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Josh Thompson
Job Hunting Recommendations for Early-Career Software Developers I’ve distilled a number of conversations into this post. Some of it is specific to getting a remote...
over a year ago
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Job Hunting Recommendations for Early-Career Software Developers

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

over a year ago
I’ve distilled a number of conversations into this post. Some of it is specific to getting a remote job and working remotely, but all of it is applicable for any kind of software-related role. It’s probably applicable to non-software roles, but this is where most of my exprience...
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bt RSS Feed
Tabbed Content Without JavaScript Tabbed Content Without JavaScript 2019-01-28 Creating tabs is a fairly trivial and common practice...
over a year ago
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Tabbed Content Without JavaScript

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

over a year ago
Tabbed Content Without JavaScript 2019-01-28 Creating tabs is a fairly trivial and common practice in web design, but many times it requires JavaScript to properly implement. Fortunately it is possible to create tabbed content with only using CSS. Live CodePen...
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Computer Things
Five Unusual Raku Features Logic for Programmers is now in Beta! v0.5 marks the official end of alpha! With the new version,...
7 months ago
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Five Unusual Raku Features

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

7 months ago
Logic for Programmers is now in Beta! v0.5 marks the official end of alpha! With the new version, all of the content I wanted to put in the book is now present, and all that's left is copyediting, proofreading, and formatting. Which will probably take as long as it took to...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Spidey Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We are assuming for the sake of argument that all...
over a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Spidey

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

over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We are assuming for the sake of argument that all bits of human are equivalent, which is basically correct. Today's News:
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computers are bad
2024-06-08 dmv.org The majority of US states have something called a "Department of Motor Vehicles," or DMV. Actually,...
a year ago
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2024-06-08 dmv.org

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a year ago
The majority of US states have something called a "Department of Motor Vehicles," or DMV. Actually, the universality of the term "DMV" seems to be overstated. A more general term is "motor vehicle administrator," used for example by the American Association of Motor Vehicle...
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Infinite Scroll
How Gay Marriage Ruined Democratic Activism The end of Moral Triumphalism
7 months ago
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How Gay Marriage Ruined Democratic Activism

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7 months ago
The end of Moral Triumphalism
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NeuroLogica Blog
Understanding Jumbo Phage Viruses Bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, are the most abundant form of life on Earth. And yet...
a year ago
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Understanding Jumbo Phage Viruses

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

a year ago
Bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, are the most abundant form of life on Earth. And yet we know comparatively little about them. But in recent years phage research has taken off with renewed interest. This is partly driven by the availability of CRISPR-based tools for...
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A Smart Bear
Who's lying? Pilots use multiple dials, employing different sources of energy, to report identical data, because...
over a year ago
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Who's lying?

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Pilots use multiple dials, employing different sources of energy, to report identical data, because they understand that in a dashboard full of information, something is always lying to you. The lesson is useful for data and metrics at our companies.
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Christopher Butler
A New Kind of Wholeness Check out the light in my office right now 🤩 . AI effectively, but to understand how it fits into...
4 months ago
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A New Kind of Wholeness

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

4 months ago
Check out the light in my office right now 🤩 . AI effectively, but to understand how it fits into the larger patterns of human creativity and purpose. That’s a good thing — designers are good observers. No matter what the tech, we notice patterns we notice the lack of...
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Seth's Blog
The prevailing conditions It doesn’t matter how hard you try, you’re not going to change the direction of the wind. That...
10 months ago
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The prevailing conditions

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10 months ago
It doesn’t matter how hard you try, you’re not going to change the direction of the wind. That doesn’t mean you can’t get good at sailing, though. And yes, if we do try, we can change the conditions in our household, community or workplace. It might feel like wind, but it’s...
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Noahpinion
Six ideas for Poland Poland is a developed country. But it can still get richer.
10 months ago
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Six ideas for Poland

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10 months ago
Poland is a developed country. But it can still get richer.
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Willem's Blog
Repairing a Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP Reparing an old Nintendo Gameboy Advance to play classic Zelda again.
over a year ago
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Repairing a Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP

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

over a year ago
Reparing an old Nintendo Gameboy Advance to play classic Zelda again.
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Blog of Simple...
The most interesting GDPR fines
9 months ago
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The most interesting GDPR fines

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9 months ago
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
That Inspiration Stuck in Your Teeth Remember the last time inspiration blessed you with its divine presence? The clouds parted, angels...
over a year ago
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That Inspiration Stuck in Your Teeth

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

over a year ago
Remember the last time inspiration blessed you with its divine presence? The clouds parted, angels sang, and an idea descended like a holy dove. What, it doesn't happen that way for you? Me neither.
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Open Culture
You Can Buy Historic Italian Houses for €1 — But What’s the Catch? From Abruzzo to Vergemoli, small Italian towns and villages have recently been making their historic...
12 months ago
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You Can Buy Historic Italian Houses for €1 — But What’s the Catch?

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12 months ago
From Abruzzo to Vergemoli, small Italian towns and villages have recently been making their historic homes available for purchase for as low as €1. Given the picturesque nature of many of these places, such offers have proven practically irresistible to foreign buyers who’ve made...
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Res Obscura
Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular? Some lessons from history and archaeology
a year ago
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Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?

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a year ago
Some lessons from history and archaeology
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The Elysian
No, we shouldn't return to the climate of the 18th century Improving the climate is a better goal than trying to fight change.
3 weeks ago
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No, we shouldn't return to the climate of the 18th century

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3 weeks ago
Improving the climate is a better goal than trying to fight change.
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Matt Mullenweg
Berkshire Hathaway Meeting I’ve checked off a bucket list item: I’m attending a Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting. It’s...
2 months ago
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Berkshire Hathaway Meeting

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

2 months ago
I’ve checked off a bucket list item: I’m attending a Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting. It’s really an event! Thousands flock to Omaha, Nebraska, for the legendary Q&A sessions with Warren Buffett and shareholder deals. They’ve made it quite the circus, with every Berkshire...
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Overcoming Bias
Sincerity Adds To Drift The 2008 book Ritual and Its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity is hard for me to...
2 months ago
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Sincerity Adds To Drift

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

2 months ago
The 2008 book Ritual and Its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity is hard for me to understand, but I’ve been trying to figure it out, as the concepts it considers seem interesting and important:
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The Map is Mostly...
Designing a New Old Home: Research, Sketch, Collect Designing a New Old Home series, Table of Contents Beginnings — Why an “old” home, and how we came...
over a year ago
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Designing a New Old Home: Research, Sketch, Collect

from The Map is Mostly Water [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
Designing a New Old Home series, Table of Contents Beginnings — Why an “old” home, and how we came to buy land Curiosity — Advice on starting Research, Sketch, Collect ← You are here Defining Constraints — What can we do without The Elements — Heating and cooling and airflow
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Calculated Risk
Case-Shiller: National House Price Index Up 3.6% year-over-year in October S&P/Case-Shiller released the monthly Home Price Indices for October ("October" is a 3-month average...
6 months ago
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Case-Shiller: National House Price Index Up 3.6% year-over-year in October

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

6 months ago
S&P/Case-Shiller released the monthly Home Price Indices for October ("October" is a 3-month average of August, September and October closing prices). S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index Records 3.6% Annual Gain in October 2024 The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home...
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Blog - Practical...
Where Does Grounded Electricity Actually Go? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Imagine this scenario: You...
a year ago
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Where Does Grounded Electricity Actually Go?

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

a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Imagine this scenario: You have a diesel-powered generator on a stand that is electrically isolated from the ground. Run a wire from the energized slot of an outlet to an electrode driven into the ground. Don’t...
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Sean Carroll
Johns Hopkins As far as I remember, the first time I stepped onto a university campus was in junior high school,...
over a year ago
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Johns Hopkins

from Sean Carroll [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
As far as I remember, the first time I stepped onto a university campus was in junior high school, when I visited Johns Hopkins for an awards ceremony for the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth. (I grew up in an environment that didn’t involve spending a lot of time on...
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Classical Wisdom
Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows? And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
8 months ago
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Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?

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8 months ago
And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
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macwright.com
Recently This will be three Recently monthly blog posts in a row, without a regular post in the middle. I’ll...
a year ago
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Recently

from macwright.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
This will be three Recently monthly blog posts in a row, without a regular post in the middle. I’ll write a standalone post again, soon enough. It’s been another busy year and I’m as aware as ever of the challenge of keeping all of my habits and outputs going. Some, like...
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Made by Ollin
Emojin An infinite kaomoji generator
over a year ago
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Emojin

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over a year ago
An infinite kaomoji generator
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Theory Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is one of those frustrating comics where the...
over a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Theory

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

over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is one of those frustrating comics where the votey, made in 4 seconds, is funnier than the whole comic. Today's News: Bea Wolf is available now!
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Paul Graham: Essays
The Four Quadrants of Conformism
over a year ago
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The Four Quadrants of Conformism

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over a year ago
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Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Monetising Minimalism To keep a site sustainable, it needs to be funded to some extent. Enough at least to tread water,...
over a year ago
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Monetising Minimalism

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

over a year ago
To keep a site sustainable, it needs to be funded to some extent. Enough at least to tread water, but more heavily if the site (or project) is to evolve to any meaningful degree. If a project can be self-sustainable by means of its own monetisation, that is the ideal situation....
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Marian's Blog
Faster Than Life – Global Game Jam 2019 Project Like in the previous year, I took part in the Global Game Jam. I joined a team of six programmers,...
over a year ago
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Faster Than Life – Global Game Jam 2019 Project

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over a year ago
Like in the previous year, I took part in the Global Game Jam. I joined a team of six programmers, unfortunately there was a shortage of artists this year. During the 48 hour jam, we made a space game that is inspired by Faster Than Light. You travel through...
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Noahpinion
Five things to be optimistic about in America today Enough doom and gloom, let's allow ourselves a moment of happiness.
a year ago
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Five things to be optimistic about in America today

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a year ago
Enough doom and gloom, let's allow ourselves a moment of happiness.
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NeuroLogica Blog
Will Apple’s Vision Pro Change Anything? For the first time in over a decade, Apple has announced a new product designed to change computing....
over a year ago
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Will Apple’s Vision Pro Change Anything?

