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nanoscale views
Favorite science fiction invention? In the forward-looking spirit of the New Year, it might be fun to get readers’ opinions of their...
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In the forward-looking spirit of the New Year, it might be fun to get readers’ opinions of their favorite science fiction inventions.  I wrote about favorite sci-fi materials back in 2015, but let’s broaden the field. Personally, I’m a fan of the farcaster (spoiler warning!) from...
diamond geezer
Bow Roundabout update #6 The first full week of roadworks at the Bow Roundabout has seen lengthy queues and a bit more...
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The first full week of roadworks at the Bow Roundabout has seen lengthy queues and a bit more drilling. The queues were at their worst on Wednesday when an additional set of roadworks temporarily afflicted Tredegar Road, at one point stretching over three quarters of a mile along...
The Marginalian
The Messiah in the Mountain: Darwin on Wonder and the Spirituality of Nature Here we are, matter yearning for meaning, each of us a fragile constellation of chemistry and chance...
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Here we are, matter yearning for meaning, each of us a fragile constellation of chemistry and chance hurtling through a cold cosmos that has no accord for our wishes, takes no interest in our dreams. “I can’t but believe that all that majesty and all that beauty, those fated and...
Grow With Less
Do Headline Analyzers Work? A Data-Driven Answer Headline analyzers are a popular way to come up with great headlines and try to predict their...
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Headline analyzers are a popular way to come up with great headlines and try to predict their effectiveness. All you need to do is write your headline and the tool will give it a score telling you how effective it’s likely to be. But can these free headline analyzers accurately...
TheCollector
What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works? undefined
6 months ago
SOCKS
Architectural Narrative: “New York City: The Edge of Enigma” by Francisco Javier Rencoret (1991) In 1991, Francisco Javier Rencoret, a Chilean architect and then Fulbright scholar at Cornell...
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In 1991, Francisco Javier Rencoret, a Chilean architect and then Fulbright scholar at Cornell University, published New York City: The Edge of Enigma, (Princeton Architectural Press), a visual essay that retraces the myth of the foundation and development of New York City....
Londonist
Where To Eat And Drink In Forest Gate: The Best Restaurants, Cafes, Bars And Pubs Forest food!
a year ago
Max Countryman
A Framework for Prioritizing Tech Debt Leverage is a powerful tool that applies to many things, including the code we write. However, tech...
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Leverage is a powerful tool that applies to many things, including the code we write. However, tech debt like all leverage, comes with interest payments. How do we know when to start spending bandwidth on addressing it? We'll look at a framework that can help us ensure we don't...
Rest of World -...
How to become an #Influencer in India Many middle-class Indians aspire to be the next Kusha Kapila or Ranveer Allahbadia. But there’s a...
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Many middle-class Indians aspire to be the next Kusha Kapila or Ranveer Allahbadia. But there’s a real struggle to monetize from Instagram.
Londonist
A Map Of Women's History In London From Boudicca to Rachel Whiteread.
9 months ago
Diaries of Note
I won’t marry Jo to Laurie to please any one Now considered a seminal work in both American literature and feminist canon, Little Women was...
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Now considered a seminal work in both American literature and feminist canon, Little Women was originally published in the 1860s as two separate volumes, the first of which Louisa May Alcott completed in two months after being asked by her publisher to “write a girl’s book.” The...
ntietz.com blog
Introducing Hurl, a terrible (but cute) idea for a language Sometimes we have ideas that are bad but demand to enter reality. A few months ago, while chatting...
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Sometimes we have ideas that are bad but demand to enter reality. A few months ago, while chatting with a friend, we toyed around with the idea of a language where the only control flow you get is error handling. This idea embedded itself in my brain and wouldn't let me go, so I...
Open Culture
Jean-Paul Sartre Rejects the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964: “It Was Monstrous!” In a 2013 blog post, the great Ursula K. Le Guin quotes a London Times Literary Supplement column by...
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In a 2013 blog post, the great Ursula K. Le Guin quotes a London Times Literary Supplement column by a “J.C.,” who satirically proposes the “Jean-Paul Sartre Prize for Prize Refusal.” “Writers all over Europe and America are turning down awards in the hope of being nominated for...
nanoscale views
What is a spin glass? As mentioned previously, structural glasses are materials in which there is no periodic lattice (no...
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As mentioned previously, structural glasses are materials in which there is no periodic lattice (no long-range spatial order) and the building blocks get "stuck" in some configuration, kinetically unable to get to the true energetic minimum state which would almost certainly be a...
