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Play the long game
over a year ago
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Play the long game

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over a year ago
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Flashbak
Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965) In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain...
a year ago
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)

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a year ago
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling. – Ballade du concours de Blois by François Villon     … Continue reading "Strange And...
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./techtipsy
Tech tip: eliminate HDD humming noise Anyone that has bought themselves external WD drives from the Elements/My Book/Easystore series are...
over a year ago
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Tech tip: eliminate HDD humming noise

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over a year ago
Anyone that has bought themselves external WD drives from the Elements/My Book/Easystore series are probably familiar with the acoustic characteristics of the drives. The drives have a loud hum caused by WD running the drives at 7200rpm while claiming the drives to be...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
"It all blossomed out of this tiny little seed" Steve Jobs in 1985: I felt it the first time when I visited a school. It was third and fourth...
over a year ago
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"It all blossomed out of this tiny little seed"

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over a year ago
Steve Jobs in 1985: I felt it the first time when I visited a school. It was third and fourth graders, and they had a whole classroom full…
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Aaron's Essays
Generative AI Might Just Save Venture Capital Originally published in The Information on November 2. For the past nine months, nearly every...
over a year ago
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Generative AI Might Just Save Venture Capital

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over a year ago
Originally published in The Information on November 2. For the past nine months, nearly every investor with a Twitter account, blog or board seat has been beating a unified and constant refrain: The go-go days are done. Founders were being pushed to build 36 months of runway,...
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nanoscale views
Guide to faculty searches, 2024 edition As you can tell from my posting frequency lately, I have been unusually busy.  I hope to be writing...
8 months ago
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Guide to faculty searches, 2024 edition

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8 months ago
As you can tell from my posting frequency lately, I have been unusually busy.  I hope to be writing about more condensed matter and nano science soon.   In the meantime, I realized that I have not re-posted or updated my primer on how tenure-track faculty searches work in physics...
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Noahpinion
China's industrial policy has an unprofitability problem China is paying its national champions to fight each other to the death.
2 weeks ago
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China's industrial policy has an unprofitability problem

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2 weeks ago
China is paying its national champions to fight each other to the death.
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balajis.com
Network School 2025 Network School reopens March 1 with double the capacity. Apply now at ns.com.
5 months ago
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Network School 2025

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5 months ago
Network School reopens March 1 with double the capacity. Apply now at ns.com.
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Twelve Mile Circle –...
Southern Heat, Part 2 (Atlanta Revisited) I ventured into familiar territory as we started the trip, back to the same eastside of Atlanta that...
a year ago
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Southern Heat, Part 2 (Atlanta Revisited)

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a year ago
I ventured into familiar territory as we started the trip, back to the same eastside of Atlanta that I’d explored just four months prior. That wasn’t a coincidence. I enjoyed the area so much that I wanted the whole family to experience it too. So it made perfect sense to fly...
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BLDGBLOG
Through This Building Shines the Cosmos [Image: Collage by BLDGBLOG of public domain images from NASA and the Library of Congress.] An...
over a year ago
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Through This Building Shines the Cosmos

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over a year ago
[Image: Collage by BLDGBLOG of public domain images from NASA and the Library of Congress.] An opportunity to explore the use of muons as a tool for architectural and archaeological imaging came up this summer while I was in Europe for my Graham Foundation project, “Invisible...
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Noahpinion
Why not put TSMC and Samsung fabs in Canada? A solution that's almost too perfect.
over a year ago
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Why not put TSMC and Samsung fabs in Canada?

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over a year ago
A solution that's almost too perfect.
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Open Culture
Bertrand Russell’s Message to People Living in the Year 2959: “Love is Wise, Hatred is Foolish” Bertrand Russell, the great British philosopher and social critic, appeared on the BBC program...
6 months ago
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Bertrand Russell’s Message to People Living in the Year 2959: “Love is Wise, Hatred is Foolish”

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6 months ago
Bertrand Russell, the great British philosopher and social critic, appeared on the BBC program Face-to-Face in 1959 and was asked a closing question: What would you tell a generation living 1,000 years from now about the life you’ve lived and the lessons you’ve learned? His...
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Spoon & Tamago
The Ultra-Narrow Rakuragu Hotel Offers a Stylish Stay in Central Tokyo This 9-story Rakuragu hotel rises from an ultra-narrow site in the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo. If...
3 months ago
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The Ultra-Narrow Rakuragu Hotel Offers a Stylish Stay in Central Tokyo

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3 months ago
This 9-story Rakuragu hotel rises from an ultra-narrow site in the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo. If it’s nightlife you’re in search of, this hotel may not be right for you but if you’re looking for understated stylishness and rare outdoor space, this is a gem of a hotel. With...
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Dan Slimmon
Is ops a bullshit job? I recently had the pleasure of reading anthropologist David Graeber’s 2018 book, Bullshit Jobs: A...
4 months ago
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Is ops a bullshit job?

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

4 months ago
I recently had the pleasure of reading anthropologist David Graeber’s 2018 book, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. Graeber defines a bullshit job as, a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence...
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Rest of World -...
New data shows the number of new mobile internet users is stalling What happened to the “next billion” internet users? They’re already online.
7 months ago
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New data shows the number of new mobile internet users is stalling

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7 months ago
What happened to the “next billion” internet users? They’re already online.
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Ian's Blog
Learn how Windows builds its store of trusted root CA certificates Today I learned something fascinating about how Windows deals with trusted root CA certificates. It...
over a year ago
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Learn how Windows builds its store of trusted root CA certificates

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over a year ago
Today I learned something fascinating about how Windows deals with trusted root CA certificates. It might surprise you, and it certainly did for me, but out-of-the-box Windows doesn't come with a set of root CA certificates sufficient for web browsing. You can see this for...
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Maps Mania
The Reforestation Interactive Map
2 weeks ago
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The Reforestation Interactive Map

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2 weeks ago
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CONTEMPORIST
Steel Fins Create A Sculptural Facade For This Home Photography by KIE Arch Realrich Architecture Workshop has shared photos of a modern home they...
3 months ago
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Steel Fins Create A Sculptural Facade For This Home

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3 months ago
Photography by KIE Arch Realrich Architecture Workshop has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Jakarta, Indonesia, that features operable steel fins on the western and southern facades. Photography by KIE Arch To fins were included in the design of the house to...
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The Intimate Mirror
The Mother Wound and the Return to Love Finding Our Way Back to Sacred World
5 months ago
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The Mother Wound and the Return to Love

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5 months ago
Finding Our Way Back to Sacred World
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David Crawshaw
2015-12-26 news.berkeley.edu/2015/12/23/electronic-photonic-microprocessor-chip/
over a year ago
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2015-12-26

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over a year ago
news.berkeley.edu/2015/12/23/electronic-photonic-microprocessor-chip/
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Transit Maps
New Official Map: San Francisco Muni Metro Map with Central Subway This map has actually been out for a while, but today – celebrating the full opening of the Central...
over a year ago
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New Official Map: San Francisco Muni Metro Map with Central Subway

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over a year ago
This map has actually been out for a while, but today – celebrating the full opening of the Central Subway – seemed like the appropriate day to post about it. Design-wise, this is very much an evolution of previous efforts (see my review of the post-COVID resumption of service...
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Common Edge
Don’t Buy the Fossil Fuel Hype: There Is No “National Energy Emergency” The data for U.S. energy production show a very different picture than the one painted by Big Oil...
3 months ago
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Don’t Buy the Fossil Fuel Hype: There Is No “National Energy Emergency”

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3 months ago
The data for U.S. energy production show a very different picture than the one painted by Big Oil and the current administration.
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Diaries of Note
When I die I shall go to May British gardener Monty Don has been educating and inspiring the British public for decades through...
over a year ago
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When I die I shall go to May

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over a year ago
British gardener Monty Don has been educating and inspiring the British public for decades through his love of nature, beginning in 1989 with a television debut that ultimately led to him presenting BBC’s much-loved Gardener’s World. It was shortly after he became a broadcaster...
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The Modern House
Seeking sea spray: a collection of nine covetable coastal homes Taking the Boxing Day Dip as inspiration for this week’s collection, we have gathered nine beachside...
6 months ago
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Seeking sea spray: a collection of nine covetable coastal homes

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6 months ago
Taking the Boxing Day Dip as inspiration for this week’s collection, we have gathered nine beachside homes that would easily facilitate this bracing, peculiarly British tradition. Here, we’ve collected some of our most far-flung fantasies, from Cornwall to Norfolk and all the way...
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The Gradient
What's Missing From LLM Chatbots: A Sense of Purpose LLM-based chatbots’ capabilities have been advancing every month. These improvements are mostly...
9 months ago
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What's Missing From LLM Chatbots: A Sense of Purpose

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9 months ago
LLM-based chatbots’ capabilities have been advancing every month. These improvements are mostly measured by benchmarks like MMLU, HumanEval, and MATH (e.g. sonnet 3.5, gpt-4o). However, as these measures get more and more saturated, is user experience increasing in proportion to...
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Rest of World -...
Disturbed by tragic deaths, Indian students are raging against celebrity YouTube teachers Students feel betrayed by the lack of support from these educators who enjoy near-cult popularity.
11 months ago
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Disturbed by tragic deaths, Indian students are raging against celebrity YouTube teachers

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11 months ago
Students feel betrayed by the lack of support from these educators who enjoy near-cult popularity.
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This Space
Blood Knowledge by Kirsty Gunn "A novel is a kind of lazy way of writing a short story, a short story a lazy way of writing a poem"...
7 months ago
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Blood Knowledge by Kirsty Gunn

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7 months ago
"A novel is a kind of lazy way of writing a short story, a short story a lazy way of writing a poem" said Muriel Spark, adding by explanation: "The longer they become, the more they seem to lose value". We might wonder then if the most value is to be found in the shortest novels,...
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Moneyness
How my views on financial privacy have evolved over a decade I began exploring the topic of financial privacy and payment anonymity in the early days of this...
7 months ago
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How my views on financial privacy have evolved over a decade

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7 months ago
I began exploring the topic of financial privacy and payment anonymity in the early days of this blog. Over the past decade, my views have shifted significantly—here's how and why. Rereading my earliest mentions of financial privacy, they now seem a bit... idealistic? extreme?...
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Londonist
Expect To Hear Lots More Buskers In Tube Stations Over The Next 2 Weeks It's the X Factor of the London Underground.
a year ago
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Expect To Hear Lots More Buskers In Tube Stations Over The Next 2 Weeks

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a year ago
It's the X Factor of the London Underground.
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Eric Bailey
Instituting a culture of accessibility in your organization: Part 1
over a year ago
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Instituting a culture of accessibility in your organization: Part 1

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Articles
I wasted 4 years of my life doing this
over a year ago
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I wasted 4 years of my life doing this

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over a year ago
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AI Snake Oil
ML is useful for many things, but not for predicting scientific replicability How the veneer of AI is used to legitimize awful ideas
a year ago
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ML is useful for many things, but not for predicting scientific replicability

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a year ago
How the veneer of AI is used to legitimize awful ideas
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Classical Wisdom
The 7 Sages of Ancient Greece From Dwarfs to Wise Men... What's Up With the Number 7?
3 months ago
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The 7 Sages of Ancient Greece

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3 months ago
From Dwarfs to Wise Men... What's Up With the Number 7?
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Birchtree
Incomplete thought: using data to tell a story (members post) A year ago I tried to understand how much power ChatGPT was using and if I should be outraged by it....
5 months ago
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Incomplete thought: using data to tell a story (members post)

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5 months ago
A year ago I tried to understand how much power ChatGPT was using and if I should be outraged by it. Today I try it again.
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Unpacked
OpenAI's web crawler and FTC missteps OpenAI launches a default opt-in crawler, continuing to scrape the Internet, while the FTC focuses...
a year ago
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OpenAI's web crawler and FTC missteps

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a year ago
OpenAI launches a default opt-in crawler, continuing to scrape the Internet, while the FTC focuses on an obscure consumer deception investigation into OpenAI.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Nitrogen Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If we survive long enough, most of the atoms in...
10 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Nitrogen

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10 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If we survive long enough, most of the atoms in everyone's body will have at some point been involved in a murder. Today's News:
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Stephen Diehl
Ice-Nine for Markets
over a year ago
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Ice-Nine for Markets

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over a year ago
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Blog - Practical...
All Dams Are Temporary [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Lewis and Clark Lake, on the...
4 months ago
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All Dams Are Temporary

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4 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Lewis and Clark Lake, on the border between Nebraska and South Dakota, might not be a lake for much longer. Together with the dam that holds it back, the reservoir provides hydropower, flood control, and...
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Rest of World -...
Mexico’s women gig workers are making a dangerous job safer Women delivery workers are pushing for protection from gender-based violence, creating safe meeting...
7 months ago
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Mexico’s women gig workers are making a dangerous job safer

