was a wakeup call – if there was...
3 months ago
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Cutting to the Bone

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

3 months ago
One potentially positive outcome from the COVID pandemic is that it was a wakeup call – if there was any doubt previously about the fact that we all live in one giant interconnected world, it should not have survived the recent pandemic. This is particularly true when it comes to...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hot Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Let's see if we can make this one more...
4 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hot

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

4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Let's see if we can make this one more controversial than yesterday's, shall we? Today's News:
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Unpacked
2024 Predictions: AI, Media, Advertising & more They say predictions is a bad business - You get it right, people say "duh". You get it wrong, you...
a year ago
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2024 Predictions: AI, Media, Advertising & more

from Unpacked [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
They say predictions is a bad business - You get it right, people say "duh". You get it wrong, you are terribly wrong. So, of course we are kicking off with 2024 tech predictions. Listen in for hot takes across AI, Media, Advertising & more.
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devonzuegel.com
OWD #3: Disney World & other underworlds Every place has some dirty secrets, even Disney World. We all have to get rid of waste somehow! In...
over a year ago
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OWD #3: Disney World & other underworlds

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

over a year ago
Every place has some dirty secrets, even Disney World. We all have to get rid of waste somehow! In this episode, the Bertauds and I discuss methods of sanitation and waste management from around the world, and how these hidden systems shape our cities. RSS · Apple Podcasts ·...
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alexwlchan
An unexpected lesson in CSS stacking contexts I’ve made another small tweak to the site – I’ve added “new” banners to articles I’ve written...
4 months ago
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An unexpected lesson in CSS stacking contexts

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

4 months ago
I’ve made another small tweak to the site – I’ve added “new” banners to articles I’ve written recently, and any post marked as “new” will be pinned to the homepage. Previously, the homepage was just a random selection of six articles I’d written at any time. ...
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Mazdak
Today's Top Tech News - Amazon's Discount Store Amazon is taking on Temu and Shein with its new discount store, where everything is under $20!
7 months ago
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Today's Top Tech News - Amazon's Discount Store

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

7 months ago
Amazon is taking on Temu and Shein with its new discount store, where everything is under $20!
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Classical Wisdom
Is Subjective Equal to Objective? Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the...
a year ago
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Is Subjective Equal to Objective?

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

a year ago
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
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TheCollector
5 Discoveries That Made Archaeologists Question the Origins of Art Discoveries in the archaeological record have sparked debate about how we should define art. Some...
2 months ago
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5 Discoveries That Made Archaeologists Question the Origins of Art

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago
Discoveries in the archaeological record have sparked debate about how we should define art. Some researchers argue that art must go beyond simple representations and instead convey symbolic ideas, beliefs, or concepts that transcend what was immediately visible to the artist....
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Casey Handmer's blog
The Los Angeles wildfires are self-inflicted I don’t ordinarily write about events “in the moment” but for this I will make an exception, as I...
5 months ago
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The Los Angeles wildfires are self-inflicted

from Casey Handmer's blog [alt+shift+b] in science

5 months ago
I don’t ordinarily write about events “in the moment” but for this I will make an exception, as I was personally affected. Caveats aside, my family and I are safe, we evacuated for several days, and due to heroic efforts by professional firefighters and psychotically brave...
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./techtipsy
ThinkPad as a server: third time's the charm This is a follow-up to my two previous attempts on this topic: Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable...
8 months ago
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ThinkPad as a server: third time's the charm

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

8 months ago
This is a follow-up to my two previous attempts on this topic: Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable home server? ThinkPad as a server: the follow-up Since then, I’ve had quite a few changes to my home server setup: I put my home server stuff on an IKEA pegboard I tried the...
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Greater Still by...
Becoming a person familiar Six months at Rostra
3 months ago
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Becoming a person familiar

from Greater Still by Gaby Goldberg [alt+shift+b] in technology

3 months ago
Six months at Rostra
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Coffee with an...
Architect Christmas Cards 2023 It’s that time of year again when a grinches, I mean an architect’s, heart grows 3 sizes and they...
a year ago
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Architect Christmas Cards 2023

from Coffee with an Architect [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
It’s that time of year again when a grinches, I mean an architect’s, heart grows 3 sizes and they realize the true meaning of Christmas. Ignoring heat gain coefficients and just using all glass on the new design for Santa’s experimental workshop/atelier anyway. It’s a Christmas...
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diamond geezer
geezer's mailbox Thank you for the emails you've been sending. Tom emailed on 16th January. ✉ Not sure if you have...
2 weeks ago
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geezer's mailbox

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

2 weeks ago
Thank you for the emails you've been sending. Tom emailed on 16th January. ✉ Not sure if you have come across the National Archives’ 2023 competition on stories from 1920s streets, but it seems completely in your zone. The only thing that would have made this article better...
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The Elysian
How we achieve the borderless future of Terra Ignota On Ada Palmer’s utopian sci-fi series and an exploration of how we might bring it to life.
2 months ago
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How we achieve the borderless future of Terra Ignota

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

2 months ago
On Ada Palmer’s utopian sci-fi series and an exploration of how we might bring it to life.
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The Changelog
Live Migrating from Raspberry Pi OS bullseye to Debian bookworm I’ve been getting annoyed with Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian) for years now. It’s a fork of Debian, but...
a year ago
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Live Migrating from Raspberry Pi OS bullseye to Debian bookworm

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

a year ago
I’ve been getting annoyed with Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian) for years now. It’s a fork of Debian, but manages to omit some of the most useful things. So I’ve decided to migrate all of my Pis to run pure Debian. These are my reasons: Raspberry Pi OS has, for years now, specified...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'A Glass Filled With a Supersaturate Solution' “[S]he is one of the few truly compelling stylists now at work. Her voice is authoritative,...
2 months ago
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'A Glass Filled With a Supersaturate Solution'

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

2 months ago
“[S]he is one of the few truly compelling stylists now at work. Her voice is authoritative, confident, unfussy, exacting. She is never overtly confessional, which sets her apart from many poets writing since the Romantics. She makes rare company.”  And isn’t that what we look for...
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Josh Collinsworth
Goodbye, WordPress WordPress was potentially the most impactful and empowering technology I've yet encountered. It...
over a year ago
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Goodbye, WordPress

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
WordPress was potentially the most impactful and empowering technology I've yet encountered. It transformed my career path and enabled me to do anything I wanted at every point in my journey. So why leave it now?
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Odds and Ends of...
Tony Blair is right about Net Zero Tough on carbon, tough on the sources of carbon
2 months ago
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Tony Blair is right about Net Zero

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

2 months ago
Tough on carbon, tough on the sources of carbon
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Articles
My embarrassing iTunes receipt – exploring the customer journey
over a year ago
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My embarrassing iTunes receipt – exploring the customer journey

from Articles [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
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NeuroLogica Blog
A Lifecycle Analysis of Electric Vehicles This article is part of my informal series on EVs, sorting through the claims, reality, and...
a year ago
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A Lifecycle Analysis of Electric Vehicles

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

a year ago
This article is part of my informal series on EVs, sorting through the claims, reality, and propaganda. There are many complicated factors to sort through, but overall, in my opinion, most concerns about EVs are outdated or overblown. There are definitely locations and use...
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Ognjen Regoje •...
All software engineers should freelance or found a business Many (most?) engineers go from university to a sizable company significantly distancing them from...
2 months ago
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All software engineers should freelance or found a business

from Ognjen Regoje • ognjen.io [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 months ago
Many (most?) engineers go from university to a sizable company significantly distancing them from the actual value their code creates. They labour under the delusion that they’re paid to write code. In fact, they’re paid to make money, and writing code is probably the most...
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Arduino Blog
A beautiful custom calculator built with IV-12 VFD tubes Nixie tubes have been the go-to option for makers looking for retro display aesthetics for many...
a year ago
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A beautiful custom calculator built with IV-12 VFD tubes