TheCollector
Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid undefined
4 months ago
Flashbak
Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’ Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK,   Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the...
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Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK,   Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
Maps Mania
Highly Artificial Locations
8 months ago
Diaries of Note
The British people are like children Few people were as close to Adolf Hitler as Joseph Goebbels. As the Reich Minister of Propaganda in...
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Few people were as close to Adolf Hitler as Joseph Goebbels. As the Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany, he played a crucial role in shaping the image and message of the Third Reich, manipulating public opinion and orchestrating a vast machinery of lies and deception....
TheCollector
Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters undefined
2 months ago
diamond geezer
Unblogged September 30 unblogged things I did in September (contains nine additional clickable photos) Fri 1: "Hi,"...
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30 unblogged things I did in September (contains nine additional clickable photos) Fri 1: "Hi," said the email. "I hope this doesn't come across as too strange but here goes. I was recently browsing eBay for a few things and came across something that I think you might like. So...
Retail Design Blog
H22 by PIXELAIN H22 – Perfume Bottle & Label Design Project Overview: This perfume design project for H22 was...
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H22 – Perfume Bottle & Label Design Project Overview: This perfume design project for H22 was crafted to embody elegance...
Arduino Blog
This device prevents garage door security breaches Your automatic garage door is almost certainly the most vulnerable access point in your house....
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Your automatic garage door is almost certainly the most vulnerable access point in your house. Traditional systems are notorious for their susceptibility to replay attacks, but even more sophisticated modern garage door openers and those that lack remote functionality entirely...
NeuroLogica Blog
Gradient Nanostructured Steel Science fiction writers, who have to think deeply about the possible nature of future technology,...
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Science fiction writers, who have to think deeply about the possible nature of future technology, often invent new sci-fi materials in order to make their future technology seem plausible. They seem to understand the critical role that material science plays in advancing...
Laetitia@Work
Adam Smith's mamma Laetitia@Work #48
over a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Its Super-Ego Has Gone AWOL' The American philosopher Brand Blanshard delivered the Riecker Memorial Lecture at the University of...
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The American philosopher Brand Blanshard delivered the Riecker Memorial Lecture at the University of Arizona in 1962. It was published that year as a twenty-three-page pamphlet titled “On Sanity in Thought and Art.” For much of the text Blanshard reviews various twentieth-century...
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Finding your North Star metric and why it matters Successful products need actionable metrics and for many businesses this starts with identifying...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Successful products need actionable metrics and for many businesses this starts with identifying what many refer to as a 'North Star' metric. This…
Basta’s Notes
25 terrible engineer interview questions Ones that you should never ask
a year ago
Mazdak
Jury Delivers Major Blow to Google in Antitrust Case: Play Store Deemed Illegal Monopoly In a historic ruling that could shake the foundations of the mobile app ecosystem, a federal jury...
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In a historic ruling that could shake the foundations of the mobile app ecosystem, a federal jury has found Google Play guilty of violating antitrust laws in a lawsuit brought by Epic Games. This landmark decision has sent shockwaves through the tech industry and raised questions...
TheCollector
Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey undefined
a year ago
Noahpinion
Feeling strangely optimistic about Egypt It has many of the building blocks for a successful industrialization story.
a year ago
A Smart Bear
The "Talk vs Walk" framework This exercise we invented at WP Engine is surprisingly useful in engaging both Marketing and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This exercise we invented at WP Engine is surprisingly useful in engaging both Marketing and Product, generating actions for both sides that make products more desirable and competitive.
Paul Graham: Essays
Early Work
over a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910? undefined
4 months ago
The Elysian
Writing Prompt: How do we create the next Renaissance? Something I’ve been thinking a lot about is: How can we fund the next Renaissance? How can we create...
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7 months ago
Something I’ve been thinking a lot about is: How can we fund the next Renaissance? How can we create a world where artists are better funded and…
TheCollector
10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene undefined
6 months ago
Jonas Hietala
Blogging in Djot instead of Markdown What if we weren’t chained to the past? What if we tried to create a light markup syntax that keeps...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
What if we weren’t chained to the past? What if we tried to create a light markup syntax that keeps what is good about Markdown, while revising some of the features that have led to bloat and complexity in the CommonMark spec? John Macfarlane, Beyond Markdown I recently...
Steve Klabnik
Using puma on Heroku
over a year ago
The Map is Mostly...
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a year ago
Construction Physics
“No inventions; no innovations” A History of US Steel Last week US Steel announced it was being acquired by Japanese steel company Nippon Steel. The...
