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Home on Erik...
hdfs2cass Just open sourced hdfs2cass which is a Hadoop job (written in Java) to do efficient Cassandra...
over a year ago
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hdfs2cass

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

over a year ago
Just open sourced hdfs2cass which is a Hadoop job (written in Java) to do efficient Cassandra bulkloading. The nice thing is that it queries Cassandra for its topology and uses that to partition the data so that each reducer can upload data directly to a Cassandra node.
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julian.digital
List of Goals and Rules for 2021 Publish 6 long-form essays↳ Instead of publishing a new post each week, I want to focus on six...
over a year ago
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List of Goals and Rules for 2021

from julian.digital [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
Publish 6 long-form essays↳ Instead of publishing a new post each week, I want to focus on six in-depth essays this year. Quality over quantity. ████ ██ █████ ██ ████ ██████ Read 20 books ↳ You can follow my progress here Go for a swim at least once per week ↳ If covid rules...
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Louwrentius
Google DNS - what to think of it? Google now provide an open DNS service. At first I was scared that they use their service to get...
over a year ago
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Google DNS - what to think of it?

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Google now provide an open DNS service. At first I was scared that they use their service to get information about users. However, their privacy statement tells us that no personal identifiable information is stored for longer than 48 hours. The permanent logs do not contain such...
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alexwlchan
My (tiny) contribution to Rust 1.64 A couple of months ago, I was writing some Rust, and the compiler spat out an error: error[E0412]:...
over a year ago
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My (tiny) contribution to Rust 1.64

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
A couple of months ago, I was writing some Rust, and the compiler spat out an error: error[E0412]: cannot find type `Boolean` in this scope --> src/fs_helpers.rs:29:33 | 29 | pub fn is_ds_store(p: &Path) -> Boolean | ^^^^^^^ not found in...
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fast.ai
Qualitative humanities research is crucial to AI Following the thread of any seemingly quantitative issue in AI ethics (such as determining if...
over a year ago
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Qualitative humanities research is crucial to AI

from fast.ai [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
Following the thread of any seemingly quantitative issue in AI ethics (such as determining if software to rate loan applicants is racially biased or evaluating YouTube’s recommendation system) quickly leads to a host of qualitative questions. Unfortunately, there is often a large...
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Drew Ex Machina
The Largest Launch Vehicles in Service – 1957 to the Present With the successful launch of NASA’s Artemis I test flight, we now have a new holder of the title...
over a year ago
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The Largest Launch Vehicles in Service – 1957 to the Present

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

over a year ago
With the successful launch of NASA’s Artemis I test flight, we now have a new holder of the title “the largest launch vehicle in service”: the […]
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Notes on software...
Implementing zip archiving in Golang: unzipping All code for this post is available on Github. Let's take a look at how zip files work. Take a small...
over a year ago
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Implementing zip archiving in Golang: unzipping

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

over a year ago
All code for this post is available on Github. Let's take a look at how zip files work. Take a small file for example: $ cat hello.text Hello! Let's zip it up. $ zip test.zip hello.text adding: hello.text (stored 0%) $ ls -lah test.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 phil phil 177 Nov 23 23:04...
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Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 8-14 January 2024 All our best articles from the past week.
a year ago
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Best Of Londonist: 8-14 January 2024

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
All our best articles from the past week.
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Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
3 months ago
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Culture Drift Predicts Decadence

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3 months ago
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Certificate of Naturalization' In our basement was a gray file cabinet we were forbidden to touch. Naturally I opened it and in one...
5 months ago
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'Certificate of Naturalization'

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

5 months ago
In our basement was a gray file cabinet we were forbidden to touch. Naturally I opened it and in one of the drawers I found an old leather wallet containing the ID cards of a stranger with the surname Kurpiewski. Who is this? Why is the name so similar to ours? I couldn’t ask...
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Nelson's Weblog
Austria 2022 Ken and I just got back from a 23 day trip exploring most of Austria. We had a lovely time although...
over a year ago
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Austria 2022

from Nelson's Weblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Ken and I just got back from a 23 day trip exploring most of Austria. We had a lovely time although we did get a little worn out and ready for home after a couple of weeks. Along the way we stayed in Vienna, Graz, the Wörthersee, Zell am See, Innsbruck, Salzburg, Hallstatt,...
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99% Invisible
The Big Dig [EPISODE] Over its more than 40 year journey from conception to completion, Boston’s Big Dig massive...
a year ago
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The Big Dig [EPISODE]

from 99% Invisible [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Over its more than 40 year journey from conception to completion, Boston’s Big Dig massive infrastructure project, which rerouted the central highway in the heart of the city, encountered every hurdle imaginable: ruthless politics, engineering challenges, secretive contractors,...
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Lars Lofgren
The Sleazy World of Reddit Marketing, Everything is Fake I’m going to show you how to cash grab as a Reddit moderator. 5 minutes of work, then thousands of...
5 months ago
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The Sleazy World of Reddit Marketing, Everything is Fake

from Lars Lofgren [alt+shift+b] in technology

5 months ago
I’m going to show you how to cash grab as a Reddit moderator. 5 minutes of work, then thousands of dollars per month for doing nothing. Maybe tens of thousands. With a 100% real example. I’ve edited nothing. When you’re a Reddit mod, you have a TON of power in that subreddit. You...
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The Rational Walk
Berkshire Hathaway Energy Selected highlights from the 2023 EEI Financial Conference
a year ago
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Berkshire Hathaway Energy

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

a year ago
Selected highlights from the 2023 EEI Financial Conference
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A Beautiful Site
Design Systems Are An Investment It's hard to put a value on a design system. It's a lot easier to add up the costs of said design...
a year ago
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Design Systems Are An Investment

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

a year ago
It's hard to put a value on a design system. It's a lot easier to add up the costs of said design system, especially in terms of salaries and development time. It's even easier to target a design system as the thing that's holding up a product from getting delivered. The truth...
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Math Is Still...
Physicists Who Explored Tiny Glimpses of Time Win Nobel Prize The development of attosecond pulses of light allowed researchers to explore the frame-by-frame...
a year ago
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Physicists Who Explored Tiny Glimpses of Time Win Nobel Prize

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
The development of attosecond pulses of light allowed researchers to explore the frame-by-frame movement of electrons. The post Physicists Who Explored Tiny Glimpses of Time Win Nobel Prize first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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McMansion Hell
every small city has that one dictator chic house I don’t know why, but every city, no matter how big, has some insanely stacked dictator-looking...
over a year ago
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every small city has that one dictator chic house

from McMansion Hell [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
I don’t know why, but every city, no matter how big, has some insanely stacked dictator-looking McMansion somewhere outside the city limits. If you sort your Zillow results as Price: High - Low, this house will pop up first. It costs something like $5,000,000. It is 10,000 square...
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Eric Bailey
Accessibility annotation kits only annotate An uncomfortable truth is that the vast majority of access-related issues are created in the design...
a year ago
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Accessibility annotation kits only annotate

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
An uncomfortable truth is that the vast majority of access-related issues are created in the design phase. Accessibility annotation kits help tackle this problem, and in doing so lower the downstream issues that would be created without their presence. This is to say that I...
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Map of the Week
Maps GPT I've been seeing a few interesting uses for ChatGPT-type artificial intelligence lately. Of course...
a year ago
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Maps GPT

from Map of the Week [alt+shift+b] in cartography

a year ago
I've been seeing a few interesting uses for ChatGPT-type artificial intelligence lately. Of course there has to be a map generator. MapsGPT is powered by Proxi, an alternative to Google's MyMaps. I started out looking at their map suggestions, such as worst places to take a nap...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Deepfake Doctor Endorsements This kind of abuse of deepfake endorsements was entirely predictable, so it’s not surprising that a...
6 months ago
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Deepfake Doctor Endorsements

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

6 months ago
This kind of abuse of deepfake endorsements was entirely predictable, so it’s not surprising that a recent BMJ study documents the scale of this fraud. The study focused on the UK, detailing instances of deepfakes of celebrity doctors endorsing dubious products. For example,...
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TheCollector
The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening undefined
7 months ago
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

7 months ago
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Mazdak
Block, TikTok & Beyond From Block's latest moves to TikTok's impact on the music industry, we explore the trends shaping...
2 months ago
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Block, TikTok & Beyond

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

2 months ago
From Block's latest moves to TikTok's impact on the music industry, we explore the trends shaping our digital world.
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Seth's Blog
Coercion One way to look at power is “you get to tell people what to do.” But an alternative is that the most...
a year ago
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Coercion

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

a year ago
One way to look at power is “you get to tell people what to do.” But an alternative is that the most powerful institutions, brands and people are the ones who are in alignment with their audience. Trust and the benefit of the doubt are more powerful and resilient than command and...
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Londonist
"My Obsession With London's Modernist Council Estates" The beauty of the capital's social housing.
10 months ago
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"My Obsession With London's Modernist Council Estates"

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

10 months ago
The beauty of the capital's social housing.
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Ognjen Regoje •...
CEOs are mandating return to office because they need instant gratification Many CEOs and companies are pushing for a return to the office. They can’t all be crazy – they must...
a year ago
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CEOs are mandating return to office because they need instant gratification

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

a year ago
Many CEOs and companies are pushing for a return to the office. They can’t all be crazy – they must have some justification. Remote work increases individual productivity, so what are they trading off against then? One argument is serendipity and those spontaneous moments of...
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This Space
The end of literature, part three On the evening of December 12th, 2019 a numbed grief descended over the land, and has lain there...
over a year ago
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The end of literature, part three

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

over a year ago
On the evening of December 12th, 2019 a numbed grief descended over the land, and has lain there ever since. At that time a mild alternative to barbarism was being put to death. Back in 2015 when, against all odds, a lifelong socialist and campaigner against racism and...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
The problem with tranched VC investments In venture capital, tranching refers to investments where portions of the money are released over...
over a year ago
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The problem with tranched VC investments

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

over a year ago
In venture capital, tranching refers to investments where portions of the money are released over time when certain pre-negotiated…
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The Rational Walk
What I’ve Been Reading This post is a list of books that I read in the second quarter of 2024, including Aeschylus,...
7 months ago
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What I’ve Been Reading

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

7 months ago
This post is a list of books that I read in the second quarter of 2024, including Aeschylus, Herodotus, the Odyssey, and American Scripture.
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A Beautiful Site
Getting proportionally-resized dimensions of an image This is extremely useful when you need to scale down an image within a certain pair of...
over a year ago
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Getting proportionally-resized dimensions of an image

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

over a year ago
This is extremely useful when you need to scale down an image within a certain pair of dimensions. get_resized_dimensions() # Parameters # $width - The width of the image to be resized $height - The height of the image to be resized $max_width - The maximum allowed width of the...
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The Modern House
Contrast is king at this Camberwell townhouse
a year ago
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Contrast is king at this Camberwell townhouse

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a year ago
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Weighty Thoughts
Compute is Overrated as AI’s Bottleneck You can’t just blindly extrapolate compute requirements
a year ago
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Compute is Overrated as AI’s Bottleneck

from Weighty Thoughts [alt+shift+b] in AI

a year ago
You can’t just blindly extrapolate compute requirements
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TheCollector
Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax? undefined
2 months ago
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Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago
undefined
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Daniel Miessler
Would You Put AI Art In Your House? I’ve been thinking for a couple of weeks about making and hanging some AI art in my house. But I...
over a year ago
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Would You Put AI Art In Your House?

from Daniel Miessler [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
I’ve been thinking for a couple of weeks about making and hanging some AI art in my house. But I immediately faced some internal resistance. Like, I wasn’t (and still am not) sure whether this is the right way to “do” art. And that got me thinking what that really means. What...
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Unfiltered by Tim...
Overcoming Severe Mental Illness Transformed My Life I wasn't prepared for what would happen next
a month ago
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Overcoming Severe Mental Illness Transformed My Life

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a month ago
I wasn't prepared for what would happen next
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xkcd.com
Snow
a year ago
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Snow

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a year ago
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African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome. finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
7 months ago
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a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.