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

a year ago
Nixie tubes have been the go-to option for makers looking for retro display aesthetics for many years, because their distinct orange glow carries a lot of vintage appeal. But VFD (vacuum fluorescent display) tubes have been gaining in popularity recently and have different —...
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Open Culture
Monty Python’s Michael Palin Presents His Favorite Painting, J. M. W. Turner’s Rain, Steam and Speed Of all the English comedians to have attained worldwide fame over the past half-century, Sir Michael...
a year ago
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Monty Python’s Michael Palin Presents His Favorite Painting, J. M. W. Turner’s Rain, Steam and Speed

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

a year ago
Of all the English comedians to have attained worldwide fame over the past half-century, Sir Michael Palin may be the most English of them all. It thus comes as no surprise that the National Gallery would ring him up and invite him to make a video about his favorite painting, nor...
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Home on Erik...
Plotting author statistics for Git repos using Git of Theseus I spent a few days during the holidays fixing up a bunch of semi-dormant open source projects and I...
over a year ago
22

Plotting author statistics for Git repos using Git of Theseus

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

over a year ago
I spent a few days during the holidays fixing up a bunch of semi-dormant open source projects and I have a couple of blog posts in the pipeline about various updates. First up, I made a number of fixes to Git of Theseus which is a tool (written in Python) that generates...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Don’t bother securing your trademarks in the beginning Disclaimer: This is intended as a short, tactical guide to getting your trademarks sorted out for...
over a year ago
22

Don’t bother securing your trademarks in the beginning

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

over a year ago
Disclaimer: This is intended as a short, tactical guide to getting your trademarks sorted out for the first time, on a minimal budget. This is not…
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diamond geezer
Unblogged March 31 unblogged things I did in March Sat 1: The world is still reverberating after Trump and Vance...
3 months ago
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Unblogged March

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

3 months ago
31 unblogged things I did in March Sat 1: The world is still reverberating after Trump and Vance admonished Zelensky in the White House yesterday, and you can sense that 2025 is going to be a turning point in geopolitical history but not in a good way. Sun 2: Fish and Ships, the...
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Quanta Magazine
Two Students Shoot Down a Widely Believed Math Conjecture Mathematicians thought they were on the cusp of proving a conjecture about the ancient structures...
a year ago
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Two Students Shoot Down a Widely Believed Math Conjecture

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

a year ago
Mathematicians thought they were on the cusp of proving a conjecture about the ancient structures known as Apollonian circles. But a summer project would lead to its downfall. The post Two Students Shoot Down a Widely Believed Math Conjecture first appeared on Quanta...
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Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#21) Saudi oil, delayed economic optimism, the EV revolution, U.S. education performance, Indian...
a year ago
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At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#21)

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
Saudi oil, delayed economic optimism, the EV revolution, U.S. education performance, Indian industrialization, and Chinese urbanism
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Overcoming Bias
UFO As Aliens Odds, Spending The following are some (lognormal fit) median estimates from some X polls I just ran.
5 months ago
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UFO As Aliens Odds, Spending

from Overcoming Bias [alt+shift+b] in history

5 months ago
The following are some (lognormal fit) median estimates from some X polls I just ran.
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computers are bad
2024-05-25 grc spinrite I feel like I used to spend an inordinate amount of time dealing with suspect hard drives. I mean,...
a year ago
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2024-05-25 grc spinrite

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

a year ago
I feel like I used to spend an inordinate amount of time dealing with suspect hard drives. I mean, like, back in high school. These days I almost never do, or on the occasion that I have storage trouble, it's a drive that has completely stopped responding at all and there's...
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Contemporist...
Western Red Cedar Gives This Home A Warm Feeling Inside And Out Swatt | Miers Architects has sent us photos of their project, the 'Happy Valley Residence' in...
over a year ago
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Western Red Cedar Gives This Home A Warm Feeling Inside And Out

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

over a year ago
Swatt | Miers Architects has sent us photos of their project, the 'Happy Valley Residence' in Lafayette, California.
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Evan Hahn's blog
Things I wish I knew about Ring Fit Adventure I’ve played a lot of Ring Fit Adventure, the fitness game for Nintendo Switch. Here are some things...
2 months ago
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Things I wish I knew about Ring Fit Adventure

from Evan Hahn's blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

2 months ago
I’ve played a lot of Ring Fit Adventure, the fitness game for Nintendo Switch. Here are some things I wish I knew when I got started. Jump over battles to skip them You can jump over enemies to avoid fighting them! I first discovered this when watching a speedrun of the game. If...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Age Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Honestly whenever I hear someone has been murdered...
6 months ago
106

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Age

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

6 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Honestly whenever I hear someone has been murdered I just assume it was one of them. How would you know? Today's News:
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Flashbak
A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967 Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
a year ago
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A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
New Healthcare Crash Courses + Some Updates | Out-Of-Pocket learn stuff and also other things
a year ago
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New Healthcare Crash Courses + Some Updates | Out-Of-Pocket

from Out-of-Pocket Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
learn stuff and also other things
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Date Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We could make it even more informative by adding...
6 months ago
60

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Date

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

6 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We could make it even more informative by adding location and season. Today's News: Another year?
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Construction Physics
Building Fast and Slow: The Empire State Building and the World Trade Center (Part I) The Empire State Building was completed in 1931. At a height of 1250 feet [0], it was the world's...
over a year ago
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Building Fast and Slow: The Empire State Building and the World Trade Center (Part I)

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

over a year ago
The Empire State Building was completed in 1931. At a height of 1250 feet [0], it was the world's tallest building, exceeding the recently completed Chrysler building by 202 feet. It would hold that title for the next 39 years, until 1970 when it was surpassed in height by...
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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

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a year ago
"Beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself."
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NeuroLogica Blog
Reconductoring our Electrical Grid Over the weekend when I was in Dallas for the eclipse, I ran into a local businessman who works in...
a year ago
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Reconductoring our Electrical Grid

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a year ago
Over the weekend when I was in Dallas for the eclipse, I ran into a local businessman who works in the energy sector, mainly involved in new solar projects. This is not surprising as Texas is second only to California in solar installation. I asked him if he is experiencing a...
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SubAnima
The Problem With Richard Dawkins How should we view The Selfish Gene 50 years on?
over a year ago
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The Problem With Richard Dawkins

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over a year ago
How should we view The Selfish Gene 50 years on?
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Flow Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in 1996 on the concept of Flow: [Flow] is being completely involved in an...
over a year ago
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Flow

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

over a year ago
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in 1996 on the concept of Flow: [Flow] is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls…
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IEEE Spectrum
Remote Sub Sustains Science Kilometers Underwater The water column is hazy as an unusual remotely operated vehicle glides over the seafloor in search...
8 months ago
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Remote Sub Sustains Science Kilometers Underwater

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8 months ago
The water column is hazy as an unusual remotely operated vehicle glides over the seafloor in search of a delicate tilt meter deployed three years ago off the west side of Vancouver Island. The sensor measures shaking and shifting in continental plates that will eventually unleash...
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Greater Still by...
Finance, Fairer Sharing our investment in Jia, which turns crypto liquidity into working capital for small...
over a year ago
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Finance, Fairer

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over a year ago
Sharing our investment in Jia, which turns crypto liquidity into working capital for small businesses in every corner of the world.
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PostHog's RSS Feed
The magic of a Hacker News Pre-Mortem Imagine you're working on something for other developers that you really, really want to be great....
over a year ago
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The magic of a Hacker News Pre-Mortem

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over a year ago
Imagine you're working on something for other developers that you really, really want to be great. Perhaps you're creating a new startup, perhaps…
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The American Scholar
Riding With Mr. Washington How my great-grandfather invented himself at the end of Reconstruction The post Riding With Mr....
10 months ago
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Riding With Mr. Washington

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10 months ago
How my great-grandfather invented himself at the end of Reconstruction The post Riding With Mr. Washington appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Articles
Fatherhood
over a year ago
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Fatherhood

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over a year ago
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Retail Design Blog
Ton Corner Coffee Shop by TON Architects Situated in a small alley in the heart of Hue city, Ton Corner – a coffee shop that embodies an...
9 months ago
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Ton Corner Coffee Shop by TON Architects

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9 months ago
Situated in a small alley in the heart of Hue city, Ton Corner – a coffee shop that embodies an...
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Classical Wisdom
Will There Be “Crazy” People? Symposium on the Seas...
a year ago
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Will There Be “Crazy” People?