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

over a year ago
For the first time in over a decade, Apple has announced a new product designed to change computing. There was the transition to personal computing with the Apple computer, then to portable computing with the iPhone, and now they hope to usher in the transition to virtual...
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Londonist
The Superloop Loop Completes This Weekend - With The Launch Of SL2 (But yes, we know there's a gap in the loop.)
a year ago
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The Superloop Loop Completes This Weekend - With The Launch Of SL2

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a year ago
(But yes, we know there's a gap in the loop.)
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Frank’s Ramblings
A Gentle Introduction to Vector Databases Update: An earlier version of this post was cross-published to the Zilliz learning center, Medium,...
over a year ago
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A Gentle Introduction to Vector Databases

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over a year ago
Update: An earlier version of this post was cross-published to the Zilliz learning center, Medium, and DZone. If you have any feedback, feel free to connect with me on Twitter or Linkedin. If you enjoyed this post and want to learn a bit more about vector databases and embeddings...
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Seth's Blog
Hobby mindset You might be fortunate enough to have a hobby. Something you are focused on and passionate about....
3 months ago
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Hobby mindset

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3 months ago
You might be fortunate enough to have a hobby. Something you are focused on and passionate about. You might read the journals, develop your skills, collect, connect with others in the field, and commit to getting better at it… Time spent on a hobby feels like time well spent....
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 038: Preparedness October 27, 2023.
a year ago
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AI Roundup 038: Preparedness

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a year ago
October 27, 2023.
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Rest of World -...
A U.S. outsourcing company brought lofty promises to Nepal. Then came the layoffs Former employees say the company killed the dream it once sold them.
a year ago
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A U.S. outsourcing company brought lofty promises to Nepal. Then came the layoffs

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a year ago
Former employees say the company killed the dream it once sold them.
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Spoon & Tamago
Kei Endo Measures the World Around Her Through Detailed Survey Drawings Kei Endo is an accomplished architect and draughtswoman who got her start by merging her hobbies of...
4 months ago
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Kei Endo Measures the World Around Her Through Detailed Survey Drawings

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4 months ago
Kei Endo is an accomplished architect and draughtswoman who got her start by merging her hobbies of travelling and art: she began sharing her detailed, architectural survey drawings of the hotel rooms she stayed at. This wonderful side-hustle eventually blossomed into a career....
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Beware The Fallacy of Composition Many things that make sense individually don't make sense as a group.
over a year ago
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Beware The Fallacy of Composition

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

over a year ago
Many things that make sense individually don't make sense as a group.
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The Marginalian
Thank You, Everything: An Illustrated Love Letter to the World We forget that none of this had to exist — that we weren’t owed mountains and music by the universe....
6 months ago
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Thank You, Everything: An Illustrated Love Letter to the World

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6 months ago
We forget that none of this had to exist — that we weren’t owed mountains and music by the universe. And maybe we have to forget — or we would be too stupefied with gratitude for every raindrop and every eyelash to get through the daily tasks punctuating the unbidden wonder of...
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Society's Backend:...
Top 10 Machine Learning Resources and Updates 06/14/2024 A new AI employee, a four hour video on recreating GPT-2, meritocracy at Scale, and more
a year ago
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Top 10 Machine Learning Resources and Updates 06/14/2024

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a year ago
A new AI employee, a four hour video on recreating GPT-2, meritocracy at Scale, and more
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37signals Dev
Turbo 8 released We’re excited to announce the release of Turbo v8, a major update to the Turbo front-end framework....
a year ago
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Turbo 8 released

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a year ago
We’re excited to announce the release of Turbo v8, a major update to the Turbo front-end framework. This release introduces a suite of innovative features designed to enhance web development and user experiences across the board. Here are the key highlights of Turbo v8: Morphing...
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator’s Iconic Opening Battle, Part III This week at long last we come to the clash of men and horses as we finish our three-part (I, II,...
2 weeks ago
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Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator’s Iconic Opening Battle, Part III

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2 weeks ago
This week at long last we come to the clash of men and horses as we finish our three-part (I, II, III) look at the iconic opening battle scene from the film Gladiator (2000). Last time, we brought the sequence up through the infantry advance, observing that the tactics of the...
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A Smart Bear
How to measure the accuracy of forecasts How do you assess forecasts, when the forecast is only a probability? It's not just about accuracy....
a year ago
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How to measure the accuracy of forecasts

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a year ago
How do you assess forecasts, when the forecast is only a probability? It's not just about accuracy. Let's dive into the math.
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Josh Thompson
Becoming an Early Riser Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.  -The man no child likes to...
over a year ago
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Becoming an Early Riser

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over a year ago
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.  -The man no child likes to hear about when being awoken by their parents Getting out of bed is a struggle. I’ve spent the better part of twenty four years setting my alarm as late as possible so I could have...
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THE ARCHITECTURAL...
Join the Architectural Competition to Reimagine Gran Vía’s Iconic Façade We invite all readers to contribute to an architectural competition to reimagine the façade of a...
a year ago
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Join the Architectural Competition to Reimagine Gran Vía’s Iconic Façade

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

a year ago
We invite all readers to contribute to an architectural competition to reimagine the façade of a significant building on Madrid’s famous Gran Vía. This competition focuses on number 19, the Court of Contentious-Administrative No. 10 headquarters, originally built in 1921 and...
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Cremieux Recueil
Rich Country, Poor Country Growth is our most precious resource and small amounts of it make a big difference
10 months ago
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Rich Country, Poor Country

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10 months ago
Growth is our most precious resource and small amounts of it make a big difference
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Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 18-19 November 2023 Chocolate tasting, a wine festival, Winter Wonderland and more.
a year ago
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Things To Do This Weekend In London: 18-19 November 2023

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a year ago
Chocolate tasting, a wine festival, Winter Wonderland and more.
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Retail Design Blog
CHOUX store by Elena Lokastova Ukrainian-born entrepreneur Viktoria Moldavskaya knows a thing or two about fashion, managing both a...
5 months ago
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CHOUX store by Elena Lokastova

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

5 months ago
Ukrainian-born entrepreneur Viktoria Moldavskaya knows a thing or two about fashion, managing both a jewellery brand – whose new boutique...
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Open Culture
David Bowie Performs an Ethereal Acoustic Version of “Heroes,” with a Bottle Cap Strapped to His... Not long ago I stumbled upon this pretty wonderful video of David Bowie playing an acoustic version...
4 months ago
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David Bowie Performs an Ethereal Acoustic Version of “Heroes,” with a Bottle Cap Strapped to His Shoe, Keeping the Beat (1996)

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

4 months ago
Not long ago I stumbled upon this pretty wonderful video of David Bowie playing an acoustic version of “Heroes,” one of my favorite songs, and I thought I’d quickly share it today. Why wait? Appearing at Neil Young’s annual Bridge School Benefit concert in October 1996, Bowie...
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SatPost by Trung...
How Olympic Air Pistols Took Over The Timeline PLUS: WTF happened to Nike?
11 months ago
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How Olympic Air Pistols Took Over The Timeline

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11 months ago
PLUS: WTF happened to Nike?
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Making software...
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch 2022-07-06 If you're an RSS subscriber, I've probably blown...
over a year ago
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Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch

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over a year ago
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch 2022-07-06 If you're an RSS subscriber, I've probably blown up your feed reader (again). This seems to be an on-going theme with this blog. I can't help it. This website now uses my new Pandoc-based static blog generator: pblog. I won't go...
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Retail Design Blog
Laconicum’s Museum of Everyday Pleasures Laconicum, the renowned online cosmetics store, recently took a new step into the physical world...
3 months ago
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Laconicum’s Museum of Everyday Pleasures

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3 months ago
Laconicum, the renowned online cosmetics store, recently took a new step into the physical world with its first pop-up: ‘The...
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journal – Winnie Lim
running 10km, and making life’s calculations I completed my only 2023 resolution this last week by finally running my first 10km in my life. It...
over a year ago
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running 10km, and making life’s calculations

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

over a year ago
I completed my only 2023 resolution this last week by finally running my first 10km in my life. It had seemed like an unattainable goal: I was struggling even to finish 5km,...
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Calculated Risk
Hotels: Occupancy Rate Decreased 0.5% Year-over-year From STR: U.S. hotel results for week ending 8 February The U.S. hotel industry reported negative...
4 months ago
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Hotels: Occupancy Rate Decreased 0.5% Year-over-year

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4 months ago
From STR: U.S. hotel results for week ending 8 February The U.S. hotel industry reported negative year-over-year comparisons, according to CoStar’s latest data through 8 February. ... 2-8 February 2025 (percentage change from comparable week in 2024): Occupancy: 55.9%...
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Ryan Hoover's...
Why you should move
11 months ago
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Why you should move

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11 months ago
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Open Culture
Hear Edgar Allan Poe Stories Read by Iggy Pop, Jeff Buckley, Christopher Walken, Marianne Faithful &... In 1849, a little over 175 years ago, Edgar Allan Poe was found dead in a Baltimore gutter under...
a year ago
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Hear Edgar Allan Poe Stories Read by Iggy Pop, Jeff Buckley, Christopher Walken, Marianne Faithful & More

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a year ago
In 1849, a little over 175 years ago, Edgar Allan Poe was found dead in a Baltimore gutter under mysterious circumstances very likely related to violent election fraud. It was an ignominious end to a life marked by hardship, alcoholism, and loss. After struggling for years as the...
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Retail Design Blog
QUAHWA coffee by lorkaborka QUAHWA is a fictional coffee product created as part of a university project. The word itself comes...
a year ago
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QUAHWA coffee by lorkaborka

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a year ago
QUAHWA is a fictional coffee product created as part of a university project. The word itself comes from the Arabic...
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A small freedom area...
GCC undefined behaviors are getting wild Happy with my recent breakthrough in understanding C integer divisions after weeks of struggle, I...
over a year ago
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GCC undefined behaviors are getting wild

from A small freedom area RSS [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Happy with my recent breakthrough in understanding C integer divisions after weeks of struggle, I was minding my own business having fun writing integer arithmetic code. Life was good, when suddenly… zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped). That code wasn't messing with memory much...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Subjective Neurological Experience On the SGU we recently talked about aphantasia, the condition in which some people have a decreased...
9 months ago
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Subjective Neurological Experience

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

9 months ago
On the SGU we recently talked about aphantasia, the condition in which some people have a decreased or entirely absent ability to imagine things. The term was coined recently, in 2015, by neurologist Adam Zeman, who described the condition of “congenital aphantasia,” that he...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Making Ethereum alignment legible
9 months ago
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Making Ethereum alignment legible

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9 months ago
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Seth's Blog
The half-life of magic “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Arthur C. Clarke Try to...
a year ago
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The half-life of magic

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

a year ago
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Arthur C. Clarke Try to imagine the you of twenty years ago holding a Rabbit R1, or using a cell phone or being able to listen to every song, ever recorded, for just a few dollars a month. We don’t just take...
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Birchtree
Apple’s 2024 report card: the Mac 💻 This is the third in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I...
6 months ago
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Apple’s 2024 report card: the Mac 💻

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

6 months ago
This is the third in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did this last year and you can read last year’s Mac report card here. MacBook Pro The MacBook Pro continues to get a relentless stream of updates, as
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Articles
Local news web site
over a year ago
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Local news web site