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7 months ago
Women delivery workers are pushing for protection from gender-based violence, creating safe meeting spots and WhatsApp support groups, and fighting for legal protections.
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Renegade Otter
Code Lab - Job queues in Postgres Introduction Friendly Fire needs to periodically execute scheduled jobs - to remind Slack users to...
a year ago
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Code Lab - Job queues in Postgres

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a year ago
Introduction Friendly Fire needs to periodically execute scheduled jobs - to remind Slack users to review GitHub pull requests. Instead of bolting on a new system just for this, I decided to leverage Postgres instead. The must-have requirement was the ability to schedule a job...
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Daniel Miessler
NO. 355 | NEWS & ANALYSIS SERIES SECURITY NEWS ⛔️ There is likely to be a critical TLS vulnerability released this week. Consider...
over a year ago
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NO. 355 | NEWS & ANALYSIS SERIES

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over a year ago
SECURITY NEWS ⛔️ There is likely to be a critical TLS vulnerability released this week. Consider getting your teams ready by looking for your instances before it drops. ZDNET | GLOBALSIGN | REDDIT DISCUSSION  The US accused 13 Chinese nationals of committing espionage-related...
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TheCollector
6 Beautiful Places in China Tourists Tend to Neglect China isn’t a destination for the faint of heart — the crowds, the traffic, and the language are...
2 months ago
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6 Beautiful Places in China Tourists Tend to Neglect

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2 months ago
China isn’t a destination for the faint of heart — the crowds, the traffic, and the language are daunting. This can make it tempting to stick to more popular destinations, like Beijing, Shanghai, Xi’an, and Guilin. However, the rewards are considerable for those willing to be a...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Tic Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Let's fight about it. Today's News:
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Tic

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Let's fight about it. Today's News:
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AVC
The Blackbird Platform The first project launched this week on our portfolio company Blackbird‘s platform. It is a friends...
over a year ago
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The Blackbird Platform

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over a year ago
The first project launched this week on our portfolio company Blackbird‘s platform. It is a friends and family program at a restaurant in Williamsburg Brooklyn called Gertie. Blackbird wrote about it today on their excellent Supersonic blog: Throughout, when you tap Gertie’s...
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Steve Klabnik
git, history modification, and libuv
over a year ago
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git, history modification, and libuv

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over a year ago
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Trying to Understand...
Another Country. And other peoples' heroes.
2 months ago
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Another Country.

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2 months ago
And other peoples' heroes.
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xkcd.com
Perseids Pronunciation
a year ago
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Perseids Pronunciation

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a year ago
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Herbert Lui
Blogging for smaller audiences and deeper connections Making good work requires making mistakes. It’s never a straight path to the final work. If a lot of...
5 months ago
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Blogging for smaller audiences and deeper connections

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5 months ago
Making good work requires making mistakes. It’s never a straight path to the final work. If a lot of people see your creative work all the time, then it’ll be more difficult for you to make imperfect work.  You won’t have space to tinker and experiment so much. You won’t even...
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
The Greatest Guitar Player’s Worst Concert Phil Keaggy struggled. He is recovering from a detached retina. There’s nerve pain in his hand. His...
over a year ago
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The Greatest Guitar Player’s Worst Concert

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

over a year ago
Phil Keaggy struggled. He is recovering from a detached retina. There’s nerve pain in his hand. His guitar broke, so he had to borrow one from the opening act. The sound crew was questionable. It might have been the worst concert Phil has ever performed. And yet...
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Paul Graham: Essays
The Future of Web Startups
over a year ago
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The Future of Web Startups

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over a year ago
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IEEE Spectrum
Franklin’s Franklins Were Freakishly Un-Fakeable To make something hard to fake, you can use exotic materials or clever tricks. Benjamin Franklin, a...
a year ago
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Franklin’s Franklins Were Freakishly Un-Fakeable

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a year ago
To make something hard to fake, you can use exotic materials or clever tricks. Benjamin Franklin, a printer by vocation, a scientist by avocation, leaned on cleverness, developing measures that are still in use. Those black arts have now yielded to the latest analytical...
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Retail Design Blog
The Italian Pavilion Expo 2025 Osaka by Mario Cucinella Architects + Yoshiki Matsuda Architects Mario Cucinella, Architect and Founder of MCA, commented: “Designing the Italian Pavilion for Expo...
5 days ago
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The Italian Pavilion Expo 2025 Osaka by Mario Cucinella Architects + Yoshiki Matsuda Architects

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5 days ago
Mario Cucinella, Architect and Founder of MCA, commented: “Designing the Italian Pavilion for Expo 2025 Osaka is a unique opportunity...
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Christopher Butler
object – Bedside Lamp It’s not smart, but it dims. We briefly dabbled with smart-bulbs in our house. It did not go...
over a year ago
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object – Bedside Lamp

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

over a year ago
It’s not smart, but it dims. We briefly dabbled with smart-bulbs in our house. It did not go well. Why we make these things, I do not know. Why is controlling a lamp with your phone better than with your hands? What I noticed after creating a smart light array in our house...
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Rest of World -...
Clickwork in Brazil: A mom balancing endless gigs with childcare Through platforms like UHRS, Amazon Mechanical Turk and Appen, a clickworker takes on a job...
a year ago
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Clickwork in Brazil: A mom balancing endless gigs with childcare

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

a year ago
Through platforms like UHRS, Amazon Mechanical Turk and Appen, a clickworker takes on a job consisting of hundreds of quick, repetitive tasks.
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A Beautiful Site
I should have been asking my users this from the start Feedback is critical to an app's success. How will you know what to fix or improve on if your users...
over a year ago
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I should have been asking my users this from the start

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

over a year ago
Feedback is critical to an app's success. How will you know what to fix or improve on if your users don't tell you? It seems obvious, but here is something I should have been asking my users from the start. Getting the right feedback is critical # When someone signs up for my...
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Calculated Risk
Moody's: Q1 2025 Apartment Vacancy Rate Highest Since 2010; Office Vacancy Rate at Record High Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Moody's: Q1 2025 Apartment Vacancy Rate...
3 months ago
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Moody's: Q1 2025 Apartment Vacancy Rate Highest Since 2010; Office Vacancy Rate at Record High

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3 months ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Moody's: Q1 2025 Apartment Vacancy Rate Highest Since 2010; Office Vacancy Rate at Record High A brief excerpt: From Moody’s Analytics Economists: Q1 Moody’s CRE Preliminary Trend Analysis The national multifamily market has...
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Transit Maps
Submission – Official Map: Long Island Rail Road Screen Maps at Grand Central Madison Submitted by Griffin, who says: I work upstairs in the old Grand Central and was every excited to...
over a year ago
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Submission – Official Map: Long Island Rail Road Screen Maps at Grand Central Madison

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

over a year ago
Submitted by Griffin, who says: I work upstairs in the old Grand Central and was every excited to check out the new station this morning. Spotted this new map on the wall down there, thought you might find it interesting. Transit Maps says: Oh, I do like this. Graphically strong...
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Willem's Blog
Tips for Long-Distance Cycling Embark on your own long-distance cycling adventure by learning from my post-COVID...
over a year ago
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Tips for Long-Distance Cycling

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

over a year ago
Embark on your own long-distance cycling adventure by learning from my post-COVID Fietselfstedentocht experience, packed with invaluable tips and tricks.
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Platformer
Elon's war on Substack How Twitter is breaking — and its CEO is accelerating its fall
over a year ago
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Elon's war on Substack

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over a year ago
How Twitter is breaking — and its CEO is accelerating its fall
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Grant Slatton
Quasirandom sequences Cool method to generate non-clumping random points
a year ago
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Quasirandom sequences

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a year ago
Cool method to generate non-clumping random points
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Eric Bailey
I’ll Make an Exception Just for You: Using the Exception Comment to Help Maintain Mature,...
over a year ago
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I’ll Make an Exception Just for You: Using the Exception Comment to Help Maintain Mature, Large-scale Sass Projects

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Calculated Risk
Inflation Adjusted House Prices 1.1% Below 2022 Peak; Price-to-rent index is 7.8% below 2022 peak Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Inflation Adjusted House Prices 1.1% Below...
5 months ago
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Inflation Adjusted House Prices 1.1% Below 2022 Peak; Price-to-rent index is 7.8% below 2022 peak

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5 months ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Inflation Adjusted House Prices 1.1% Below 2022 Peak It has been over 18 years since the housing bubble peak. In the November Case-Shiller house price index released yesterday, the seasonally adjusted National Index (SA), was...
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Common Edge
What L.A. 2028 Can Learn From the Paris Olympics Sprawling Los Angeles is vastly different from the French capital, but it can still find ways to...
9 months ago
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What L.A. 2028 Can Learn From the Paris Olympics

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9 months ago
Sprawling Los Angeles is vastly different from the French capital, but it can still find ways to take a cue from the City of Lights’ embrace of the local.
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Flashbak
Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981 1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was...
a year ago
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Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was sold, women raged in raucous nightclubs, gay rights found its voice, Madonna joined her first band, BLADE used trains as his canvas and  In 1981, 22-year-old Christopher Morris was...
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Calculated Risk
Real Estate Newsletter Articles this Week: New Home Sales Decrease to 657,000 Annual Rate in January At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week: Click on graph for larger image. New Home...
4 months ago
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Real Estate Newsletter Articles this Week: New Home Sales Decrease to 657,000 Annual Rate in January

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

4 months ago
At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week: Click on graph for larger image. New Home Sales Decrease to 657,000 Annual Rate in January Case-Shiller: National House Price Index Up 3.9% year-over-year in December Inflation Adjusted House Prices 1.0% Below 2022...
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Stoic Simple
Did Stoicism Have Any Influence on Ancient Rome? Stoicism is a philosophy that originated in ancient Greece in the 3rd century BC. It was founded by...
over a year ago
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Did Stoicism Have Any Influence on Ancient Rome?

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over a year ago
Stoicism is a philosophy that originated in ancient Greece in the 3rd century BC. It was founded by philosopher Zeno of Citium and was quickly adopted and expanded upon by his successors, including the influential Roman philosopher, Seneca. Stoicism's focus on self-discipline,...
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Making software...
ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names 2021-02-25 It's been a while since I've written anything on this blog,...
over a year ago
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ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names

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

over a year ago
ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names 2021-02-25 It's been a while since I've written anything on this blog, but for good reason - I've been working on a handful of side projects. I plan to drip-feed release these projects over time, but for today I'm announcing ThriftyName. What is...
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AFAR Media - Travel...
The Best Places to Eat and Drink in Myrtle Beach, SC
9 months ago
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The Best Places to Eat and Drink in Myrtle Beach, SC

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9 months ago
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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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Open Culture
A 5‑Hour Journey Through North Korean Entertainment: Propaganda Films, Kids’ Cartoons, Sketch Comedy... Over the second half of the twentieth century, South Korea became rich, and in the first decades of...
a year ago
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A 5‑Hour Journey Through North Korean Entertainment: Propaganda Films, Kids’ Cartoons, Sketch Comedy & More

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a year ago
Over the second half of the twentieth century, South Korea became rich, and in the first decades of the twenty-first, it’s become a global cultural superpower. The same can’t be said for North Korea: after a relatively strong start in the nineteen-fifties and sixties, its economy...
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Londonist
The Most Festive Christmas Afternoon Teas In London This Year Scones and cakes with a seasonal twist.
a year ago
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The Most Festive Christmas Afternoon Teas In London This Year

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a year ago
Scones and cakes with a seasonal twist.
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring) Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
a year ago
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Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)

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a year ago
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
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Louwrentius
Getting the Sitecom AC600 Wi-Fi adapter running on Linux TL;DR Yes it works with some modifications of the driver source. A USB Wi-Fi adapter I used with a...
over a year ago
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Getting the Sitecom AC600 Wi-Fi adapter running on Linux

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
TL;DR Yes it works with some modifications of the driver source. A USB Wi-Fi adapter I used with a Raspberry Pi broke as I dropped it on the floor, so I had to replace it. I just went to a local shop and bought the Sitecom AC600 adapter as that's what they had available (with...
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Yale e360
RC Week 11: Learning is best when multiplayer As I come up on the end of my batch at Recurse Center, I've been doing some reflecting on my time...
over a year ago
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RC Week 11: Learning is best when multiplayer

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

over a year ago
As I come up on the end of my batch at Recurse Center, I've been doing some reflecting on my time here. One of the standout themes is how much I've learned through struggling with other people. In particular, this learning together has make some difficult topics approachable,...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
The bulldozer vs vetocracy political axis
over a year ago
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The bulldozer vs vetocracy political axis

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

over a year ago
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alexwlchan
Finding books in nearby library branches I’m trying to make better use of my local public library. I want to read more books, and borrowing...
over a year ago
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Finding books in nearby library branches

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I’m trying to make better use of my local public library. I want to read more books, and borrowing from the library keeps the habit sustainable. It also saves a fair bit of money, and I don’t have to decide what to do with books when I’m done. Recently, I built a tool to help me...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Good News Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The silver lining is due to cesium...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Good News

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The silver lining is due to cesium contamination. Today's News:
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Sometimes It Works...
Stop Trying to Reach the Top Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/london-2012-olympics-heston-blumenthal-179574 Read...
over a year ago
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Stop Trying to Reach the Top

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over a year ago
Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/london-2012-olympics-heston-blumenthal-179574 Read this. Were you hit by Google Panda? Will you be hit when they start penalising non-mobile sites? The lesson? Stop trying to reach the top of Google. You’ll live longer/keep more of...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
OCaml Speedrun! 🐫🐪 a guided walk through Jane Street's OCaml workshop
over a year ago
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OCaml Speedrun! 🐫🐪

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

over a year ago
a guided walk through Jane Street's OCaml workshop
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Arduino Blog
This machine helps to experimentally find an estimation of absolute zero How can we ever really know anything? If you listen to the anti-science types, you might believe...
2 months ago
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This machine helps to experimentally find an estimation of absolute zero

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2 months ago
How can we ever really know anything? If you listen to the anti-science types, you might believe that we can’t. But if you get past Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, you can start identifying basic truths, through logic and experiments, on which to build upon. One important...
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Mark Manson
Why Growth Requires Struggle I get a lot of reader questions about pain, trauma, challenge, and struggle. Most of these questions...
over a year ago
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Why Growth Requires Struggle

from Mark Manson [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
I get a lot of reader questions about pain, trauma, challenge, and struggle. Most of these questions were some variation of, “Is there such a thing as being exposed to too much pain?” or “Are there situations where pain and struggle aren’t helpful but only hurtful?” or “What...
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Common Edge
An AI Experiment: Why Do Lawyers Make More Than Architects? We asked ChatGPT a question that has plagued the profession for decades.
a year ago
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An AI Experiment: Why Do Lawyers Make More Than Architects?