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a year ago
Symposium on the Seas...
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Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #59: The end of "woke capitalism" Plus the government did the stupid thing after all.
4 months ago
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Odds and Ends #59: The end of "woke capitalism"

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4 months ago
Plus the government did the stupid thing after all.
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A Smart Bear
Refutation: An acquisition is always a failure Independent or acquired, companies always evolve, and not always for the better. Smart exits can...
over a year ago
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Refutation: An acquisition is always a failure

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over a year ago
Independent or acquired, companies always evolve, and not always for the better. Smart exits can create opportunities for everyone involved.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'The Most Noteworthy Action of Human Life' I dreamed my late brother was here in Houston, a city he never visited. He was phobic about flying...
4 months ago
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'The Most Noteworthy Action of Human Life'

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4 months ago
I dreamed my late brother was here in Houston, a city he never visited. He was phobic about flying and traveled by air only twice in his life, when very young. We were seated across from each other, on the couches by the front window. What I remember of the dream is brief, little...
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Marcus on AI
Sam Altman thinks that AGI is basically a solved problem. I don’t. Here’s why. Yesterday Sam Altman claimed in a new blog post that “We are now confident we how to build AGI as we...
6 months ago
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Sam Altman thinks that AGI is basically a solved problem. I don’t. Here’s why.

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6 months ago
Yesterday Sam Altman claimed in a new blog post that “We are now confident we how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it”, alleging that OpenAI (which has not demonstrated AGI) was now on to new and better things.
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Applied Cartography
Things take time Things take time. Nintendo fairly famously was born in 1889, and the modern incarnation — Yamamuchi...
a year ago
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Things take time

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a year ago
Things take time. Nintendo fairly famously was born in 1889, and the modern incarnation — Yamamuchi Nintendo & Co., LTD — was established nearly fifty years later, in 1933. They spent forty years selling playing cards, then another decade operating merely as a distributor of...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Mastery Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I get a lot of pleasure in bringing up a topical...
over a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Mastery

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over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I get a lot of pleasure in bringing up a topical issue and then contributing nothing. Today's News:
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Tyler Cipriani: blog
Monitoring my weather at home 🌩️ Davis Vantage Wireless Console/Reciever, Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2, RTC module—the heart of my...
over a year ago
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Monitoring my weather at home 🌩️

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Davis Vantage Wireless Console/Reciever, Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2, RTC module—the heart of my weather center Despite their best efforts, all weather apps will eventually lie. Weather is often hyper-local. For example, trying to suss out the temperature this...
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Tony Finch's blog
getentropy() vs RAND_bytes() A couple of notable things have happened in recent months: There is a new edition of POSIX for 2024....
9 months ago
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getentropy() vs RAND_bytes()

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9 months ago
A couple of notable things have happened in recent months: There is a new edition of POSIX for 2024. There’s lots of good stuff in it, but today I am writing about getentropy() which is the first officially standardized POSIX API for getting cryptographically secure random...
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Seth's Blog
“Won’t get fooled again” Alas, we probably will. Recurring scams, hustles and deceptions work because we’re eager to be...
8 months ago
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“Won’t get fooled again”

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

8 months ago
Alas, we probably will. Recurring scams, hustles and deceptions work because we’re eager to be fooled by them. Vaporware, false deadlines, fake budgets, unrealistic promises and straight out con jobs persist because at some level, we demand them. Divisive arguments, mob...
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Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 18-24 March 2024 Our best articles from the past week.
a year ago
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Best Of Londonist: 18-24 March 2024

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a year ago
Our best articles from the past week.
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Quanta Magazine
New Conversations, Deep Questions, Bold Ideas in Season Four of ‘The Joy of Why’ Steven Strogatz and Janna Levin return for a new season on major scientific and mathematical...
3 months ago
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New Conversations, Deep Questions, Bold Ideas in Season Four of ‘The Joy of Why’

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3 months ago
Steven Strogatz and Janna Levin return for a new season on major scientific and mathematical questions of our time, with 12 all-new episodes and a new format. The post New Conversations, Deep Questions, Bold Ideas in Season Four of ‘The Joy of Why’ first appeared on...
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Seth's Blog
Falling behind We’re not in races very often. Usually, what we’re doing is more like a walkathon, or perhaps, a...
over a year ago
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Falling behind

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over a year ago
We’re not in races very often. Usually, what we’re doing is more like a walkathon, or perhaps, a hike. And yet, we’ve been pushed to believe that the only performance that matters is a scarcity-based victory. They close the parkway near my house on Sundays. As people pedal along,...
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Contemporist...
Reclaimed Weathered Wood Siding Covers This Home Inspired By Farm Buildings Architecture and building company BIRDSEYE has shared photos of a home they completed in Sagaponack,...
a year ago
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Reclaimed Weathered Wood Siding Covers This Home Inspired By Farm Buildings

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a year ago
Architecture and building company BIRDSEYE has shared photos of a home they completed in Sagaponack, New York, that features an exterior clad in reclaimed weathered wood siding.
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David Heinemeier...
Is greed really seasonal? As the tech layoffs continue, there’s naturally a search for someone to blame. People are losing...
a year ago
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Is greed really seasonal?

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

a year ago
As the tech layoffs continue, there’s naturally a search for someone to blame. People are losing their jobs after all, so that must mean someone is acting malevolent, dammit. This is when the age old accusation of greed is trotted out. Companies are only laying off people now...
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Calculated Risk
Monday: Pending Home Sales Weekend: Schedule for Week of December 29, 2024 Chicago Purchasing Managers Index for...
6 months ago
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Monday: Pending Home Sales

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6 months ago
Weekend: Schedule for Week of December 29, 2024 Chicago Purchasing Managers Index for December. Pending Home Sales Index for November. The consensus is for a 0.7% increase in the index. Dallas Fed Survey of Manufacturing Activity for December. This is the last of regional...
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Patterns in Humanity
Mental Health and Social Stratification In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and...
over a year ago
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Mental Health and Social Stratification

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over a year ago
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and discuss some of the implications for social stratification.
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Open Culture
The Night Frank Zappa Jammed With Pink Floyd … and Captain Beefheart Too (Belgium, 1969) Recently an older musician acquaintance told me he never “got into ‘Interstellar Overdrive’ and all...
10 months ago
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The Night Frank Zappa Jammed With Pink Floyd … and Captain Beefheart Too (Belgium, 1969)

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10 months ago
Recently an older musician acquaintance told me he never “got into ‘Interstellar Overdrive’ and all that,” referring to the “first major space jam” of Pink Floyd’s career and the subsequent explosion of space rock bands. I found myself a little taken aback. Though I was born too...
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The Elysian
We’ve raised $50,000—now I’m writing a book! My vision for the future of capitalism has been greenlit. Now let’s make it a reality.
2 months ago
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We’ve raised $50,000—now I’m writing a book!