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

7 months ago
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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Jonas Hietala
No game this month Well here I am in the end of the month - without a game. It’s a failure I know but once again I lack...
over a year ago
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No game this month

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

over a year ago
Well here I am in the end of the month - without a game. It’s a failure I know but once again I lack inspiration and then it’s really hard to do something. Instead I’ve been thinking of something I could do that would make me wanna code like really bad again. I’m thinking of...
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Math Is Still...
Invisible ‘Demon’ Discovered in Odd Superconductor Physicists have long suspected that hunks of metal could vibrate in a peculiar way that would be all...
a year ago
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Invisible ‘Demon’ Discovered in Odd Superconductor

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Physicists have long suspected that hunks of metal could vibrate in a peculiar way that would be all but invisible. Now physicists have spotted these “demon modes.” The post Invisible ‘Demon’ Discovered in Odd Superconductor first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Rest of World -...
Indonesia is trying to block LGBTQIA content from the internet A new broadcast bill imposes curbs on LGBTQIA content and other “negative” material, potentially...
7 months ago
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Indonesia is trying to block LGBTQIA content from the internet

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

7 months ago
A new broadcast bill imposes curbs on LGBTQIA content and other “negative” material, potentially hurting content creators and broadcasters in Indonesia.
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Maps Mania
Mapping Train Connections
5 months ago
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Mapping Train Connections

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

5 months ago
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Dan Slimmon
No Observability Without Theory: The Talk Last month, I had the unadulterated pleasure of presenting “No Observability Without Theory” at...
7 months ago
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No Observability Without Theory: The Talk

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

7 months ago
Last month, I had the unadulterated pleasure of presenting “No Observability Without Theory” at Monitorama 2024. If you’ve never been to Monitorama, I can’t recommend it enough. I think it’s the best tech conference, period. This talk was adapted from an old blog post of mine,...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Evolution and Copy-Paste Errors Evolution deniers (I know there is a spectrum, but generally speaking) are terrible scientists and...
9 months ago
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Evolution and Copy-Paste Errors

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

9 months ago
Evolution deniers (I know there is a spectrum, but generally speaking) are terrible scientists and logicians. The obvious reason is because they are committing the primary mortal sin of pseudoscience – working backwards from a desired conclusion rather than following evidence and...
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TheCollector
The Life & Mysterious Disappearance of Glenn Miller undefined
2 weeks ago
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The Life & Mysterious Disappearance of Glenn Miller

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2 weeks ago
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Willem's Blog
The birth of a child Witnessing the birth of a child changes a man, for science and curiosity I wore a biometric sensor...
over a year ago
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The birth of a child

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

over a year ago
Witnessing the birth of a child changes a man, for science and curiosity I wore a biometric sensor capturing the impact of birth on yours truly.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'What Is Called an Amateur' I recently encountered a choice example of academic snobbery, the lording of a tenured professor...
a year ago
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'What Is Called an Amateur'

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

a year ago
I recently encountered a choice example of academic snobbery, the lording of a tenured professor over lecturers, adjuncts and even “mere assistant professors.” Normally the perpetrator tries to disguise his snottiness or treat it as a joke but in this case the prima donna was...
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Tom Blomfield
Making something people want - The GoCardless story I’m a co-founder of GoCardless, a direct debit payments company in London. This is the story of our...
over a year ago
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Making something people want - The GoCardless story

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

over a year ago
I’m a co-founder of GoCardless, a direct debit payments company in London. This is the story of our first two years and the people we’ve met along the way. Making something no-one wants One startup I know very well in San Francisco was started by 3 ex-financiers. Their idea...
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Scott Jenson
Design can be free (part 2) My last post was on how ‘smart devices’ create overly complex designs by throwing in too many...
over a year ago
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Design can be free (part 2)

from Scott Jenson [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
My last post was on how ‘smart devices’ create overly complex designs by throwing in too many features and misusing their hardware. It showed how great design doesn’t need to be fancy. Design, in fact, can be free. This post wants to push those assumptions a bit, redesigning a...
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Seth's Blog
Amazon Smile gets a frown I’m pretty sure how the first meetings went almost a decade ago: “Well, we’re paying our affiliates...
over a year ago
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Amazon Smile gets a frown

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

over a year ago
I’m pretty sure how the first meetings went almost a decade ago: “Well, we’re paying our affiliates 5% for referrals. If we pay charities a tenth of that and call it a donation, it’ll be great PR and we’ll also make a profit on every sale because we won’t need to pay a full...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Escape Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The key to life is indulgence in maladaptive...
a year ago
24

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Escape

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

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The key to life is indulgence in maladaptive behaviors. Today's News: Guys, holy shit.
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TheCollector
Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms undefined
9 months ago
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms

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9 months ago
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Twelve Mile Circle –...
Mitten Accomplished I got a unique opportunity to visit counties in a corner of the Midwest I hadn’t touched much when...
over a year ago
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Mitten Accomplished

from Twelve Mile Circle – An Appreciation of Unusual Places [alt+shift+b] in cartography

over a year ago
I got a unique opportunity to visit counties in a corner of the Midwest I hadn’t touched much when my older kid decided to go to college in Michigan. But it didn’t offer a lot of time for my quest, just a four year window before graduation. Even so, I set what I thought was...
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Data Boutique
How Data Boutique Works #1: Data Auctions The data auction system explained
10 months ago
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How Data Boutique Works #1: Data Auctions

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10 months ago
The data auction system explained
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The American Scholar
Jason Middlebrook Tree rings in time The post Jason Middlebrook appeared first on The American Scholar.
4 months ago
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Jason Middlebrook

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4 months ago
Tree rings in time The post Jason Middlebrook appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
Science is all in your head Science seems to support the idea that you are a pattern recognition machine
over a year ago
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Science is all in your head

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over a year ago
Science seems to support the idea that you are a pattern recognition machine
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TheCollector
Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology? undefined
a year ago
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Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?

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a year ago
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The American Scholar
Writer on Board The cruise story from Twain to Shteyngart The post Writer on Board appeared first on The American...
4 months ago
38

Writer on Board

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4 months ago
The cruise story from Twain to Shteyngart The post Writer on Board appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Coding Horror
The 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet It's my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the...
over a year ago
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The 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet

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over a year ago
It's my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the 501(c)(3) charity of the winner’s choice: By January 1st, 2030, completely autonomous self-driving cars meeting SAE J3016 level 5 will be commercially available for
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Anecdotal Evidence
'What Will Become of My Diary?' “During the morning hours of the first of September 1939, war broke out between Germany and Poland...
5 months ago
44

'What Will Become of My Diary?'

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5 months ago
“During the morning hours of the first of September 1939, war broke out between Germany and Poland and indirectly between Germany and Poland’s allies, England and France. This war will indeed bring destruction upon human civilization which merits annihilation and destruction....
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Open Culture
Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter of Advice to People Living in the Year 2088 There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters...
a month ago
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Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter of Advice to People Living in the Year 2088

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a month ago
There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters to the future, then publish them in Time magazine as part of an ad campaign. In fact, that time wasn’t so very long ago: it was the year 1988, to be precise, when no less an...
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ribbonfarm
Going Sessile One of the biggest changes in my personality with middle age is that I no longer really enjoy travel...
8 months ago
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Going Sessile

from ribbonfarm [alt+shift+b] in literature

8 months ago
One of the biggest changes in my personality with middle age is that I no longer really enjoy travel beyond local weekend getaways. Almost no destination has a pain/novelty ratio that makes it worth it. On the one hand, I’ve traveled enough that few places hold the promise of...
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watchTowr Labs
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire - Mitel MiCollab CVE-2024-35286, CVE-2024-41713 And An 0day It is not just APTs that like to target telephone systems, but ourselves at watchTowr too. We can't...
a month ago
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Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire - Mitel MiCollab CVE-2024-35286, CVE-2024-41713 And An 0day

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a month ago
It is not just APTs that like to target telephone systems, but ourselves at watchTowr too. We can't overstate the consequences of an attacker crossing the boundary from the 'computer system' to the 'telephone system'. We've seen attackers realise this in 2024,
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TheCollector
What Is Panpsychism? undefined
4 weeks ago
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What Is Panpsychism?

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4 weeks ago
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The personal website...
The legacy of NFTs A new trend is sending shock waves through the world of art, collecting, finance, and...
over a year ago
8

The legacy of NFTs

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

over a year ago
A new trend is sending shock waves through the world of art, collecting, finance, and investing. It’s the result of a perfect storm: one part scientific breakthrough, one part new financial paradigm, one part reflection of world events. Some people attribute it entirely to the...
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IEEE Spectrum
The Man Who Coined The Word "Robot" Defends Himself You’re familiar with Karel Čapek, right? If not, you should be—he’s the guy who (along with his...
a year ago
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The Man Who Coined The Word "Robot" Defends Himself

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

a year ago
You’re familiar with Karel Čapek, right? If not, you should be—he’s the guy who (along with his brother Josef) invented the word “robot.” Čapek introduced robots to the world in 1921, when his play “R.U.R.” (subtitled “Rossum’s Universal Robots”) was first performed in Prague. It...
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diamond geezer
Thames flooding Several times a year, aligned to the full moon, the Thames sees some particularly high tides....
a year ago
16

Thames flooding

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

a year ago
Several times a year, aligned to the full moon, the Thames sees some particularly high tides. Sometimes, after particularly heavy spells of rain, much more water comes down the Thames than usual. And when these two events coincide various paths, piers and embankments that don't...
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diamond geezer
Weather 2024 the dg weather review of the year used to do this with big colourful monthly tables but that's too...
a month ago
27

Weather 2024

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

a month ago
the dg weather review of the year used to do this with big colourful monthly tables but that's too much effort for too little reward so here's a breezier summary. All data is for Hampstead, as per usual.  temperature  rainfall   sunshine  Jancold snapaveragesunny Febvery...
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Adventures In...
Make these ornaments please It’s that time of year when geographers the world over gather together in, let’s be honest, just...
a month ago
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Make these ornaments please

from Adventures In Mapping [alt+shift+b] in cartography

a month ago
It’s that time of year when geographers the world over gather together in, let’s be honest, just slightly awkward office holiday parties. We dedicate 82-86% of our mental capacities to socializing with our colleagues over deserts and drinks, while the remaining 14-16% remain...
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Notes on software...
Errors and Zig At TigerBeetle these last few weeks I've been doing a mix of documenting client libraries, writing...
a year ago
9

Errors and Zig

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

a year ago
At TigerBeetle these last few weeks I've been doing a mix of documenting client libraries, writing sample code for client libraries, and writing integration tests against the sample code. The client library documentation is generated with a Zig script. The sample code is...
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Eric Bailey
Undercover Founder
over a year ago
6

Undercover Founder

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over a year ago
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Noahpinion
Putin is a rest stop on the road of post-Soviet collapse The narrative of Russian revitalization is more hype than reality.
a year ago
28

Putin is a rest stop on the road of post-Soviet collapse

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a year ago
The narrative of Russian revitalization is more hype than reality.
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TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest undefined
3 months ago
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest

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3 months ago
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TheCollector
The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues undefined
3 months ago
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The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues

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3 months ago
undefined
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SatPost by Trung...
Gordon Ramsay's Apprenticeship The iconic chef said a top-tier mentor (Marco Pierre-White) taught him the value of learning high...
10 months ago
70

Gordon Ramsay's Apprenticeship

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

10 months ago
The iconic chef said a top-tier mentor (Marco Pierre-White) taught him the value of learning high standards and how to take the reins.
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Londonist
That Time Lord Onslow's Monkey Escaped Onto The Tube Simian crisis at Barbican.
a year ago
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That Time Lord Onslow's Monkey Escaped Onto The Tube

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a year ago
Simian crisis at Barbican.
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AFAR Media - Travel...
These Are the 7 Best Hotels for Watching the Perseid Meteor Shower—and You Can Still Book Them
a year ago
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These Are the 7 Best Hotels for Watching the Perseid Meteor Shower—and You Can Still Book Them

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

a year ago
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Trying to Understand...
When The Music's Over ... Turn out the lights.
11 months ago
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When The Music's Over ...