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a year ago
We asked ChatGPT a question that has plagued the profession for decades.
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Mind Prison: Notes...
The public trusts AI as a credible source Notes From the Desk: No. 27 - 2024.02.26
a year ago
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The public trusts AI as a credible source

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a year ago
Notes From the Desk: No. 27 - 2024.02.26
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Gwern.net Newsletter
April 2021 newsletter with links on AI scaling, particular new East Asian record-breaking work & deep reinforcement...
over a year ago
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April 2021 newsletter

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over a year ago
with links on AI scaling, particular new East Asian record-breaking work & deep reinforcement learning.
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A Day In The Life...
From Mac to Windows From Mac to Windows
over a year ago
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From Mac to Windows

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over a year ago
From Mac to Windows
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Open Culture
Johnny Cash & The Clash’s Joe Strummer Sing Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” (2002) In 1958, Merle Haggard saw Johnny Cash play in San Quentin, and went on to sing honest country songs...
8 months ago
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Johnny Cash & The Clash’s Joe Strummer Sing Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” (2002)

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8 months ago
In 1958, Merle Haggard saw Johnny Cash play in San Quentin, and went on to sing honest country songs for country outlaws. In 1982, future Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello saw Joe Strummer play with The Clash in Chicago and went on to play angry righteous rock for...
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The personal website...
Care ethics Care ethics is closely related to the rise of feminist voices in philosophy starting in the 1970s....
over a year ago
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Care ethics

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

over a year ago
Care ethics is closely related to the rise of feminist voices in philosophy starting in the 1970s. Writers at the time were inspired by the vanguard of feminism — Mary Astell in 1694, Mary Wollstonecraft in 1792, and Harriet Taylor Mill in 1869. They pointed out the dominance of...
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Classical Wisdom
Weekly Wisdom Quiz Money, Myth, and Madness
3 weeks ago
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Weekly Wisdom Quiz

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3 weeks ago
Money, Myth, and Madness
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Quanta Magazine
Michel Talagrand Wins Abel Prize for Work Wrangling Randomness The French mathematician spent decades developing a set of tools now widely used for taming random...
a year ago
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Michel Talagrand Wins Abel Prize for Work Wrangling Randomness

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a year ago
The French mathematician spent decades developing a set of tools now widely used for taming random processes. The post Michel Talagrand Wins Abel Prize for Work Wrangling Randomness first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Seth's Blog
Refocusing Freedom, liberty and independence are human rights. But they depend on responsibility....
yesterday
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Refocusing

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yesterday
Freedom, liberty and independence are human rights. But they depend on responsibility. Responsibility to others, to our future, to the community. Responsibility for our actions and our choices. The only way to earn our independence is to keep the promises we’ve made. Can we...
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Blog - Practical...
Every Kind of Bridge Explained in 15 Minutes [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] The Earth is pretty cool and...
a year ago
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Every Kind of Bridge Explained in 15 Minutes

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a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] The Earth is pretty cool and all, but many of its most magnificent features make it tough for us to get around. When the topography is too wet, steep, treacherous, or prone to disaster, sometimes the only way...
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The Ruffian
On Certain Asymmetries A few thoughts on how we talk about the Israel-Hamas war
a year ago
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On Certain Asymmetries

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a year ago
A few thoughts on how we talk about the Israel-Hamas war
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xkcd.com
Ocean Loop
a year ago
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Ocean Loop

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a year ago
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Open Culture
Freddie Mercury & David Bowie’s Isolated Vocals for Queen’s “Under Pressure” (1981) In the summer of 1981, the British band Queen was recording tracks for their tenth studio album, Hot...
5 months ago
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Freddie Mercury & David Bowie’s Isolated Vocals for Queen’s “Under Pressure” (1981)

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5 months ago
In the summer of 1981, the British band Queen was recording tracks for their tenth studio album, Hot Space, at Mountain Studios in Montreux, Switzerland. As it happened, David Bowie had scheduled time at the same studio to record the title song for the movie Cat People. Before...
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Aaron's Essays
VCs are Scared When They Should be Greedy I originally wrote this essay for The Information, where it was published on July 6, 2022. I've...
over a year ago
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VCs are Scared When They Should be Greedy

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over a year ago
I originally wrote this essay for The Information, where it was published on July 6, 2022. I've read a lot of the advice that venture capitalists have given founders on the current state of the markets. Most of that advice focuses on how founders need to adjust to survive the...
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The Oatmeal - Comics...
Good vs Evil I have an update about my Netflix show. View on my website
over a year ago
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Good vs Evil

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

over a year ago
I have an update about my Netflix show. View on my website
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Louwrentius
Cryptocurrencies are detrimental to society Want to listen to this article? audio element. Introduction How would you explain the inner...
over a year ago
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Cryptocurrencies are detrimental to society

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Want to listen to this article? audio element. Introduction How would you explain the inner workings of bitcoin to a person in simple, understandable terms? source This explanation seems perfect to me because it illustrates some seriously problematic aspects of...
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Spoon & Tamago
A Chandelier of 28,000 Eggs and Other Scrumptious Delights Reframe our Consumption of Food The Osaka Expo 2025 kicks off on April 13th. And while we’re excited about some pretty niche things...
3 months ago
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A Chandelier of 28,000 Eggs and Other Scrumptious Delights Reframe our Consumption of Food

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3 months ago
The Osaka Expo 2025 kicks off on April 13th. And while we’re excited about some pretty niche things like Hello Kitty algae and attendant uniforms, one of Japan’s signature pavilions, Earth Mart, is shaping up to be delightfully delicious. Located within the expo’s Green World...
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Society's Backend:...
Apple Pushing Their AI Back Isn't as Bad as You Think Machine learning for software engineers 3-7-25
4 months ago
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Apple Pushing Their AI Back Isn't as Bad as You Think

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4 months ago
Machine learning for software engineers 3-7-25
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Liz Denys
Notes on cone 6 clay bodies, part 2 I'm continuing my clay body reviews series with two very heavily grogged "sculpture" clays I've...
a year ago
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Notes on cone 6 clay bodies, part 2

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a year ago
I'm continuing my clay body reviews series with two very heavily grogged "sculpture" clays I've used. Note that I currently practice in a community studio that glaze fires to cone 6 in oxidation, so my observations reflect that. Standard 420 Sculpture: Cone 6: average shrinkage...
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Home on Erik...
Music recommendations using cover images (part 1) Scrolling through the Discover page on Spotify the other day it occurred to me that the album is in...
over a year ago
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Music recommendations using cover images (part 1)

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

over a year ago
Scrolling through the Discover page on Spotify the other day it occurred to me that the album is in fact a fairly strong visual proxy for what kind of content you can expect from it. I started wondering if the album cover can in fact be used for recommendations.
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Trying to Understand...
The End of Power Projection? We can't get there from here, anymore.
a year ago
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The End of Power Projection?

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a year ago
We can't get there from here, anymore.
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Liz Denys
Building confidence in the face of impostor syndrome When I'm plowing away at a project, I almost always feel confident in my abilities. Sometimes, I...
over a year ago
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Building confidence in the face of impostor syndrome

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

over a year ago
When I'm plowing away at a project, I almost always feel confident in my abilities. Sometimes, I question if I am a good enough engineer, designer, or statistician, but once I get started, my excitement transforms those doubts into motivation. But all bets are off as soon as I...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
You’re Only As Strong As Your Weakest Point In April 1945, as US soldiers overtook Merkers, Germany, stories began to surface to Army officials...
2 months ago
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You’re Only As Strong As Your Weakest Point

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

2 months ago
In April 1945, as US soldiers overtook Merkers, Germany, stories began to surface to Army officials of stolen Nazi riches stored in the local salt mine. Eventually, the Americans found the mine and began exploring it, ending up at a vaulted door. Here’s the story, as told by Greg...
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bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, November 2024 The Ware for November 2024 is shown below. Click on any image for a larger version. I have a policy...
7 months ago
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Name that Ware, November 2024

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7 months ago
The Ware for November 2024 is shown below. Click on any image for a larger version. I have a policy of never using one of my own projects for name that ware. But, sometimes I see another person’s project in the wild and it is just too cool not to share! I came across this […]
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The Prism
Wisdom from Marcus Aurelius 10 thoughts to improve the mind
a year ago
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Wisdom from Marcus Aurelius

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a year ago
10 thoughts to improve the mind
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Sometimes It Works...
Why and how you should use Tailwind to build your next Statamic theme Why and how you should use Tailwind to build your next Statamic theme Open your sails Blow me to...
over a year ago
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Why and how you should use Tailwind to build your next Statamic theme

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

over a year ago
Why and how you should use Tailwind to build your next Statamic theme Open your sails Blow me to Bermuda! Alakazam! Keep all of your theme assets together Use Tailwind’s utilities properly Don’t forget your pre-processor! Deployment strategies Bonus round! PurgeCSS + Tailwind...
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SatPost by Trung...
Three Netflix What-Ifs: Bezos, Arnault Blockbuster Netflix was founded in 1997 and went public in 2002. The $500B+ company's trajectory changed with...
a month ago
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Three Netflix What-Ifs: Bezos, Arnault Blockbuster

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

a month ago
Netflix was founded in 1997 and went public in 2002. The $500B+ company's trajectory changed with three crucial pre-IPO negotiations.
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Classical Wisdom
The Roman Socrates The Feminist Stoic?
a year ago
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The Roman Socrates

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a year ago
The Feminist Stoic?
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bt RSS Feed
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don’t Exist 2021-11-03 This is my personal opinion. Please leave...
over a year ago
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A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist

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

over a year ago
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don’t Exist 2021-11-03 This is my personal opinion. Please leave your pitchforks at the door… I love CSS. I can spend hours deep diving into a website’s CSS system and never find myself getting bored. It’s pretty amazing to see the problems...
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Retail Design Blog
Acme Offices by Studio Vasaka Studio Vasaka’s Acme offices in Baddi ingeniously transforms a bustling factory space into a serene...
3 weeks ago
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Acme Offices by Studio Vasaka

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3 weeks ago
Studio Vasaka’s Acme offices in Baddi ingeniously transforms a bustling factory space into a serene conference block, harmoniously blending elegant...
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Retail Design Blog
Paris Saint Germain Flagship Store by oftn studio Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) is a football club based in Paris, France, that extends its football...
9 months ago
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Paris Saint Germain Flagship Store by oftn studio

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9 months ago
Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) is a football club based in Paris, France, that extends its football culture into lifestyle products, including...
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Old Structures...
Bucolia First up, some very tame woods, with a picnic bench: About a mile away, a peaceful – if rainy and...
a year ago
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Bucolia

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

a year ago
First up, some very tame woods, with a picnic bench: About a mile away, a peaceful – if rainy and foggy – stretch of water, as seen from a causeway: This is, against most people’s expectations, the Bronx. More specifically, it’s Pelham Bay Park, and Eastchester Bay, where the...
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Diaries of Note
I have been playing a new game called insomnia In December of 1941, three days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, 26-year-old Thomas Merton entered...
over a year ago
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I have been playing a new game called insomnia

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over a year ago
In December of 1941, three days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, 26-year-old Thomas Merton entered the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Kentucky, where he began life as a Trappist monk. Over the next 27 years, until his death in 1968, Merton authored more than fifty books that...
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Seth's Blog
Slow down to speed up Almost all car crashes would be avoided if the driver were just going a bit slower. (That’s why it’s...
5 months ago
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Slow down to speed up

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

5 months ago
Almost all car crashes would be avoided if the driver were just going a bit slower. (That’s why it’s more accurate to call them “crashes” and not “accidents.”) That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have bold plans. That’s essential. It’s the last-second shortcuts that get us into...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Gratitude For a Web That Tries Not to Break Chris wrote a response to my wondering-out-loud remarks about whether logical properties make CSS...
over a year ago
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Gratitude For a Web That Tries Not to Break

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

over a year ago
Chris wrote a response to my wondering-out-loud remarks about whether logical properties make CSS easier to learn. His response is great. And his tabular comparison of properties is short and concise and punchy in the way only Chris Coyier can reason about CSS. His post actually...
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Articles
What happened to Paul Jarvis? I hadn't heard from my friend Paul Jarvis in a while, so I sent him a message.
a year ago
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What happened to Paul Jarvis?