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over a year ago
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Calculated Risk
Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims Decrease to 221,000 The DOL reported: emphasis added The following graph shows the 4-week moving average of weekly...
4 months ago
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Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims Decrease to 221,000

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

4 months ago
The DOL reported: emphasis added The following graph shows the 4-week moving average of weekly claims since 1971. Click on graph for larger image. The dashed line on the graph is the current 4-week average. The four-week average of weekly unemployment claims increased to...
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Elad Blog
Startup Decoupling & Reckoning The coming reset in mid-to-late stage startups in 2023-2024 is at this point likely largely...
over a year ago
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Startup Decoupling & Reckoning

from Elad Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
The coming reset in mid-to-late stage startups in 2023-2024 is at this point likely largely decoupled from interest rates and inflation. Implications are discussed.
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Twelve Mile Circle –...
Ontario, Day 5 (Lake and Caves) As I planned the trip, I tried to intersperse mellow days with active days and most of the time I...
4 days ago
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Ontario, Day 5 (Lake and Caves)

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

4 days ago
As I planned the trip, I tried to intersperse mellow days with active days and most of the time I followed those guidelines. Originally Day 5 was designed as something low-key in Collingwood without any driving. However, plans shifted a tiny bit and we did more than we...
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Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
a year ago
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Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update

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a year ago
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
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Paul Graham: Essays
The Real Reason to End the Death Penalty
over a year ago
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The Real Reason to End the Death Penalty

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over a year ago
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mtlynch.io
Strong Towns I found it eye-opening in terms of understanding how municipal governments work in practice and how...
a year ago
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Strong Towns

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

a year ago
I found it eye-opening in terms of understanding how municipal governments work in practice and how perverse incentives lead to poor community outcomes. It had a huge impact on the way that I think about where to live and what policies I support in local government. This book...
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Retail Design Blog
Linktel Technologies New Campus by ATDESIGNOFFICE ATDESIGNOFFICE focused on creating innovative communal spaces in the Linktel Technologies building...
10 months ago
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Linktel Technologies New Campus by ATDESIGNOFFICE

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

10 months ago
ATDESIGNOFFICE focused on creating innovative communal spaces in the Linktel Technologies building in Wuhan, connecting employees with nature, promoting collaboration,...
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Rest of World -...
Chinese factory owners are becoming TikTok comedians to find new business partners Factory influencers are producing actually funny videos on TikTok, Instagram, and WeChat to increase...
a year ago
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Chinese factory owners are becoming TikTok comedians to find new business partners

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

a year ago
Factory influencers are producing actually funny videos on TikTok, Instagram, and WeChat to increase B2B sales
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IEEE Spectrum
RCA’s Lucite Phantom Teleceiver Introduced the Idea of TV addressed a small crowd outside the RCA pavilion at the New York World’s Fair. “Today we are on the...
over a year ago
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RCA’s Lucite Phantom Teleceiver Introduced the Idea of TV

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

over a year ago
addressed a small crowd outside the RCA pavilion at the New York World’s Fair. “Today we are on the eve of launching a new industry, based on imagination, on scientific research and accomplishment,” he proclaimed. That industry was television. RCA president David Sarnoff’s...
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Old Structures...
Very Urban Angelo Rizzuto’s title for this photo is “Cityscape – New York City”. Don’t feel embarrassed if you...
a year ago
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Very Urban

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

a year ago
Angelo Rizzuto’s title for this photo is “Cityscape – New York City”. Don’t feel embarrassed if you can’t recognize anything New Yorkish in it – it took me a minute. The arch bridge in the background is the Henry Hudson Bridge, carrying the Henry Hudson Parkway (the northern...
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Retail Design Blog
Mardi Mercredi store by Studio Unravel Targeting a savvy Gen Z demographic, South Korean womenswear brand Mardi Mercredi has garnered a...
a year ago
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Mardi Mercredi store by Studio Unravel

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

a year ago
Targeting a savvy Gen Z demographic, South Korean womenswear brand Mardi Mercredi has garnered a large following since its foundation...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Home Designed As One Long Curve FRARI – architecture network has designed a new house in Vagos, Portugal, that has a single arcing...
over a year ago
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A Home Designed As One Long Curve

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
FRARI – architecture network has designed a new house in Vagos, Portugal, that has a single arcing curved design. Through its shape and arrangement, the curved home protects itself from the busy road, while also opening up the interior to the outdoor spaces, like the yard and...
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Calculated Risk
Q1 GDP Tracking: Around 2% From BofA: We initiated our 1Q US GDP tracker with the January retail sales print on February 14....
4 months ago
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Q1 GDP Tracking: Around 2%

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

4 months ago
From BofA: We initiated our 1Q US GDP tracker with the January retail sales print on February 14. Since then, our 1Q GDP tracker is down two-tenths to 2.3% q/q saar from our official forecast of 2.5% q/q saar. Meanwhile, our 4Q GDP tracking is down two-tenths to 2.2% q/q saar...
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Wuthering...
What books am I reading this summer in the Greek philosophy readalong? Some details. Now that we are almost done with Plato, the bulkiest figure in my little Greek philosophy readalong,...
over a year ago
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What books am I reading this summer in the Greek philosophy readalong? Some details.

from Wuthering Expectations [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago
Now that we are almost done with Plato, the bulkiest figure in my little Greek philosophy readalong, I thought it would be a good idea to revisit, clarify, and puzzle over the texts that will take us to the end of the project, now that I have given the matter a little more...
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./techtipsy
Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable home server? I’m a man of many ideas. It’s a shame that most of them are quite stupid. This is one of them, but...
over a year ago
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Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable home server?

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

over a year ago
I’m a man of many ideas. It’s a shame that most of them are quite stupid. This is one of them, but at least it makes for a fun experiment. Intro After adding an UPS to accompany my server, my setup was as complete as it could reasonably be. The server is low power, but packs...
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TokyoDev
Asiajin Meetup Today I attended [the second Asiajin meetup]. Asiajin is an English language blog that covers what...
over a year ago
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Asiajin Meetup

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Today I attended [the second Asiajin meetup]. Asiajin is an English language blog that covers what is going on in the Japanese internet space. About 20 people participated, with over half the attendees being Japanese. This surprised me, as the blog's target is English speakers,...
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Herbert Lui
Contentions: Apple TV’s billion dollar loss There’s a possibility that Apple is losing over $1 billion per year on Apple TV. The so-called...
3 months ago
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Contentions: Apple TV’s billion dollar loss

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

3 months ago
There’s a possibility that Apple is losing over $1 billion per year on Apple TV. The so-called “loss” is plausible, it’s also a rather ordinarily-sized expense considering Apple’s relatively high scale other marketing expenses. Consider this: Another report suggests that Apple...
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Matt Mazur
My Indie SaaS Revenue has Grown 37% per Year for 13 Years Unlike many indie founders, I’ve never shared revenue numbers for Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker...
a year ago
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My Indie SaaS Revenue has Grown 37% per Year for 13 Years

from Matt Mazur [alt+shift+b] in AI

a year ago
Unlike many indie founders, I’ve never shared revenue numbers for Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker tool. Even if they were remarkable – which they are not really – I just don’t think there are many good reasons to publicly share revenue numbers, and there are lots of downsides....
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Abort Retry Fail
Housekeeping for 20240309 Super quick updates
a year ago
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Housekeeping for 20240309

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a year ago
Super quick updates
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Strange Loop Canon
I wrote a book! AI enables us to, finally, get "soft" APIs
a year ago
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I wrote a book!

from Strange Loop Canon [alt+shift+b] in AI

a year ago
AI enables us to, finally, get "soft" APIs
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HTMHell
#18 main divigation Context: The main navigation of a personal website. Bad code <div class="nav"> <div> ...
over a year ago
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#18 main divigation

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Context: The main navigation of a personal website. Bad code <div class="nav"> <div> <div>about</div> <div>thoughts</div> </div> </div> Issues and how to fix them The <div> element is an element of last resort, for when no other element is suitable. Use of the <div>...
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Joel Gascoigne
What are you doing to feel uncomfortable? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I believe that...
over a year ago
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What are you doing to feel uncomfortable?

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

over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I believe that when you’re building a startup, it is as much about developing yourself as it is about developing your startup. This week I’ve stepped up my gym routine and managed to go to the gym...
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Seth's Blog
Small groups, well organized And those are the two challenges of anyone seeking to make an impact. First, we get distracted by...
a year ago
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Small groups, well organized

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

a year ago
And those are the two challenges of anyone seeking to make an impact. First, we get distracted by the inclination to make the group as big as we can imagine. After all, the change is essential, the idea is a good one. It’s for everyone. Except that’s a trap. Because a group...
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Josh Collinsworth
Forty-two I'm 42 years old today. This is a personal post about where I am now, what's going on in my head,...
over a year ago
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Forty-two

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

over a year ago
I'm 42 years old today. This is a personal post about where I am now, what's going on in my head, and 42 things I've learned (or at least, think I've learned).
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Artificial Ignorance
The ideologies fighting for the soul (and future) of AI EAs, e/accs, decels, and doomers.
a year ago
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The ideologies fighting for the soul (and future) of AI

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a year ago
EAs, e/accs, decels, and doomers.
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Commoncog
The Secret at the Heart of Continuous Improvement Continuous Improvement sounds simple, even obvious. And yet there's a profound secret at its heart...
a year ago
122

The Secret at the Heart of Continuous Improvement

from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
Continuous Improvement sounds simple, even obvious. And yet there's a profound secret at its heart that doesn't seem to get talked about.
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Ploum.net
De la soumission au technofascisme religieux De la soumission au technofascisme religieux Les générateurs de code stupide Sur Mastodon, David...
4 months ago
28

De la soumission au technofascisme religieux

from Ploum.net [alt+shift+b] in literature

4 months ago
De la soumission au technofascisme religieux Les générateurs de code stupide Sur Mastodon, David Chisnall fait le point sur une année d’utilisation de GitHub Copilot pour coder. Et le résultat est clair : si, au début, il a l’impression de gagner du temps en devant moins taper...
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Archinect - Features
What Europe Can (and Can’t) Tell the US About Architectural Licensure In the third part of Archinect In-Depth: Licensure, we reflect on what the United States can learn...
a year ago
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What Europe Can (and Can’t) Tell the US About Architectural Licensure

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

a year ago
In the third part of Archinect In-Depth: Licensure, we reflect on what the United States can learn from the architecture licensure models of other nations. While doing so, we speak with Peggy Deamer, Professor Emerita of Yale University's School of Architecture, whose book...
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diamond geezer
241 to Here East Route 241: Royal Wharf to Hackney Wick (Here East) Location: London east, cross-Newham Length of bus...
3 weeks ago
82