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11 months ago
Turn out the lights.
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Willem's Blog
The Problem With Bitcoin Some thoughts on the long term viability of Bitcoin's rising value.
a month ago
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The Problem With Bitcoin

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a month ago
Some thoughts on the long term viability of Bitcoin's rising value.
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
My Second Month of Paintings Since January 1, I have been posting one piece of art a day.
over a year ago
5

My Second Month of Paintings

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

over a year ago
Since January 1, I have been posting one piece of art a day.
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Citation Needed
Issue 61 – Soft war by the enemy How will recent Supreme Court decisions affect the crypto world? Also, more absurdity from the...
7 months ago
90

Issue 61 – Soft war by the enemy

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7 months ago
How will recent Supreme Court decisions affect the crypto world? Also, more absurdity from the crypto lobby, and some new regulatory actions.
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Seth's Blog
Don’t rush …but hurry. The words matter. Rushing has a built-in excuse. Rushing pushes us to skip steps or ship...
9 months ago
68

Don’t rush

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

9 months ago
…but hurry. The words matter. Rushing has a built-in excuse. Rushing pushes us to skip steps or ship junk. But hurrying acknowledges how precious this moment in time is. It honors our good fortune to be in this place, able to contribute something generous.
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Maps Mania
Global Burning
a year ago
13

Global Burning

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a year ago
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TheCollector
Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System undefined
a year ago
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System

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a year ago
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Retail Design Blog
Hans & Werner by van Baal interior design + Tomasz Budnicki As interior designers, we often create spaces that are complete and self-contained. But this time we...
3 months ago
33

Hans & Werner by van Baal interior design + Tomasz Budnicki

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3 months ago
As interior designers, we often create spaces that are complete and self-contained. But this time we have taken a different...
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David Heinemeier...
Living with Linux and Android after two decades of Apple It now seems laughable that only a few months ago, I was questioning whether I'd actually be able to...
6 months ago
58

Living with Linux and Android after two decades of Apple

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

6 months ago
It now seems laughable that only a few months ago, I was questioning whether I'd actually be able to switch off the Apple stack and stick to my choice. That's what two decades worth of entrenched habits will do to your belief in change! But not only was it possible, it's been...
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nanoscale views
Seeing through your head - diffuse imaging From the medical diagnostic perspective (and for many other applications), you can understand why it...
a month ago
44

Seeing through your head - diffuse imaging

from nanoscale views [alt+shift+b] in science

a month ago
From the medical diagnostic perspective (and for many other applications), you can understand why it might be very convenient to be able to perform some kind of optical imaging of the interior of what you'd ordinarily consider opaque objects.  Even when a wavelength range is...
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Spoon & Tamago
Japan’s Stationery Award Offers a Return to the Primitive Early civilizations had it all figured out. At least according to the Kokuyo Design Awards, arguably...
10 months ago
84

Japan’s Stationery Award Offers a Return to the Primitive

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

10 months ago
Early civilizations had it all figured out. At least according to the Kokuyo Design Awards, arguably Japan’s most-influential stationery design award, which this year asked designers to look to the past. “If we return to the idea of ‘primitive’ in order to create the future,”...
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Math Is Still...
How Colorful Ribbon Diagrams Became the Face of Proteins Proteins are often visualized as cascades of curled ribbons and twisted strings, which both reveal...
5 months ago
50

How Colorful Ribbon Diagrams Became the Face of Proteins

from Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan – Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

5 months ago
Proteins are often visualized as cascades of curled ribbons and twisted strings, which both reveal and conceal the mess of atoms that make up these impossibly complex molecules. The post How Colorful Ribbon Diagrams Became the Face of Proteins first appeared on Quanta...
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Making software...
Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer 2022-12-08 Introduction I've made the switch...
over a year ago
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Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer

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

over a year ago
Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer 2022-12-08 Introduction I've made the switch to Alpine Linux as my main laptop/desktop hybrid workstation and I love it - warts and all. This post will follow my process building my Alpine Linux "installer" I used for this...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'We Find Other Things Which We Liked Better' One night in the spring of 1766, Boswell and Goldsmith visited Dr. Johnson unannounced and asked if...
11 months ago
20

'We Find Other Things Which We Liked Better'

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11 months ago
One night in the spring of 1766, Boswell and Goldsmith visited Dr. Johnson unannounced and asked if he wished to join them at the Mitre Tavern on Fleet Street in London. Johnson was “indisposed” and Goldsmith said, “[W]e will not go to the Mitre to-night, since we cannot have the...
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Christopher Butler
The Road Through Your Screen
a year ago
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The Road Through Your Screen

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a year ago
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TheCollector
What Is Transcendentalism? undefined
a year ago
31

What Is Transcendentalism?

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a year ago
undefined
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Conspire Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also demanding that the Reptilians take more power...
7 months ago
36

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Conspire

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

7 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also demanding that the Reptilians take more power because in the modern world you need an executive branch that can act rapidly. Today's News:
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Old Structures...
Not Quite Added I could have sworn I’d written about this building before, but I can’t find it, so here goes: when...
6 months ago
53

Not Quite Added

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

6 months ago
I could have sworn I’d written about this building before, but I can’t find it, so here goes: when is adding a floor not adding a floor? This is 935 Broadway/159 Fifth Avenue. The trapezoidal site is south across 22nd Street from the wide end of the Flatiron building (on the...
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symmetry magazine
India’s gem at CERN: Archana Sharma The first Indian scientist to join CERN was recently recognized with the highest honor of India for...
a year ago
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India’s gem at CERN: Archana Sharma

from symmetry magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
The first Indian scientist to join CERN was recently recognized with the highest honor of India for overseas citizens.
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History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights JamesHoare Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
a month ago
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights

from History Today Feed [alt+shift+b] in history

a month ago
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights JamesHoare Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Netlify Public Folder, Part V: Now With an Image CDN On ShopTalkShow no. 628, Chris and Dave got to talking about s3/r2 and hosted media solutions. Dave...
5 months ago
45

Netlify Public Folder, Part V: Now With an Image CDN

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

5 months ago
On ShopTalkShow no. 628, Chris and Dave got to talking about s3/r2 and hosted media solutions. Dave graciously gave a shoutout to my Netlify “public folder” workflow, which reminded me of something I’ve been meaning to write about. Chris mentions how he prefers being able to drop...
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Daniel Immke's Blog...
How I quit social media Just to keep things clear, I consider social media to be any service where you’re presenting...
over a year ago
13

How I quit social media

from Daniel Immke's Blog Posts [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Just to keep things clear, I consider social media to be any service where you’re presenting yourself using your real name. I don’t think…
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Atoms vs Bits
80/20 Strength Training or, weightlifting for lazy people
a year ago
20

80/20 Strength Training

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a year ago
or, weightlifting for lazy people
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Common Edge
Inga Saffron on the Philadelphia 76ers’ Push for a New Downtown Arena A talk with the Pulitzer Prize winning architecture critic of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
a month ago
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Inga Saffron on the Philadelphia 76ers’ Push for a New Downtown Arena

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a month ago
A talk with the Pulitzer Prize winning architecture critic of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Ben Borgers
Software Seems Resilient
over a year ago
10

Software Seems Resilient

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over a year ago
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Simply Explained
How I Built an NFC Movie Library for my Kids When I was a kid, my sister and I had a tower of VHS tapes we watched endlessly. Fast-forward to...
a year ago
8

How I Built an NFC Movie Library for my Kids

from Simply Explained [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
When I was a kid, my sister and I had a tower of VHS tapes we watched endlessly. Fast-forward to today, and my children's movie collection is vastly different. It's completely digital and dispersed across services. I wanted to recreate the tangible magic of my childhood for them.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Springtime Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Finally an uplifting SMBC. Today's News: Last...
a year ago
19

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Springtime

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

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Finally an uplifting SMBC. Today's News: Last chance to get signed books and free audiobooks by Phil Plait and Gretchen McCulloch!
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Dustin Curtis
Block Carefully A couple of years ago, I posted a slight criticism of Elon Musk that led prominent venture...
3 months ago
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Block Carefully

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3 months ago
A couple of years ago, I posted a slight criticism of Elon Musk that led prominent venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to block me. Since then, I have been unable to view his posts1, which is a shame because I valued his thoughts and opinions. Today, X engineering announced...
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The Honest Broker
How Miles Davis Hired John Coltrane A fascinating interlude from James Kaplan's new book '3 Shades of Blue'
10 months ago
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How Miles Davis Hired John Coltrane

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10 months ago
A fascinating interlude from James Kaplan's new book '3 Shades of Blue'
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Making software...
First Letter Pseudo Element First Letter Pseudo Element 2019-05-03 In today's TypeTip we will be taking a look at the often...
over a year ago
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First Letter Pseudo Element

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over a year ago
First Letter Pseudo Element 2019-05-03 In today's TypeTip we will be taking a look at the often overlooked :first-letter CSS pseudo element. Though you might only use this for specific article-format web pages, it's still a nice-to-have in your web dev toolset. The HTML Like most...
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TheCollector
Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History undefined
a year ago
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History

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a year ago
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
Three Words Invented by Buckminster Fuller A simple post to introduce you to three words coined by one of my heroes, Buckminster Fuller. When...
over a year ago
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Three Words Invented by Buckminster Fuller

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

over a year ago
A simple post to introduce you to three words coined by one of my heroes, Buckminster Fuller. When current words couldn't contain his ideas, Bucky would invent new ones. Here are three terms you should know.
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The Marginalian
Milan Kundera on Animal Rights and What True Human Goodness Really Means "True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient...
a year ago
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Milan Kundera on Animal Rights and What True Human Goodness Really Means

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a year ago
"True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true mortal test, its fundamental test... consists of its attitude toward those who are at its mercy: animals."
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A Beautiful Site
Success Requires Luck I've concluded that successful "makers" have one thing in common: luck. It's not that strategy and...
over a year ago
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Success Requires Luck

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

over a year ago
I've concluded that successful "makers" have one thing in common: luck. It's not that strategy and vision don't play a role in success, but nobody — literally nobody — can guarantee that a product or service will be successful. Think about some of the major corporations that...
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TheCollector
“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC undefined
11 months ago
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC

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11 months ago
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Blog - Guerrilla...
Maps Without Words; Words Without Maps During the early period of my self-isolation in Arizona, USA, Guerrilla Cartography put out a call...
over a year ago
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Maps Without Words; Words Without Maps

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
During the early period of my self-isolation in Arizona, USA, Guerrilla Cartography put out a call for maps that represented “Community,” to be completed in 24 hours. Along with the call for maps, GC offered and organized free online talks, which included various and interesting...
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mtlynch.io
Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam The idea of social capital has interested me for a long time, but when I finally sat down to read...
over a year ago
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Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam

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

over a year ago
The idea of social capital has interested me for a long time, but when I finally sat down to read this book, it was painfully dry. It offers an eye-opening investigation into the many ways that civic engagement has declined in the US, but it was a real slog to get through.
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PostHog's RSS Feed
How we monetized our open source devtool So, you’ve decided to build an open-source product. While your choice is highly commendable, the...
over a year ago
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How we monetized our open source devtool

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

over a year ago
So, you’ve decided to build an open-source product. While your choice is highly commendable, the resounding applause from devs on GitHub and Hacker…
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 045: Google's just getting started December 15, 2023.
a year ago
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AI Roundup 045: Google's just getting started

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a year ago
December 15, 2023.
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TheCollector
What Impact Did Realism Have on Society? undefined
9 months ago
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?