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Last week US Steel announced it was being acquired by Japanese steel company Nippon Steel. The milestone gives an opportunity to look back at what once was the largest and most important company in the US (and arguably the world), and how it slowly declined. Prior to the...
Applied Cartography
Linear I invited nickd to join our Linear instance yesterday, which reminded me that I had a slew of notes...
5 days ago
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I invited nickd to join our Linear instance yesterday, which reminded me that I had a slew of notes I wanted to publish on our own experience of migrating from GitHub Issues to Linear, and some reflections on it as a product now that we've been using it for a few months. One...
Steve Klabnik
2012: year in review
over a year ago
TheCollector
5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder undefined
8 months ago
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 8-14 January 2024 All our best articles from the past week.
11 months ago
The Berkeley...
Rethinking Human-in-the-Loop for Artificial Augmented Intelligence How do we build and evaluate an AI system for real-world applications? In most AI research, the...
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How do we build and evaluate an AI system for real-world applications? In most AI research, the evaluation of AI methods involves a training-validation-testing process. The experiments usually stop when the models have good testing performance on the reported datasets because...
Alice GG
Is technical analysis just stock market astrology? Technical analysis is a part of finance that studies price moves to guide investment decisions. A...
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a year ago
Technical analysis is a part of finance that studies price moves to guide investment decisions. A lot of investors seem skeptical of the use of past price data, which leads to technical analysis often being perceived as similar to astrology. In this article, I will try to see if...
TheCollector
How Does Street Art Shape Cities? undefined
8 months ago
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...
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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...
essay – snarfed.org
Policing misinformation Unpopular opinion: I have deep reservations about policing misinformation. I’m a big believer in the...
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Unpopular opinion: I have deep reservations about policing misinformation. I’m a big believer in the demarcation problem: in the general case, there’s no shortcut to determining objective truth. It’s similar to the halting problem in computer science: if we want to know whether a...
Mind Mine
a series of morning thoughts trying something new… listen to my voice :)
4 months ago
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Silicon Valley's False Prophet The tech industry has craved a messiah since the death of Steve Jobs, but in OpenAI CEO Sam Altman...
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The tech industry has craved a messiah since the death of Steve Jobs, but in OpenAI CEO Sam Altman they’ve discovered more of a false prophet — a seedy grifter that uses his remarkable ability to impress and manipulate Silicon Valley’s elite to mask a total
Coding Horror
Electric Geek Transportation Systems I've never thought of myself as a "car person". The last new car I bought (and in fact, now that I...
over a year ago
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I've never thought of myself as a "car person". The last new car I bought (and in fact, now that I think about it, the first new car I ever bought) was the quirky 1998 Ford Contour SVT. Since then we bought a VW station wagon
Christopher Butler
Design for AI If the majority of attention your webpage gets is from AI, not humans, what does it need to look...
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If the majority of attention your webpage gets is from AI, not humans, what does it need to look like? How does it need to work? When mobile device browsers first became a design problem, some people said that the best way to solve it was with two sets of markup — one for...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Branding Bundles The best way to communicate a group of benefits is to slap a label on it.
over a year ago
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Guide to predefined macros in C++ compilers (gcc, clang, msvc etc.) When writing portable C++ code you need to write conditional code that depends on compiler used or...
over a year ago
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When writing portable C++ code you need to write conditional code that depends on compiler used or the OS for which the code is written. Here’s a typical case: #if defined (_MSC_VER) // code specific to Visual Studio compiler #endif To perform those checks you need to check...
TheCollector
The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About undefined
5 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Mise en Place Writing How to write more, faster, and better by decoupling writing from pre-writing
over a year ago
Beautiful Public...
The GOES-16 Weather Satellite Satellites used to observe weather are so ubiquitous it is easy to take them for granted. GOES-16 is...
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Satellites used to observe weather are so ubiquitous it is easy to take them for granted. GOES-16 is worthy of your attention.
A Beautiful Site
Prefers Reduced Motion By now, most devs are familiar with the prefers-reduced-motion media query that tells whether or not...
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By now, most devs are familiar with the prefers-reduced-motion media query that tells whether or not a user prefers, well, reduced motion. You can use this to tone down (or turn off) transitions and animations in your stylesheet to accommodate users with vestibular motion...
Res Obscura
I talked to Terry Gross! A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled...
11 months ago
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A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled posting
Retail Design Blog
QuadReal Offices by Figure3 The QuadReal building at 200 King Street in Toronto showcases a redesigned Green Room lounge by...