241 to Here East

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

3 weeks ago
Route 241: Royal Wharf to Hackney Wick (Here East) Location: London east, cross-Newham Length of bus journey: 8 miles, 50 minutes route 241 was extended from Stratford City into the Olympic Park. No fuss was made, no hordes descended. Buses which would normally have terminated...
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bt RSS Feed
CSS Character Unit CSS Character Unit 2019-04-23 When it comes to proper readability with large portions of text, the...
over a year ago
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CSS Character Unit

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

over a year ago
CSS Character Unit 2019-04-23 When it comes to proper readability with large portions of text, the golden standard is to have no more than 75 characters per line. This is easy to achieve in the world of print but on the responsive, ever-changing web - statically defined...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Starting Svelte Society Thoughts on how I am doing with 4 months of Svelte Society in the bag.
over a year ago
25

Starting Svelte Society

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

over a year ago
Thoughts on how I am doing with 4 months of Svelte Society in the bag.
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Prolost
Visual Effects Compositing in Adobe After Effects: My IBC 2019 Talk Adobe graciously invited me to speak at their IBC 2019 booth about visual effects compositing in...
over a year ago
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Visual Effects Compositing in Adobe After Effects: My IBC 2019 Talk

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over a year ago
Adobe graciously invited me to speak at their IBC 2019 booth about visual effects compositing in After Effects — something I’ve been doing against all advice for many (many!) years. You can watch the entire talk here:
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The personal website...
Hockey sticks don't look like hockey sticks “Hockey stick” growth has long been the elusive goal of Silicon Valley (and Valley-esque)...
over a year ago
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Hockey sticks don't look like hockey sticks

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

over a year ago
“Hockey stick” growth has long been the elusive goal of Silicon Valley (and Valley-esque) venture-capital-backed startups. It’s so named because the graph of some company metric — users, revenue, retention, orders — starts low and flat, then slowly lifts, then turns steeper and...
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Generative AI Con It's been just over two years and two months since ChatGPT launched, and in that time we've seen...
4 months ago
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The Generative AI Con

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4 months ago
It's been just over two years and two months since ChatGPT launched, and in that time we've seen Large Language Models (LLMs) blossom from a novel concept into one of the most craven cons of the 21st century — a cynical bubble inflated by OpenAI CEO
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David Crawshaw
Less cgo overhead in Go 1.8 name old time/op new time/op delta CgoNoop-8 146ns ± 1% 56ns ± 6% -61.57% (p=0.000...
over a year ago
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Less cgo overhead in Go 1.8

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over a year ago
name old time/op new time/op delta CgoNoop-8 146ns ± 1% 56ns ± 6% -61.57% (p=0.000 n=25+30) golang.org/cl/30080
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Tony Finch's blog
nsnotifyd-2.2 released I have made a new release of nsnotifyd, a tiny DNS server that just listens for NOTIFY messages and...
7 months ago
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nsnotifyd-2.2 released

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7 months ago
I have made a new release of nsnotifyd, a tiny DNS server that just listens for NOTIFY messages and runs a script when one of your zones changes. This nsnotifyd-2.2 release includes a new feature: nsnotify can now send NOTIFY messages from a specific source address Thanks to Adam...
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Common Edge
The Unique Intimacies of Designing a House Residential architects understand the origin story and the life evolution of those who they design...
2 months ago
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The Unique Intimacies of Designing a House

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2 months ago
Residential architects understand the origin story and the life evolution of those who they design for.
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Flashbak
Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
10 months ago
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany

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10 months ago
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
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Calculated Risk
Thursday: Unemployment Claims, CPI Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. initial weekly...
3 months ago
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Thursday: Unemployment Claims, CPI

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3 months ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released. The consensus is for 225 initial claims up from 219 thousand last week. Consumer Price Index for March from the BLS. The consensus is...
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Coding Horror
I Fight For The Users If you haven't been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year (if that), I...
a year ago
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I Fight For The Users

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a year ago
If you haven't been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year (if that), I can't blame you. There's a lot going on right now. It's a busy time. But let's pause and take
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Abort Retry Fail
The History of Windows NT 4 Taking the Server Market
a year ago
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The History of Windows NT 4

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a year ago
Taking the Server Market
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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...
over a year ago
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Koala: A Dialogue Model for Academic Research

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over 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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James Vaughan's blog
Introduction
over a year ago
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Introduction

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over a year ago
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Construction Physics
Goolsbee and Syverson on Construction Productivity Several people have asked me about a new NBER working paper that takes a look at construction...
over a year ago
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Goolsbee and Syverson on Construction Productivity

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over a year ago
Several people have asked me about a new NBER working paper that takes a look at construction productivity (a popular topic around here), “The Strange and Awful Path of Productivity in the US Construction Sector,” by Austan Goolsbee and Chad Syverson. This paper doesn’t bring any...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Notes on Serverless GraphQL with AWS AppSync My Notes on Slobodan Stojanovic's Serverless GraphQL with AppSync talk
over a year ago
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Notes on Serverless GraphQL with AWS AppSync

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over a year ago
My Notes on Slobodan Stojanovic's Serverless GraphQL with AppSync talk
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Josh Thompson
Tour of D3 for Clueless Folk Like Me D3 stands for Data Driven Documents, and it’s the coolest thing ever. Check out a few...
over a year ago
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Tour of D3 for Clueless Folk Like Me

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over a year ago
D3 stands for Data Driven Documents, and it’s the coolest thing ever. Check out a few examples: Animated, interactive curves(dynamic) OMG Particles II(dynamic) simple map of the us(static) <= very little code Radial Dendrogram(static) circle wave(dynamic) Force-directed...
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Rest of World -...
Lithium is only as dirty as we make it We’re building a new supply chain for electric vehicles. Are we building the right one?
a year ago
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Lithium is only as dirty as we make it

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a year ago
We’re building a new supply chain for electric vehicles. Are we building the right one?
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bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware April 2023 The ware for April 2023 is an X-rite DTP22 spectrophotometer. This one almost made it through the...
over a year ago
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Winner, Name that Ware April 2023

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over a year ago
The ware for April 2023 is an X-rite DTP22 spectrophotometer. This one almost made it through the month without being guessed, but congrats to cpresser for figuring it out in the last week! email me for your prize. Here’s some more context images of the ware. The colored filter...
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Quanta Magazine
New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text Far from being “stochastic parrots,” the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills...
a year ago
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New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text

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a year ago
Far from being “stochastic parrots,” the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills to understand the words they’re processing. The post New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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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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Rest of World -...
Despite tensions, US-China AI research collaborations are alive and well Over the past 10 years, the U.S. and China have been the most frequent partners in AI research.
5 months ago
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Despite tensions, US-China AI research collaborations are alive and well

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5 months ago
Over the past 10 years, the U.S. and China have been the most frequent partners in AI research.
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axio.ms
Pickle plus mains Back in February 2014, it was a cold (but dry) winter’s night and we decided to warm our hearts with...
over a year ago
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Pickle plus mains

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over a year ago
Back in February 2014, it was a cold (but dry) winter’s night and we decided to warm our hearts with some science. Our experiment was to observe the conduction of electricity through a pickle, using salt ions. We connected a pickle to the mains supply. Pickles have a strong...
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Open Culture
How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim...
6 months ago
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How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra

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6 months ago
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
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Home on Erik...
How to hire smarter than the market: a toy model Let's consider a toy model where you're hiring for two things and that those are equally valuable....
over a year ago
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How to hire smarter than the market: a toy model

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over a year ago
Let's consider a toy model where you're hiring for two things and that those are equally valuable. It's not very important what those are, so let's just call them “thing A” and “thing B” for now.
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Both Are True
switching to a "dumb" phone made me feel pretty dang smart the Light Phone diaries
a year ago
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switching to a "dumb" phone made me feel pretty dang smart

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a year ago
the Light Phone diaries
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Old Structures...
Dramatic Foreshadowing From 1875, the “New Tribune Building”: In my opinion, this was not the first skyscraper, pretty much...
a year ago
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Dramatic Foreshadowing

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

a year ago
From 1875, the “New Tribune Building”: In my opinion, this was not the first skyscraper, pretty much because I don’t believe there was a “first skyscraper.” The deveopment of skyscrapers was an evolutionary process and this was one of the early steps. In any case, the main roof...
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orlp.net - Blog...
Taming Floating-Point Sums Suppose you have an array of floating-point numbers, and wish to sum them. You might naively think...
a year ago
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Taming Floating-Point Sums

from orlp.net - Blog Archive [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Suppose you have an array of floating-point numbers, and wish to sum them. You might naively think you can simply add them, e.g. in Rust: fn naive_sum(arr: &[f32]) -> f32 { let mut out = 0.0; for x in arr { out += *x; } out } This however can easily...
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Bits about Money
The infrastructure behind ATMs ATMs are connected to banks by networks which operate little-understood payment rails.
over a year ago
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The infrastructure behind ATMs

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over a year ago
ATMs are connected to banks by networks which operate little-understood payment rails.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Creating Some Noise on Behalf of Silence How do you write about the value of silence? It’s kind of absurd when you think about it. Do you use...
12 months ago
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Creating Some Noise on Behalf of Silence

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12 months ago
How do you write about the value of silence? It’s kind of absurd when you think about it. Do you use words to extol the value of something whose essence is the very absence of words? It’s like making a painting of the invisible. Do you use visible means to depict something that...
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Londonist
That Kiosk Outside The National Portrait Gallery Is About To Reopen As A Cafe From Victorian toilet block, to ticket booth... and now a bougie cafe!
a year ago
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That Kiosk Outside The National Portrait Gallery Is About To Reopen As A Cafe

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a year ago
From Victorian toilet block, to ticket booth... and now a bougie cafe!
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Ognjen Regoje •...
Don't be clever, be clear I love plain language. (the last one is a pdf) So it’s no surprise that one of my (many) pet peeves...
over a year ago
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Don't be clever, be clear

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over a year ago
I love plain language. (the last one is a pdf) So it’s no surprise that one of my (many) pet peeves is when a title of an article tries to be clever. Consider, for example: It Can Happen to You This can be about anything from cancer to, as in this case, a very arcane piece of...
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Uncharted...
Should You Be Able to Experiment on Your Own Cancer? A researcher in virology and immunotherapy got bad news: Her cancer was back with a vengeance; the...
9 months ago
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Should You Be Able to Experiment on Your Own Cancer?