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devonzuegel.com
Remote work will break the US monopoly on global talent Remote work is creating a new economic niche, and countries that put in the work to fill it will...
over a year ago
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Remote work will break the US monopoly on global talent

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

over a year ago
Remote work is creating a new economic niche, and countries that put in the work to fill it will finally be able to compete with the US to attract talent. This is the once-in-a-generation opportunity for small, stable countries to grow, diversify, and up-skill their...
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Ben Borgers
AI is an impediment to learning web development
6 months ago
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AI is an impediment to learning web development

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6 months ago
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Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
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Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp

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a year ago
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 073: Music make you lose control June 28, 2024.
7 months ago
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AI Roundup 073: Music make you lose control

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7 months ago
June 28, 2024.
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Making software...
Setting Up a Pi-hole Server with Eero Setting Up a Pi-hole Server with Eero 2022-03-14 For the past few years, I've been using a set of...
over a year ago
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Setting Up a Pi-hole Server with Eero

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

over a year ago
Setting Up a Pi-hole Server with Eero 2022-03-14 For the past few years, I've been using a set of Eero routers as my home mesh network. It's worked fairly great in that time and even seamlessly transitioned without any hiccups when my family moved house. During the initial setup,...
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99% Invisible
Craptions [EPISODE] Bad closed captions can be entertaining, but they can be serious, too, because captions are a...
a year ago
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Craptions [EPISODE]

from 99% Invisible [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Bad closed captions can be entertaining, but they can be serious, too, because captions are a critical tool for lots of lots of people. There are the people learning a new language, the easily confused, and of course captions are essential for people who are Deaf or...
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The Ruffian
42 Reflections On the Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything An oldie but goldie
11 months ago
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42 Reflections On the Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything

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11 months ago
An oldie but goldie
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Asterisk
From Warp Speed to 100 Days During the COVID pandemic, we learned to design vaccines within weeks. Now, the bottleneck is...
a year ago
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From Warp Speed to 100 Days

from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
During the COVID pandemic, we learned to design vaccines within weeks. Now, the bottleneck is testing that they work. To get even faster, we need innovations in clinical trial design.
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The Great Discontent...
Britt Reilly Britt Reilly's work lives at the intersection of immersive visual arts, historic architecture and...
2 months ago
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Britt Reilly

from The Great Discontent (TGD) [alt+shift+b] in creative

2 months ago
Britt Reilly's work lives at the intersection of immersive visual arts, historic architecture and preservation, and modernist design. Britt is the executive director and collections curator at the Irving & Aaronel deRoy Gruber Foundation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and when we...
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Marine Madness
Fear factor: How sensationalised shark documentaries undermine conservation efforts Experts explain why misleading documentaries about sharks can be problematic. When Brendon Sing...
over a year ago
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Fear factor: How sensationalised shark documentaries undermine conservation efforts

from Marine Madness [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
Experts explain why misleading documentaries about sharks can be problematic. When Brendon Sing first encountered sharks he was as a young boy behind the safety of aquarium glass in his native South Africa. Like many children of his generation, Brendon’s limited knowledge about...
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Londonist
Ticket Alert: The Devil Wears Prada Musical On Sale From Today Tickets? For the West End? Groundbreaking.
a year ago
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Ticket Alert: The Devil Wears Prada Musical On Sale From Today

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a year ago
Tickets? For the West End? Groundbreaking.
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Why Denmark and Finland Are Must-Visits for Foodies
5 months ago
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Why Denmark and Finland Are Must-Visits for Foodies

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

5 months ago
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Seth's Blog
Where are you? When you’re reading a good historical novel, you might be there and then. When you’re checking your...
11 months ago
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Where are you?

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

11 months ago
When you’re reading a good historical novel, you might be there and then. When you’re checking your email, you are in a conversation between and among, over there, not here. When you’re imagining what went wrong in that conversation yesterday, you are living in yesterday. And...
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African History...
The Mali empire: A complete history (ca. 1250-1650) At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending...
11 months ago
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The Mali empire: A complete history (ca. 1250-1650)

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

11 months ago
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending over an estimated 1.2 million square kilometers in West Africa. Encompassing at least five modern African states, the empire produced some of the continent's most renowned historical...
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Londonist
Things To Do In London On Christmas Day Guided tours, river trips and Christmas lunch.
a year ago
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Things To Do In London On Christmas Day

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a year ago
Guided tours, river trips and Christmas lunch.
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Joel Gascoigne
The power of company retreats: Thoughts after the 8th Buffer retreat By now we have a fairly long history of doing retreats at Buffer. We’re now a 75 person team...
over a year ago
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The power of company retreats: Thoughts after the 8th Buffer retreat

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

over a year ago
By now we have a fairly long history of doing retreats at Buffer. We’re now a 75 person team [https://buffer.com/about], and we just wrapped up our 8th company retreat in Madrid, Spain. Here’s a quick history of retreat locations, timeline and size over time: 1.
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
How to timeout a promise Timeouts are one of the key building blocks to make your app stable. In short, if you send a request...
over a year ago
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How to timeout a promise

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

over a year ago
Timeouts are one of the key building blocks to make your app stable. In short, if you send a request to an endpoint and a response does not, for whatever reason, come soon, we act as if the request failed and fall back to plan B — try again, show an error message and let the user...
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Hundred Rabbits
internet in paradise Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging...
over a year ago
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internet in paradise

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

over a year ago
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef. Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
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devonzuegel.com
The silence is deafening Imagine you're at a dinner party, and you're getting into a heated argument. As you start yelling,...
over a year ago
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The silence is deafening

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

over a year ago
Imagine you're at a dinner party, and you're getting into a heated argument. As you start yelling, the other people quickly hush their voices and start glaring at you. None of the onlookers have to take further action—it's clear from their facial expressions that you're being a...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
My New Startup Checklist some of you may know I've recently started a new company. I'm not ready to talk about -that- yet,...
a year ago
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My New Startup Checklist

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

a year ago
some of you may know I've recently started a new company. I'm not ready to talk about -that- yet, but I did want to capture some notes on logistical stuff I have had to ramp up on as a first time founder. hopefully this helps somebody out there.
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Fonts In Use – Blog...
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer movie titles Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: annyas.com License: All Rights Reserved....
over a year ago
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer movie titles

from Fonts In Use – Blog Only [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: annyas.com License: All Rights Reserved. “Rankin/Bass present” is lettering based on Weiß-Initialen Serie II, or Weiss Initials Series II, with the alternate forms for A and E, rendered bolder, with rough contours and a bouncing...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Love Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Every time you pray to God, one finger of the...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Love

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

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Every time you pray to God, one finger of the infinite monkey's paw curls inward. Today's News:
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Paul Graham: Essays
How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub
over a year ago
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How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub

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over a year ago
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TheCollector
How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art? undefined
6 months ago
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?

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6 months ago
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Dan Slimmon
Platform teams don’t need to act like companies Lately you see a lot of software company R&D teams organized around internal products. The Search...
a year ago
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Platform teams don’t need to act like companies

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

a year ago
Lately you see a lot of software company R&D teams organized around internal products. The Search Team provides a Search service and its “customers” are the teams whose code consumes that service. The Developer Productivity Team’s product is a suite of tools for managing local...
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Seth's Blog
A finite ordered set of interesting objects The alphabet is one. 26 letters, no more. One order, that’s it. The Beatles are another. John, Paul,...
a year ago
31

A finite ordered set of interesting objects

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

a year ago
The alphabet is one. 26 letters, no more. One order, that’s it. The Beatles are another. John, Paul, George and then Ringo. The Marx Brothers, the Three Stooges, The Supremes. The astrological zodiac gets us to twelve, but I’m having a really difficult time finding a memorable...
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Musings on Markets
Disagreements and First Principles: The Pushback on my Tesla Valuation I wrote about my most recent valuation of Tesla just over a week ago, and as has always been the...
over a year ago
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Disagreements and First Principles: The Pushback on my Tesla Valuation

from Musings on Markets [alt+shift+b] in finance

over a year ago
I wrote about my most recent valuation of Tesla just over a week ago, and as has always been the case when I value this company, I have heard from both sides of the Tesla divide. Some of you believe that I am being far too generous in my forecasts of revenues and profitability...
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Seth's Blog
The value of artifacts An artifact is an object that holds or signifies an idea. A book on paper is an artifact: it’s the...
3 weeks ago
21

The value of artifacts

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

3 weeks ago
An artifact is an object that holds or signifies an idea. A book on paper is an artifact: it’s the object plus the words. Now that you can get the words in many other ways, the value of the book is changed. A wedding ring is an artifact. If lost, it has sentimental value far […]
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Computer Things
Stroustrup's Rule Just finished two weeks of workshops and am exhausted, so this one will be light. Hanuka Sale Logic...
a month ago
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Stroustrup's Rule

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

a month ago
Just finished two weeks of workshops and am exhausted, so this one will be light. Hanuka Sale Logic for Programmers is on sale until the end of Chanukah! That's Jan 2nd if you're not Jewish. Get it for 40% off here. Stroustrup's Rule I first encountered Stroustrup's Rule on this...
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Archinect - Features
Your Architecture Work Sample Isn’t Your Portfolio. 10 Creative Tips To Keep in Mind When Job... In many cases, your work sample is the first visual evidence you will offer a prospective employer...
4 months ago
51

Your Architecture Work Sample Isn’t Your Portfolio. 10 Creative Tips To Keep in Mind When Job Searching

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

4 months ago
In many cases, your work sample is the first visual evidence you will offer a prospective employer when applying for a new architectural position. What you include in your sample, as well as how you structure and present it, is therefore important for creating a good first...
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TheCollector
Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics undefined
a year ago
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics

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a year ago
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Joel Gascoigne
Don't register your idea as a company * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * When to...
over a year ago
19

Don't register your idea as a company

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

over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * When to incorporate is one of those topics which comes up time and time again, and there is much conflicting advice out there. I’m lucky enough to have a number of different experiences and...
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Product Identity
The Dumbification of our smart screens Re: Enshittification: How screens might become dumber
7 months ago
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The Dumbification of our smart screens

from Product Identity [alt+shift+b] in design

7 months ago
Re: Enshittification: How screens might become dumber
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Construction Physics
Does construction ever get cheaper? I've mentioned a few times that I generally prefer looking at construction progress through the lens...
over a year ago
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Does construction ever get cheaper?

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

over a year ago
I've mentioned a few times that I generally prefer looking at construction progress through the lens of cost indexes rather than productivity indexes. Whereas productivity indexes try to track changes in the amount of construction we get for a given amount of labor (for labor...
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The Honest Broker
The Blue Collar Jobs of Philip Glass I praise his work as a composer—but also as plumber, taxi driver, steel mill worker, and other...
5 months ago
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The Blue Collar Jobs of Philip Glass

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

5 months ago
I praise his work as a composer—but also as plumber, taxi driver, steel mill worker, and other trades
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Citation Needed
Polling: Are Democratic voters really “increasingly gravitating towards crypto”? Paradigm has polled some Democratic voters about crypto and released a summary of their results. How...
5 months ago
63

Polling: Are Democratic voters really “increasingly gravitating towards crypto”?