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a year ago
I hadn't heard from my friend Paul Jarvis in a while, so I sent him a message.
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A Smart Bear
Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy Why do startups typically fail? It turns out that "avoiding those things" is already a plan for...
a year ago
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Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy

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a year ago
Why do startups typically fail? It turns out that "avoiding those things" is already a plan for success.
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The Ruffian
Opposites Attract On the Gender Divide In Politics and Why It Might Just Save Us All
a year ago
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Opposites Attract

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a year ago
On the Gender Divide In Politics and Why It Might Just Save Us All
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Applied Cartography
Fathom I'd been meaning to jot down some thoughts on Fathom for a while, and did not have a particularly...
7 months ago
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Fathom

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

7 months ago
I'd been meaning to jot down some thoughts on Fathom for a while, and did not have a particularly good reason to do so until the news broke that Paul Jarvis was selling his share of the company to Jack Ellis, the technical co-founder. [1] Anyway, the two thoughts: I think Fathom...
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Society's Backend:...
Alignment: Understanding the Multi-Billion Dollar Opportunity within Machine Learning A glimpse into the biggest challenge in the world of AI, why it matters to you, and why it's worth...
a year ago
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Alignment: Understanding the Multi-Billion Dollar Opportunity within Machine Learning

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

a year ago
A glimpse into the biggest challenge in the world of AI, why it matters to you, and why it's worth so much
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Bryan Braun - Blog
Capability makes your life simpler If you can tolerate discomfort, then you can camp much lighter. Camping lighter means you spend less...
11 months ago
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Capability makes your life simpler

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11 months ago
If you can tolerate discomfort, then you can camp much lighter. Camping lighter means you spend less time and energy packing, setting-up, tearing down, and unpacking. The same goes for travel. Fewer clothes and shoes means less luggage to carry, manage, and lose. You can board...
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This Space
39 Books: 1997 I found this ghastly 60-page Grove Press hardback edition in a second-hand bookshop, its large...
a year ago
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39 Books: 1997

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

a year ago
I found this ghastly 60-page Grove Press hardback edition in a second-hand bookshop, its large typeface and generous spacing very similar to Beckett's late works (Barbara Bray, Beckett's translator, also translated this). Such productions are rare now, and perhaps were when it...
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Acko.net
On Progress The known unknown knowns we lost When people think of George Orwell's 1984, what usually comes to...
over a year ago
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On Progress

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over a year ago
The known unknown knowns we lost When people think of George Orwell's 1984, what usually comes to mind is the orwellianism: a society in the grip of a dictatorial, oppressive regime which rewrote history daily as if it was a casual matter. Not me though. For whatever reason,...
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Articles
The sex and cash theory
over a year ago
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The sex and cash theory

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over a year ago
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Mazdak
The AI Invasion: Is humanity on the verge of a digital takeover? The AI Invasion: Is humanity on the verge of a digital takeover?
7 months ago
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The AI Invasion: Is humanity on the verge of a digital takeover?

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7 months ago
The AI Invasion: Is humanity on the verge of a digital takeover?
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Articles
Why geeks should speak
over a year ago
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Why geeks should speak

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over a year ago
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abdz.do - Have you...
Art direction and branding for Port3 Web3 Experience Art direction and branding for Port3 Web3 Experience abduzeedo0510—23 ...
over a year ago
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Art direction and branding for Port3 Web3 Experience

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over a year ago
Art direction and branding for Port3 Web3 Experience abduzeedo0510—23 Shin Bao, K.K, and Emma Wang have collaboratively embarked on a remarkable branding and design project aimed at developing a visually captivating website and art direction...
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Contemporist...
Large Folding Glass Walls Open This Home To A Courtyard Narch Arquitectes has shared photos of a home they designed in Barcelona, Spain, that has large...
a year ago
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Large Folding Glass Walls Open This Home To A Courtyard

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

a year ago
Narch Arquitectes has shared photos of a home they designed in Barcelona, Spain, that has large folding windows that connect the interior to the inner courtyard and garden.
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator’s Iconic Opening Battle, Part II This week we’re continuing our three-part (I) look at one of film’s most famous Roman battle...
3 weeks ago
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Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator’s Iconic Opening Battle, Part II

from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry [alt+shift+b] in history

3 weeks ago
This week we’re continuing our three-part (I) look at one of film’s most famous Roman battle sequences, the iconic opening battle from Gladiator (2000). I had planned this to be in two parts, but even though this sequence is relatively short, it provides an awful lot to talk...
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ntietz.com blog -...
Can I ethically use LLMs? The title is not a rhetorical question, and I'm not going to bury an answer. I don't have an...
4 months ago
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Can I ethically use LLMs?

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4 months ago
The title is not a rhetorical question, and I'm not going to bury an answer. I don't have an answer. This post is my exploration of the question, and why I think it is a question1. Important things up front: what's my relationship with LLMs today? I don't use any LLMs regularly....
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Arduino Blog
This miniature monorail stays upright with the help of gyro stabilization Most monorail systems, like the kind at Disney and in Las Vegas, stay upright because the “rail” is...
10 months ago
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This miniature monorail stays upright with the help of gyro stabilization

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

10 months ago
Most monorail systems, like the kind at Disney and in Las Vegas, stay upright because the “rail” is actually a very wide beam. The car’s load tires (often literal truck or trailer tires) roll on top of that beam and guide tires clamp the sides of the beam, preventing the car from...
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Construction Physics
The Long, Sad History of American Attempts to Build High-Speed Rail, Part I California has received its fair share of criticism for the trajectory of its high-speed rail...
a year ago
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The Long, Sad History of American Attempts to Build High-Speed Rail, Part I

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

a year ago
California has received its fair share of criticism for the trajectory of its high-speed rail project. When voters first approved the $10 billion dollar bond issue for the project in 2008, it was projected to be completed by 2020 at a cost of $33 billion. Instead, its costs have
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99% Invisible
Model Village [EPISODE] For decades, society has dealt with people with dementia and other forms of cognitive decline by...
a year ago
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Model Village [EPISODE]

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a year ago
For decades, society has dealt with people with dementia and other forms of cognitive decline by storing them away in unstimulating, medicalized environments. But around the world, a new architectural movement is starting to challenge that old paradigm. Designing environments...
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Articles
The pipeline problem
9 months ago
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The pipeline problem

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9 months ago
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exist
How HLS Works Over the past few weeks, I’ve been building out server-side short video support for Bluesky. The...
a year ago
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How HLS Works

from exist [alt+shift+b] in AI

a year ago
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been building out server-side short video support for Bluesky. The major aim of this feature is to support short (90 second max) video streaming at a quality that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg for us to provide for free. In order to stay within these...
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Renegade Otter
I am not your Cloud person Jack of all clouds In an episode of Screaming in the Cloud podcast, Corey Quinn, a cloud services...
a year ago
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I am not your Cloud person

from Renegade Otter [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Jack of all clouds In an episode of Screaming in the Cloud podcast, Corey Quinn, a cloud services expert, mentioned a running prank that he sometimes pulls on Amazon engineers: Quinn inserts a fictional AWS service name into the conversation, with the AWS person not batting an...
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The Ruffian
FLASHPOINTS #12: Are machines becoming more intelligent than us - and what does that even mean? A conversation with Professor David Krakauer
over a year ago
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FLASHPOINTS #12: Are machines becoming more intelligent than us - and what does that even mean?

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over a year ago
A conversation with Professor David Krakauer
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Quanta Magazine
Exoplanets Could Help Us Learn How Planets Make Magnetism New observations of a faraway rocky world that might have its own magnetic field could help...
a year ago
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Exoplanets Could Help Us Learn How Planets Make Magnetism

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

a year ago
New observations of a faraway rocky world that might have its own magnetic field could help astronomers understand the seemingly haphazard magnetic fields swaddling our solar system’s planets. The post Exoplanets Could Help Us Learn How Planets Make Magnetism first...
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Sam Altman
How To Invest In Startups There is a lot of advice about how to be a good startup founder.  But there isn’t very much about...
over a year ago
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How To Invest In Startups

from Sam Altman [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
There is a lot of advice about how to be a good startup founder.  But there isn’t very much about how to be a good startup investor. Before going any further, I should point out that this is a particularly hard time to invest in startups—it’s easier right now to be a...
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Articles
This is hard
over a year ago
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This is hard

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over a year ago
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Articles
2022 year in review
over a year ago
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2022 year in review

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over a year ago
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Old Structures...
Yet Another Blue-Sky Proposal From a magazine I can’t readily find (the February 28, 1891 edition of Architecture and Building),...
9 months ago
94

Yet Another Blue-Sky Proposal

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

9 months ago
From a magazine I can’t readily find (the February 28, 1891 edition of Architecture and Building), via a scrapbook at the New York Public Library: a very involved railroad and boulevard system that I doubt anyone wanted and had zero chance of being built: This proposal is along...
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The Marginalian
Oliver Sacks on Despair and the Meaning of Life "The meaning of life... clearly has to do with love — what and whom and how one can love."
7 months ago
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Oliver Sacks on Despair and the Meaning of Life

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

7 months ago
"The meaning of life... clearly has to do with love — what and whom and how one can love."
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Cheese and Biscuits
The Duke, Henley It's coming up on a year since I was last in this part of the world, when I had a very lovely lunch...
3 months ago
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The Duke, Henley

from Cheese and Biscuits [alt+shift+b] in travel

3 months ago
It's coming up on a year since I was last in this part of the world, when I had a very lovely lunch in the sun at Dominic Chapman, then a brand new restaurant in the Relais hotel on the banks of the Thames. Strolling around town before lunch last week I was pleased to see he was...
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AI Tidbits: AI...
The Voice Agents Toolkit for Builders Curated frameworks, tools, and libraries to launch reliable and efficient voice agents
6 months ago
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The Voice Agents Toolkit for Builders

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6 months ago
Curated frameworks, tools, and libraries to launch reliable and efficient voice agents
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Wanderingspace
URANUS FROM THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE This is not natural light, nothing is from Webb. The infrared image combines data from two filters...
a year ago
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URANUS FROM THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE

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a year ago
This is not natural light, nothing is from Webb. The infrared image combines data from two filters which are shown in blue and orange,. The planet displays a blue hue in the resulting representative-color image which is similar to the planet’s actual color. But in reality Uranus...
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Contemporist...
The Ocean Is Just Below: A Home That Hangs Off The Edge Of A Cliff Perched dramatically on the slopes of Mount Paku in New Zealand, Cliff Hanger House lives up to its...
3 weeks ago
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The Ocean Is Just Below: A Home That Hangs Off The Edge Of A Cliff

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

3 weeks ago
Perched dramatically on the slopes of Mount Paku in New Zealand, Cliff Hanger House lives up to its name. Designed by Turner Road Architecture, this coastal retreat appears to float above the rugged cliffs, just 35 metres above sea level, with uninterrupted views stretching...
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David Crawshaw
Limits of Superintelligence research.google.com/pubs/pub40565.html
over a year ago
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Limits of Superintelligence

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over a year ago
research.google.com/pubs/pub40565.html
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Elad Blog
Defensibility & Competition Are early SaaS or AI companies ever defensible early? What is the basis for competition for a...
over a year ago
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Defensibility & Competition

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over a year ago
Are early SaaS or AI companies ever defensible early? What is the basis for competition for a startup?
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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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Noahpinion
At least five interesting things to start your week (#50) Permitting reform; industrial policy progress; China stimulus/bailouts; men and politics; wokeness;...
9 months ago
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At least five interesting things to start your week (#50)

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9 months ago
Permitting reform; industrial policy progress; China stimulus/bailouts; men and politics; wokeness; tariffs; a bad union demand
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TheCollector
What Did Einstein Say About Capitalism? Albert Einstein’s brain, Roland Barthes once wrote, “is a mythical object.” His genius is...
3 months ago
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What Did Einstein Say About Capitalism?