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2 months ago
My vision for the future of capitalism has been greenlit. Now let’s make it a reality.
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Wrong Side of...
A nation’s rebirth after Nazism Germany’s integration miracle and other stories
2 months ago
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A nation’s rebirth after Nazism

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2 months ago
Germany’s integration miracle and other stories
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haseeb qureshi
How DeFi cannibalizes PoS security On-chain lending has become the most popular decentralized finance (DeFi) application today,...
over a year ago
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How DeFi cannibalizes PoS security

from haseeb qureshi [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
On-chain lending has become the most popular decentralized finance (DeFi) application today, with over $600M in loans originated this year across MakerDAO, Compound, and dYdX. On-chain lending has the potential to disrupt traditional secured lending. But it seems it may do more...
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journal – Winnie Lim
surprising myself with my self I have always thought of myself as an open-minded person, but in recent years due to increasing self...
over a year ago
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surprising myself with my self

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

over a year ago
I have always thought of myself as an open-minded person, but in recent years due to increasing self awareness I realised I can be very set in some patterns of my thinking,...
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Maps Mania
Introducing Smart Maps
2 months ago
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Introducing Smart Maps

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2 months ago
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Both Are True
BATLIVE starting in 30 min here's the link
a month ago
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BATLIVE starting in 30 min

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a month ago
here's the link
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Alice GG
Atlas: Declarative schemas for SQL databases Database migrations are often one of the most dreaded parts of working with SQL databases. In many...
a year ago
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Atlas: Declarative schemas for SQL databases

from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Database migrations are often one of the most dreaded parts of working with SQL databases. In many cases, teams end up keeping a bunch of timestamped .sql files and automatically running them in order. While this work, it doesn’t scale well: the more developers you have working...
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Rest of World -...
Google cuts off an $83 million ghost labor contract Outsourced workers are the first to go when the company looks to reduce costs.
a year ago
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Google cuts off an $83 million ghost labor contract

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

a year ago
Outsourced workers are the first to go when the company looks to reduce costs.
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DYNOMIGHT
What if you just bought everyone air purifiers? I haven’t written about air quality in a while. Ominously, sometimes people ask me if I still care...
a year ago
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What if you just bought everyone air purifiers?

from DYNOMIGHT [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
I haven’t written about air quality in a while. Ominously, sometimes people ask me if I still care about it. So, lest anyone think I have some kind of dreadful healthy mental balance, I thought I should do some Fermi estimates. Say you’re one of the five humans who have $100...
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HTMHell
#24 A placeholder is not a label Bad code <input type="text" placeholder="First name"> Issues and how to fix them Every form input...
over a year ago
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#24 A placeholder is not a label

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over a year ago
Bad code <input type="text" placeholder="First name"> Issues and how to fix them Every form input element needs a label. When screen reader users access a form field, the label is announced with the field type (e.g. first name, edit text). If it’s missing, users might not know...
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Computer Things
"Testing can show the presence of bugs but not the absence" Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence! — Edgar...
a year ago
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"Testing can show the presence of bugs but not the absence"

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence! — Edgar Dijkstra, Notes on Structured Programming Dijkstra was famous for his spicy quips; he'd feel right at home on tech social media. He said things he knows aren't absolutely true but...
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Maggie Appleton
Tending Evergreen Notes in Roam Research A walkthrough of how I manage and tend Evergreen notes in Roam
over a year ago
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Tending Evergreen Notes in Roam Research

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
A walkthrough of how I manage and tend Evergreen notes in Roam
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Max Rozen
Demystifying useEffect's clean-up function useEffect's clean-up function can be pretty confusing, especially if you're still trying to think in...
over a year ago
65

Demystifying useEffect's clean-up function

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

over a year ago
useEffect's clean-up function can be pretty confusing, especially if you're still trying to think in lifecycle methods. Let's clarify the clean-up function in this article.
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Open Culture
Free: 356 Issues of Galaxy, the Groundbreaking 1950s Science Fiction Magazine Along with Astounding Science Fiction and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy...
7 months ago
53

Free: 356 Issues of Galaxy, the Groundbreaking 1950s Science Fiction Magazine

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7 months ago
Along with Astounding Science Fiction and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy Magazine was one of the most important science fiction digests in 1950s America. Ray Bradbury wrote for it–including an early version of his masterpiece Fahrenheit 451–as did Robert A....
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Notes on software...
Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 2. binary expressions and WHERE filters Previously in database basics: 1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL 3. indexes 4. a...
over a year ago
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Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 2. binary expressions and WHERE filters

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Previously in database basics: 1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL 3. indexes 4. a database/sql driver In this post, we'll extend gosql to support binary expressions and very simple filtering on SELECT results via WHERE. We'll introduce a general mechanism...
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Greg Brockman
It's time to become an ML engineer AI has recently crossed a utility threshold, where cutting-edge models such as GPT-3, Codex, and...
over a year ago
47

It's time to become an ML engineer

from Greg Brockman [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
AI has recently crossed a utility threshold, where cutting-edge models such as GPT-3, Codex, and DALL-E 2 are actually useful and can perform tasks computers cannot do any other way. The act of producing these models is an exploration of a new frontier, with the discovery of...
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Jonas Hietala
Hearthstone on Wine I like Hearthstone and recently the next expansion Goblins vs Gnomes so I wanted to install and play...
over a year ago
13

Hearthstone on Wine

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

over a year ago
I like Hearthstone and recently the next expansion Goblins vs Gnomes so I wanted to install and play it. It didn’t work in vanilla wine, with a “time out error”, but I found a bug report which makes it work. Here’s a short summary: Get wine source from git. My version was...
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The American Scholar
Sheep Jones Swimming below the surface The post Sheep Jones appeared first on The American Scholar.
11 months ago
88

Sheep Jones

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11 months ago
Swimming below the surface The post Sheep Jones appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Trying to Understand...
I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry. Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
a year ago
70

I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.

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a year ago
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
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Nat Eliason's...
You Can Handle Much More Than You Think Big changes take time
a year ago
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You Can Handle Much More Than You Think

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a year ago
Big changes take time
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Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 'The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.' Teilhard de Chardin...
a year ago
152

💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week

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

a year ago
'The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.' Teilhard de Chardin 💡Broken Hips This feels like one of these problems that most people have accepted as inevitable but that will be solved soon and we will look back and think how crazy we allowed this...
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Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: As concrete as possible programming How far can we push programming away from symbol manipulation and into the act of drawing?
a year ago
6

Ink Note Fall 2023: As concrete as possible programming

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a year ago
How far can we push programming away from symbol manipulation and into the act of drawing?
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Identity Designed
Big C Charters Designed by Mucho, San Francisco.
over a year ago
66

Big C Charters

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over a year ago
Designed by Mucho, San Francisco.
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journal – Winnie Lim
what does it mean to live well A while ago an old friend texted me that an unexpected event had once again reminded her how...
a year ago
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what does it mean to live well

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a year ago
A while ago an old friend texted me that an unexpected event had once again reminded her how transient life can be, and she thought of me because I was one of...
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Retail Design Blog
Indika Nature Offices by Arkadia Works Arkadia Works in Jakarta, Indonesia embodies ‘The Elegance of Nature’, integrating natural elements...
3 months ago
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Indika Nature Offices by Arkadia Works

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3 months ago
Arkadia Works in Jakarta, Indonesia embodies ‘The Elegance of Nature’, integrating natural elements and modern sophistication in a biophilic design,...
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High Signal
Making $1m ARR with social media scheduling Davis is the co-founder of OneUp, a tool for scheduling social media posts across a range of...
a year ago
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Making $1m ARR with social media scheduling

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a year ago
Davis is the co-founder of OneUp, a tool for scheduling social media posts across a range of platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn and many more. The business is now doing over $1m in annual revenue! Davis joined me for an interview about joining the...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Conspiracy Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Remember when conspiracy theories were all about...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Conspiracy

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Remember when conspiracy theories were all about who was doing it with Sasquatch? Today's News:
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Essential Greeks Returns!
a year ago
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Weekend Roundup

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a year ago
The Essential Greeks Returns!
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Open Culture
Why Medieval Bologna Was Full of Tall Towers, and What Happened to Them Image by Toni Pecoraro, via Wikimedia Commons Go to practically any major city today, and you’ll...
a year ago
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Why Medieval Bologna Was Full of Tall Towers, and What Happened to Them

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a year ago
Image by Toni Pecoraro, via Wikimedia Commons Go to practically any major city today, and you’ll notice that the buildings in certain areas are much taller than in others. That may sound trivially true, but what’s less obvious is that the height of those buildings tends to...
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Applied Cartography
PSA: mess around with Keystatic We've been using Keystatic in Buttondown for around six months now: we migrated most of the content...
a year ago
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PSA: mess around with Keystatic