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

5 months ago
Paradigm has polled some Democratic voters about crypto and released a summary of their results. How does it stack up to other industry polls, which are often heavily manipulated to paint a deceptively rosy picture?
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GitButler
GitButler is joining the Open Source Pledge GitButler is joining the Open Source Pledge to help move towards a more sustainable open source...
5 months ago
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GitButler is joining the Open Source Pledge

from GitButler [alt+shift+b] in technology

5 months ago
GitButler is joining the Open Source Pledge to help move towards a more sustainable open source ecosystem.
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Farnam Street
Language: Why We Hear More Than Words It’s a classic complaint in relationships, especially romantic ones: “She said she was okay with me...
over a year ago
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Language: Why We Hear More Than Words

from Farnam Street [alt+shift+b] in finance

over a year ago
It’s a classic complaint in relationships, especially romantic ones: “She said she was okay with me forgetting her birthday! Then why is she throwing dishes in the kitchen? Are the two things related? I wish I had a translator for my spouse. What is going on?” The answer: Extreme...
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History Today Feed
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review ‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review JamesHoare Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review

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4 months ago
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review JamesHoare Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
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Rest of World -...
Five globally successful Chinese companies you’ve never heard of TikTok and Shein are household names, but ShareIt and Yalla aren't far behind.
a year ago
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Five globally successful Chinese companies you’ve never heard of

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a year ago
TikTok and Shein are household names, but ShareIt and Yalla aren't far behind.
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CONTEMPORIST
A Vaulted Ceiling Is A Dramatic Feature Inside This Modern Barn House BLA Design Group has sent us photos of a modern barn house they completed that features an atrium...
a year ago
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A Vaulted Ceiling Is A Dramatic Feature Inside This Modern Barn House

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a year ago
BLA Design Group has sent us photos of a modern barn house they completed that features an atrium space that encourages activity and connectivity for a young family in British Columbia, Canada. The home sits on an irregular site located at the end of a cul-de-sac, and is designed...
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Stephen Wolfram...
Introducing Chat Notebooks: Integrating LLMs into the Notebook Paradigm This is part of an ongoing series about our LLM technology:ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram...
a year ago
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Introducing Chat Notebooks: Integrating LLMs into the Notebook Paradigm

from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
This is part of an ongoing series about our LLM technology:ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin KitThe New World of LLM Functions: Integrating LLM Technology into the Wolfram LanguagePrompts for Work & Play:...
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Notes on software...
Leaders, you need to share organization success stories more frequently This post goes out to anyone who leads a team: managers, directors, VPs, executives. You need to...
over a year ago
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Leaders, you need to share organization success stories more frequently

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over a year ago
This post goes out to anyone who leads a team: managers, directors, VPs, executives. You need to share organization success stories with your organization on a regular and frequent basis. Talk about sales wins, talk about new services released, talk about the positive impact of a...
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Vadim Kravcenko
🏆 Promotion-based development While researching how to create a proper career path for employees and the different ways companies...
over a year ago
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🏆 Promotion-based development

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

over a year ago
While researching how to create a proper career path for employees and the different ways companies do promotions, I stumbled […] The post 🏆 Promotion-based development appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Home on Erik...
My issue with GPU-accelerated deep learning I've been spending several hundred bucks renting GPU instances on AWS over the last year. The...
over a year ago
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My issue with GPU-accelerated deep learning

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

over a year ago
I've been spending several hundred bucks renting GPU instances on AWS over the last year. The speedup from a GPU is awesome and hard to deny. GPUs have taken over the field. Maybe following the footsteps of Bitcoin mining there's some research on using FPGA (I know very little...
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TheCollector
Carl Jung’s Theory of Archetypes: Major Archetypes, History, Criticism undefined
a month ago
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Carl Jung’s Theory of Archetypes: Major Archetypes, History, Criticism

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a month ago
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Collective knowledge systems I think you could make a strong argument that the most important technologies developed over the...
over a year ago
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Collective knowledge systems

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over a year ago
I think you could make a strong argument that the most important technologies developed over the last decade are a set of systems that are…
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The Honest Broker
Get Ready to Pay More for Music The power brokers have already squeezed musicians—so fans will be next
a year ago
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Get Ready to Pay More for Music

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a year ago
The power brokers have already squeezed musicians—so fans will be next
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Platformer
Ten strategies for replacing Twitter from people who used to work there Announcing 'Extremely Hardcore,' Zoë Schiffer’s book on Musk’s Twitter takeover
a year ago
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Ten strategies for replacing Twitter from people who used to work there

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a year ago
Announcing 'Extremely Hardcore,' Zoë Schiffer’s book on Musk’s Twitter takeover
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Calculated Risk
MBA: Mortgage Applications Increased in Weekly Survey From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Increase in Latest MBA Weekly Survey Mortgage applications...
a week ago
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MBA: Mortgage Applications Increased in Weekly Survey

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

a week ago
From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Increase in Latest MBA Weekly Survey Mortgage applications increased 0.1 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending January 17,...
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Open Culture
Meet Madame Inès Decourcelle, One of the Very First Female Taxi Drivers in Paris (Circa 1908) If you can read this, you almost certainly know the French word for a professional automobile...
6 months ago
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Meet Madame Inès Decourcelle, One of the Very First Female Taxi Drivers in Paris (Circa 1908)

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6 months ago
If you can read this, you almost certainly know the French word for a professional automobile driver. That’s because we use the same word in English: chauffeur. French nouns, unlike English ones, come in masculine and feminine varieties, and that -eur ending unmistakably...
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A Beautiful Site
A free HTML, CSS, and JavaScript beautifier Ten years ago, I launched DirtyMarkup to clean up dirty code. It was a fun little tool, but its best...
over a year ago
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A free HTML, CSS, and JavaScript beautifier

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

over a year ago
Ten years ago, I launched DirtyMarkup to clean up dirty code. It was a fun little tool, but its best feature was that it was easy to use and didn't have intrusive advertisements. I sold DirtyMarkup a couple years ago, and since then the new owners slapped on a header that makes...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'But Johnson Fought Back' Epigraphs to books are often superfluous. They can come off as cute or pretentious. They add...
4 months ago
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'But Johnson Fought Back'

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4 months ago
Epigraphs to books are often superfluous. They can come off as cute or pretentious. They add little or nothing to the manner in which we read the book and often amount to our author showing off, touting his own vast reading or giving himself an unearned endorsement. The most...
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Londonist
Visit These 15 Beautiful Castles In Kent Clifftop fortresses to grand country piles.
10 months ago
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Visit These 15 Beautiful Castles In Kent

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10 months ago
Clifftop fortresses to grand country piles.
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Common Edge
Designing for Disaster in an Increasingly Dangerous World What does it take to protect homes against tornados, hurricanes, flooding, fire, and erosion?
7 months ago
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Designing for Disaster in an Increasingly Dangerous World

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

7 months ago
What does it take to protect homes against tornados, hurricanes, flooding, fire, and erosion?
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David Heinemeier...
Every generation needs their own apocalypse Danish 8th, 9th, and 10th graders vote in a mock election every year in Denmark. The results for...
11 months ago
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Every generation needs their own apocalypse

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

11 months ago
Danish 8th, 9th, and 10th graders vote in a mock election every year in Denmark. The results for 2024 were a startling refutation of the idea that young people must be inherently left-leaning. The dominating winner was Liberal Alliance, a center-right party that speaks to the...
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Sam Altman
Join the YC Software Team If you want to get funded by YC as a founder in the future, but you don't have a startup that's...
over a year ago
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Join the YC Software Team

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

over a year ago
If you want to get funded by YC as a founder in the future, but you don't have a startup that's ready for that yet, joining the YC software team is a great hack to get there. The YC software team is a small group of hackers in SF that write the software that makes all the parts...
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Retail Design Blog
DITA store It’s on P.C. Hooftstraat, Amsterdam‘s golden mile of luxury shopping, where high-end eyewear brand...
6 months ago
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DITA store

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6 months ago
It’s on P.C. Hooftstraat, Amsterdam‘s golden mile of luxury shopping, where high-end eyewear brand DITA has opened its largest store...
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somethingaboutmaps
Kickstarter 3: The Return For the past several years, I’ve enjoyed the process of cyanotype printing, and have released a...
2 months ago
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Kickstarter 3: The Return

from somethingaboutmaps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

2 months ago
For the past several years, I’ve enjoyed the process of cyanotype printing, and have released a number of projects based on this technique (including my favorite item I’ve ever made). Now, I’ve decided to take my recent work in developing terrain sketches, and turn it into a new...
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Jonas Hietala
Monty Hall I’m currently reading The Drunkard’s Walk, a well written book about probabilities. There they...
over a year ago
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Monty Hall

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

over a year ago
I’m currently reading The Drunkard’s Walk, a well written book about probabilities. There they discussed the famous Monty Hall Problem. I’ve heard about it before and I know the answer, but he mentioned a simulation of the problem and that sounded cool so I made a simulation of...
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David Perell
Tiago Forte & Will Mannon: Building Cohort-Based Courses I have two guests today: Tiago Forte and Will Mannon. Tiago is my business partner and the creator...
over a year ago
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Tiago Forte & Will Mannon: Building Cohort-Based Courses

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

over a year ago
I have two guests today: Tiago Forte and Will Mannon. Tiago is my business partner and the creator of an online course called Building a Second Brain. The two of us record a podcast like this every year to reflect on what we’ve learned about the online education industry. And...
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Josh Thompson
Redefining Success It’s been pretty quiet around here lately. It’s been almost a month since my last entry. I thought...
over a year ago
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Redefining Success

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

over a year ago
It’s been pretty quiet around here lately. It’s been almost a month since my last entry. I thought about writing something here almost every day, but here is why I didn’t: I want to produce “content” that is helpful and relevant to those who might read it. I felt like nothing I...
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Old Structures...
The Queen Anne Style Is Rare In New York I was on the Upper East Side and saw two houses that don’t quite fit in on Park Avenue north of 69th...
a year ago
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The Queen Anne Style Is Rare In New York

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

a year ago
I was on the Upper East Side and saw two houses that don’t quite fit in on Park Avenue north of 69th Street. Those two rowhouses are listed in the records of the Upper East Side Historic District as having been built between 1882 and 1885 as part of a larger row, with the other...
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Elad Blog
Transcript & Video: Claire Hughes Johnson Fireside Chat on Scaling People I interview Claire about her new book "Scaling People". Thanks to Stripe for hosting.
a year ago
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Transcript & Video: Claire Hughes Johnson Fireside Chat on Scaling People

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a year ago
I interview Claire about her new book "Scaling People". Thanks to Stripe for hosting.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Time Is Tight' My brother is dying as he lived – stubbornly. He has been in hospice for two weeks and is...
5 months ago
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'Time Is Tight'

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5 months ago
My brother is dying as he lived – stubbornly. He has been in hospice for two weeks and is failing incrementally. On Monday we were swapping memories and he stopped talking on Tuesday, the same day he stopped eating. He lies on his back on the hospice bed, mouth open, eyes staring...
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Engineer’s Codex
How Pinterest scaled to 11 million users with only 6 engineers Pinterest's tech stack explained simply (5 minute read)
a year ago
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How Pinterest scaled to 11 million users with only 6 engineers

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

a year ago
Pinterest's tech stack explained simply (5 minute read)
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Apoorva Srinivasan
diffusion models for protein generation Introduction Proteins are nature's versatile nanomachines— they have evolved to perform virtually...
a month ago
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diffusion models for protein generation

from Apoorva Srinivasan [alt+shift+b] in science

a month ago
Introduction Proteins are nature's versatile nanomachines— they have evolved to perform virtually every important task in living systems. While nature has produced an incredible range of protein functions, these represent only a tiny fraction of what's possible in the protein...
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The Convivial...
Reading As Counter-Practice The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 19
over a year ago
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Reading As Counter-Practice

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over a year ago
The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 19
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bt RSS Feed
Installing WordPress on NearlyFreeSpeech Installing WordPress on NearlyFreeSpeech 2024-05-27 I recently went through the process of porting...
8 months ago
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Installing WordPress on NearlyFreeSpeech

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

8 months ago
Installing WordPress on NearlyFreeSpeech 2024-05-27 I recently went through the process of porting over my wife’s small business website (built off of WordPress + Woocommerce) from EasyWP to NearlyFreeSpeech. Although the process was fairly easy-going, I thought I would post my...
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diamond geezer
Weather 2023 the dg weather review of the year used to do this with big colourful monthly tables but that's too...
a year ago
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Weather 2023

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

a year ago
the dg weather review of the year used to do this with big colourful monthly tables but that's too much effort for too little reward so here's a breezier summary. All data is for Hampstead, as per usual.  temperaturerainfallsunshine Janmild then...
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Rest of World -...
Behold, the world’s first 3D-printed temple Located in India, the Hindu temple’s layout follows ancient guidelines dating back to 1100 B.C.
4 months ago
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Behold, the world’s first 3D-printed temple

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4 months ago
Located in India, the Hindu temple’s layout follows ancient guidelines dating back to 1100 B.C.
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Common Edge
Can We Create a Secular and Spiritual Architecture? It’s not spirituality that’s in retreat, but face to face rituals and customs.
11 months ago
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Can We Create a Secular and Spiritual Architecture?