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9 months ago
A researcher in virology and immunotherapy got bad news: Her cancer was back with a vengeance; the treatments weren’t working. She decided to treat it herself.
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Flashbak
New York City In The 1960s – A Photographer’s Love story For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that...
7 months ago
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New York City In The 1960s – A Photographer’s Love story

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7 months ago
For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that I love – New York City,” she says. ” On a good day, I move with the rhythms of the city and feel connected to its soul, spirit and people. The camera is the tool that allows me …...
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Citation Needed
Trump’s Project 2025 ghostwriters Exposed PDF metadata from the Office of Personnel Management reveals that Heritage Foundation-linked...
5 months ago
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Trump’s Project 2025 ghostwriters

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5 months ago
Exposed PDF metadata from the Office of Personnel Management reveals that Heritage Foundation-linked Trump devotees are writing policies at federal agencies.
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Rest of World -...
Seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border? You’d better speak English or Spanish Migrants speaking Haitian Creole or Indigenous languages face challenges at the border.
over a year ago
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Seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border? You’d better speak English or Spanish

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over a year ago
Migrants speaking Haitian Creole or Indigenous languages face challenges at the border.
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IEEE Spectrum
The Saga of AD-X2, the Battery Additive That Roiled the NBS Senate hearings, a post office ban, the resignation of the director of the National Bureau of...
11 months ago
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The Saga of AD-X2, the Battery Additive That Roiled the NBS

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11 months ago
Senate hearings, a post office ban, the resignation of the director of the National Bureau of Standards, and his reinstatement after more than 400 scientists threatened to resign. Who knew a little box of salt could stir up such drama? What was AD-X2? It all started in 1947 when...
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Abort Retry Fail
The History of Windows 3 Windows becomes competitive
a year ago
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The History of Windows 3

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a year ago
Windows becomes competitive
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Irrational...
What is the competitive advantage of authors in the age of LLMs? Over the past 19 months, I’ve written Crafting Engineering Strategy, a book on creating engineering...
3 weeks ago
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What is the competitive advantage of authors in the age of LLMs?

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3 weeks ago
Over the past 19 months, I’ve written Crafting Engineering Strategy, a book on creating engineering strategy. I’ve also been working increasingly with large language models at work. Unsurprisingly, the intersection of those two ideas is a topic that I’ve been thinking about a...
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Louwrentius
'Linux: monitor a directory for files' Inotify is a mechanism in the Linux kernel that reports when a file system event occurs. The...
over a year ago
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'Linux: monitor a directory for files'

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over a year ago
Inotify is a mechanism in the Linux kernel that reports when a file system event occurs. The inotifywait comand line utility can be used in shell scripts to monitor directories for new files. It can also be used to monitor files for changes. Inotifywait must be installed and is...
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Josh Thompson
Don't Focus on the Present If you accept the premise that training  cycles are the method by which you will improve your...
over a year ago
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Don't Focus on the Present

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over a year ago
If you accept the premise that training  cycles are the method by which you will improve your climbing, you  should be able to focus less on the day-by-day fluctuation in your performance. At least, I should be able to, since I accept that premise. Yet I still struggle to not be...
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Old Structures...
Got Very Big, Very Fast Yesterday, I mentioned two department stores in New York, the 1846 A. T. Stewart Store at Broadway...
9 months ago
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Got Very Big, Very Fast

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

9 months ago
Yesterday, I mentioned two department stores in New York, the 1846 A. T. Stewart Store at Broadway and Chambers Street that was the first real department store in the US, and the 1896 Siegel-Cooper Store at Sixth Avenue and 18th Street that was for a time the largest store in the...
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Stephen Wolfram...
Useful to the Point of Being Revolutionary: Introducing Wolfram Notebook Assistant Note: As of today, copies of Wolfram Version 14.1 are being auto-updated to allow subscription...
7 months ago
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Useful to the Point of Being Revolutionary: Introducing Wolfram Notebook Assistant

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7 months ago
Note: As of today, copies of Wolfram Version 14.1 are being auto-updated to allow subscription access to the capabilities described here. [For additional installation information see here.] Just Say What You Want! Turning Words into Computation Nearly a year and a half ago—just a...
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Articles
Silverwood Theme Park Review, Travel Tips, and Photos Here's my tips and advice for anyone going: best hotels, what time to get there, parking, ride tips,...
a year ago
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Silverwood Theme Park Review, Travel Tips, and Photos

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a year ago
Here's my tips and advice for anyone going: best hotels, what time to get there, parking, ride tips, what to bring, and more.
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CONTEMPORIST
A Waterfront A-frame House Renovated With Contemporary Finishes Joe Herrin, Principal at Heliotrope Architects, has shared photos of an A-Frame cabin he completed...
a year ago
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A Waterfront A-frame House Renovated With Contemporary Finishes

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a year ago
Joe Herrin, Principal at Heliotrope Architects, has shared photos of an A-Frame cabin he completed as an idyllic little home on Orcas Island, set within the San Juan Island Archipelago of Washington state. The cabin structure is a modest late-60’s era kit A-frame, built by the...
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Londonist
10 Tempting New Afternoon Teas To Try In London Right Now: February 2024 Get booking for the newest afternoon tea menus in the capital.
a year ago
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10 Tempting New Afternoon Teas To Try In London Right Now: February 2024

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a year ago
Get booking for the newest afternoon tea menus in the capital.
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Marc Astbury
The Exodus Curve The concept of Product-Market Fit (PMF) collapse has gained renewed attention with the rise of large...
5 months ago
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The Exodus Curve

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5 months ago
The concept of Product-Market Fit (PMF) collapse has gained renewed attention with the rise of large language models (LLMs), as highlighted in a recent Reforge article. The article argues we’re witnessing unprecedented market disruption, in this post, I propose we’re experiencing...
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
Matt Stoller Explains Monopolies The latest episode of my podcast Better Online is a conversation with Matt Stoller — America’s...
10 months ago
111

Matt Stoller Explains Monopolies

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups

10 months ago
The latest episode of my podcast Better Online is a conversation with Matt Stoller — America’s leading voice on monopoly and antitrust matters, and a thoughtful and prolific writer. You can find Matt on Twitter here, and his newsletter here. It was a timely conversation. At the
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Krebs on Security
ClickFix: How to Infect Your PC in Three Easy Steps A clever malware deployment scheme first spotted in targeted attacks last year has now gone...
3 months ago
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ClickFix: How to Infect Your PC in Three Easy Steps

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3 months ago
A clever malware deployment scheme first spotted in targeted attacks last year has now gone mainstream. In this scam, dubbed "ClickFix," the visitor to a hacked or malicious website is asked to distinguish themselves from bots by pressing a combination of keyboard keys that...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
@levelsio and survivorship bias Pieter Levels is a prolific maker of software. He’s also very successful maker of software: he’s...
over a year ago
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@levelsio and survivorship bias

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

over a year ago
Pieter Levels is a prolific maker of software. He’s also very successful maker of software: he’s close to making $1.5 million a year from his business, almost all of it profit. Almost all of it is his profit since for most of the time he was a sole developer / marketer / copy...
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The Honest Broker
The New Romanticism Just Found an Unexpected Spokesperson Sometimes heroes really do wear white hats
2 months ago
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The New Romanticism Just Found an Unexpected Spokesperson

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2 months ago
Sometimes heroes really do wear white hats
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Fatih Arslan
New homepage design I changed my website’s design. I'm using the previous design since September 30, 2022 (when I moved...
8 months ago
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New homepage design

from Fatih Arslan [alt+shift+b] in design

8 months ago
I changed my website’s design. I'm using the previous design since September 30, 2022 (when I moved to Ghost from Cloudflare Pages). The previous design served me well for the past two years, but it was time for a change. Firstly, I wanted to create a
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TokyoDev
Tech Meetups in Tokyo Now that you’re in Tokyo looking to start or further your IT career, you might want to look into...
a year ago
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Tech Meetups in Tokyo

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Now that you’re in Tokyo looking to start or further your IT career, you might want to look into attending tech meetups. Tech meetups are events held online and offline, and attending them is a great way to form connections and establish yourself in the tech community. It...
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The Oatmeal - Comics...
I made some animated shorts Watch the very first Oatmeal cartoons. View on my website
over a year ago
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I made some animated shorts

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

over a year ago
Watch the very first Oatmeal cartoons. View on my website
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sylph Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Locking down the graph joke/obscure word enthusiast...
a month ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sylph

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

a month ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Locking down the graph joke/obscure word enthusiast crossover crowd. Today's News:
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Josh Thompson
Rails Migration: When you can't add a uniqueness constraint because you already have duplicates I get to occasionally contribute to the Wombat Security dev blog. I wrote the following for...
over a year ago
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Rails Migration: When you can't add a uniqueness constraint because you already have duplicates

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

over a year ago
I get to occasionally contribute to the Wombat Security dev blog. I wrote the following for development.wombatsecurity.com. This post has been updated to reflect some lessons learned while running this migration in production. Don’t leave a column without an index at any point in...
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Rest of World -...
Meet the “digital parents” giving millions in China a vision of family love they never had Creators Jiang Xiuping and Pan Huqian, a viral Douyin duo, act as fictional parents, providing...
a year ago
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Meet the “digital parents” giving millions in China a vision of family love they never had

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

a year ago
Creators Jiang Xiuping and Pan Huqian, a viral Douyin duo, act as fictional parents, providing solace to young adults and adolescents amidst economic inequalities and a scarcity of mental health support in China.
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Global Inequality...
The ideology of Donald J. Trump Does Donald J.
8 months ago
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The ideology of Donald J. Trump

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8 months ago
Does Donald J.
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xkcd.com
A Halloween Carol
a year ago
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A Halloween Carol

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a year ago
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Rest of World -...
Foreign tech workers hit hard by South Africa’s new immigration laws Lured by rich job opportunities in South Africa's tech scene, thousands of migrants from across the...
a year ago
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Foreign tech workers hit hard by South Africa’s new immigration laws

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

a year ago
Lured by rich job opportunities in South Africa's tech scene, thousands of migrants from across the continent flooded into the country. Now, those jobs are out of reach.
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Society's Backend:...
An Overview of Text Summarization Methods from Simple to Complex We went through a bit of a rebrand. Let me know what you think about Society’s Backend’s new color...
a year ago
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An Overview of Text Summarization Methods from Simple to Complex

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

a year ago
We went through a bit of a rebrand. Let me know what you think about Society’s Backend’s new color scheme and logo! :) - Logan I've been researching text summarization methods for a project I'm working on. Since the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs), LLMs have become a go-to...
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Abishek Muthian
I found my 7th grade art book ! The drawings from my 7th grade art book gives an insight of what my life and dreams were during that...
over a year ago
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I found my 7th grade art book !

from Abishek Muthian [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
The drawings from my 7th grade art book gives an insight of what my life and dreams were during that period. I share this is to inspire at-least few to go back and check what they were and what they are now. Art book cover My 7th grade Art notebook. I’m 29 year old Indian male....
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Stephen Diehl
Congressional Letter Campaign
over a year ago
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Congressional Letter Campaign

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over a year ago
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FIRE v London
June ’23: The hottest ever June saw UK’s former PM Mr Johnson leave parliament. Good riddance. I suspect we haven’t seen or...
a year ago
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June ’23: The hottest ever

from FIRE v London [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
June saw UK’s former PM Mr Johnson leave parliament. Good riddance. I suspect we haven’t seen or (definitely) read the last of him but having him out of Westminster is at least a bit safer than him inside. Closer to (my Coastal Folly) home, there has been a sad story in...
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Noahpinion
What are the checks and balances on the power of Elon Musk? The question we'll all be asking over the next year or more.
6 months ago
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What are the checks and balances on the power of Elon Musk?