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
Albert Einstein’s brain, Roland Barthes once wrote, “is a mythical object.” His genius is immortalized in the public imagination through a single, elegant equation: E = mc². His theories of relativity, his wild grey hair, and his outstretched tongue define his image. However, far...
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blag
How bloom filters made SQLite 10x faster This is the fascinating story of how researchers used Bloom filters cleverly to make SQLite 10x...
6 months ago
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How bloom filters made SQLite 10x faster

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6 months ago
This is the fascinating story of how researchers used Bloom filters cleverly to make SQLite 10x faster for analytical queries. These are my five-minute notes on the paper SQLite: Past, Present, and Future
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Liz Denys
Starlit sky hexagonal teacups, 2024 Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window...
a year ago
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Starlit sky hexagonal teacups, 2024

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a year ago
Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window glass
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The Berkeley...
Keeping Learning-Based Control Safe by Regulating Distributional Shift To regulate the distribution shift experience by learning-based controllers, we seek a mechanism for...
over a year ago
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Keeping Learning-Based Control Safe by Regulating Distributional Shift

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over a year ago
To regulate the distribution shift experience by learning-based controllers, we seek a mechanism for constraining the agent to regions of high data density throughout its trajectory (left). Here, we present an approach which achieves this goal by combining features of density...
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CONTEMPORIST
Black Accents Contrast The Wood And White Material Palette Of This Home Design and interior architecture firm EntreQuatreMurs (EQM) has completed the contemporary interiors...
a year ago
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Black Accents Contrast The Wood And White Material Palette Of This Home

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a year ago
Design and interior architecture firm EntreQuatreMurs (EQM) has completed the contemporary interiors of a home in Quebec, Canada, that was originally built in 1959. The house had not been renovated for several decades and featured typical enclosed rooms and small, narrow, dark...
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The personal website...
Datum ipsum tl;dr — I’ve created a tool called Datum Ipsum to enable designers to use realistic data when...
over a year ago
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Datum ipsum

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

over a year ago
tl;dr — I’ve created a tool called Datum Ipsum to enable designers to use realistic data when mocking up data visualizations. Also, this is a written version of a talk I gave at Data Viz Camp 2016 in NYC. The slides for that talk are here. In my career as a designer, both at...
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Seth's Blog
Bob Dobalina I considered myself someone with an encyclopedic knowledge of a narrow range of mid-1960s TV and...
over a year ago
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Bob Dobalina

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

over a year ago
I considered myself someone with an encyclopedic knowledge of a narrow range of mid-1960s TV and certain strains of pop music as well. I was stunned, then, to hear the song Zilch for the first time recently. Mr. Dobalina, Mr. Bob Dobalina. It’s unforgettable. And it’s from the...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Switching to Android after 13 years of iOS I have used iPhone/iOS for the longest time. Last month I switched to OnePlus 6T/Android. Here are...
over a year ago
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Switching to Android after 13 years of iOS

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

over a year ago
I have used iPhone/iOS for the longest time. Last month I switched to OnePlus 6T/Android. Here are my impressions.
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Liz Denys
Rising sea levels, eroding beaches, melting ice caps When I was glazing this v60-style cone, I was thinking of rising sea levels, eroding beaches, and...
5 months ago
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Rising sea levels, eroding beaches, melting ice caps

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

5 months ago
When I was glazing this v60-style cone, I was thinking of rising sea levels, eroding beaches, and melting ice caps. Trying to tackle large challenges like climate change is overwhelming in the best of times, and these are not the best of times. There are many things we can...
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On the Arts
Istanbul's Blue Tile Paradise The Hidden Mosque of Rüstem Pasha
a year ago
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Istanbul's Blue Tile Paradise

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a year ago
The Hidden Mosque of Rüstem Pasha
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Open Culture
The First Animation That Hayao Miyazaki Directed on His Own: Watch Footage from the Pilot of Yuki’s... Hayao Miyazaki began his career as an animator in 1963, getting in the door at Toei Animation not...
11 months ago
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The First Animation That Hayao Miyazaki Directed on His Own: Watch Footage from the Pilot of Yuki’s Sun (1972)

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

11 months ago
Hayao Miyazaki began his career as an animator in 1963, getting in the door at Toei Animation not long before the company ceased to hire regularly. Miyazaki’s equally retirement-resistant contemporary Tetsuya Chiba, already well on his way to fame as a mangaka, or comic artist,...
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Retail Design Blog
Fuji Cafe by Ali Ali Abozamel Fuji Cafe by Ali Ali Abozamel
a year ago
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Fuji Cafe by Ali Ali Abozamel

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a year ago
Fuji Cafe by Ali Ali Abozamel
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The Solarchitecture...
Case study #1: The Solar Saltbox house A passive house for cold climates.
over a year ago
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Case study #1: The Solar Saltbox house

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over a year ago
A passive house for cold climates.
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Retail Design Blog
METIC Lounge by ADS As night falls, Metic Bar in Shanghai’s Putuo District stands out from the ordinary. All Design...
3 months ago
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METIC Lounge by ADS

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

3 months ago
As night falls, Metic Bar in Shanghai’s Putuo District stands out from the ordinary. All Design Studio (ADS) transforms the...
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Josh Thompson
How To Take Back Your Attention On The Internet with uBlock note: this page has 17Mb of gifs and images. I don’t really want to take the time to manually trim...
over a year ago
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How To Take Back Your Attention On The Internet with uBlock

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over a year ago
note: this page has 17Mb of gifs and images. I don’t really want to take the time to manually trim the gifs from >3Mb/each to <1Mb each, so I didn’t. If you’re on mobile, or trying to conserve data, you might want to come back to this one later. I value my attention and focus. I...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Biology Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The explanation of the Fermi Paradox is no beings...
3 weeks ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Biology

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3 weeks ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The explanation of the Fermi Paradox is no beings who practice internal fertilization are to be invited to the galactic party. Today's News:
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Idle Words
Why Not Mars For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot...
over a year ago
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Why Not Mars

from Idle Words [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. — Richard Feynman Entrance to underground cavern on Pavonis Mons. HiRISE, 2011 The goal of this essay is to persuade you that we shouldn’t send human...
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David Perell
Surrendering to Your Nature A mark of maturity is surrendering to the person you actually are instead of the one you wish you...
over a year ago
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Surrendering to Your Nature

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

over a year ago
A mark of maturity is surrendering to the person you actually are instead of the one you wish you were. The post Surrendering to Your Nature appeared first on David Perell.
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Posts on Made of...
Confessions of a programmer: I hate code review Most of the projects I've been working on today have fairly strict code review policies. My work...
over a year ago
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Confessions of a programmer: I hate code review

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

over a year ago
Most of the projects I've been working on today have fairly strict code review policies. My work requires code review on most of our code, and as we bring on an army of interns for the summer, I've been responsible for reviewing lots of code. Additionally, about five months ago...
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Dan Slimmon
Post-mortems: content over structure The value of post-mortems is apparent: failures present opportunities to learn about unexpected...
over a year ago
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Post-mortems: content over structure

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

over a year ago
The value of post-mortems is apparent: failures present opportunities to learn about unexpected behaviors of the system, and learning lets us make improvements to the system’s reliability. The value of post-mortem documents is much less apparent. Many R&D orgs will insist that...
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somenice
CircuitPython in 2025 This post is a wishlist for CircuitPython in 2025. Each year Adafruit asks the community to...
6 months ago
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CircuitPython in 2025

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

6 months ago
This post is a wishlist for CircuitPython in 2025. Each year Adafruit asks the community to contribute their thoughts or requests for the open source microcontroller language as outlined on the Adafruit blog. In 2025 I would like a library for working with vectors, similar to...
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Common Edge
New York City Is Losing Affordable Housing at an Alarming Rate The problem is that City of Yes was an open call to build with no requirements that lost affordable...
4 months ago
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New York City Is Losing Affordable Housing at an Alarming Rate

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

4 months ago
The problem is that City of Yes was an open call to build with no requirements that lost affordable units be replaced.
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Wrong Side of...
On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
7 months ago
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On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences

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7 months ago
Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
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Matt Blewitt
Logical Replication Guardrails I’ve been working with logical replication in PostgreSQL recently, and I wanted to share a few...
a year ago
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Logical Replication Guardrails

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

a year ago
I’ve been working with logical replication in PostgreSQL recently, and I wanted to share a few thoughts on how to implement some guardrails to make things easier on operators.
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IEEE Spectrum
What If the Worst AI Fear Is AI Fear Itself? It’s been just about a year now—a nonprofit called the Future of Life Institute posted an open...
a year ago
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What If the Worst AI Fear Is AI Fear Itself?

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

a year ago
It’s been just about a year now—a nonprofit called the Future of Life Institute posted an open letter reflecting people’s darkest fears about artificial intelligence. “Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general tasks,” it said. It called for a pause in...
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Open Culture
Explore a Digitized Edition of the Voynich Manuscript, “the World’s Most Mysterious Book” A 600-year-old manuscript—written in a script no one has ever decoded, filled with cryptic...
5 months ago
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Explore a Digitized Edition of the Voynich Manuscript, “the World’s Most Mysterious Book”

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

5 months ago
A 600-year-old manuscript—written in a script no one has ever decoded, filled with cryptic illustrations, its origins remaining to this day a mystery…. It’s not as satisfying a plot, say, of a National Treasure or Dan Brown thriller, certainly not as action-packed as...
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Seth's Blog
Allocating scarcity If we’re lucky, we invent something that’s going to be in high demand. Reservations at a hot...
over a year ago
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Allocating scarcity

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

over a year ago
If we’re lucky, we invent something that’s going to be in high demand. Reservations at a hot restaurant. Limited edition trading cards. Concert tickets… How to decide who gets them? One attractive option is “first-come-first-served.” It feels fair, after all. The theory is that...
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Spoon & Tamago
Contemporary Nihonga Images of Hamsters Created by Otama-shimai all images by Otama-shimai | used with permission The Japanese artist who goes by the name...
5 months ago
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Contemporary Nihonga Images of Hamsters Created by Otama-shimai

from Spoon & Tamago [alt+shift+b] in travel

5 months ago
all images by Otama-shimai | used with permission The Japanese artist who goes by the name Otama-shimai creates Nihonga-style images almost exclusively of hamsters. Nihonga is a Japanese style of painting coined in the mid-1800s to differentiate it from its Western counterpart....
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Internal Tech Emails
Steve Jobs: The more dependent Google is on Apple, the better Actually, the more energy they devote to iPhone, the better. And the more dependent they are on our...
over a year ago
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Steve Jobs: The more dependent Google is on Apple, the better

from Internal Tech Emails [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
Actually, the more energy they devote to iPhone, the better. And the more dependent they are on our choices, the better.
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The Forney Flyer
Subsistence Living, Way Back When Well, it's been forever since I've posted and I won't even begin to make excuses. But before I try...
over a year ago
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Subsistence Living, Way Back When

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

over a year ago
Well, it's been forever since I've posted and I won't even begin to make excuses. But before I try to start posting stuff from East Africa, I figured I'd finish that series I had started over a year ago about Way Back When we used to live just north of the Arctic Circle in...
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TheCollector
The Ugliest (& Most Interesting) Buildings in Beijing When you imagine Beijing, China’s characteristic architecture likely comes to mind — red walls,...
2 months ago
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The Ugliest (& Most Interesting) Buildings in Beijing

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago
When you imagine Beijing, China’s characteristic architecture likely comes to mind — red walls, tiled roofs, and quaint courtyard dwellings. What visitors might not expect is to see skyscrapers and fantastical modern architecture that wouldn’t look out of place in Singapore or...
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Tinloof - Blog
How to get a taste of ReasonML by building something useful ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional...
over a year ago
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How to get a taste of ReasonML by building something useful

from Tinloof - Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional programming language OCaml, leveraging powerful and safe types smartly inferred by default. Reason’s official documentation is clear, yet covering the theory with “Hello World”...
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Nat Eliason's...
7 Things I Learned Drafting a Novel in 26 Days 85,000 words and many caffeinated drinks later
9 months ago
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7 Things I Learned Drafting a Novel in 26 Days

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9 months ago
85,000 words and many caffeinated drinks later
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Making o(m)g:image, Part III: The HTML This is part three of my series of posts describing how I made my quiz game o(m)g:image. Project...
6 months ago
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Making o(m)g:image, Part III: The HTML

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

6 months ago
This is part three of my series of posts describing how I made my quiz game o(m)g:image. Project Announcement Pt. I: Design Iterations Pt. II: As Little JS As Possible Pt. III: The HTML o(m)g:image is presented like a quiz: You get one question at a time When you choose an...
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Jason Fried
Do learn Imagine teaching guitar without putting an instrument in someone’s hands. Or teaching ceramics...
a year ago
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Do learn

from Jason Fried [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
Imagine teaching guitar without putting an instrument in someone’s hands. Or teaching ceramics without having people work with clay. Or teaching tennis without swinging the racket and hitting balls. I’m sure there’s some way to teach those things without doing those things, but...
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Arduino Blog
Why do OTA updates matter in IoT? Imagine you’ve just installed your state-of-the-art lighting control system, perfectly hidden in a...
a year ago
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Why do OTA updates matter in IoT?