2 months ago
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The QuadReal building at 200 King Street in Toronto showcases a redesigned Green Room lounge by Figure3, blending 1920s opulence...
NeuroLogica Blog
The Science of Gift Giving There is a lot of social psychology out there providing information that can inform our everyday...
a year ago
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There is a lot of social psychology out there providing information that can inform our everyday lives, and most people are completely unaware of the research. Richard Wiseman makes this point in his book, 59 Seconds – we actually have useful scientific information, and yet we...
Computer Things
Formally modeling dreidel, the sequel Channukah's next week and that means my favorite pastime, complaining about how Dreidel is a bad...
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Channukah's next week and that means my favorite pastime, complaining about how Dreidel is a bad game. Last year I formally modeled it in PRISM to prove the game's not fun. But because I limited the model to only a small case, I couldn't prove the game was truly bad. It's time...
Atoms vs Bits
I Rarely Saw The Plots Resolve What (doesn't) happen next will shock you
a month ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire? undefined
a year ago
pcloadletter
Somewhere along the way we forgot about software craftsmanship "Ship it!" "We're agile now, baby. Move fast and break things!"" "We measure our engineers by the...
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"Ship it!" "We're agile now, baby. Move fast and break things!"" "We measure our engineers by the impact they have!" Somewhere along the way, in the midst of the agilification of software, or the software engineer salary gold rush, we forgot about craftsmanship. I have been in...
Noahpinion
Why Trump (or Harris) might fail to stand up to China A very real possibility that more people need to be worried about.
4 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Italian Risorgimento? undefined
5 months ago
The Honest Broker
Why Are Huge Tech Companies Getting Into the Book Business? Do they want to help writers or destroy them?
2 weeks ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
All of the main problems with US healthcare | Out-Of-Pocket let's get all of our problems out on the table
9 months ago
xkcd.com
Planetary Scientist
a year ago
Mazdak
Top 10 Finance News Headlines for Thursday, November 30th, 2023 📈📰 📈 Stocks Soar: The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped more than 500 points on Thursday, closing at...
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📈 Stocks Soar: The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped more than 500 points on Thursday, closing at its highest level of the year. The rally was fueled by optimism about the economy and a slowdown in inflation. 🚀 💼 Peltz Takes Aim at Disney: Activist investor Nelson Peltz is...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Duncan Tattersall I’m an artist and maker from southern Scotland, designing and hand printing bespoke textiles for...
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I’m an artist and maker from southern Scotland, designing and hand printing bespoke textiles for interiors. My work focuses on the relationship between pattern & place; all of my designs are inspired by a particular location and aim to interpret the story of their surroundings....
David Gerrells
love is work and so is css I love css. And well, to love something, it is not always rainbows :rainbow: and sunshine :sunny:
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Myths (and truths) I've learned from 10 years of startup hiring I've spent over a decade hiring for startups, especially early-stage ones. I've managed and hired...
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I've spent over a decade hiring for startups, especially early-stage ones. I've managed and hired for teams across engineering, ops, people, marketing…
PostHog's RSS Feed
Benchmarking the impact of session recording on performance The 2010s were marked by an explosion of tools focused on data. One of the biggest was session...
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The 2010s were marked by an explosion of tools focused on data. One of the biggest was session recording – a screen-recording-like service that…
Seth's Blog
Dreams, plans and contradictions Dreams are fine. And dreams involve contradictions. We want this AND that, but both can’t happen....
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Dreams are fine. And dreams involve contradictions. We want this AND that, but both can’t happen. That’s what keeps them from being plans. Plans embrace boundaries and reality, they don’t ignore them. Plans thrive on scarcity and constraints. Plans are open for inspection, and a...
Blog - Practical...
Which Power Plant Does My Electricity Come From? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In June of 2000, the power...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In June of 2000, the power shut off across much of the San Francisco Bay area. There simply wasn’t enough electricity to meet demands, so more than a million customers were disconnected in California's largest...
Maps Mania
Mapping Mythical Islands & Imaginary Lands
a month ago
Farnam Street
Focus to Win Anyone can say no to bad ideas, but only a focused person can say no to good ideas. Focus is about...
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Anyone can say no to bad ideas, but only a focused person can say no to good ideas. Focus is about saying no. When talking about one of the biggest lessons he learned from Steve Jobs, Jonny Ive said it was focus. This sounds really simplistic, but it still shocks me how few...
bt RSS Feed
"This Key is Useless Now. Discard?" “This Key is Useless Now. Discard?” 2024-08-28 The title of this article probably triggers nostalgic...