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a year ago
We've been using Keystatic in Buttondown for around six months now: we migrated most of the content on the marketing site (which is backed by Next) from MDX onto Keystatic, and were so happy with the experience that the upcoming rebuild of the docs site will be featuring...
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Rest of World -...
The Chinese founder who is betting on the Western appetite for short soaps Mega Matrix and FlexTV want to succeed where Quibi has failed by embracing the allure of “so bad...
a year ago
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The Chinese founder who is betting on the Western appetite for short soaps

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a year ago
Mega Matrix and FlexTV want to succeed where Quibi has failed by embracing the allure of “so bad it’s good” shows.
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IEEE Spectrum
Skylab: The Space Station That Fell on Australia end cap from one of Skylab’s oxygen tanks in the dirt. Cattle were drinking collected rainwater from...
over a year ago
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Skylab: The Space Station That Fell on Australia

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over a year ago
end cap from one of Skylab’s oxygen tanks in the dirt. Cattle were drinking collected rainwater from the remains of a US $2.2 billion NASA investment. Skylab’s Failure and Recovery Skylab’s fate was sealed moments after lift-off when the sun shield and main solar panel were...
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Stoic Simple
Philosophy and Parenting: Becoming a Better Parent with Stoicism Parenting is a challenging, rewarding, and ever-evolving journey. Sometimes, it can be difficult to...
over a year ago
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Philosophy and Parenting: Becoming a Better Parent with Stoicism

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over a year ago
Parenting is a challenging, rewarding, and ever-evolving journey. Sometimes, it can be difficult to navigate the ups and downs of raising children, especially when it comes to managing difficult emotions and maintaining a positive relationship with them. That's where Stoic...
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Joel Gascoigne
Zero notifications * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A couple of...
over a year ago
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Zero notifications

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

over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A couple of months ago, my co-founder Leo [http://twitter.com/leowid] gave me an interesting suggestion: he said I should try disabling all notifications on my iPhone. I find this suggestion...
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Blog - Bitfield...
Things fall apart The night is dark and full of errors—and durable Rust software is not only ready for them, but...
3 months ago
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Things fall apart

from Blog - Bitfield Consulting [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 months ago
The night is dark and full of errors—and durable Rust software is not only ready for them, but handles them sensibly. Let’s see how, by returning to our line-counter project.
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NeuroLogica Blog
Giant Eels, Loch Ness, and Probability At this point it is pretty clear that the Loch Ness Monster (Nessie) does not exist. I know,...
a year ago
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Giant Eels, Loch Ness, and Probability

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

a year ago
At this point it is pretty clear that the Loch Ness Monster (Nessie) does not exist. I know, logically it is impossible to prove a negative, so if we want to be technical we can say that the probability of a large creature similar to that believed to be Nessie approaches zero....
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Engineers Need Art
Building Quarter-Cab - Phase I Lets build a simple virtual pinball controller to bring more immersion to your game.
a year ago
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Building Quarter-Cab - Phase I

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a year ago
Lets build a simple virtual pinball controller to bring more immersion to your game.
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Upgrading to Lufthansa Allegris’ New Business Class
11 months ago
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Upgrading to Lufthansa Allegris’ New Business Class

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11 months ago
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Jonas Hietala
The Little Things in Life It’s the little things in life that makes it extra special. Sometimes it’s the luxury of coffee...
over a year ago
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The Little Things in Life

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

over a year ago
It’s the little things in life that makes it extra special. Sometimes it’s the luxury of coffee together with the morning paper and other times it’s just a small simple smile from a random stranger, kid or dog. Today when I got this bad headache I got saved by a two hour nap and...
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Liz Denys
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas: lemon ginger ricotta cookies There's something about using your escape from the cold as an excuse to bake cookies that really...
over a year ago
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas: lemon ginger ricotta cookies

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
There's something about using your escape from the cold as an excuse to bake cookies that really makes it feel like the Christmas season (or maybe I just like having excuses to bake). Before leaving New York for holidays with the family in Chicago, I made candy cane brownie...
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Naz Hamid
The Abstraction Gap Bridging the design-development gap as AI rises. There’s a frustrating gap in how development...
2 months ago
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The Abstraction Gap

from Naz Hamid [alt+shift+b] in literature

2 months ago
Bridging the design-development gap as AI rises. There’s a frustrating gap in how development projects present themselves. What looks straightforward on GitHub — ‘just run this command!’ — quickly spirals into an odyssey of sudo permissions, package managers, and missing...
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Yale e360
RC Week 9: Parallels of Proofs and Programs I have three weeks left at Recurse Center. This last week was significantly less productive for me...
over a year ago
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RC Week 9: Parallels of Proofs and Programs

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

over a year ago
I have three weeks left at Recurse Center. This last week was significantly less productive for me than usual, because I've been pretty fatigued and just recovered from a cold. But I still got some work done that I'm proud of. More than that, I'm excited for the coming three...
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anderegg.ca
Two flavours of open social media Yesterday, the Mastodon team announced it would be handing over control of its project to a new...
5 months ago
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Two flavours of open social media

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5 months ago
Yesterday, the Mastodon team announced it would be handing over control of its project to a new non-profit organization. The timing of this announcement is perfect given everything that’s happening with WordPress, Meta, and… well, everything else. To date, I think Eugen Rochko...
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The American Scholar
Guillermo The post Guillermo appeared first on The American Scholar.
10 months ago
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Guillermo

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10 months ago
The post Guillermo appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Conscience Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I wonder if anyone's dropped a 20 at an economics...
11 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Conscience

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11 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I wonder if anyone's dropped a 20 at an economics conference to see if nobody touches it. Today's News:
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AI Snake Oil
Model alignment protects against accidental harms, not intentional ones The hand wringing about failures of model alignment is misguided
a year ago
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Model alignment protects against accidental harms, not intentional ones

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a year ago
The hand wringing about failures of model alignment is misguided
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Flashbak
Bullshit Jobs: The Emptiness of Life In A Corporate Office “If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment,...
6 months ago
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Bullshit Jobs: The Emptiness of Life In A Corporate Office

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6 months ago
“If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead   From faces...
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Rest of World -...
The company teaching influencers how to get rich without going viral Hotmart is quietly turning even micro-influencers into millionaires.
over a year ago
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The company teaching influencers how to get rich without going viral

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over a year ago
Hotmart is quietly turning even micro-influencers into millionaires.
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Vadim Kravcenko
Dealing with Failures and Postmortems On August 1, 2012, Knight Capital Group suffered a severe trading loss due to a software error. A...
a year ago
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Dealing with Failures and Postmortems

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
On August 1, 2012, Knight Capital Group suffered a severe trading loss due to a software error. A technician’s failure […] The post Dealing with Failures and Postmortems appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Notes on software...
Interpreting TypeScript In addition to providing a static type system and compiler for a superset of JavaScript, TypeScript...
over a year ago
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Interpreting TypeScript

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
In addition to providing a static type system and compiler for a superset of JavaScript, TypeScript makes much of its functionality available programmatically. In this post we'll use the TypeScript compiler API to build an interpreter. We'll build off of a...
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African History...
On the history of the Bantu expansion: old misconceptions and new evidence The southern half of the African continent is populated by speakers of about 550 closely related...
5 months ago
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On the history of the Bantu expansion: old misconceptions and new evidence

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5 months ago
The southern half of the African continent is populated by speakers of about 550 closely related languages that are referred to as the Bantu languages.
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Posts on Made of...
Getting carried away with hack value Recently, I’ve been working on some BarnOwl branches that move more of the core functionality of...
over a year ago
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Getting carried away with hack value

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

over a year ago
Recently, I’ve been working on some BarnOwl branches that move more of the core functionality of BarnOwl into perl code, instead of C (BarnOwl is written in an unholy mix of C and perl code that call each other back and forth obsessively). Moving code into perl has many...
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The Marginalian
Sentimentality and Being Mortal: Poet Mark Doty on the Passionate Fragility of Our Attachments How beautiful and unbearable that only one of each exists — each lover, each child, each dog; that...
a year ago
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Sentimentality and Being Mortal: Poet Mark Doty on the Passionate Fragility of Our Attachments

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

a year ago
How beautiful and unbearable that only one of each exists — each lover, each child, each dog; that this particular chance-constellation of atoms has never before existed and will never again recur in the history of the universe. The fact of each such singularity is a wonder...
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Trying to Understand...
A Short Service Announcement. From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
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A Short Service Announcement.