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

6 months ago
The question we'll all be asking over the next year or more.
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Archinect - Features
UK Architectural Licensure Had Not Changed in 50 Years. Until Now. Having previously examined architecture licensure systems in the United States and across mainland...
11 months ago
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UK Architectural Licensure Had Not Changed in 50 Years. Until Now.

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

11 months ago
Having previously examined architecture licensure systems in the United States and across mainland Europe, this edition of the Archinect In-Depth: Licensure series profiles changes underway in the United Kingdom's licensing system, which is currently undergoing a “fundamental...
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Sam Altman
Time to Take a Stand It is time for tech companies to start speaking up about some of the actions taken by President...
over a year ago
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Time to Take a Stand

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

over a year ago
It is time for tech companies to start speaking up about some of the actions taken by President Trump’s administration. There are many actions from his first week that are objectionable.  In repeatedly invoking unsubstantiated conspiracy theories (like the 3 million...
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Both Are True
how to write about the vulnerable stuff your family doesn't know about (and other fun easy topics... therapy for writers // batcave live #001 w special guest Isabel Cowles Murphy
2 months ago
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how to write about the vulnerable stuff your family doesn't know about (and other fun easy topics haha!)

from Both Are True [alt+shift+b] in life

2 months ago
therapy for writers // batcave live #001 w special guest Isabel Cowles Murphy
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Abishek Muthian
Possible compromise of Read Aloud browser extension Possible compromise of Read Aloud browser extension. Read Aloud is a famous Text-To-Speech browser...
over a year ago
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Possible compromise of Read Aloud browser extension

from Abishek Muthian [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Possible compromise of Read Aloud browser extension. Read Aloud is a famous Text-To-Speech browser extension with 65,065 Users & Recommended badge on Firefox and 3,000,000+ users on Chrome web store. It is mostly used by people with accessibility needs, Especially those who are...
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Cremieux Recueil
Did Unions End Long Work Hours? Is it growth or organized labor that's more responsible for giving us shorter workdays?
10 months ago
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Did Unions End Long Work Hours?

from Cremieux Recueil [alt+shift+b] in science

10 months ago
Is it growth or organized labor that's more responsible for giving us shorter workdays?
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Rest of World -...
DJI drones are everywhere. The U.S. may still ban them No U.S. agency has been assigned to review DJI’s security risks, which could trigger an automatic...
a month ago
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DJI drones are everywhere. The U.S. may still ban them

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

a month ago
No U.S. agency has been assigned to review DJI’s security risks, which could trigger an automatic ban by year’s end.
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Londonist
Things To Do This Easter Weekend In London: 29 March-1 April 2024 Our bumper events guide for the long weekend.
a year ago
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Things To Do This Easter Weekend In London: 29 March-1 April 2024

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a year ago
Our bumper events guide for the long weekend.
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Ryan Hoover's...
Friction-free Product Design
over a year ago
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Friction-free Product Design

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over a year ago
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African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to... The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
7 months ago
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The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to Eastern Congo.

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

7 months ago
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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CONTEMPORIST
This New Home Addition Opens To The Garden Levitate Architects has shared photos of a modern rear home extension they completed for a home in...
a year ago
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This New Home Addition Opens To The Garden

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Levitate Architects has shared photos of a modern rear home extension they completed for a home in England, that has folding doors, connecting the interior spaces to the garden. The architects removed the floor of a second rear sitting room and lowered it to the level of the...
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The Oatmeal - Comics...
Terrible things are going down Shit hits the fan View on my website
a year ago
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Terrible things are going down

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

a year ago
Shit hits the fan View on my website
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blag
Recurse Center Day 15: B Tree Algorithms I translated B Tree Algorithms from CLRS to Python
over a year ago
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Recurse Center Day 15: B Tree Algorithms

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I translated B Tree Algorithms from CLRS to Python
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Tinloof - Blog
How to make and test your own React drag and drop list with 0 dependencies I know, drag and drop is a solved problem. There are several great utilities you can use to easily...
over a year ago
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How to make and test your own React drag and drop list with 0 dependencies

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

over a year ago
I know, drag and drop is a solved problem. There are several great utilities you can use to easily have a drag and drop list in your application (dragula, react-beautiful-dnd, and react-dnd). These libraries offer APIs that make it easy to meet your needs without worrying about...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Christmas Special
over a year ago
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Christmas Special

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

over a year ago
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Birchtree
Bending the knee, $1 million at a time M.G. Siegler on his blog, Spyglass: $1M Knee Pads Of course, the point here, in the real world,...
6 months ago
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Bending the knee, $1 million at a time

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

6 months ago
M.G. Siegler on his blog, Spyglass: $1M Knee Pads Of course, the point here, in the real world, isn't actually the money – though I would just note that as President, Trump will have access to thousands of warheads... – but what the money signals. That is,
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Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
a year ago
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The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise

from Patterns in Humanity [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
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Retail Design Blog
SEBO – Minimalism Meets Technology SEBO, a new brand by Mania Jeans, introduces a refined, cutting-edge retail experience. Designed by...
3 months ago
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SEBO – Minimalism Meets Technology

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

3 months ago
SEBO, a new brand by Mania Jeans, introduces a refined, cutting-edge retail experience. Designed by architect Kfir Galatia Azulay from...
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computers are bad
2024-01-06 usb on the go USB, the Universal Serial Bus, was first released in 1996. It did not achieve widespread adoption...
a year ago
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2024-01-06 usb on the go

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

a year ago
USB, the Universal Serial Bus, was first released in 1996. It did not achieve widespread adoption until some years later; for most of the '90s RS-232-ish serial and its awkward sibling the parallel port were the norm for external peripheral. It's sort of surprising that USB...
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Vadim Kravcenko
How much equity should a CTO ask for? This is one of the top questions I hear from founders. Being a co-founder is great, and it’s...
over a year ago
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How much equity should a CTO ask for?

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

over a year ago
This is one of the top questions I hear from founders. Being a co-founder is great, and it’s especially awesome […] The post How much equity should a CTO ask for? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Herbert Lui
Algorithms charge an ignorance premium on marketing When you write (or make videos, music, etc.) and rely on an algorithm or platform to distribute your...
6 months ago
31

Algorithms charge an ignorance premium on marketing

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

6 months ago
When you write (or make videos, music, etc.) and rely on an algorithm or platform to distribute your work, you are also paying for it to do so.  You may not realize it during the good months, but in the bad months, you’ll start wondering where your earnings went.  The platform...
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Flashbak
Honoré Daumier, Portraits des Célébrités du Juste-Milieu At the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, you can see these sculptured portraits of celebrities by French artist...
4 months ago
33

Honoré Daumier, Portraits des Célébrités du Juste-Milieu

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

4 months ago
At the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, you can see these sculptured portraits of celebrities by French artist Honoré Daumier (February 26, 1808 – February 10 or 11, 1879). Created between 1832 and 1835, Les Célébrités du Juste-Milieu (The Celebrities of the Golden Mean) terracotta look...
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Quanta Magazine
During Pregnancy, a Fake ‘Infection’ Protects the Fetus Cells in the placenta have an unusual trick for activating gentle immune defenses and keeping them...
a year ago
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During Pregnancy, a Fake ‘Infection’ Protects the Fetus

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

a year ago
Cells in the placenta have an unusual trick for activating gentle immune defenses and keeping them turned on when no infection is present. It involves crafting and deploying a fake virus. The post During Pregnancy, a Fake ‘Infection’ Protects the Fetus first appeared...
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Oykun
Why Visual Design Matters Visual Design often doesn't receive the respect it deserves among other disciplines such as UX,...
over a year ago
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Why Visual Design Matters

from Oykun [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
Visual Design often doesn't receive the respect it deserves among other disciplines such as UX, Development, and so on. I have faced situations like: Devs have already started the development based on UX. Just spend a few hours adding colours, please. We do not need visual...
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Luxagraf:...
History We crossed the Mason Dixon line on our way to Assateague, but it didn't really feel like we were in...
a year ago
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History

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

a year ago
We crossed the Mason Dixon line on our way to Assateague, but it didn't really feel like we were in the south yet. No offense Maryland, but it wasn't until I stopped at a gas station in Virginia that I heard the friendly twang of a southern accent. A few miles later I passed a...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Downhill Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I too commit the fundamental attribution...
a year ago
91

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Downhill

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

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I too commit the fundamental attribution error! Today's News: Hey geeks, last day to buy A City on Mars during launch week. Purchases now really help us, so if you were going to buy, we appreciate it happening soon. I am looking...
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alexwlchan
Always running I’m trying something a bit different today – fiction. I had an idea for a short story the other...
3 months ago
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Always running

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 months ago
I’m trying something a bit different today – fiction. I had an idea for a short story the other evening, and I fleshed it out into a proper piece. I want to get better at writing fiction, and the only way to do that is with practice. I hope you like what I’ve written! When the...
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samwho.dev
Fun With Rust's Traits Rust's trait system is wonderful. Everyone I know that has used it agrees with this statement. It's...
over a year ago
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Fun With Rust's Traits

from samwho.dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Rust's trait system is wonderful. Everyone I know that has used it agrees with this statement. It's a great way to encode shared behaviour between data types, and create flexible APIs. It's also great for writing nonsense like this: use std::f64::consts::PI; use...
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
Unchecked Depression Boxes And are you feeling depressed? Why should that question enrage me so much? I realize depression is a...
over a year ago
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Unchecked Depression Boxes

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

over a year ago
And are you feeling depressed? Why should that question enrage me so much? I realize depression is a major health epidemic. I understand that they can't treat an invisible disease without asking if you are suffering from it. But all I wanted was to get a wart frozen off the...
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Seth's Blog
Which sort of sinecure? Sooner or later, we find a place to hide. A place of security or sustenance. A place of safety. That...
over a year ago
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Which sort of sinecure?