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

a year ago
Imagine you’ve just installed your state-of-the-art lighting control system, perfectly hidden in a box inside a wall, and everything seems to be working like a charm. But then, you spot a bug in the firmware. The thought of pulling the hardware back out sends shivers down your...
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The Changelog
Joyful is the Dark “Joyful is the dark   coolness of the tomb, waiting for the wonder   of the morning. Never was that...
over a year ago
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Joyful is the Dark

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

over a year ago
“Joyful is the dark   coolness of the tomb, waiting for the wonder   of the morning. Never was that midnight   touched by dread and gloom; darkness was the cradle   of the dawning.” – Brian Wren Most of us are not personally experiencing symptoms of a pandemic virus, but with all...
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Nat Eliason's...
Quarterly Author Update: October 2024 Book sales, next projects, and a blog update
9 months ago
90

Quarterly Author Update: October 2024

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

9 months ago
Book sales, next projects, and a blog update
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Rest of World -...
Argentina’s far-right front-runner is not the crypto candidate fans think he is Milei’s plans for the dollarization of Argentina’s economy might even depress crypto adoption.
a year ago
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Argentina’s far-right front-runner is not the crypto candidate fans think he is

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

a year ago
Milei’s plans for the dollarization of Argentina’s economy might even depress crypto adoption.
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Noahpinion
Skilled immigration is a national security priority A joint blog post by Noah and Minn Kim on America's need for a national skilled immigration...
11 months ago
69

Skilled immigration is a national security priority

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

11 months ago
A joint blog post by Noah and Minn Kim on America's need for a national skilled immigration strategy.
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Build In Public...
🚨 Announcement Alert 🚨 I'm dropping a mega Twitter resource on BUILD IN PUBLIC Hey everyone, Some of you know my story but if I have to summarize the last 3 years in 10 bullets of...
over a year ago
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🚨 Announcement Alert 🚨 I'm dropping a mega Twitter resource on BUILD IN PUBLIC

from Build In Public Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago
Hey everyone, Some of you know my story but if I have to summarize the last 3 years in 10 bullets of inflection points, here’s how it would look like: Jan 2018, I was a nobody in startups, stuck in a dead-end corporate job due to visa challenges Oct 2018, read a book called...
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Steve Klabnik
Going vimgan
over a year ago
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Going vimgan

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over a year ago
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Calculated Risk
Fed Chair Powell: "Higher inflation and slower growth" From Fed Chair Powell: Economic Outlook Excerpt: Looking forward, the new Administration is in the...
2 months ago
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Fed Chair Powell: "Higher inflation and slower growth"

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

2 months ago
From Fed Chair Powell: Economic Outlook Excerpt: Looking forward, the new Administration is in the process of implementing substantial policy changes in four distinct areas: trade, immigration, fiscal policy, and regulation. Those policies are still evolving, and their effects...
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Why Hyatt's Zilara Riviera Maya Resort Is The Best Vacation Destination
a year ago
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Why Hyatt's Zilara Riviera Maya Resort Is The Best Vacation Destination

from AFAR Media - Travel Stories, News, Reviews, Tips + Guides [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
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computers are bad
2024-03-09 the purple streetscape Across the United States, streets are taking on a strange hue at night. Purple. Purple streetlights...
a year ago
148

2024-03-09 the purple streetscape

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

a year ago
Across the United States, streets are taking on a strange hue at night. Purple. Purple streetlights have been reported in Tampa, Vancouver, Wichita, Boston. They're certainly in evidence here in Albuquerque, where Coal through downtown has turned almost entirely to mood lighting....
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Londonist
London's Best Whisky Bars Fancy a wee dram?
a year ago
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London's Best Whisky Bars

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
Fancy a wee dram?
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Technologically Content My iPhone 14 Pro is paid off. I've been on the iPhone Upgrade Program since it debuted but decided...
8 months ago
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✏️ Technologically Content

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8 months ago
My iPhone 14 Pro is paid off. I've been on the iPhone Upgrade Program since it debuted but decided to skip last year's 15. This year's 16, while initially tempting in theory, has actively persuaded me to skip it again, likely until I need a new phone. I design mobile apps. It's...
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Classical Wisdom
How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies? “Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
a year ago
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How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?

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a year ago
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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Classical Wisdom
Why Read Modern Books? Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
over a year ago
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Why Read Modern Books?

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over a year ago
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
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Liz Denys
A little taste of fall and home: pumpkin muffins I grew up on pumpkin muffins. Every fall, without fail, my mom would make them by the dozens in her...
over a year ago
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A little taste of fall and home: pumpkin muffins

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

over a year ago
I grew up on pumpkin muffins. Every fall, without fail, my mom would make them by the dozens in her heart-shaped muffin mold, and I'd eat them for breakfast, sneak them into my lunchbox, frost them for dessert after dinner, and snack on them off courts at tennis meets. But I...
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Carl Barenbrug RSS...
099 on Product Hunt If you're unfamiliar with Product Hunt, it's a platform used to share and discover new digital...
a year ago
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099 on Product Hunt

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

a year ago
If you're unfamiliar with Product Hunt, it's a platform used to share and discover new digital products. Its usefulness has probably waned a lot in recent years unless you're prepared to inject an advertising budget, but I still think there's value in sharing projects...
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Steve Klabnik
Does unsafe undermine Rust's guarantees?
3 months ago
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Does unsafe undermine Rust's guarantees?

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3 months ago
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TheCollector
Was Chernobyl the Catalyst for the Soviet Union’s Collapse? On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant exploded. The fallout left large parts of modern-day...
3 months ago
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Was Chernobyl the Catalyst for the Soviet Union’s Collapse?

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3 months ago
On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant exploded. The fallout left large parts of modern-day Ukraine and Belarus uninhabitable. Six years after the explosion, the Soviet Union collapsed. Many historians, including Mikhail Gorbachev himself, believe Chernobyl was the real...
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Blog - Mac Pierce
The Whys and Hows of the Opt-Out Cap. Why I built the Opt-Out Cap cap, and how it all came together.
over a year ago
49

The Whys and Hows of the Opt-Out Cap.

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over a year ago
Why I built the Opt-Out Cap cap, and how it all came together.
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Calculated Risk
Philly Fed: State Coincident Indexes Increased in 45 States in February (3-Month Basis) From the Philly Fed: Over the past three months, the indexes increased in 45 states, decreased in...
2 months ago
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Philly Fed: State Coincident Indexes Increased in 45 States in February (3-Month Basis)

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2 months ago
From the Philly Fed: Over the past three months, the indexes increased in 45 states, decreased in three states, and remained stable in two, for a three-month diffusion index of 84. Additionally, in the past month, the indexes increased in 38 states, decreased in six states, and...
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Max Rozen
Protecting your React routes React apps send their code directly to users, so you might be a little confused about how React...
over a year ago
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Protecting your React routes

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over a year ago
React apps send their code directly to users, so you might be a little confused about how React 'guards' routes from unauthorised viewing. This article explains how.
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David Crawshaw
2014-05-06 "No space for poem" twitter.com/rob_pike/status/463859025361125377
over a year ago
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2014-05-06

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over a year ago
"No space for poem" twitter.com/rob_pike/status/463859025361125377
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The Scholar's Stage
The Eight Tribes of Trump and China LAST OCTOBER I published a short breakdown of four geopolitical ‘schools’ that might shape China...
3 months ago
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The Eight Tribes of Trump and China

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3 months ago
LAST OCTOBER I published a short breakdown of four geopolitical ‘schools’ that might shape China strategy under Trump. That piece was a pre-election preview of a much larger report I was writing for the Foreign Policy Research Institute. I published the preview as security: Trump...
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History Today Feed
Smuggling Under the Cover of Plague Smuggling Under the Cover of Plague JamesHoare Thu, 05/15/2025 - 08:59
a month ago
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Smuggling Under the Cover of Plague

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a month ago
Smuggling Under the Cover of Plague JamesHoare Thu, 05/15/2025 - 08:59
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Retail Design Blog
EPAM Offices by Tengo Design Tengo Design created a multifunctional office space for EPAM in Krakow, incorporating zones for...
a year ago
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EPAM Offices by Tengo Design

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a year ago
Tengo Design created a multifunctional office space for EPAM in Krakow, incorporating zones for employees, clients, coworking, and meetings, with...
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Rubenerd
Australia’s and Canada’s Elections We take a quick break from #Japan2025 to mention the results back home. Clara and I both submitted...
2 months ago
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Australia’s and Canada’s Elections

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2 months ago
We take a quick break from #Japan2025 to mention the results back home. Clara and I both submitted our postal votes before we left, and largely ignored the news while we tried to enjoy our holiday and break. My sister messaged last night to tell us it was safe to check now, and...
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Code Of Honor
Tough times on the road to Starcraft I’ve been writing about the early development of Warcraft, but a recent blog post I read prompted me...
over a year ago
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Tough times on the road to Starcraft

from Code Of Honor [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I’ve been writing about the early development of Warcraft, but a recent blog post I read prompted me to start scribbling furiously, and the result is this three-part, twenty-plus page article about the development of StarCraft, along with my thoughts about writing more reliable...
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Code Of Honor
Debugging running server applications So you’ve written an awesome online game that works perfectly in the test environment, but when real...
over a year ago
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Debugging running server applications

from Code Of Honor [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
So you’ve written an awesome online game that works perfectly in the test environment, but when real users are playing the game server doesn’t work properly. Now what?!? I was reading an article by Mike Perham called Debugging with Thread Dumps and wanted to share a related...
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A Smart Bear
You can have two Big Things, but not three No you can't "have it all." You can have two things, but not three.
over a year ago
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You can have two Big Things, but not three

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over a year ago
No you can't "have it all." You can have two things, but not three.
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Ferd.ca
Local Optimizations Don't Lead to Global Optimums I like to think that I write code deliberately. I’m an admittedly slow developer, and I want to...
7 months ago
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Local Optimizations Don't Lead to Global Optimums

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7 months ago
I like to think that I write code deliberately. I’m an admittedly slow developer, and I want to believe I do so on purpose. I want to know as much as I can about the context of what it is that I'm automating. I also use a limited set of tools. I used old computers for a long...
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Seth's Blog
Use a lot of words Verbosity is the new brevity. Google felt like a miracle. We could type just a word or two (“blog“)...
a week ago
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Use a lot of words

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a week ago
Verbosity is the new brevity. Google felt like a miracle. We could type just a word or two (“blog“) and it would magically guess what we wanted and take us there. This shortcut spread from Google to the search built into online shopping as well. How convenient. A few words and...
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Quentin Santos
Upgrading to Debian Trixie I had been running Bookworm for quite a while. It has now been stable for more than a year. In other...
9 months ago
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Upgrading to Debian Trixie

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9 months ago
I had been running Bookworm for quite a while. It has now been stable for more than a year. In other words, Trixie has now been testing for more than a year, and will most likely become the new stable in less than a year. In the past, I encountered a few surprises with unstable …...
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The Architectural...
Fake Views – The Contrast Between Renderings and Reality A shining sun, playful children, overwhelming greenery and new neighborhoods with a richer wildlife...
a year ago
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Fake Views – The Contrast Between Renderings and Reality

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a year ago
A shining sun, playful children, overwhelming greenery and new neighborhoods with a richer wildlife than a Zoo. We have all seen them, the vision images that promise an idyll but result in a visual nightmare. Here‘s a few examples. Renderings are a visual representation of a...
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura is now on Substack Three years late, but historians are always late
over a year ago
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Res Obscura is now on Substack

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over a year ago
Three years late, but historians are always late
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Steve Klabnik
Memory Safety is a Red Herring
a year ago
31

Memory Safety is a Red Herring

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a year ago
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Internal Tech Emails
Bill Gates: "The quality is giving us a bad name" I don’t know how unique I am but my experience in clicking on streaming media stuff and seeing if it...
a year ago
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Bill Gates: "The quality is giving us a bad name"

from Internal Tech Emails [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
I don’t know how unique I am but my experience in clicking on streaming media stuff and seeing if it works is still less than 50%.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Want Better Design/CSS Skills? Spot the Difference! A quick exercise to improve your attention to detail when implementing/designing with CSS.
over a year ago
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Want Better Design/CSS Skills? Spot the Difference!