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

a year ago
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
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THE ARCHITECTURAL...
I’d rather live in a nostalgic Disneyland than a modernist wasteland Critics often dismiss traditional or historicizing architecture as mere “Disneyland” — a fake,...
3 weeks ago
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I’d rather live in a nostalgic Disneyland than a modernist wasteland

from THE ARCHITECTURAL UPRISING [alt+shift+b] in architecture

3 weeks ago
Critics often dismiss traditional or historicizing architecture as mere “Disneyland” — a fake, nostalgic fantasy out of step with modern life. But millions visit Disney’s Main Street every year, drawn to something they rarely find in real cities: beautiful, human-scaled streets...
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Rest of World -...
The AI startup outperforming Google Translate in Ethiopian languages "Chatbots like ChatGPT are utterly broken or useless for these languages."
a year ago
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The AI startup outperforming Google Translate in Ethiopian languages

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

a year ago
"Chatbots like ChatGPT are utterly broken or useless for these languages."
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Diaries of Note
THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS Woody Guthrie was a folk pioneer, social activist, and restless wanderer who journeyed across the...
over a year ago
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THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS

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

over a year ago
Woody Guthrie was a folk pioneer, social activist, and restless wanderer who journeyed across the country, connecting with the struggles and aspirations of the American people during the trying times of the Great Depression. He filled innumerable notebooks with lyrics, prose,...
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Rest of World -...
Uber drivers in Kenya are ignoring the app and charging their own rates The local gig workers’ union defends the practice, which Uber forbids, as a form of peaceful...
10 months ago
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Uber drivers in Kenya are ignoring the app and charging their own rates

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

10 months ago
The local gig workers’ union defends the practice, which Uber forbids, as a form of peaceful pushback against low earnings.
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tim.sh
Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads How I tracked myself down using leaked location data in the in-app ads, and what I found along the...
5 months ago
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Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads

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5 months ago
How I tracked myself down using leaked location data in the in-app ads, and what I found along the way.
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African History...
The Mali empire: A complete history (ca. 1250-1650) At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending...
a year ago
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The Mali empire: A complete history (ca. 1250-1650)

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

a year ago
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending over an estimated 1.2 million square kilometers in West Africa. Encompassing at least five modern African states, the empire produced some of the continent's most renowned historical...
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Josh Comeau's blog
The “const” Deception The “const” keyword in JavaScript is used to create constants, variables that can't change....
over a year ago
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The “const” Deception

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

over a year ago
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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Noahpinion
The latest episode of Mad King Trump How long before businesses get fed up?
3 months ago
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The latest episode of Mad King Trump

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3 months ago
How long before businesses get fed up?
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Classical Wisdom
The First Stoic Zeno of Citium
a year ago
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The First Stoic

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a year ago
Zeno of Citium
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Steve Klabnik
A blip in time
over a year ago
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A blip in time

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over a year ago
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Product Identity
Niche product design Seeking uniqueness where design flourish
a year ago
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Niche product design

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a year ago
Seeking uniqueness where design flourish
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Beneath the Waves...
a year ago
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Weekend Roundup

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a year ago
Beneath the Waves...
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Retail Design Blog
Kedrovka cedar milk by Maria Korneva Kedrovka is a brand of plant-based milk crafted for those who care about their health, value natural...
5 months ago
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Kedrovka cedar milk by Maria Korneva

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

5 months ago
Kedrovka is a brand of plant-based milk crafted for those who care about their health, value natural ingredients, and seek...
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TheCollector
The Khmer Empire: Beyond Angkor When you hear “Khmer Empire,” your mind likely leaps straight to Angkor Wat, and who could blame...
2 months ago
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The Khmer Empire: Beyond Angkor

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2 months ago
When you hear “Khmer Empire,” your mind likely leaps straight to Angkor Wat, and who could blame you? Yet the empire was far bigger and more brilliant than one temple complex alone. Stretching across centuries and much of Southeast Asia, the Khmer world was a web of cities,...
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Diaries of Note
How beautiful that leaf was, so simple in its death Jiddu Krishnamurti was an Indian philosopher and spiritual leader who spent much of his adult life...
over a year ago
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How beautiful that leaf was, so simple in its death

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

over a year ago
Jiddu Krishnamurti was an Indian philosopher and spiritual leader who spent much of his adult life teaching and sharing his insights on self-awareness, freedom from conditioning, and the importance of living in the present moment. He traveled the world, engaging in dialogues with...
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Londonist
Get 2-For-1 Tickets To This Cracker Of A Christmas Fair Timeless festive cheer, guaranteed.
a year ago
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Get 2-For-1 Tickets To This Cracker Of A Christmas Fair

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a year ago
Timeless festive cheer, guaranteed.
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Blog - Bitfield...
Catching grace Meditation is easy when you know what to do: absolutely nothing! It's hard at first, like trying...
3 months ago
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Catching grace

from Blog - Bitfield Consulting [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 months ago
Meditation is easy when you know what to do: absolutely nothing! It's hard at first, like trying to look at the back of your own head, but there's a knack to it.
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Seth's Blog
Designed, Designy or Well-designed? If we create something with purpose, we’ve designed it. It’s not an accident. An axe handle is...
3 months ago
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Designed, Designy or Well-designed?

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

3 months ago
If we create something with purpose, we’ve designed it. It’s not an accident. An axe handle is designed, and so is a symphony. Some things, though are designy. The designer’s fingerprints are all over it. The typefaces, knurled edges, needless heat sinks and homage to Dieter Rams...
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Yale e360
Working with Rust in (neo)vim I've been using vim for nearly as long as I've been writing code. My first introduction to it was...
over a year ago
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Working with Rust in (neo)vim

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

over a year ago
I've been using vim for nearly as long as I've been writing code. My first introduction to it was being thrown in the deep end in 2009 by my Intro to CS lab assistant, who told us to write our programs using vi1 on the department servers. Why he told us that, I have no idea. But...
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Uncharted...
Wind and Solar, a Perfect Match Also, why solar will beat wind, why they are so complementary, the nuclear renaissance, the poor...
8 months ago
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Wind and Solar, a Perfect Match

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8 months ago
Also, why solar will beat wind, why they are so complementary, the nuclear renaissance, the poor state of German energy, and more.
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Twelve Mile Circle –...
Asia-Pacific, Part 5 (Japan: Farther Afield) Monday arrived and I had to get back to work. A weekend in Tokyo was nice although I had other plans...
over a year ago
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Asia-Pacific, Part 5 (Japan: Farther Afield)

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over a year ago
Monday arrived and I had to get back to work. A weekend in Tokyo was nice although I had other plans and that involved getting out of the city. After all, the whole premise for this trip was visiting U.S. military facilities USS Blue Ridge The 7th Fleet of the United States Navy...
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Platformer
What we’re learning from the Reddit blackout Five lessons, and one open question
over a year ago
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What we’re learning from the Reddit blackout

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over a year ago
Five lessons, and one open question
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Both Are True
upcoming batwrite sessions + links here they are for you, dear bathead
2 days ago
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upcoming batwrite sessions + links

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2 days ago
here they are for you, dear bathead
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
The IKEA Defense of Flat Earthers Flat Earthers are perhaps the only group of people that it is still socially acceptable to...
over a year ago
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The IKEA Defense of Flat Earthers

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

over a year ago
Flat Earthers are perhaps the only group of people that it is still socially acceptable to discriminate against. We just can’t bring ourselves to tolerate people who believe the world is flat. And yet the fundamental ideas powering a flat Earth believer is an approach that most...
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A Smart Bear
Letters to Joel Spolsky I regret to inform you…
over a year ago
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Letters to Joel Spolsky

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over a year ago
I regret to inform you…
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Diaries of Note
The greatest crime on the largest scale known in modern history George Templeton Strong was a 19th-century New York lawyer deeply involved in the civic fabric of...
a year ago
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The greatest crime on the largest scale known in modern history

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a year ago
George Templeton Strong was a 19th-century New York lawyer deeply involved in the civic fabric of his city, but his lasting impact extends far beyond the legal world. From 1835 to 1875, Strong meticulously recorded his observations and insights in a diary that has since become an...
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The Ruffian
Did John Lennon Think He Was Jesus? John's Messiah Complex
3 months ago
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Did John Lennon Think He Was Jesus?