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

over a year ago
Sooner or later, we find a place to hide. A place of security or sustenance. A place of safety. That sort of foundation can give us peace of mind and open the door to possibility. But, it’s possible that we can turn it into a trap as well. A situation so perfectly created that...
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Daniel Bourke
5 Free Resources to Help You Get a Machine Learning Job Learn in public, build your own projects, start the job before you have it, polish your resume and...
over a year ago
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5 Free Resources to Help You Get a Machine Learning Job

from Daniel Bourke [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
Learn in public, build your own projects, start the job before you have it, polish your resume and practice, practice, practice!
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Ink & Switch
Ink Note Feb 2023: Crosscut Extension Design Jam • Marcel's Notes Marcel Goethals’ notes on Crosscut extensions
over a year ago
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Ink Note Feb 2023: Crosscut Extension Design Jam • Marcel's Notes

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over a year ago
Marcel Goethals’ notes on Crosscut extensions
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TheCollector
How Locke and His Heirs Redefined Beauty (Aesthetic Sense) The century that is very important for the development of modern aesthetics was influenced by the...
3 weeks ago
6

How Locke and His Heirs Redefined Beauty (Aesthetic Sense)

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 weeks ago
The century that is very important for the development of modern aesthetics was influenced by the philosophers of the 17th century. This century is dominated by rationalism and empiricism. The latter begins with the philosophy of John Locke. Then, there is almost no mention of...
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Birchtree
The mythical iOS 18.4 Zac Hall writing for 9to5Mac: Apple’s Competitive Edge in AI Hinges on These Three Unreleased Siri...
4 months ago
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The mythical iOS 18.4

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

4 months ago
Zac Hall writing for 9to5Mac: Apple’s Competitive Edge in AI Hinges on These Three Unreleased Siri Features It feels like a make-or-break moment for Siri, and these three remaining iOS 18 features are key indicators of Apple’s ability to leverage AI with Siri. These three Siri
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CONTEMPORIST
This Cafe In Austria Has a Cycling Inspired Design Architecture and interior design studio Archisphere collaborated with Carbone & Kacerovsky to design...
over a year ago
186

This Cafe In Austria Has a Cycling Inspired Design

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
Architecture and interior design studio Archisphere collaborated with Carbone & Kacerovsky to design a ‘Cyclist’, a modern cafe at the Hotel Andaz am Belvedere Vienna. Archisphere drew inspiration from the movement, freedom, and enjoyment associated with cycling. In addition to...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Single Line Comments in CSS Brad Frost noted on Twitter how he recently made a website with plain HTML, CSS, JS, etc., and found...
over a year ago
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Single Line Comments in CSS

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

over a year ago
Brad Frost noted on Twitter how he recently made a website with plain HTML, CSS, JS, etc., and found himself missing some of the ergonomics from Sass. Having mostly abandoned Sass on personal projects, I was curious what he felt was missing. He mentioned nesting media queries,...
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Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Compass Lately, I've been thinking about my inner compass — the one that guides me through work and daily...
8 months ago
32

Compass

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

8 months ago
Lately, I've been thinking about my inner compass — the one that guides me through work and daily life. I've touched on my design ethos before, but this feels like something more personal. It's a lightweight breakdown of who I am, both as a designer and a human, shaped by the...
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The History of the...
The Website that Predicted AI There's a website developed with a personalized experience in mind. It touts major breakthroughs in...
7 months ago
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The Website that Predicted AI

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

7 months ago
There's a website developed with a personalized experience in mind. It touts major breakthroughs in predictive technology, driven by sophisticated algorithms that provide real-time recommendations. And it was launched in 1995. The post The Website that Predicted AI appeared first...
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Steve Klabnik
Protological Control: an introduction
over a year ago
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Protological Control: an introduction

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over a year ago
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Herbert Lui
How do you decide what’s worth reading? Travel brings about a great opportunity: to visit local bookstores. On a trip to Hong Kong, Tokyo,...
6 months ago
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How do you decide what’s worth reading?

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

6 months ago
Travel brings about a great opportunity: to visit local bookstores. On a trip to Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Shanghai, my family and I had the privilege of visiting these bookstores: Daikanyama T-Site (my favorite in the world and default recommendation to anyone visiting Tokyo), Ginza...
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again Sweet merciful Jesus, stop talking. Unless you are one of a tiny handful of businesses who know...
12 months ago
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🔗 I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again

from Naz Hamid — Journal + Links [alt+shift+b] in literature

12 months ago
Sweet merciful Jesus, stop talking. Unless you are one of a tiny handful of businesses who know exactly what they're going to use AI for, you do not need AI for anything - or rather, you do not need to do anything to reap the benefits. Artificial intelligence, as it exists and is...
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Stoic Simple
Using Stoicism to Live a Balanced Life Maintaining balance and achieving personal contentment has been a pressing concern for people...
over a year ago
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Using Stoicism to Live a Balanced Life

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over a year ago
Maintaining balance and achieving personal contentment has been a pressing concern for people throughout history. From ancient Greek philosophers to modern-day wellness coaches, experts have offered diverse approaches to balance the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual...
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David Heinemeier...
Don't make Google sell Chrome The web will be far worse off if Google is forced to sell Chrome, even if it's to atone for...
2 months ago
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Don't make Google sell Chrome

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

2 months ago
The web will be far worse off if Google is forced to sell Chrome, even if it's to atone for legitimate ad-market monopoly abuses. Which mean we'll all be worse off as the web would lose ground to actual monopoly platforms, like the iOS App Store and Google's own Play Store....
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Contraption Co.
How to host web apps on a Mac Mini Open-sourcing Toolbox, a framework for Mac-based home web servers
2 months ago
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How to host web apps on a Mac Mini

from Contraption Co. [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 months ago
Open-sourcing Toolbox, a framework for Mac-based home web servers
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Roberto Vitillo's...
How distributed systems fail At scale, any failure that can happen will eventually happen. Hardware failures, software crashes,...
over a year ago
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How distributed systems fail

from Roberto Vitillo's Blog [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
At scale, any failure that can happen will eventually happen. Hardware failures, software crashes, memory leaks - you name it. The more…
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The Marginalian
Swan Sky: A Bittersweet Vintage Japanese Meditation on Love, Loss, and the Eternal Consolations of... To me, what makes the majestic migration of birds so moving is that it is a living spell against...
a year ago
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Swan Sky: A Bittersweet Vintage Japanese Meditation on Love, Loss, and the Eternal Consolations of Belonging

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

a year ago
To me, what makes the majestic migration of birds so moving is that it is a living spell against abandonment. No one is leaving and no one is being left in this unison of movement along a vector of common purpose. It is the only instance I know of a transition that is not a...
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The Changelog
Live Migrating from Raspberry Pi OS bullseye to Debian bookworm I’ve been getting annoyed with Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian) for years now. It’s a fork of Debian, but...
a year ago
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Live Migrating from Raspberry Pi OS bullseye to Debian bookworm

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

a year ago
I’ve been getting annoyed with Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian) for years now. It’s a fork of Debian, but manages to omit some of the most useful things. So I’ve decided to migrate all of my Pis to run pure Debian. These are my reasons: Raspberry Pi OS has, for years now, specified...
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Articles
Why most product ideas aren't that good
over a year ago
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Why most product ideas aren't that good

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over a year ago
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seangoedecke.com RSS...
Writing a tech blog people want to read My blog has gotten a lot of traffic in the last few months. Here’s what I think I’ve been doing...
6 months ago
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Writing a tech blog people want to read

from seangoedecke.com RSS feed [alt+shift+b] in AI

6 months ago
My blog has gotten a lot of traffic in the last few months. Here’s what I think I’ve been doing that’s working, and a few things that have…
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
E-commerce startups Very few successful e-commerce companies were started in the 2000s. Since then, e-commerce startups...
over a year ago
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E-commerce startups

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

over a year ago
Very few successful e-commerce companies were started in the 2000s. Since then, e-commerce startups have enjoyed a revival. Dozens of…
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Flashbak
Photographer’s Lost Photos of Punk and New Wave Stars of the 1970s “I came up with the genius ideas of being a rockstar photographer. I could still feel important and...
3 months ago
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Photographer’s Lost Photos of Punk and New Wave Stars of the 1970s

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
“I came up with the genius ideas of being a rockstar photographer. I could still feel important and literally hide behind a sexy camera. I dropped out of school. I was going to be the next David Bailey, Helmut Newton, or Irving Penn, or even better, a combination of all of them.”...
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Liz Denys
Denim hexagonal teacups, 2024 Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window...
a year ago
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Denim hexagonal teacups, 2024

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

a year ago
Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window glass
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Herbert Lui
One chance Dan Sullivan is a coach for entrepreneurs. He asks every prospective client a question, “If we were...
5 months ago
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One chance

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

5 months ago
Dan Sullivan is a coach for entrepreneurs. He asks every prospective client a question, “If we were having this discussion three years from today, and you were looking back over those three years, what has to have happened in your life, both personally and professionally, for you...
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Mazdak
Regulating Crypto Eighteen states are suing the SEC over Biden's crypto crackdown. Is this the beginning of the end...
7 months ago
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Regulating Crypto

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

7 months ago
Eighteen states are suing the SEC over Biden's crypto crackdown. Is this the beginning of the end for crypto, or a necessary step towards mainstream adoption?
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Eric Bailey
A Complete Guide to CSS Functions
over a year ago
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A Complete Guide to CSS Functions

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

over a year ago
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alexwlchan
Good embedded toots In my previous post, there was a first for this site: I embedded a post from Mastodon. Like many...
5 months ago
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Good embedded toots

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

5 months ago
In my previous post, there was a first for this site: I embedded a post from Mastodon. Like many social media services, Mastodon has built-in support for embedding posts. If you’re looking at a public post, you can get a snippet of HTML and JavaScript to show that post in another...
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Classical Wisdom
The "New" Ancient City Discovering Kavala...
a year ago
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The "New" Ancient City

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a year ago
Discovering Kavala...
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Ryan Hoover's...
Real friends
a year ago
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Real friends

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a year ago
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Home on Erik...
Conversion rates – you are (most likely) computing them wrong How hard can it be to compute conversion rate? Take the total number of users that converted and...
over a year ago
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Conversion rates – you are (most likely) computing them wrong

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

over a year ago
How hard can it be to compute conversion rate? Take the total number of users that converted and divide them with the total number of users. Done. Except… it's a lot more complicated when you have any sort of significant time lag.
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Astral Codex Ten
How To Stop Worrying And Learn To Love Lynn's National IQ Estimates ...
5 months ago
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How To Stop Worrying And Learn To Love Lynn's National IQ Estimates

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5 months ago
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The Convivial...
Language Under Digital Conditions: Power and Action The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 1
over a year ago
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Language Under Digital Conditions: Power and Action

from The Convivial Society [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 1
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The Elysian
My TEDx talk about the future of fiction And publishing.
a year ago
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My TEDx talk about the future of fiction

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a year ago
And publishing.
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Passing Time
The Illusion of Solitude Deconstructing the Myth of Wilderness
8 months ago
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The Illusion of Solitude

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8 months ago
Deconstructing the Myth of Wilderness
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Applied Cartography
Always use an enum for your status field When I was first starting my career at Amazon — even more bright-eyed and rosy-cheeked than I am now...
9 months ago
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Always use an enum for your status field

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

9 months ago
When I was first starting my career at Amazon — even more bright-eyed and rosy-cheeked than I am now — I was thrilled by the concept of an "architecture review", and by extension the concept of a "Principal Engineer" (Amazon's term for a staff-level engineer, someone beyond...
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Nelson's Weblog
What are passkeys? That’s the post. What are passkeys? I don’t have answers, just questions. I believe passkeys are...
over a year ago
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What are passkeys?