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

over a year ago
A quick exercise to improve your attention to detail when implementing/designing with CSS.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Sanding UI One of the ways I like to do development is to build something, click around a ton, make tweaks,...
10 months ago
70

Sanding UI

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

10 months ago
One of the ways I like to do development is to build something, click around a ton, make tweaks, click around more, more tweaks, more clicks, etc., until I finally consider it done. The clicking around a ton is the important part. If it’s a page transition, that means going back...
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Nelson's Weblog
My racism at accents Interesting NPR segment today: A powerful eruption on the sun disrupted radio signals on...
a year ago
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My racism at accents

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a year ago
Interesting NPR segment today: A powerful eruption on the sun disrupted radio signals on earth. What’s remarkable is it’s a PhD candidate talking to an NPR host about solar flares, completely in two Southern Black accents. Two women, at that. I am dismayed at my own involuntary...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Light and Distance in an Expanding Universe Commenter Lal asks in the topic suggestions: “Media reports that light has been travelling from that...
a year ago
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Light and Distance in an Expanding Universe

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

a year ago
Commenter Lal asks in the topic suggestions: “Media reports that light has been travelling from that distant galaxy for 13 and a half billion years, which I assume is true, but this neither represents the original nor the current distance to that galaxy in terms of light years. I...
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A Weekly Dose of...
42 Years of Critical Regionalism (Covers of some of the books discussed in this post) If your first reaction to the title of...
a year ago
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42 Years of Critical Regionalism

from A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
(Covers of some of the books discussed in this post) If your first reaction to the title of this post is something along the lines of, "Wait, isn't critical regionalism just 40 years old?," then everything you think know about critical regionalism is partial, in both senses...
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Benny Kuriakose
Athangudi Palace : The Chettinad Architecture Marvel The Nattukottai Chettiars were traders since the time of the Chola Empire in the 12th century and...
a year ago
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Athangudi Palace : The Chettinad Architecture Marvel

from Benny Kuriakose [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
The Nattukottai Chettiars were traders since the time of the Chola Empire in the 12th century and were the trading and banking group in...
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Noahpinion
Some ideas for science fiction in the 2020s The future ain't what it used to be.
over a year ago
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Some ideas for science fiction in the 2020s

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over a year ago
The future ain't what it used to be.
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Willem's Blog
Designing and implementing a (micro) payment system Designing and implementing a micro payment system with an emphasis on simplicity. Read about how I...
over a year ago
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Designing and implementing a (micro) payment system

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

over a year ago
Designing and implementing a micro payment system with an emphasis on simplicity. Read about how I did it in this post.
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Archinect - Features
When Should Architecture Firms Start Hiring? Five Factors To Consider With the U.S. Federal Reserve embarking on rounds of target interest rate cuts in late 2024, AEC...
7 months ago
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When Should Architecture Firms Start Hiring? Five Factors To Consider

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

7 months ago
With the U.S. Federal Reserve embarking on rounds of target interest rate cuts in late 2024, AEC industry commentators are forecasting that architectural business conditions may improve in the coming months. Architecture firms experiencing an increased workload may, therefore,...
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Himanshu Mishra |...
The era of fake acquaintance I wrote Something provocative happened with me yesterday. I was with :name-retracted: in CCD after...
over a year ago
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The era of fake acquaintance

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over a year ago
I wrote Something provocative happened with me yesterday. I was with :name-retracted: in CCD after you left. We were there for quite some…
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 030: OpenAI's $1B revenue September 1, 2023
a year ago
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AI Roundup 030: OpenAI's $1B revenue

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a year ago
September 1, 2023
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The Rational Walk
Inflation Expectations There's no reason for anyone to care what I think about inflation and interest rates, but readers...
a year ago
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Inflation Expectations

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

a year ago
There's no reason for anyone to care what I think about inflation and interest rates, but readers should pay close attention to Warren Buffett's statements and actions.
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SatPost by Trung...
Jerry Seinfeld, Ichiro Suzuki and the Pursuit of Mastery Notes from the 1987 Esquire magazine issue that inspired Jerry Seinfeld to "pursue mastery [because]...
a year ago
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Jerry Seinfeld, Ichiro Suzuki and the Pursuit of Mastery

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

a year ago
Notes from the 1987 Esquire magazine issue that inspired Jerry Seinfeld to "pursue mastery [because] that will fulfill your life".
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Londonist
Things To Do In London Between Christmas And New Year For when you can't take any more festive TV.
a year ago
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Things To Do In London Between Christmas And New Year

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a year ago
For when you can't take any more festive TV.
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Hidden History
Hominins The first diary in a series which looks at significant species in the evolution of humans. Humans...
2 months ago
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Hominins

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2 months ago
The first diary in a series which looks at significant species in the evolution of humans. Humans evolved from apelike ancestors. This idea was first put forth in 1859, when Charles Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species and spelled out his idea of evolution through natural...
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Construction Physics
The Rise of Steel Part II Welcome to the Rise of Steel part II. We previously looked at the early stages of industrialization...
over a year ago
44

The Rise of Steel Part II

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

over a year ago
Welcome to the Rise of Steel part II. We previously looked at the early stages of industrialization of iron and steelmaking, between roughly 1200 and 1850. To briefly recap, making steel was an involved, multistep process. Iron would first be smelted from iron ore in a blast...
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TheCollector
Philip of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Death, Legacy The New Testament mentions four people with the name Philip. Two were sons of King Herod the Great,...
3 months ago
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Philip of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Death, Legacy

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3 months ago
The New Testament mentions four people with the name Philip. Two were sons of King Herod the Great, and one Philip features in Acts. Scholars generally refer to the latter as Philip the Evangelist or Philip the Deacon. The subject of this article is Philip the Apostle, one of the...
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Marcus on AI
AI still lacks “common” sense, 70 years later What’s obvious to people still isn’t always obvious to machines
6 months ago
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AI still lacks “common” sense, 70 years later

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6 months ago
What’s obvious to people still isn’t always obvious to machines
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Retail Design Blog
PAON Architects Office by PAON Architects Co.,Ltd. PAON Architects embodies a creative and collaborative work environment within a compact...
8 months ago
32

PAON Architects Office by PAON Architects Co.,Ltd.

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

8 months ago
PAON Architects embodies a creative and collaborative work environment within a compact 180-square-meter space, thoughtfully designed to enhance the quality...
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The Works in...
The bad science behind expensive nuclear How an arcane model makes nuclear power expensive and why it's time might be up
a month ago
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The bad science behind expensive nuclear

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

a month ago
How an arcane model makes nuclear power expensive and why it's time might be up
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wadertales
How are migration sites connected? Which are the most important migration sites and how are breeding, moulting, staging and wintering...
5 months ago
116

How are migration sites connected?

from wadertales [alt+shift+b] in science

5 months ago
Which are the most important migration sites and how are breeding, moulting, staging and wintering locations linked? Forty-four authors have collaborated to bring together ringing, colour-ringing and GPS tracking data in a paper entitled Site-level connectivity identified from...
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This Space
Drowning is Fine by Darren Allen For reasons unclear to me at the time I re-read several novels by Aharon Appelfeld, the author born...
over a year ago
55

Drowning is Fine by Darren Allen

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

over a year ago
For reasons unclear to me at the time I re-read several novels by Aharon Appelfeld, the author born in 1932 to a German-speaking Jewish family in what was also Paul Celan’s hometown, Czernowitz, then in Romania, now in Ukraine, and who wrote exclusively in Hebrew after he had...
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Epic Web Dev
Git Fundamentals (tutorial)
a year ago
43

Git Fundamentals (tutorial)

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a year ago
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Maggie Appleton
Neologisms A collection of interesting words that have recently been coined
over a year ago
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Neologisms

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over a year ago
A collection of interesting words that have recently been coined
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Rest of World -...
The Mexican senator building a plan for artificial intelligence Alejandra Lagunes leads Mexico’s National Artificial Intelligence Alliance.
a year ago
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The Mexican senator building a plan for artificial intelligence

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a year ago
Alejandra Lagunes leads Mexico’s National Artificial Intelligence Alliance.
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Louwrentius
Ubuntu and full disk encryption (FDE) Ubuntu is based on Debian Linux. As part of a regular Debian installation, you can choose to create...
over a year ago
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Ubuntu and full disk encryption (FDE)

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Ubuntu is based on Debian Linux. As part of a regular Debian installation, you can choose to create an encrypted disk volume based on LUKS. This is different from the option within the Ubuntu installation to encrypt home directories. To be able to install Ubuntu and use full disk...
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Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
over a year ago
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Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp

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Seth's Blog
How to change the world All successful cultural change (books, movies, public health), has a super-simple two-step loop:...
over a year ago
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How to change the world

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All successful cultural change (books, movies, public health), has a super-simple two-step loop: AWARENESSTENSION–>Loop<– It’s easy to focus on awareness. Get the word out. Hype. Promo. I think that’s a mistake. Because awareness without tension is useless. The tension is like...
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Not Boring by Packy...
Meter: The Internet Utility A Deep Dive on Vertical Integration, Networking, and How to Win the Internet
5 months ago
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Meter: The Internet Utility

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5 months ago
A Deep Dive on Vertical Integration, Networking, and How to Win the Internet
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AFAR Media - Travel...
The Ultimate Friends’ Trip at Pendry Park City Resort, Utah
7 months ago
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The Ultimate Friends’ Trip at Pendry Park City Resort, Utah

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7 months ago
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PostHog's RSS Feed
How we rebranded PostHog in four weeks - a postmortem We recently completed an entire rebrand of our website. From start to finish, it took less than a...
over a year ago
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How we rebranded PostHog in four weeks - a postmortem

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over a year ago
We recently completed an entire rebrand of our website. From start to finish, it took less than a month. This sounds like an incredible feat of…
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Willem's Blog
Art of visualisation You learn from experts if you have the privilege to work with them, this month I had a chance to...
over a year ago
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Art of visualisation

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over a year ago
You learn from experts if you have the privilege to work with them, this month I had a chance to help a professional food photographer.
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Patient Communities Should Change | Out-Of-Pocket Evolving from ads to outcomes
a year ago
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Patient Communities Should Change | Out-Of-Pocket

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a year ago
Evolving from ads to outcomes
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Josh Thompson
Structural Holes and Good Ideas Note from author: This is part of an experimental series, more-or-less based on “white papers” and...
over a year ago
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Structural Holes and Good Ideas

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over a year ago
Note from author: This is part of an experimental series, more-or-less based on “white papers” and academic literature, as applied to somewhat practical-ish domains. These pages serve as a brief overview of a paper, and I’ll be able to link to this paper down the road when I what...
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The Ruffian
The Standing Ovation Theory of Everything Why Our Choices Are Never Ours Alone
a year ago
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The Standing Ovation Theory of Everything

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a year ago
Why Our Choices Are Never Ours Alone
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Good Enough
Adding Social Preview Images To Our 11ty Blog Twitter X recently removed headlines and descriptions from link previews, in the name of...
a year ago
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Adding Social Preview Images To Our 11ty Blog

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a year ago
Twitter X recently removed headlines and descriptions from link previews, in the name of “esthetics.” Inspired by Steph Ango, while we try not to run our business on the whims of a social media platform, this change did push us into making a change we’ve been meaning to for...
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Diaries of Note
Black female life is worth nothing Between January and May of 1979, eleven Black women were killed in Roxbury, Massachusetts, in a...
over a year ago
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Black female life is worth nothing

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over a year ago
Between January and May of 1979, eleven Black women were killed in Roxbury, Massachusetts, in a spate of murders that went largely unreported in the national media. Instead, it was left to grassroots organisations like the Black feminist group Combahee River Collective,...
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The Rational Walk
Finding Your Life’s Work The majority of people never find their "life's work", yet the premise of paying hundreds of...
a year ago
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Finding Your Life’s Work

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a year ago
The majority of people never find their "life's work", yet the premise of paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for a college degree assumes that they will.
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TheCollector
What Are Athena’s Symbols? (Owl, Olive Tree, Gorgoneion) Athena, a goddess of wisdom and warfare and the patron goddess of Athens, was one of the most...
4 weeks ago
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What Are Athena’s Symbols? (Owl, Olive Tree, Gorgoneion)

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4 weeks ago
Athena, a goddess of wisdom and warfare and the patron goddess of Athens, was one of the most popular deities in the Greek pantheon. The Olympian goddess was frequently represented and associated with symbols drawn from her complex mythology. From the wise little owl to the...
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Open Culture
Watch The Cure Perform a Three-Hour Concert in London, Celebrating the Release of Their New Album httpv://www.youtube.com/live/_aWDlaxvEZo Last Friday, The Cure celebrated the release of their new...
8 months ago
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Watch The Cure Perform a Three-Hour Concert in London, Celebrating the Release of Their New Album