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11 months ago
It’s not spirituality that’s in retreat, but face to face rituals and customs.
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TheCollector
New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc undefined
2 months ago
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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc

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2 months ago
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UX Collective
To be a designer is to be a facilitator Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
5 months ago
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To be a designer is to be a facilitator

from UX Collective [alt+shift+b] in design

5 months ago
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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The Architectural...
The bigotry of Modernism We know that history tends to repeat itself, sometimes for better and sometimes for worse....
9 months ago
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The bigotry of Modernism

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9 months ago
We know that history tends to repeat itself, sometimes for better and sometimes for worse. Unfortunately, the architecture world, including academics and practitioners, is often unaware that it perpetuates backward and bigoted attitudes, stifling the creativity of architects and...
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Evan Jones -...
Nanosecond timestamp collisions are common I was wondering: how often do nanosecond timestamps collide on modern systems? The answer is: very...
a year ago
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Nanosecond timestamp collisions are common

from Evan Jones - Software Engineer | Computer Scientist [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
I was wondering: how often do nanosecond timestamps collide on modern systems? The answer is: very often, like 5% of all samples, when reading the clock on all 4 physical cores at the same time. As a result, I think it is unsafe to assume that a raw nanosecond timestamp is a...
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Seth's Blog
Analysis = Facts + Interpretation If you fail to show us the facts, it’s difficult to accept your analysis. While it’s tempting to...
5 days ago
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Analysis = Facts + Interpretation

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5 days ago
If you fail to show us the facts, it’s difficult to accept your analysis. While it’s tempting to simply share an interpretation of what’s happening, credibility and persuasion are based on showing your work.
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diamond geezer
The Smudge of Remembrance n.b. All the photos in this post were taken this week. The Smudge of Remembrance This key project...
3 months ago
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The Smudge of Remembrance

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3 months ago
n.b. All the photos in this post were taken this week. The Smudge of Remembrance This key project is called The Smudge of Remembrance and has been comprehensively curated to create spectral moments of commemoration firmly rooted in the everyday. Some iterations are almost...
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EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: quantum computer emulator in SQL Last year, my good friend and colleague Matt Ward challenged me to implement a quantum computer...
over a year ago
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Happy New Year: quantum computer emulator in SQL

from EXPLAIN EXTENDED [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Last year, my good friend and colleague Matt Ward challenged me to implement a quantum computer emulator in SQL. Challenge accepted! This year we will be building an SQL query which will emulate a quantum computer. This query will process quantum assembly, build the circuit, run...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Notes on 'Metaphysics and JavaScript' _[Slides...
over a year ago
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Notes on 'Metaphysics and JavaScript'

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

over a year ago
_[Slides here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_aeM_UkwS9qaSzHDz87zC9bmtvbuLbPof7RnN96SJKE/edit?usp=sharing)_
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A Collection of...
Comes the Hiatus, 2024! Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
4 months ago
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Comes the Hiatus, 2024!

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

4 months ago
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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Steve Klabnik
Announcing request_store
over a year ago
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Announcing request_store

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over a year ago
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TheCollector
Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae undefined
a year ago
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae

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a year ago
undefined
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Answers: Should Physicians Create Lifestyle Plans? | Out-Of-Pocket some real-world stories from people dealing with this
10 months ago
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Answers: Should Physicians Create Lifestyle Plans? | Out-Of-Pocket

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10 months ago
some real-world stories from people dealing with this
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diamond geezer
Hampton Water Works The square after Coventry Street on the Monopoly board is the Water Works. London has all kinds of...
4 months ago
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Hampton Water Works

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4 months ago
The square after Coventry Street on the Monopoly board is the Water Works. London has all kinds of water infrastructure, from sewage treatment works to reservoirs and ring mains, not to mention sewers, pumping stations and the Tideway Tunnel. But I thought I'd visit the largest...
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Londonist
Revised Skyscraper Plans Could Make It Centimetres Taller Than The Shard One Undershaft is going up in the world.
a year ago
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Revised Skyscraper Plans Could Make It Centimetres Taller Than The Shard

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a year ago
One Undershaft is going up in the world.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
How to run Python and Portray on Netlify How to deploy Python projects to Netlify
over a year ago
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How to run Python and Portray on Netlify

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

over a year ago
How to deploy Python projects to Netlify
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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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TheCollector
6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read undefined
a year ago
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read

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a year ago
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Contemporist...
This Tall And Skinny House Also Has A Rooftop Pool Story Architecture has shared photos of a new tall and skinny home they recently completed in Ho Chi...
11 months ago
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This Tall And Skinny House Also Has A Rooftop Pool

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

11 months ago
Story Architecture has shared photos of a new tall and skinny home they recently completed in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, for a family of four with two sons.
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Vitalik Buterin's...
[Mirror] A Proof of Stake Design Philosophy
over a year ago
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[Mirror] A Proof of Stake Design Philosophy

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

over a year ago
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Coding Horror
Updating The Single Most Influential Book of the BASIC Era In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career. With early computers,...
over a year ago
26

Updating The Single Most Influential Book of the BASIC Era

from Coding Horror [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career. With early computers, you didn't boot up to a fancy schmancy desktop, or a screen full of apps you could easily poke and prod with your finger. No, those computers booted up to the command
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Art Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: GREAT JOB AI, STAY WITH ART YOU'RE NAILING...
9 months ago
30

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Art

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

9 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: GREAT JOB AI, STAY WITH ART YOU'RE NAILING IT Today's News:
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Noahpinion
The free world teeters on the edge of a knife If Trump is elected, there will be no liberal great powers left in the world.
3 months ago
29

The free world teeters on the edge of a knife

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

3 months ago
If Trump is elected, there will be no liberal great powers left in the world.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Fave New Podcasts in 2021 My picks of best podcasts I found in 2021, across tech, business, and creator categories. I also...
over a year ago
19

Fave New Podcasts in 2021

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

over a year ago
My picks of best podcasts I found in 2021, across tech, business, and creator categories. I also pick up on best of the best from 2020.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Even Erudition is Possible Outside Academe' A reader tells me he earned his B.A. in English several years ago and now he works for a non-profit...
6 months ago
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'Even Erudition is Possible Outside Academe'

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

6 months ago
A reader tells me he earned his B.A. in English several years ago and now he works for a non-profit that pushes “arts education,” whatever that might be. I don’t take him for an idealist. He’s bright, personable, an ambitious reader and bored. Our culture doesn’t know what to do...
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TokyoDev
Adoption of Ruby by Japanese Businesses The first Ruby related event I attended in Japan was [Ruby Kaigi...
over a year ago
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Adoption of Ruby by Japanese Businesses

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
The first Ruby related event I attended in Japan was [Ruby Kaigi 2007](http://jp.rubyist.net/RubyKaigi2007/). At the conference, from talking to other developers, I was surprised to learn that despite them being passionate about Ruby, they weren't using Ruby at their day job....
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The Berkeley...
Koala: A Dialogue Model for Academic Research In this post, we introduce Koala, a chatbot trained by fine-tuning Meta’s LLaMA on dialogue data...
a year ago
65

Koala: A Dialogue Model for Academic Research

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

a year ago
In this post, we introduce Koala, a chatbot trained by fine-tuning Meta’s LLaMA on dialogue data gathered from the web. We describe the dataset curation and training process of our model, and also present the results of a user study that compares our model to ChatGPT and...
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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...
9 months ago
29

A 5‑Hour Journey Through North Korean Entertainment: Propaganda Films, Kids’ Cartoons, Sketch Comedy & More

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

9 months 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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CONTEMPORIST
An Observation Tower That Looks Like Twisted Wood Rises Above The Swedish Landscape White Arkitekter has shared photos of Observation Tower Kärven on the Swedish west coast, which they...
4 months ago
48

An Observation Tower That Looks Like Twisted Wood Rises Above The Swedish Landscape

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

4 months ago
White Arkitekter has shared photos of Observation Tower Kärven on the Swedish west coast, which they completed after winning Varberg Municipality’s architectural competition. Recently opened, the tower in Getterön nature reserve north of Varberg, measures 39 feet (12m) high and...
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Both Are True
A link to my daily log as a person who is offline here it is
a year ago
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A link to my daily log as a person who is offline

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a year ago
here it is
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TheCollector
What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry? undefined
a year ago
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?

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a year ago
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The American Scholar
Sheep Jones Swimming below the surface The post Sheep Jones appeared first on The American Scholar.
6 months ago
68

Sheep Jones

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

6 months ago
Swimming below the surface The post Sheep Jones appeared first on The American Scholar.
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diamond geezer
Rejigging the Bow Roundabout (this is the first post written on my new laptop) (Windows 11 remains very unfamiliar - a lot's...
5 months ago
27

Rejigging the Bow Roundabout

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

5 months ago
(this is the first post written on my new laptop) (Windows 11 remains very unfamiliar - a lot's changed since 7!) I'm still trying to work out what's going on with the imminent roadworks at the Bow Roundabout. I keep checking the Causeway one.network map where everything's...
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Applied Cartography
Gosling’s Old Rum Virginia has draconian liquor laws, which means I have to get interesting bottles shipped from...
12 months ago
10

Gosling’s Old Rum

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

12 months ago
Virginia has draconian liquor laws, which means I have to get interesting bottles shipped from [REDACTED], a site on which I am very prone to judging a book by its cover; every month I'll end up purchasing a bottle of something purely because it looks interesting and I can...
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Calculated Risk
NAHB: Builder Confidence "Edges Up" in January The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reported the housing market index (HMI) was at 47,...
2 weeks ago
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NAHB: Builder Confidence "Edges Up" in January

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

2 weeks ago
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reported the housing market index (HMI) was at 47, up from 46 last month. Any number below 50 indicates that more builders view sales conditions as poor than good. Builder Confidence Edges Up Even as Market Risk Concerns...
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Willem Pennings
ClockSquared Mini, a word clock wristwatch About a year ago, I had some time to spare over the summer and decided to challenge myself with a...
over a year ago
8

ClockSquared Mini, a word clock wristwatch

from Willem Pennings [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
About a year ago, I had some time to spare over the summer and decided to challenge myself with a project that I call “Clocksquared Mini”. It is Clocksquared, but in a tiny wristwatch package. This gives rise to a major challenge, as everything has to be shrunk down approximately...
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CONTEMPORIST
Cascading Plants Cover This Home In Vietnam X11 Design Studio has shared photos of a home they completed in Quang Ninh, Vietnam, that includes a...
a year ago
21

Cascading Plants Cover This Home In Vietnam

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
X11 Design Studio has shared photos of a home they completed in Quang Ninh, Vietnam, that includes a facade of cascading plants. The home has been designed for a three-generation family, who wanted optimal functionality and a connection between nature and people. To integrate...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Probe Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Well I'm pushing back 10 years the date my kids get...
11 months ago
34

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Probe

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

11 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Well I'm pushing back 10 years the date my kids get to read these. Today's News:
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HTMHell
HTML and CSS I didn't even know about before I started creating content in Japanese by Julia Undeutsch Since I started to create content in Japanese, I also wanted to learn about...
a month ago
38

HTML and CSS I didn't even know about before I started creating content in Japanese

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

a month ago
by Julia Undeutsch Since I started to create content in Japanese, I also wanted to learn about traditional setups, like having Japanese text flow from top to bottom, right to left, like you’d see in newspapers or novels. That's when I discovered CSS properties like writing-mode:...
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TheCollector
What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII? undefined
6 months ago
31

What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?