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3 months ago
John's Messiah Complex
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Old Structures...
I’m Fairly Sure The Library of Congress calls this 1952 photo by Angelo Rizzuto “View of children playing on sand...
a year ago
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I’m Fairly Sure

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

a year ago
The Library of Congress calls this 1952 photo by Angelo Rizzuto “View of children playing on sand and dirt mound near stone structure and construction materials” which is nice and descriptive. They use that kind of title when no one was certain what the subject of the photo is....
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Rest of World -...
Breaking down the world’s tariffs against China’s tech industry President-elect Donald Trump pledges to escalate the trade war, but non-Western nations have...
7 months ago
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Breaking down the world’s tariffs against China’s tech industry

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7 months ago
President-elect Donald Trump pledges to escalate the trade war, but non-Western nations have targeted China with tariffs, too.
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The American Scholar
Keepers of the Old Ways Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive The post Keepers of the Old Ways...
5 months ago
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Keepers of the Old Ways

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5 months ago
Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive The post Keepers of the Old Ways appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Rest of World -...
China’s bite-sized soap operas are peddling cheap plots for big profits Sex scenes, revenge, and cliffhangers are jam-packed into minutes-long smartphone dramas.
over a year ago
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China’s bite-sized soap operas are peddling cheap plots for big profits

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

over a year ago
Sex scenes, revenge, and cliffhangers are jam-packed into minutes-long smartphone dramas.
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Christopher Butler
Designing for (Realistic) Attention The average person is capable of reading 250 words per minute. When I advise that a...
over a year ago
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Designing for (Realistic) Attention

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

over a year ago
The average person is capable of reading 250 words per minute. When I advise that a webpage — like a service detail page — have a maximum main body word-count of 150 words, I’m really recommending that it ask a reader to commit to 30 seconds. To put that in perspective, a...
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The Roots of...
The environment as infrastructure A good metaphor for the ideal relationship between humanity and the environment is that the...
over a year ago
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The environment as infrastructure

from The Roots of Progress | Articles [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
A good metaphor for the ideal relationship between humanity and the environment is that the environment is like critical infrastructure. Infrastructure is valuable, because it provides crucial services. You want to maintain it carefully, because it’s bad if it breaks down. But...
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journal – Winnie Lim
open-air dining in seoul It probably sounds obscure to write specifically about dining in open air in seoul, but when I...
a year ago
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open-air dining in seoul

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a year ago
It probably sounds obscure to write specifically about dining in open air in seoul, but when I conducted my own research prior to the trip it was challenging for me to find...
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The Rational Walk
Coffee Can Investing Sometimes an investing approach that is not necessarily "rational" from an economic perspective can...
a year ago
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Coffee Can Investing

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

a year ago
Sometimes an investing approach that is not necessarily "rational" from an economic perspective can produce superior results when one accounts for human nature.
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Seth's Blog
The shifting status of more data How do we know if we’re doing a good job? In some fields, it’s always been pretty easy to tell....
a year ago
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The shifting status of more data

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

a year ago
How do we know if we’re doing a good job? In some fields, it’s always been pretty easy to tell. Either the building falls down or it doesn’t. Either the car starts after you charge the battery or it’s still dead. We can ask easy questions about how long it took or how much it […]
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Mazdak
OpenAI is not becoming a for-profit company after all. In a significant reversal, OpenAI announced on May 5, 2025, that it will remain under the control of...
2 months ago
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OpenAI is not becoming a for-profit company after all.

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

2 months ago
In a significant reversal, OpenAI announced on May 5, 2025, that it will remain under the control of its nonprofit entity, abandoning earlier plans to restructure as a for-profit company.
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TheCollector
Newly Discovered Frescoes Reveal Ancient Ritual in Pompeii A century before the ancient city’s destruction, artists adorned the walls of a Pompeii banquet hall...
4 months ago
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Newly Discovered Frescoes Reveal Ancient Ritual in Pompeii

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4 months ago
A century before the ancient city’s destruction, artists adorned the walls of a Pompeii banquet hall with a procession of Dionysian revelers. Brightly colored and nearly life-sized, the newly identified fresco figures dance, hunt, and imbibe in the name of the god of wine.  ...
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The History of the...
Expanding Access: The History of Ecommerce Part 1 The earliest work with selling things online was all about reaching a shopping public ready to log...
4 months ago
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Expanding Access: The History of Ecommerce Part 1

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

4 months ago
The earliest work with selling things online was all about reaching a shopping public ready to log on and start. But along the way, they found a whole new audience for shopping, which changed the way we think about commerce on the web.. The post Expanding Access: The History of...
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Articles
When should you quit? It's natural for entrepreneurs to work on multiple projects. Starting a new project is easy; but you...
over a year ago
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When should you quit?

from Articles [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
It's natural for entrepreneurs to work on multiple projects. Starting a new project is easy; but you also need to learn how to quit a project.
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Flashbak
The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text...
a year ago
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Shelf marked Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 0457, the work is a Latin translation of Avicenna’s Canon medicinae, one of...
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Farza's Newsletter
me and the beatles just ate some waffles in tokyo I've raised $12M for my company + hired amazing people -- and until very recently, whenever anyone...
a year ago
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me and the beatles just ate some waffles in tokyo

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

a year ago
I've raised $12M for my company + hired amazing people -- and until very recently, whenever anyone would ask me my 10-year plan I would flat out say "I have no idea".
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Jake Zimmerman
Why don’t constructors have override checking?
a year ago
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Why don’t constructors have override checking?

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a year ago
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Maps Mania
Rain and Snow Effects for Mapbox
5 months ago
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Rain and Snow Effects for Mapbox

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5 months ago
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David Perell
How Philosophers Think Philosophers are the most rigorous thinkers I know. Like intellectual boxers; they come to...
over a year ago
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How Philosophers Think

from David Perell [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
Philosophers are the most rigorous thinkers I know. Like intellectual boxers; they come to understand ideas by making them fight with each other. Their style of analysis is effective because it’s so bloody. One friend calls his style “violent thinking.” He talks about thinking...
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Old Structures...
Not Gone – Not Yet There From a 1924 aerial survey of New York City, a funny-looking blob: Looking down on a building is one...
7 months ago
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Not Gone – Not Yet There

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

7 months ago
From a 1924 aerial survey of New York City, a funny-looking blob: Looking down on a building is one of the most difficult ways to recognize it. Fortunately, the late-afternoon shadow helps: That’s the Woolworth Building’s silhouette. Our office building was constructed in 1932,...
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Dan Slimmon
3 questions that will make you a phenomenal rubber duck As a Postgres reliability consultant and SRE, I’ve spent many hours being a rubber duck. Now I...
a year ago
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3 questions that will make you a phenomenal rubber duck

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

a year ago
As a Postgres reliability consultant and SRE, I’ve spent many hours being a rubber duck. Now I outperform even the incisive bath toy. “Rubber duck debugging” is a widespread, tongue-in-cheek term for the practice of explaining, out-loud, a difficult problem that you’re stumped...
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Old Structures...
Two Anachronisms I avoid the use of the word “holdout” in discussing older buildings now surrounded by newer ones. It...
9 months ago
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Two Anachronisms