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“This Key is Useless Now. Discard?” 2024-08-28 The title of this article probably triggers nostalgic memories for old school Resident Evil veterans like myself. My personal favourite in the series (not that anyone asked) was the original, 1998 version of Resident Evil 2 (RE2). I...
TokyoDev
Personal Blog to Profitable Business: the Story of TokyoDev この記事は[日本語でも](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/tokyodev-story-japanese)お読みいただけます。 TokyoDev...
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この記事は[日本語でも](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/tokyodev-story-japanese)お読みいただけます。 TokyoDev started out as my personal blog talking about developer life in Japan, but has evolved into a job board that is a thriving business that is my sole source of income. But even more than...
./techtipsy
Cool projects This is an unsorted list of projects that really cool and neat. Chromebook cluster someone took...
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This is an unsorted list of projects that really cool and neat. Chromebook cluster someone took some old Chromebooks, stripped them down and built a cluster. I love this kind of jank!
Seth's Blog
The Mississippi River paradox There’s no water in that river that was there ten years ago. The boundaries have shifted in that...
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There’s no water in that river that was there ten years ago. The boundaries have shifted in that time as well, there’s no riverbank that’s exactly where it was. And the silt and the fish have all moved too. So, what’s “the Mississippi River”? It’s a label, a placeholder, and a...
This Space
39 Books: 2002 The quiet joy of short, constrained memoirs. I borrowed a copy of this book in 2002 and then found a...
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The quiet joy of short, constrained memoirs. I borrowed a copy of this book in 2002 and then found a copy in a remaindered shop for £5. Anne Atik got to know Beckett in the late 1950s through the artist Avigdor Arikha, later her husband. Beckett's circle of friends included as...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sad Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Actually with this new plugin the robot doesn't...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Actually with this new plugin the robot doesn't need the sympathy but can just directly experience a mixture of awe and joy. Today's News:
Out-of-Pocket Blog
The Issue With The COVID Bailout | Out-Of-Pocket A WHOLE NEW WORLD, A NEW PANDEMIC POINT OF VIEW
a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity? undefined
4 months ago
SatPost by Trung...
Best of SatPost (First Half of 2024) PLUS: Solar Industry, LVMH Real Estate, Delta Airlines is Winning.
5 months ago
Vadim Kravcenko
What I learned building a $1K MRR SaaS in 6 weeks Question: Answer: The post What I learned building a $1K MRR SaaS in 6 weeks appeared first on...
5 months ago
TheCollector
Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR undefined
4 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
"A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket" Nikola Tesla predicted the development internet-connected smartphones back in 1926: From the...
over a year ago
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Nikola Tesla predicted the development internet-connected smartphones back in 1926: From the inception of the wireless system, I saw that…
Seth's Blog
In search of incompetence Learning is about becoming incompetent on our way to getting better. If you’re not open to the...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Learning is about becoming incompetent on our way to getting better. If you’re not open to the tension that is caused by knowing you could do better, it’s unlikely you’re willing to do the work to get better. As you’re doing that work, there’s the satisfaction it brings, but also...
The American Scholar
Imperiled Planet The ecological havoc we’ve wrought The post Imperiled Planet appeared first on The American Scholar.
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The ecological havoc we’ve wrought The post Imperiled Planet appeared first on The American Scholar.
The Honest Broker
The Rise of the Anonymous Music Star Do streaming platforms view famous artists as a threat to their brands?
8 months ago
Math Is Still...
How Can Some Infinities Be Bigger Than Others? All infinities go on forever, so how is it possible for some infinities to be larger than others?...
a year ago
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All infinities go on forever, so how is it possible for some infinities to be larger than others? The mathematician Justin Moore discusses the mysteries of infinity with Steven Strogatz. The post How Can Some Infinities Be Bigger Than Others? first appeared on Quanta...
Spoon & Tamago
Photographer Meticulously Recreates Images of Chickens Painted by Edo-Era Artist Ito Jakuchu Edo-era painter Ito Jakuchu (1716-1800) excelled at capturing the flora and fauna of the natural...
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Edo-era painter Ito Jakuchu (1716-1800) excelled at capturing the flora and fauna of the natural world, a skill that extended to remarkable depictions of birds. In particular, chickens were a common theme for the artist and it was said that Jakuchu owned many of them, and allowed...