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8 months ago
httpv://www.youtube.com/live/_aWDlaxvEZo Last Friday, The Cure celebrated the release of their new album, Songs of a Lost World, with a three-hour set at the Troxy in London. The band kicked off the show by performing all eight tracks from the album, before then playing another...
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Both Are True
The one thing everyone in this country has done at least once Five Things I've Learned About America
9 months ago
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The one thing everyone in this country has done at least once

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9 months ago
Five Things I've Learned About America
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Open Culture
The Ancient Greeks Who Converted to Buddhism It would hardly be notable to make the acquaintance of a Greek Buddhist today. Despite having...
3 months ago
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The Ancient Greeks Who Converted to Buddhism

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

3 months ago
It would hardly be notable to make the acquaintance of a Greek Buddhist today. Despite having originated in Asia, that religion — or philosophy, or way of life, or whatever you prefer to call it — now has adherents all over the world. Modern-day Buddhists need not make an arduous...
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Common Edge
Zoning, Preservation, Climate Change: Connecting the Dots What can the law teach architecture, and vice-versa? Sara Bronin, head of the U.S. Advisory Council...
over a year ago
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Zoning, Preservation, Climate Change: Connecting the Dots

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over a year ago
What can the law teach architecture, and vice-versa? Sara Bronin, head of the U.S. Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, knows.
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Articles
Leaving Twitter for Bluesky
7 months ago
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Leaving Twitter for Bluesky

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7 months ago
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Contemporist...
This Open Cabin Was Designed For Children Architecture Firm Imaginary Objects, has shared photos of a small child-friendly cabin they...
2 months ago
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This Open Cabin Was Designed For Children

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

2 months ago
Architecture Firm Imaginary Objects, has shared photos of a small child-friendly cabin they completed in Chonburi, Thailand, that's inspired by the spirit of a treehouse.
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Paul Graham: Essays
The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
over a year ago
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The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn

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over a year ago
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Christopher Butler
The Unpublishable On self-censorship in a connected world. On my computer is a file named “unpublishable.txt”....
5 months ago
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The Unpublishable

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

5 months ago
On self-censorship in a connected world. On my computer is a file named “unpublishable.txt”. Its content is right there on the label: Fragments of unworthy ideas have accumulated there for years, along with bits of things I’ve held back for other reasons — fear not least...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Have Current AI Reached Their Limit? We are still very much in the hype phase of the latest crop of artificial intelligence applications,...
over a year ago
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Have Current AI Reached Their Limit?

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over a year ago
We are still very much in the hype phase of the latest crop of artificial intelligence applications, specifically the large language models and so-called “transformers” like Chat GPT. Transformers are a deep learning model that use self-attention to differentially weight the...
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Stoic Simple
Students of Stoicism: Using Stoic Philosophy in Teaching & Education In today's fast-paced and highly competitive world, students face immense pressure to perform well...
over a year ago
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Students of Stoicism: Using Stoic Philosophy in Teaching & Education

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over a year ago
In today's fast-paced and highly competitive world, students face immense pressure to perform well academically, often at the cost of their emotional and mental well-being. As a result, many students struggle with stress, anxiety, and low self-esteem, which can impact their...
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Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 9-10 March 2024 Live comedy, an artisan market, Disney events and more.
a year ago
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Things To Do This Weekend In London: 9-10 March 2024

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a year ago
Live comedy, an artisan market, Disney events and more.
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Ken Shirriff's blog
Inside an IBM/Motorola mainframe controller chip from 1981 In this article, I look inside a chip in the IBM 3274 Control Unit.1 But before I discuss the chip,...
11 months ago
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Inside an IBM/Motorola mainframe controller chip from 1981

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11 months ago
In this article, I look inside a chip in the IBM 3274 Control Unit.1 But before I discuss the chip, I need to give some background on mainframes. (I didn't completely analyze the chip, so don't expect a nice narrative or solid conclusions.) Die photo of the Motorola/IBM SC81150...
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Prolost
Log is the “Pro” in iPhone 15 Pro And I’ve got some free LUTs for you. The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max feature log video recording. This...
a year ago
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Log is the “Pro” in iPhone 15 Pro

from Prolost [alt+shift+b] in creative

a year ago
And I’ve got some free LUTs for you. The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max feature log video recording. This is a big deal, but there’s already some confusion about it. Where consumer devices and pro video overlap, that’s where the Prolost Signal gleams brightest in the night sky. So...
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macwright.com
Get the text of an uploaded file in Remix by () This took way too long to figure out. The File polyfill in Remix has the fresh new .stream() and...
a year ago
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Get the text of an uploaded file in Remix by ()

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a year ago
This took way too long to figure out. The File polyfill in Remix has the fresh new .stream() and .arrayBuffer() methods, which aren’t mentioned on MDN. So, assuming you’re in an action and the argument is args, you can get the body like: const body = await...
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TheCollector
What Is Rudolf Steiner’s Philosophy of Freedom? Do you want to learn about philosophy and how it affects our idea of freedom? If you do, then Rudolf...
4 months ago
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What Is Rudolf Steiner’s Philosophy of Freedom?

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4 months ago
Do you want to learn about philosophy and how it affects our idea of freedom? If you do, then Rudolf Steiner’s philosophy of freedom is something you’ll find incredibly interesting. In his famous book The Philosophy of Freedom, Steiner, an Austrian philosopher, anthroposophist,...
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Herbert Lui
Worth the wait Late is better than never, and it’s never too late. Even if the line is long, and you missed a...
6 months ago
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Worth the wait

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6 months ago
Late is better than never, and it’s never too late. Even if the line is long, and you missed a chance to join earlier. If the best time to start was yesterday, the second best time is today. Being patient is much easier than it looks.  Some lines don’t need you to be present, so...
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Wanderingspace
Space-X Looking Like 2001 Space Odyssey Amazing shot. Looks like a movie.
a year ago
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Space-X Looking Like 2001 Space Odyssey

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a year ago
Amazing shot. Looks like a movie.
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Steve Klabnik
Ruby on Rails maintenance policy
over a year ago
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Ruby on Rails maintenance policy

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over a year ago
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Herbert Lui
Why Ted Lasso gets away with not knowing anything about football Imagine that you’re an American football coach that is now only going to coach European football...
3 months ago
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Why Ted Lasso gets away with not knowing anything about football

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3 months ago
Imagine that you’re an American football coach that is now only going to coach European football (better known in the U.S.A. as soccer). And you know absolutely nothing about the sport. So on the pitch of 22 players, the kitman, the assistant coach, you know the least about the...
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The Elysian
A self-governing forest Terra0 thinks nature should become economically independent.
a week ago
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A self-governing forest

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a week ago
Terra0 thinks nature should become economically independent.
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Open Culture
An Introduction to The Babylonian Map of the World–the Oldest Known Map of the World Taking a first glance at the Babylonian Map of the World, few of us could recognize it for what it...
11 months ago
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An Introduction to The Babylonian Map of the World–the Oldest Known Map of the World

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11 months ago
Taking a first glance at the Babylonian Map of the World, few of us could recognize it for what it is. But then again, few of us are anything like the British Museum Middle East department curator Irving Finkel, whose vast knowledge (and ability to share it compellingly) have...
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Seth's Blog
What are you thinking about? A philosopher can spend a month, a year or a career thinking about one knotty problem. Making...
11 months ago
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What are you thinking about?

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11 months ago
A philosopher can spend a month, a year or a career thinking about one knotty problem. Making assertions, testing theories, understanding how others are thinking about it as well. But this exercise shouldn’t be reserved for academics. What are you working on? When will you change...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Automatic Chrome Dev Tools workspace setup In Chrome Dev Tools you can setup a mapping between the files web server sends to the browser and...
a week ago
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Automatic Chrome Dev Tools workspace setup

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

a week ago
In Chrome Dev Tools you can setup a mapping between the files web server sends to the browser and files on disk. This allows editing files in dev tools and having those changes saved to a file, which is handy. Early in 2025 they’ve added a way to automatically configure this...
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Construction Physics
Reading List for 05/31/2025 Wind wars, ALARA, power plant water use, grassroots opposition to data centers, and more.
a month ago
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Reading List for 05/31/2025

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

a month ago
Wind wars, ALARA, power plant water use, grassroots opposition to data centers, and more.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Why do Webdevs keep trying to kill REST? How I broke out of the tiresome REST vs GraphQL debate - by realizing that the real battle is...
over a year ago
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Why do Webdevs keep trying to kill REST?

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

over a year ago
How I broke out of the tiresome REST vs GraphQL debate - by realizing that the real battle is between Smart Clients and Smart Servers!
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Ryan Hoover's...
Can I help?
over a year ago
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Can I help?

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over a year ago
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Josh Thompson
Array divergence in Ruby Lets say you have a list of valid items, and you want to run another array against it, and pull out...
over a year ago
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Array divergence in Ruby

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

over a year ago
Lets say you have a list of valid items, and you want to run another array against it, and pull out the items that don’t match. You don’t want to iterate through all of the items in one array, calling other_array.include?(item). (That’s computationally expensive) valid_people =...
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The Convivial...
Too Many Words, and Not Enough The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 6
over a year ago
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Too Many Words, and Not Enough

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over a year ago
The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 6
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CommitStrip
The right tool for the right job at the right time?
over a year ago
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The right tool for the right job at the right time?

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over a year ago
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Josh Collinsworth
Why you should never use px to set font-size in CSS Many developers seem to believe there's no difference between px and other CSS units. Let's dispel...
over a year ago
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Why you should never use px to set font-size in CSS

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over a year ago
Many developers seem to believe there's no difference between px and other CSS units. Let's dispel that myth, for the sake of better accessibility.
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Articles
The good life For Peter and Laura, having a business was a means to an end, and they always kept their life...
over a year ago
6

The good life

from Articles [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
For Peter and Laura, having a business was a means to an end, and they always kept their life priorities in sight.
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Electronics etc…
A Tektronix TDS 684B Oscilloscope Uses CCD Analog Memory Introduction The TDS600 Series The Acquisition Board Measuring Along the Signal Path A Closer Look...
2 months ago
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A Tektronix TDS 684B Oscilloscope Uses CCD Analog Memory

from Electronics etc… [alt+shift+b] in technology

2 months ago
Introduction The TDS600 Series The Acquisition Board Measuring Along the Signal Path A Closer Look at the Noise Issue Conclusion Introduction I have a Tektronix TDS 684B oscilloscope that I bought cheaply at an auction. It has 4 channels, 1 GHz of BW and a sample rate of 5...
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Open Culture
David Bowie’s 100 Must Read Books Image by Avro, via Wikimedia Commons In 2013, the curators of the touring museum exhibit “David...
9 months ago
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David Bowie’s 100 Must Read Books

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9 months ago
Image by Avro, via Wikimedia Commons In 2013, the curators of the touring museum exhibit “David Bowie Is” released a list of David Bowie’s 100 favorite reads, providing us with deeper insights into his literary tastes. Covering fiction and non-fiction, the list spans six decades,...
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Josh Thompson
How to complete a project Most of us have goals. And we usually don’t reach any of them. The Minimum Viable Product “concept”...
over a year ago
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How to complete a project

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

over a year ago
Most of us have goals. And we usually don’t reach any of them. The Minimum Viable Product “concept” has helped me with some goals, and it could be helpful to you. It’s a simple concept: When starting something new, figure out what the minimum investment would get you the...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Passive Solar Water Desalination I know we are supposed to be worried about the world supply of fresh water. I have been hearing that...
a year ago
20

Passive Solar Water Desalination

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a year ago
I know we are supposed to be worried about the world supply of fresh water. I have been hearing that at least for the last 40 years, and the statistics are alarming. According to the Global Commission on the Economics of Water: “We are seeing the consequences not of freak events,...
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Arduino Blog
Finally, you can DIY your own espresso machine Caffeine lovers take their coffee very seriously and that is most apparent when you dive into the...
9 months ago
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Finally, you can DIY your own espresso machine

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

9 months ago
Caffeine lovers take their coffee very seriously and that is most apparent when you dive into the world of espresso machines. To satisfy enthusiasts, an espresso machine needs to provide precise control over temperature, pressure, and flow to enable the perfect pull. But if...
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Diaries of Note
WROTE ‘YOUR SONG’ When he wrote this diary entry in October 1969, Elton John was yet to become the superstar we now...
a year ago
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WROTE ‘YOUR SONG’

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a year ago
When he wrote this diary entry in October 1969, Elton John was yet to become the superstar we now know. Still only twenty-two, his debut album had been out in the wild for four months, and it would be another three years until he legally changed his name from Reginald Dwight....
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The Marginalian
How to Be More Alive: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent on Breaking the Trance of Near-living The point, of course, is to make yourself alive — to feel the force of being in your sinew and your...
3 months ago
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How to Be More Alive: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent on Breaking the Trance of Near-living

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3 months ago
The point, of course, is to make yourself alive — to feel the force of being in your sinew and your spirit, to tremble with the beauty and the terror of it all, to breathe lungfuls of life that gasp you awake from the trance of near-living induced by the system of waste and want...
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