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6 months ago
undefined
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A Beautiful Site
Creating stylesheets for handheld devices It's not uncommon so see someone surfing the net with their cell phone or PDA these days or, at...
over a year ago
22

Creating stylesheets for handheld devices

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

over a year ago
It's not uncommon so see someone surfing the net with their cell phone or PDA these days or, at least, trying to. Unfortunately, portable technologies still have a long way to go before they conquer the web with their tiny screens. The good news is that, with a little help from...
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Joel Gascoigne
When creating new habits, let yourself be sloppy * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "Don’t let...
over a year ago
18

When creating new habits, let yourself be sloppy

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

over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good" - Gretchen Ruben [http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/2012/12/secret-of-adulthood-dont-let-the-perfect-be-the-enemy-of-the-good/] One...
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TheCollector
Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century undefined
a year ago
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Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century

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a year ago
undefined
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TheCollector
The Balloon Museum Opens in London undefined
a year ago
6

The Balloon Museum Opens in London

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a year ago
undefined
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Raptitude.com
Humans Are About to Learn Like Never Before Humans aren’t good at predicting the future, but sometimes you can see a trend that promises...
2 months ago
23

Humans Are About to Learn Like Never Before

from Raptitude.com [alt+shift+b] in life

2 months ago
Humans aren’t good at predicting the future, but sometimes you can see a trend that promises something great — like “a genie is granting your wish” great. I think this might be happening right now with one of my genie wishes, maybe yours too. For me it has to do with the piles of...
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Josh Thompson
On Cleaner Controllers A few days ago, I worked on a project that was mostly about serving up basic store data (modeled...
over a year ago
5

On Cleaner Controllers

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

over a year ago
A few days ago, I worked on a project that was mostly about serving up basic store data (modeled after Etsy) to an API. We had a few dozen end-points, and all responses were in JSON. Most of the action happened inside of our controllers, and as you might imagine, our routes.rb...
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Liz Denys
Blue spiral V60-style coffee cone, 2023 Tan stoneware clay with black speckles and light grog, slab-built, satin bright blue glaze
a year ago
13

Blue spiral V60-style coffee cone, 2023

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

a year ago
Tan stoneware clay with black speckles and light grog, slab-built, satin bright blue glaze
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AFAR Media - Travel...
The 9 Best Beaches in the Turks and Caicos to Visit
a year ago
18

The 9 Best Beaches in the Turks and Caicos to Visit

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

a year ago
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Ognjen Regoje •...
ChatGPT == Google News? ChatGPT ingesting content produced by others and reproducing it, wholly, or in-part as a result of...
a year ago
18

ChatGPT == Google News?

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

a year ago
ChatGPT ingesting content produced by others and reproducing it, wholly, or in-part as a result of the model, is almost exactly the same like Google ingesting news and presenting it on the search results page. Actually, it’s worse, because it gives absolutely no attribution to...
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Open Culture
The Story of How Quentin Tarantino Became a Filmmaker and Created Pulp Fiction, as Told by Quentin... For a film, explained a young Quentin Tarantino in one interview, “the real test of time isn’t the...
a week ago
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The Story of How Quentin Tarantino Became a Filmmaker and Created Pulp Fiction, as Told by Quentin Tarantino

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

a week ago
For a film, explained a young Quentin Tarantino in one interview, “the real test of time isn’t the Friday that it opens. It’s how the film is thought of thirty years from now.” It just so happens that Pulp Fiction, which made Tarantino the most celebrated director in America...
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The Ruffian
'Weird' Should Not Be An Insult Not If You're On The Left Anyway
6 months ago
58

'Weird' Should Not Be An Insult

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

6 months ago
Not If You're On The Left Anyway
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Seth's Blog
Cats and dogs Does your brand have a personality? When people expect you to act a certain way, you have a brand....
8 months ago
73

Cats and dogs

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

8 months ago
Does your brand have a personality? When people expect you to act a certain way, you have a brand. And that expectation is worth understanding. Can you help us understand whether you’re a cat or a dog in the way you react, respond, delight or sneak around? And if you’re a dog,...
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TheCollector
Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady undefined
5 months ago
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady

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5 months ago
undefined
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Maps Mania
The Islamic State Attack Map
10 months ago
41

The Islamic State Attack Map

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

10 months ago
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Contemporist...
Green Metal Siding Allows This Small Cottage To Blend In With Its Surroundings Daymark Design Incorporated has shared photos of a cabin they completed in Robert’s Island Honey...
2 months ago
45

Green Metal Siding Allows This Small Cottage To Blend In With Its Surroundings

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

2 months ago
Daymark Design Incorporated has shared photos of a cabin they completed in Robert’s Island Honey Harbour in Ontario, Canada, that's clad in sage green standing seam metal siding.
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Open Culture
Ernest Hemingway’s Favorite Hamburger Recipe Image via Wikimedia Commons In 2013, the food writer Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan stumbled across an article...
7 months ago
63

Ernest Hemingway’s Favorite Hamburger Recipe

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

7 months ago
Image via Wikimedia Commons In 2013, the food writer Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan stumbled across an article in the Boston Globe describing a trove of digitized documents from Ernest Hemingway’s home in Cuba that had been recently donated to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and...
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The Changelog
Tools for Communicating Offline and in Difficult Circumstances Note: this post is also available on my website, where it will be updated periodically. When things...
over a year ago
10

Tools for Communicating Offline and in Difficult Circumstances

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

over a year ago
Note: this post is also available on my website, where it will be updated periodically. When things are difficult – maybe there’s been a disaster, or an invasion (this page is being written in 2022 just after Russia invaded Ukraine), or maybe you’re just backpacking off the grid...
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Calculated Risk
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to All! High Sierra webcam (it is snowing!) beach in Newport. Best Wishes to All!
a month ago
25

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to All!

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

a month ago
High Sierra webcam (it is snowing!) beach in Newport. Best Wishes to All!
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Christopher Butler
object – OMNI Magazine, Issue 1 This is a publication very much of its time and ahead of its time. I briefly subscribed to OMNI...
a year ago
63

object – OMNI Magazine, Issue 1

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

a year ago
This is a publication very much of its time and ahead of its time. I briefly subscribed to OMNI magazine in the late ’80s and early ’90s. It was the sort of magazine that thoroughly suited my interests but was often a bit over my head and clearly not meant for a kid to read....
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Joel Gascoigne
The power of ignoring mainstream news * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "The man who...
over a year ago
18

The power of ignoring mainstream news

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

over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." - Thomas Jefferson [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson] Around 2 years ago I...
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Diaries of Note
The goose for Xmas disappeared In the waning days of 1948, George Orwell was secluded on the Scottish island of Jura in a remote...
a year ago
22

The goose for Xmas disappeared

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

a year ago
In the waning days of 1948, George Orwell was secluded on the Scottish island of Jura in a remote farmhouse named Barnhill—a stark, white-washed building set against the backdrop of Jura’s untamed wilderness. It was there, amidst the stark beauty of nature and in declining...
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Asterisk
Prediction Markets Have an Elections Problem Weeks after it was clear that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, you could still make pennies on...
a year ago
5

Prediction Markets Have an Elections Problem

from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Weeks after it was clear that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, you could still make pennies on the dollar betting Joe Biden would win. Why doesn’t smart money drive out dumb money in election markets?
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Asterisk
The Illogic of Nuclear Escalation How much is enough? It’s the most basic question in the nuclear arms race. For over sixty years, few...
over a year ago
9

The Illogic of Nuclear Escalation

from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
How much is enough? It’s the most basic question in the nuclear arms race. For over sixty years, few have asked it, and even fewer have received an answer.
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Escaping Flatland
On feeling connected generosity is potency
3 months ago
51

On feeling connected

from Escaping Flatland [alt+shift+b] in literature

3 months ago
generosity is potency
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Cheese and Biscuits
Zapote, Shoreditch One of the best things about being in San Diego twice a year (apart from the zoo... and seeing the...
a year ago
59

Zapote, Shoreditch

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

a year ago
One of the best things about being in San Diego twice a year (apart from the zoo... and seeing the family of course) is its proximity to the Mexican border and to Tijuana. Mexico's second largest city is home to a breathtaking variety of restaurants at all price points, from...
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journal – Winnie Lim
why i love hong kong Hong Kong still seems like the same place in many ways, but it feels different. I don’t know how...
8 months ago
83

why i love hong kong

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

8 months ago
Hong Kong still seems like the same place in many ways, but it feels different. I don’t know how much of it is due to the changes in me or the changes...
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Open Culture
Launch Your Project Management Career with Google’s AI-Enhanced Professional Certificate ?si=TMflasoogRfSD14h Back in 2021, Google released a series of certificate programs, including one...
3 months ago
24

Launch Your Project Management Career with Google’s AI-Enhanced Professional Certificate

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

3 months ago
?si=TMflasoogRfSD14h Back in 2021, Google released a series of certificate programs, including one focused on Project Management. Designed to give students “an immersive understanding of the practices and skills needed to succeed in an entry-level project management role,” the...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Converting CO2 to Carbon Nanofibers One of the dreams of a green economy where the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is stable, and not...
a year ago
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Converting CO2 to Carbon Nanofibers

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a year ago
One of the dreams of a green economy where the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is stable, and not slowly increasing, is the ability to draw CO2 from the atmosphere and convert it to a solid form. Often referred to as carbon capture, some form of this is going to be necessary...
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Neil Panchal
Berkeley Mono Font Variant Popularity Berkeley Mono Typeface Absolutely thrilled by the response after Hacker News launch of Berkeley...
over a year ago
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Berkeley Mono Font Variant Popularity

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over a year ago
Berkeley Mono Typeface Absolutely thrilled by the response after Hacker News launch of Berkeley Mono Typeface. I am truly humbled by the feedback, interest and people that have keen interest in typography. Berkeley Mono Font Variants Quick update on people asking what's the...
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the singularity is...
p(doom) Yesterday I debated Eliezer Yudkowsky This is totally me spitballing here, but I think the crux of...
a year ago
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p(doom)

from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Yesterday I debated Eliezer Yudkowsky This is totally me spitballing here, but I think the crux of the debate is whether AIs will look more like formal systems or like inscrutable weight matrices. I think it’s the latter, and I think it’s the something like the latter forever....
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mtlynch.io
Start Small, Stay Small by Rob Walling I wish that I had found this book nine years ago. It taught me a great deal about choosing the right...
over a year ago
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Start Small, Stay Small by Rob Walling

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

over a year ago
I wish that I had found this book nine years ago. It taught me a great deal about choosing the right product to build and the advantages of targeting small niches. The author makes compelling points about the importance of marketing and small founders’ common pitfall of treating...
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Seth's Blog
Leprechauns Is there a rainbow underneath your pot of gold? Sometimes, we get it backwards.
7 months ago
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Leprechauns

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7 months ago
Is there a rainbow underneath your pot of gold? Sometimes, we get it backwards.
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TheCollector
How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making? undefined
a year ago
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?

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a year ago
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Infinite Scroll
Infinite Scroll Podcast: Substack founder Hamish McKenzie An interview on where Substack sits in the digital media ecosystem
a month ago
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Infinite Scroll Podcast: Substack founder Hamish McKenzie

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a month ago
An interview on where Substack sits in the digital media ecosystem
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Londonist
West End Tickets From £15 - London Theatre Week Has Launched Slashed price seats available till 3 March.
11 months ago
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West End Tickets From £15 - London Theatre Week Has Launched

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11 months ago
Slashed price seats available till 3 March.
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Christopher Butler
How to Adapt Long-Page Designs for Better Scanning
a year ago
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How to Adapt Long-Page Designs for Better Scanning

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a year ago
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Herbert Lui
The vessel heuristic What if, when you made art, you weren’t expressing yourself? What if you were a vessel for something...
a month ago
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The vessel heuristic

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

a month ago
What if, when you made art, you weren’t expressing yourself? What if you were a vessel for something greater to express themselves through? “The human mind is literally an antenna,” Pharrell says. “It picks up waves and transmissions from the ultimate source, from the ether.”...
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Seth's Blog
Should we assume rational goodwill? There’s often a choice between following the cultural dictates of a given group or seeking out...
a year ago
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Should we assume rational goodwill?