Jonas Hietala
Friend of the Tree I just noticed I was recognized as a friend of the tree in a weekly meeting by the rust team. It...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I just noticed I was recognized as a friend of the tree in a weekly meeting by the rust team. It came during my documentation sprint during IDA Summer of Code and I discovered it now, only two and a half month later. Still a very pleasant surprise!
Marcus on AI
AI influencer hype gone wild Reality is quite the opposite
a month ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Amazing Things to Do in Puerto Rico, According to Locals
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
over a year ago
Commoncog
One Definition of Wisdom Charlie Munger’s biggest business mistake, and what it tells us about wisdom.
10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants? undefined
7 months ago
Posts on Made of...
Two kinds of testing While talking about thinking about tests and testing in software engineering recently, I’ve come to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
While talking about thinking about tests and testing in software engineering recently, I’ve come to the conclusion that there are (at least) two major ideas and goals that people have when they test or talk about testing. This post aims to outline what I see as these two schools,...
Made by Ollin
Priors for Autonomous Vehicle Development
over a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Gadgets and Computers From Benedict Evans’ Cars as Feature Phones: This is a common theme in many classes of device: you...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
From Benedict Evans’ Cars as Feature Phones: This is a common theme in many classes of device: you start with a product that has a few…
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 11-17 December 2023 Roundup of Londonist articles from the past week.
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This post previously appeared in Poets & Quants. I just spent a month and a half at Imperial College London co-teaching a “Wicked” Entrepreneurship class. In this case Wicked doesn’t mean morally evil, but refers to really complex problems, ones with multiple moving parts, where...
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Among the road kill I’ve tallied on Houston streets, the most common casualty is the strangely spelled opossum (from the Powhatan). The least common, incidentally, is the armadillo, with two KIAs sighted in twenty years, both being pecked at by crows. Natives here seem uncommonly...
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Examples Illustrated I was at the annual SEAoNY conference yesterday – 9½ hours devoted to building codes – and it was,...
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I was at the annual SEAoNY conference yesterday – 9½ hours devoted to building codes – and it was, as expected, informative and interesting. Obviously, that’s not what I’m going to write about here. The conference was at Convene (a place where you can rent space for conferences)...
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I found myself nervous and tense to the point of tears On 21st March 1960, the South African Police opened fire on thousands of black protestors in what...
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On 21st March 1960, the South African Police opened fire on thousands of black protestors in what came to be known as the Sharpeville Massacre, a shocking event which saw 69 people killed, triggered a state of emergency, and led to mass detentions—including that of Hilda...
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E. Jean Carroll’s 1993 memoir of Hunter S. Thompson opens like this: I have heard the biographers of Harry S. Truman, Catherine the Great, etc., etc., say they would give anything if their subjects were alive so they could ask them some questions. I, on the other hand, would give...
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Petr Ginz was an extraordinary young Czech-Jewish man who left a lasting impression despite a life cut tragically short. Born in 1928, he was fourteen when he was sent to the Theresienstadt Ghetto. While there, he edited Vedem, an underground magazine produced by teenage...
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Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “Has anyone made a good AI tool yet where I can load in...
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What It Takes to Pass “the Knowledge,” the “Insanely Hard” Exam to Become a London Taxicab Driver Anyone who’s followed the late Michael Apted’s Up documentaries knows that becoming a London cab...
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Anyone who’s followed the late Michael Apted’s Up documentaries knows that becoming a London cab driver is no mean feat. Tony Walker, one of the series’ most memorable participants, was selected at the age of seven from an East End primary school, already distinguished as a...
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[Renovated] Interactive guide to homogeneous coordinates Why would you care about homogeneous coordinates, whatever they are? Well, if you work with...
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Why would you care about homogeneous coordinates, whatever they are? Well, if you work with geometry: 3D-graphics, image processing, physical simulation, — the answer is obvious. Knowing the mathematics behind your framework enables you to write more efficient code. But even if...
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Open charter companies and relicensing A few weeks ago, HashiCorp switched its default license for future product releases to the BSL...
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A series of new papers describes how to fully characterize key dynamical systems with relatively little data. The post Flow Proof Helps Mathematicians Find Stability in Chaos first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Bad code <div tabindex="-1"> <div role="button"> <svg width="28" height="24"> … </svg> </div> </div> Issues and how to fix them Setting button semantics explicitly using the role attribute isn’t necessary, there’s an element for that (button). You don’t need the tabindex...
The Marginalian
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The Vision Pro is amazing, but like the rest of VR and AR, Apple seems years away from the mass market. And if it gets there, how much will it matter?