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

9 months ago
I avoid the use of the word “holdout” in discussing older buildings now surrounded by newer ones. It implies a drama that may never have existed. In this case, the west block-front of Trinity Place between Edgar and Rector Streets provides a nice contrast of building ages. From...
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Society's Backend:...
Mastering the Art of Documentation Documentation is really just glorified dog sitting
a year ago
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Mastering the Art of Documentation

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

a year ago
Documentation is really just glorified dog sitting
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Louwrentius
Highpoint RocketRAID 2320 on Debian howto Get the 'open source' driver from www.highpoint-tech.com. (It's not open source, it uses a closed...
over a year ago
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Highpoint RocketRAID 2320 on Debian howto

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Get the 'open source' driver from www.highpoint-tech.com. (It's not open source, it uses a closed binary driver.) http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/bios_rr2320.htm Install the kernel headers if you haven't already - apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.18-6-k7 - extract the...
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Lighthouse Blog
Updates March 22
a year ago
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Updates March 22

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a year ago
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Uncharted...
Ten New US Cities: 1. Guantanamo City Why we should turn Guantanamo Bay into Guantanamo City
5 months ago
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Ten New US Cities: 1. Guantanamo City

from Uncharted Territories [alt+shift+b] in science

5 months ago
Why we should turn Guantanamo Bay into Guantanamo City
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Yale e360
Environmental Enforcement Slows Under Trump Federal enforcement of environmental laws has slowed significantly under President Trump. Read more...
2 months ago
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Environmental Enforcement Slows Under Trump

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

2 months ago
Federal enforcement of environmental laws has slowed significantly under President Trump. Read more on E360 →
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Nadia Asparouhova
How to do the jhanas The jhanas are a series of eight (or nine) altered mental states, which progress from euphoria, to...
a year ago
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How to do the jhanas

from Nadia Asparouhova [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
The jhanas are a series of eight (or nine) altered mental states, which progress from euphoria, to calm, to dissolution of reality – culminating in cessation, or loss of consciousness. They are induced via sustained concentration, without any external stimuli or substances. This...
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Blog posts of...
Uncapped notes dont work for first rounds. Uncapped safe notes misalign incentives in first rounds… let me explain why
6 months ago
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Uncapped notes dont work for first rounds.

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6 months ago
Uncapped safe notes misalign incentives in first rounds… let me explain why
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Artificial Ignorance
Tutorial: How to streamline your writing process with Whisper and GPT-4 These Python scripts help me write 3x faster and go from loose ideas to first draft in minutes.
a year ago
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Tutorial: How to streamline your writing process with Whisper and GPT-4

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a year ago
These Python scripts help me write 3x faster and go from loose ideas to first draft in minutes.
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TheCollector
Heidegger’s Being and Time: Understanding Dasein and Temporality Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time transformed philosophy in the 20th century by attempting something...
a month ago
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Heidegger’s Being and Time: Understanding Dasein and Temporality

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a month ago
Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time transformed philosophy in the 20th century by attempting something huge: trying to understand what it means to exist. Or, as Heidegger puts it, to be Dasein. He asks: how do our experiences in the past and present, our hopes and fears for the...
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The Berkeley...
Training Diffusion Models with <br> Reinforcement Learning function reveal() { const replay = document.querySelector('.ddpo-replay'); ...
a year ago
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Training Diffusion Models with <br> Reinforcement Learning

from The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

a year ago
function reveal() { const replay = document.querySelector('.ddpo-replay'); replay.style.display = 'flex'; } window.onload = () => { const replay = document.querySelector('.ddpo-replay'); replay.addEventListener('click', () => { ...
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devonzuegel.com
OWD #4: Supersonic planes, levitating trains, &amp; electric automobiles Mobility is central to living in every city. In this episode, we discussed how different communities...
over a year ago
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OWD #4: Supersonic planes, levitating trains, &amp; electric automobiles

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over a year ago
Mobility is central to living in every city. In this episode, we discussed how different communities tackle the question of transportation, and how culture shapes how different transport technologies get adopted. RSS · Apple Podcasts · Spotify · Overcast Mobility is central to...
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Commoncog
Commoncog's Next Phase Announcing the launch of the Commoncog Case Library, setting the Learning in Ill-Structured Domains...
a year ago
104

Commoncog's Next Phase

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a year ago
Announcing the launch of the Commoncog Case Library, setting the Learning in Ill-Structured Domains series free, and one more thing.
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Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Can you tell an assembly language when you see one? An interactive quiz featuring several obscure high-level languages and assembly variants.
over a year ago
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[Renovated] Can you tell an assembly language when you see one?

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

over a year ago
An interactive quiz featuring several obscure high-level languages and assembly variants.
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Herbert Lui
Clear structures for creative visions When a creative vision for a project is too ambiguous, you need a person to drive it forward and...
6 months ago
31

Clear structures for creative visions

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

6 months ago
When a creative vision for a project is too ambiguous, you need a person to drive it forward and clarify it. That person probably needs to be you.  To do this, you might find it helpful to channel a creative vision through a clear structure.  One example: at Figma, I was involved...
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Maps Mania
State of the Global Climate 2024
3 months ago
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State of the Global Climate 2024

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3 months ago
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Irrational...
How to filter out old email from inbox Every few years I take a pass at reducing the chaos in my personal inboxes. There are simply too...
2 months ago
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How to filter out old email from inbox

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

2 months ago
Every few years I take a pass at reducing the chaos in my personal inboxes. There are simply too many emails to deal with, and that generally leads to me increasingly failing to follow up on important email. Up to this point, my strategy has largely been filtering out emails that...
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The American Scholar
Red Tide Warning Living on Florida’s Gulf Coast means having to coexist with pervasive and toxic algal blooms—and...
a year ago
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Red Tide Warning

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

a year ago
Living on Florida’s Gulf Coast means having to coexist with pervasive and toxic algal blooms—and neighbors who don’t always believe what they see The post Red Tide Warning appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Rest of World -...
Nigeria’s Ogun State wants to lead the country’s EV revolution But experts fear long-term success may not follow as Nigeria lags other African countries when it...
7 months ago
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Nigeria’s Ogun State wants to lead the country’s EV revolution

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7 months ago
But experts fear long-term success may not follow as Nigeria lags other African countries when it comes to EV adoption.
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Escaping Flatland
Morning ritual + reading recommendations
a year ago
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Morning ritual

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a year ago
+ reading recommendations
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Posts on Made of...
A Brief Introduction to termios: termios(3) and stty (This is part two of a multi-part introduction to termios and terminal emulation on UNIX. Read part...
over a year ago
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A Brief Introduction to termios: termios(3) and stty

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

over a year ago
(This is part two of a multi-part introduction to termios and terminal emulation on UNIX. Read part 1 if you’re new here) In this entry, we’ll look at the interfaces that are used to control the behavior of the “termios” box sitting between the master and slave pty. The behaviors...
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Christopher Butler
Link – Linsey Rendell's personal website linseyrendell.com is a really nice website. I just love the overall look and simplicity of what...
a year ago
63

Link – Linsey Rendell's personal website

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

a year ago
linseyrendell.com is a really nice website. I just love the overall look and simplicity of what Linsey has created!
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Classical Wisdom
Going LIVE with Armand D’Angour Love Isn’t Only for the 14th
4 months ago
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Going LIVE with Armand D’Angour

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4 months ago
Love Isn’t Only for the 14th
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Londonist
You Can Play With This Miniature Tube Train At Hounslow West Underground Station There's no way you're not pressing that button.
a year ago
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You Can Play With This Miniature Tube Train At Hounslow West Underground Station

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

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The Gender Boxing Hubub Both Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan and Imane Khelif of Algeria earned medals in female boxing competition at...
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The Gender Boxing Hubub

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11 months ago
Both Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan and Imane Khelif of Algeria earned medals in female boxing competition at the 2024 Olympics. This has caused a controversy because both boxers, according to reports, have some form of DSD – difference of sex development. This means they have been caught...
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