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a year ago
There’s often a choice between following the cultural dictates of a given group or seeking out demonstrable facts and the scientific method. Which do you expect most people would choose? Which would you choose? When we revert to a testable analysis of what works, we’re relying on...
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bt RSS Feed
Aqua UI CSS Buttons Aqua UI CSS Buttons 2016-06-28 Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was...
over a year ago
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Aqua UI CSS Buttons

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

over a year ago
Aqua UI CSS Buttons 2016-06-28 Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was arguably better than the current iteration (as of this writing - High Sierra). I recently designed a quick Dribbble shot showcasing how the older operating system used to have so much...
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Flashbak
Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side “I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes...
3 months ago
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Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
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Flashbak
Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon... Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a...
8 months ago
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Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon and more

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8 months ago
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a child he harboured dreams of becoming a photographer. He roamed around his parents’ home and snapped pictures in his head. He had a talent for it which he thought of turning into a...
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This Space
39 Books: 2005 Four years later, browsing in Waterstones, I picked a book from a table and read "What will we do to...
8 months ago
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39 Books: 2005

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

8 months ago
Four years later, browsing in Waterstones, I picked a book from a table and read "What will we do to disappear?" – the epigram to Enrique Vila-Matas's novel Montano's Malady. It's a line taken from Maurice Blanchot's Infinite Conversation, so I had to buy it. Later that year,...
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TheCollector
What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible? undefined
3 months ago
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?

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3 months ago
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journal – Winnie Lim
documenting everyday moments because they will become precious A few months ago someone popped up on the Singapore reddit and started posting photos of old...
a year ago
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documenting everyday moments because they will become precious

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

a year ago
A few months ago someone popped up on the Singapore reddit and started posting photos of old Singapore from the 1950s-1970s. He is the grandson of Ivan Polunin, a medical doctor who...
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Ink & Switch
Pushpin: Towards Production-Quality Peer-to-Peer Collaboration Taking peer-to-peer beyond research prototypes, and working towards commercial-grade P2P...
over a year ago
18

Pushpin: Towards Production-Quality Peer-to-Peer Collaboration

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

over a year ago
Taking peer-to-peer beyond research prototypes, and working towards commercial-grade P2P collaboration software.
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Blog - Practical...
Why Are Texas Interchanges Texas So Tall? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the Dallas High Five,...
5 months ago
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Why Are Texas Interchanges Texas So Tall?

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

5 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the Dallas High Five, one of the tallest highway interchanges in the world. It gets its name from the fact that there are five different levels of roadways crossing each other in this one spot. In some...
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A Beautiful Site
Not Everything Can Be Feature Detected In the early days of Web browsers, it was extremely common to see user agent checks in JavaScript....
over a year ago
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Not Everything Can Be Feature Detected

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

over a year ago
In the early days of Web browsers, it was extremely common to see user agent checks in JavaScript. Sometimes, you'd write the same code in two or three different ways to support various browsers. Code such as that shown below allowed webpages to work in browsers like Netscape...
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The Honest Broker
Jim Croce and Me 50 years ago today, the gifted singer-songwriter died in a plane crash
a year ago
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Jim Croce and Me

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

a year ago
50 years ago today, the gifted singer-songwriter died in a plane crash
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CommitStrip
A touch of real life, but not too much
over a year ago
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A touch of real life, but not too much

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over a year ago
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The Marginalian
bell hooks on Love "We can never go back... We can go forward. We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until...
a year ago
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bell hooks on Love

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

a year ago
"We can never go back... We can go forward. We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we let go grief about the love we lost long ago... All awakening to love is spiritual awakening."
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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

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

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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Ben Borgers
War Room
over a year ago
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War Room

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over a year ago
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Good Enough
TIL: Listen for JavaScript events only once! A common thing I find myself doing in Javascript is adding some event driven behavior that I only...
a year ago
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TIL: Listen for JavaScript events only once!

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

a year ago
A common thing I find myself doing in Javascript is adding some event driven behavior that I only want to happen once. Let’s say I have a big button that starts the process of lowering a certain spy into a pool of certain doom — I don’t want a second button press to awkwardly...
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Daniel Marino
GitHub Game Off 2021 Retrospective Recently, I completed the GitHub Game Off. With over 500 entries, this is the largest game jam I’ve...
over a year ago
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GitHub Game Off 2021 Retrospective

from Daniel Marino [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Recently, I completed the GitHub Game Off. With over 500 entries, this is the largest game jam I’ve been a part of. I had some lofty goals for this game, and I just about met them all. I’m extremely happy with how the game came out! Like prior games I’ve made, I don’t tend to...
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Calculated Risk
FOMC Projections Statement here. press conference video here or on YouTube here, starting at 2:30 PM...
a month ago
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FOMC Projections

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

a month ago
Statement here. press conference video here or on YouTube here, starting at 2:30 PM ET. projections.  Since the last projections were released, economic growth has been above expectations, the unemployment rate is below expectations, and inflation close to expectations (although...
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Home on Erik...
Deep learning for... chess I've been meaning to learn Theano for a while and I've also wanted to build a chess AI at some...
over a year ago
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Deep learning for... chess

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

over a year ago
I've been meaning to learn Theano for a while and I've also wanted to build a chess AI at some point. So why not combine the two? That's what I thought, and I ended up spending way too much time on it.
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TheCollector
The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear? undefined
8 months ago
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?

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8 months ago
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Epicurean Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Currently reading through this stuff and the How To...
3 weeks ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Epicurean

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3 weeks ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Currently reading through this stuff and the How To Live Your Life parts are like footnotes to page upon page of incorrect physics. Today's News:
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The Pragmatic...
Is the “AI developer”a threat to jobs – or a marketing stunt? One startup released “the first AI software engineer,” while another aims to build a “superhuman...
10 months ago
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Is the “AI developer”a threat to jobs – or a marketing stunt?

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in programming

10 months ago
One startup released “the first AI software engineer,” while another aims to build a “superhuman software engineer.” As intimidating as these sound: what if it’s more marketing than reality?
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Contemporist...
A' Design Awards & Competition - Call for Entries A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts...
12 months ago
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A' Design Awards & Competition - Call for Entries

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

12 months ago
A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts around the world, and showcasing 18,000 award winners from 139 different design disciplines.
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Eric Bailey
Equivalent experience can cut both ways I’ve been taking screen reader lessons. I found someone who is kind enough to offer their time and...
a year ago
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Equivalent experience can cut both ways

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a year ago
I’ve been taking screen reader lessons. I found someone who is kind enough to offer their time and expertise (and grace in answering the occasional ignorant question) in exchange for payment. The goal here is to uncover assumptions I carry with me when using assistive technology,...
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Jonas Hietala
Offset coordinates in Krita with Xinerama I recently bought an Intuos Manga drawing tablet recently, because I got this fix idea that I want...
over a year ago
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Offset coordinates in Krita with Xinerama

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

over a year ago
I recently bought an Intuos Manga drawing tablet recently, because I got this fix idea that I want to learn how to draw. And what better way to do it than with a drawing tablet, while satisfying my need for new things? With little experience I boldly set forth and I found a...
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99% Invisible
The Chinatown Punk Wars [EPISODE] The most recognizable feature of LA’s Chinatown is its Central Plaza. It’s an outdoor pedestrian...
a year ago
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The Chinatown Punk Wars [EPISODE]

from 99% Invisible [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
The most recognizable feature of LA’s Chinatown is its Central Plaza. It’s an outdoor pedestrian mall that is almost overwhelmingly colorful.  Brightly painted buildings are topped with sweeping pagoda style roofs, and then accented with fluorescent neon lacing. For decades...
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Rozado’s Visual...
The Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Terms in Spanish Newspapers Published paper Twitter summary Introduction Previous scholarly literature here and here has...
over a year ago
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The Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Terms in Spanish Newspapers

from Rozado’s Visual Analytics [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
Published paper Twitter summary Introduction Previous scholarly literature here and here has documented a pronounced increase in the prevalence of prejudice-denoting terms in American news media content. Some have referred to this shift in journalistic discourse and related...
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The Last...
The Maintenance Of Certification Exam As Fetish no need to wait for the receipt (I had reworked an old post for a psychiatry trade journal, which I...
over a year ago
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The Maintenance Of Certification Exam As Fetish

from The Last Psychiatrist [alt+shift+b] in creative

over a year ago
no need to wait for the receipt (I had reworked an old post for a psychiatry trade journal, which I would happily have linked you to, except that page 2 is behind a login wall. So here is the version I submitted before the editors edited it, slightly longer with more typos. I am...
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Calculated Risk
January Vehicle Forecast: Sales Decline to 15.6 million SAAR, Up 4% YoY From WardsAuto: Some Letdown but January U.S. Light-Vehicle Sales Continue Q4-2024's Growth (pay...
a week ago
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January Vehicle Forecast: Sales Decline to 15.6 million SAAR, Up 4% YoY

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

a week ago
From WardsAuto: Some Letdown but January U.S. Light-Vehicle Sales Continue Q4-2024's Growth (pay content).  Brief excerpt: While demand in the middle of the month was negatively impacted by extreme weather conditions across most of the country, with a week remaining in January...
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Dreams of Space -...
Blast Off (1973) This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full...
a year ago
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Blast Off (1973)

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

a year ago
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off! Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
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Hidden History
The Story of the Cow The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000...
a month ago
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The Story of the Cow

from Hidden History [alt+shift+b] in history

a month ago
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000 distinct breeds of Cattle in the world today, and somewhere between 1 and 1.5 billion individual animals, making them, by some counts, the fourth most numerous mammal in existence behind...
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Map of the Week
Los Angeles Wildfire Extent The extent of the forest fires in and around Los Angeles is horrific and may become even worse in...
2 weeks ago
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Los Angeles Wildfire Extent

from Map of the Week [alt+shift+b] in cartography

2 weeks ago
The extent of the forest fires in and around Los Angeles is horrific and may become even worse in the next few days. The New York Times has some very detailed maps showing the extent of destruction. Here is a close up of Altadena from the Hurst Fire. via New York Times -...
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Kevin Chen
Speeding up code with vectorization I’ve been writing a lot of math code with latency requirements these days. When I talk to people...
over a year ago
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Speeding up code with vectorization

from Kevin Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I’ve been writing a lot of math code with latency requirements these days. When I talk to people about my problems, they usually suggest multithreading and general-purpose GPU computing. These both have downsides. Multithreading might not be the best option in systems that...
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Map of the Week
Below the Ice This past fall scientists uncovered a vast landscape that has been "frozen in time" under the...
a year ago
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Below the Ice

from Map of the Week [alt+shift+b] in cartography

a year ago
This past fall scientists uncovered a vast landscape that has been "frozen in time" under the Antarctic Ice Shelf. Here is a nice graphic from phys.org. The topography was determined by a combination of radio wave echoes and satellite images. This landscape, more than 2...
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Evan Jones -...
TCP and gRPC Failed Connection Timeouts After my last article about how gRPC is hard to configure, with a client keepalive example, I...
over a year ago
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TCP and gRPC Failed Connection Timeouts

from Evan Jones - Software Engineer | Computer Scientist [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
After my last article about how gRPC is hard to configure, with a client keepalive example, I realized that I don't understand how TCP and gRPC handle failed connections. This article is my attempt to figure it out, and document it so I can find it again in the future. The best...
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computers are bad
2024-03-27 telephone cables So let's say you're working on a household project and need around a dozen telephone cables---the...
10 months ago
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2024-03-27 telephone cables

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

10 months ago
So let's say you're working on a household project and need around a dozen telephone cables---the ordinary kind that you would use between your telephone and the wall. It is, of course, more cost effective to buy bulk cable, or simply a long cable, and cut it to length and attach...
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TheCollector
James, Son of Alpheus, of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death undefined
4 days ago
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James, Son of Alpheus, of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death

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4 days ago
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