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When I was in London a few weeks ago, David Kelly and Chris Tucker of Fortis Facades were kind enough to give me a thorough tour of Adelaide House, a 1925 landmark building currently in renovation. They’re working on the facade, but the tour included both the facade and the...
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Video subtitles, captions, audio descriptions and transcripts As I was preparing the requirements for an accessible web video player, there was some confusion...
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As I was preparing the requirements for an accessible web video player, there was some confusion around subtitles, closed captions, audio descriptions and transcripts. In this post, I use interactive examples to show the difference. I also provide related success criteria from...
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Bold art direction, UX and web design for GV abduzeedo0501—23 GV, previously known as Google Ventures, recently underwent a rebranding and relaunch of their corporate website with a simpler UX. The new strategy and branding was created by the...
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The world of AI is a fast-paced and ever-evolving landscape, where startups are constantly vying for attention and a slice of the market pie. In this competitive environment, it's easy to get caught up in the pursuit of proprietary components and cutting-edge algorithms,...
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Another week of 30 Day Map Challenge Maps… Day 17 - Flow Probably the intention here was to have people make maps of the flow of surface water or air or traffic but I decided to make a flow chart instead. A vaguely interesting look at the trip home I had to make many times as...
Londonist
Petition Launched As Stratford's Beloved Market Village Suddenly Closes It'd been going for over 30 years.
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Other Vine Streets are available. The City Wall at Vine Street Location: Vine Street, EC3N 2HT [map] Open: 9am - 6pm (bank holidays excepted) Admission: free Seven word summary: a very old wall and some rubbish Website: citywallvinestreet.org Time to set aside: half an hour The...
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When engineering and design company Atkins presented the city of Cambridge with a sparkling gift, it must have felt rather pleased. It had simultaneously provided a brand new station and answered the question of how to ensure that same station embodied the character of the local...
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1. UK university fees going up (but not by enough to make the system work) For those of you not in the UK, the British system of university funding is a weird mash-mash of different stuff, cobbled together from the mistakes made by successive governments. When I was young, the...
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The whole Channel is filled with little ships Exactly 80 years ago today, the world held its breath as the Allied forces launched the largest...
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Exactly 80 years ago today, the world held its breath as the Allied forces launched the largest seaborne invasion in history, marking the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany’s occupation of Europe. Among the thousands of brave soldiers who set out to liberate the continent was...
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It seems ironic that shortly after an amendment to the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill stating octopuses to be ‘sentient beings’ capable of a range of human-like emotions such as joy, pleasure, excitement, as well as pain, distress, and harm, plans of the word’s first commercial...
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Ride-hailing drivers in Nigeria are suffering after government triples fuel prices Uber and Bolt drivers say the fuel subsidy removal has put them at risk of losing their livelihoods.
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This week my trustworthy commuter bike started making strange squeaking noises when braking, time to have a look at the bike after 21.000KM!
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object – Wooden Task Lamp I made this in just a couple of hours. We needed just a little bit more light on the desk. I...
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I made this in just a couple of hours. We needed just a little bit more light on the desk. I made a quick sketch for a lamp I could make at home that would also look fun — if I didn’t screw it up. I gave myself a budget of about $25, which was enough to pick up a utility...
Unpacked
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In recent times, Twitter has been through a roller coaster of events. What started with Elon Musk's turbulent acquisition has now been followed up by a series of controversial product decisions. To list a few: Twitter limited the number of daily tweets
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Netflix, Shein and MrBeast What does Netflix have in common with Shein, and why is MrBeast more interesting than Disney Plus?
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Vanity milestones Eric Ries uses the phrase “vanity metrics” to refer to metrics that founders cite to demonstrate...
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Eric Ries uses the phrase “vanity metrics” to refer to metrics that founders cite to demonstrate progress but that are actually false…
The Modern House
Listing of the Week: the best inter-war home in Britain?
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Finding it hard to get the perfect angle for your shot? PhotoBot can take the picture for you. Tell it what you want the photo to look like, and your robot photographer will present you with references to mimic. Pick your favorite, and PhotoBot—a robot arm with a camera—will...
bt RSS Feed
Improving Github's New Design Improving Github’s New Design 2020-07-07 Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their...
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Improving Github’s New Design 2020-07-07 Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their recent repository page redesign. In my mind it seems like a change just for the sake of change - the original UI worked perfectly fine. Sigh. I was planning on recreating the...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Looking at this again, Terrible Elk-God would be a great He-Man character. Today's News:
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The tragic story of J. Robert Oppenheimer encompasses far more than science and politics. It is a cautionary tale of human nature that holds timeless lessons.
Darek Kay
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In this post, I will summarize some problems and constraints that I've encountered with the Notifications and Push web APIs. Notification settings on macOS Someone who's definitely not me wasted half an hour wondering why triggered notifications would not appear. On macOS,...
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Handprinted - Blog
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We have recently added some fantastic new books to the Handprinted shop and this one is no exception. Sarah Campbell's beautifully curated and inspirational book explores the art of painting and making patterns on fabric. Even just flicking through the pages of this book makes...
African History...
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The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
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.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
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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...
Open Culture
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It’s hard to know where to start. This election comes down to whether or not we want to reward someone who tried to subvert our democracy four years ago. Whether we want to preserve the alliances that have kept the peace since World War II. Whether women want to resist losing...
TheCollector
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Construction Physics
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A few weeks ago, Matt Yglesias wrote “How to Unleash a Trailer Home Boom," which outlines a strategy for getting more manufactured homes built. Broadly, Yglesias proposes ending HUD code requirements that manufactured homes have a steel chassis, making it easier and less...
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Naming your startup The Name Inspector has a good post today regarding 6 naming myths to ignore. I think it’s generally...
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over a year ago
The Name Inspector has a good post today regarding 6 naming myths to ignore. I think it’s generally right on.   Naming is so important and…
Saturday Morning...
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99% Invisible
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Karen MacDonough had paid her mortgage for years, raised her family, and lived a quiet life in her Quincy, Massachusetts home—until one day, a group of strangers appeared on her lawn, claiming her house was up for foreclosure. What followed was a surreal discovery of “zombie...
Probably...
Extremes, outliers, and GOATS The video from my PyData Global 2023 talk, Extremes, outliers, and GOATS, is available now: The...
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The video from my PyData Global 2023 talk, Extremes, outliers, and GOATS, is available now: The slides are here. There are two Jupyter notebooks that contain the analysis I presented: Here’s the abstract: The fastest runners are much faster than we expect from a Gaussian...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to sell your SaaS to Enterprise Customers This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
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over a year ago
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […] The post How to sell your SaaS to Enterprise Customers appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
TheCollector
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What are your top 3 challenges? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * There are a few...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * There are a few key things which looking back I remember I was very bad at. One of them was asking people for advice. I think a key turning point with this was when we raised funding for...
NeuroLogica Blog
AI-Fueled Scams Digital life is getting more dangerous.  Literally every day I have to fend off attempts at scamming...
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Digital life is getting more dangerous.  Literally every day I have to fend off attempts at scamming me in one way or another. I get texts trying to lure me into responding. I get e-mails hoping I will click a malicious link on a reflex. I get phone calls from people warning me...
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Weighty Thoughts
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Math Is Still...
Math Proof Draws New Boundaries Around Black Hole Formation For a half century, mathematicians have tried to define the exact circumstances under which a black...
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a year ago
For a half century, mathematicians have tried to define the exact circumstances under which a black hole is destined to exist. A new proof shows how a cube can help answer the question. The post Math Proof Draws New Boundaries Around Black Hole Formation first...
HTMHell
Swallowing camels by Ida Franceen I don't like how the screen reader pronounces these numbers and I've been...
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a year ago
by Ida Franceen I don't like how the screen reader pronounces these numbers and I've been experimenting with different kinds of markup to get it to read better, like injecting spans to force it to make proper pauses… Reflecting on my tendency to obsess over small, but maybe not...
The Changelog
Recovering Our Lost Free Will Online: Tools and Techniques That Are Available Now Note: This post is also available on my webiste, where it will be periodically updated. As I’ve been...
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over a year ago
Note: This post is also available on my webiste, where it will be periodically updated. As I’ve been thinking and writing about privacy and decentralization lately, I had a conversation with a colleague this week, and he commented about how loss of privacy is related to loss of...
The Marginalian
The Stunning Mystical Paintings of the 16th-Century Portuguese Artist Francisco de Holanda Blake before Blake, Hilma before Hilma.
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The DESK Magazine
The AI tool for ADHD/ADD? Our tool, mymind, is created for all kinds of real minds.
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AVC
Noya Six months ago, I wrote about Direct Air Carbon Capture and ended with this: I remember hearing that...
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Six months ago, I wrote about Direct Air Carbon Capture and ended with this: I remember hearing that “we’ve spent hundreds of years taking carbon out of the ground and putting it into our atmosphere and we are going to spend hundreds of years taking carbon out of the atmosphere...
xkcd.com
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