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

over a year ago
That’s the post. What are passkeys? I don’t have answers, just questions. I believe passkeys are a great idea but the tech world is doing a terrible job explaining them. Someone really needs to explain how passkeys work in Internet products. Existing descriptions aren’t sinking...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Embeds and Quotations in Writing Chris wrote “0 KB Social Media Embeds” and it got me thinking about my own approach to embeds and...
a year ago
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Embeds and Quotations in Writing

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

a year ago
Chris wrote “0 KB Social Media Embeds” and it got me thinking about my own approach to embeds and quotations in my writing. A lot of my blogging is quoting other people. I remember debating the use of social embeds on my blog because I quoted a lot of things on Twitter. But I...
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Yale e360
How a Former Herder Protected Mongolia's Vast Grasslands Batmunkh Luvsandash has fought to protect more than a million acres of steppe lands in his native...
2 months ago
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How a Former Herder Protected Mongolia's Vast Grasslands

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

2 months ago
Batmunkh Luvsandash has fought to protect more than a million acres of steppe lands in his native Mongolia. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he explains how, by drawing on the knowledge of local herders, he was able to take on the powerful mining industry and win. Read...
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Confessions of a...
A first step into the unknown world of academia……. At the beginning of this blog I did promise to include some writings that would at least be...
over a year ago
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A first step into the unknown world of academia…….

from Confessions of a Marine Ecologist [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
At the beginning of this blog I did promise to include some writings that would at least be semi-useful (hopefully!) to future students hoping to move into a career in marine science; so here it goes! From today I am beginning a year long Postgraduate Teaching Internship at UWA....
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The Rational Walk
The Digest #161 Feynman on knowledge, TransDigm's controversial business model, Costco's history, The Ozempic/Wegovy...
a year ago
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The Digest #161

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

a year ago
Feynman on knowledge, TransDigm's controversial business model, Costco's history, The Ozempic/Wegovy band-aid; Plus insights from Todd Combs, Michael Burry, Joel Tillinghast, and Lee Ainslie.
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TheCollector
8 Works by Michelangelo You Should Know Michelangelo Buonarotti was one of the key figures of the Italian Renaissance and art history....
a month ago
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8 Works by Michelangelo You Should Know

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

a month ago
Michelangelo Buonarotti was one of the key figures of the Italian Renaissance and art history. Equally gifted as a painter and a sculptor, he reportedly learned to sculpt objects from clay before he learned to read and write. His most famous works included Pieta, David, and the...
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Wuthering...
Books finished in April 2023 I continue the practice of posting a list as a substitute for real writing. Coming soon: a long...
over a year ago
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Books finished in April 2023

from Wuthering Expectations [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago
I continue the practice of posting a list as a substitute for real writing. Coming soon: a long overdue loot at Seneca's plays, a glance at Gide's Counterfeiters, and some messing around with Plato's Republic. If I did not write in April, I at least read: GREEK PHILOSOPHY The...
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Seth's Blog
The power of expectations When we raise our expectations for a student, a friend or a co-worker, we open the door to...
a year ago
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The power of expectations

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

a year ago
When we raise our expectations for a student, a friend or a co-worker, we open the door to possibility. We offer them dignity and a chance to grow. We are offering them trust. But if we become attached to those expectations, if the expectation unmet leads us to distress or...
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Open Culture
An Introduction to the Astonishing Book of Kells, the Iconic Illuminated Manuscript Whatever set of religious or cultural traditions you come from, you’ve probably seen a Celtic cross...
7 months ago
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An Introduction to the Astonishing Book of Kells, the Iconic Illuminated Manuscript

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

7 months ago
Whatever set of religious or cultural traditions you come from, you’ve probably seen a Celtic cross before. Unlike a conventional cross, it has a circular ring, or “nimbus,” where its arms and stem intersect. The sole addition of that element gives it a highly distinctive look,...
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Herbert Lui
Professionalism and pressure The person who holds the world record for basketball free throws shot over 2,000 consecutive baskets...
3 months ago
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Professionalism and pressure

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

3 months ago
The person who holds the world record for basketball free throws shot over 2,000 consecutive baskets in a row. But if you put them in a stadium and a tight score between the teams, they might not have been able to shoot two. The main difference between playing basketball in a rec...
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David Heinemeier...
Visions of the future Nothing gets me quite as fired up as discovering the future early and undistributed. That feeling of...
a year ago
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Visions of the future

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

a year ago
Nothing gets me quite as fired up as discovering the future early and undistributed. That feeling of realizing that something is simply better, and the only reason it hasn't taken off yet is because the world hasn't realized it. It's amazing, and it's how I'm feeling about Linux...
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Charles Chen
On Bakers, Ovens, and AI Startup Moats Are new AI startups "just another wrapper for a 3rd party model"? Does having an oven make you a...
8 months ago
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On Bakers, Ovens, and AI Startup Moats

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

8 months ago
Are new AI startups "just another wrapper for a 3rd party model"? Does having an oven make you a baker?
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The Changelog
A Maze of Twisty Little Pixels, All Tiny Two years ago, I wrote Managing an External Display on Linux Shouldn’t Be This Hard. Happily, since...
a year ago
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A Maze of Twisty Little Pixels, All Tiny

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

a year ago
Two years ago, I wrote Managing an External Display on Linux Shouldn’t Be This Hard. Happily, since I wrote that post, most of those issues have been resolved. But then you throw HiDPI into the mix and it all goes wonky. If you’re running X11, basically the story is that you can...
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SatPost by Trung...
Gathering seeds My most popular posts and tweets for 1H 2023.
over a year ago
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Gathering seeds

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

over a year ago
My most popular posts and tweets for 1H 2023.
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Posts on Made of...
Using Haskell's 'newtype' in C A common problem in software engineering is avoiding confusion and errors when dealing with multiple...
over a year ago
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Using Haskell's 'newtype' in C

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

over a year ago
A common problem in software engineering is avoiding confusion and errors when dealing with multiple types of data that share the same representation. Classic examples include differentiating between measurements stored in different units, distinguishing between a string of HTML...
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Daily Stoic
What Does It Mean To Be Wealthy? “These individuals have riches just as we say that we ‘have a fever,’ when really the fever has us.”...
a year ago
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What Does It Mean To Be Wealthy?

from Daily Stoic [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
“These individuals have riches just as we say that we ‘have a fever,’ when really the fever has us.” — Seneca We all know those people who have lots of money, and yet, they are miserable. On the flip side, we all know people who live happy and fulfilled lives despite not having...
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Dan Slimmon
Podcast appearance: The Debrief from Incident.io I’m so grateful to Incident.io for the opportunity to shout from their rooftop about Clinical...
a year ago
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Podcast appearance: The Debrief from Incident.io

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

a year ago
I’m so grateful to Incident.io for the opportunity to shout from their rooftop about Clinical troubleshooting, which I firmly believe is the way we should all be diagnosing system failures. Enjoy the full episode!
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here?
a year ago
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Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here?

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a year ago
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Calculated Risk
Trade Deficit increased to $78.2 Billion in November The Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported: The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S....
6 months ago
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Trade Deficit increased to $78.2 Billion in November

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

6 months ago
The Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported: The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis announced today that the goods and services deficit was $78.2 billion in November, up $4.6 billion from $73.6 billion in October, revised. ...
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Open Culture
Enter a Huge Archive of Amazing Stories, the World’s First Science Fiction Magazine, Launched in... If you haven’t heard of Hugo Gernsback, you’ve surely heard of the Hugo Award. Next to the Nebula,...
a year ago
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Enter a Huge Archive of Amazing Stories, the World’s First Science Fiction Magazine, Launched in 1926

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

a year ago
If you haven’t heard of Hugo Gernsback, you’ve surely heard of the Hugo Award. Next to the Nebula, it’s the most prestigious of science fiction prizes, bringing together in its ranks of winners such venerable authors as Ursula K. Le Guin, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Neil...
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Seth's Blog
Consider joining Purple Space It’s not for everyone, but it might be for you. All the details are at purple.space It’s for...
a year ago
27

Consider joining Purple Space

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

a year ago
It’s not for everyone, but it might be for you. All the details are at purple.space It’s for creatives, independents, brand managers, strategists, founders, non-profit leaders and lifelong learners.
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Contemporist...
A Monochromatic Interior Sets The Vibe Inside This Retail Store Design firm Studiomateriality, has shared photos of a retail store they designed in Athina, Greece,...
a year ago
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A Monochromatic Interior Sets The Vibe Inside This Retail Store

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

a year ago
Design firm Studiomateriality, has shared photos of a retail store they designed in Athina, Greece, that has a monochromatic interior to catch the eye of people walking past.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Naming, Addressing, and Forwarding How IP Addressing evolved over time, how it works today, and how we can transition to IPv6 in future
over a year ago
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Networking Essentials: Naming, Addressing, and Forwarding

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over a year ago
How IP Addressing evolved over time, how it works today, and how we can transition to IPv6 in future
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The personal website...
Make it 'til you make it In 2009, back when I was the creative director of a music magazine, I sat on a panel of music...
over a year ago
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Make it 'til you make it

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over a year ago
In 2009, back when I was the creative director of a music magazine, I sat on a panel of music industry professionals. The audience was mostly comprised of bands and curious non-music-industry people, so when it came to the Q&A part of the evening, the questions were predictable....
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Overcoming Bias
When They Hear Less Than You Say Something must be done.
5 months ago
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When They Hear Less Than You Say

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5 months ago
Something must be done.
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Old Structures...
The Power of Drawing Another Cass Gilbert sketch, “Looking west from corner 5th ave + 42nd St”, from June 1917. Based on...
a year ago
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The Power of Drawing

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

a year ago
Another Cass Gilbert sketch, “Looking west from corner 5th ave + 42nd St”, from June 1917. Based on the angle, he was standing on the northwestern corner of the intersection. The generally most interesting building nearby is the New York Public Library; the dark scribbles on the...
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Fonts In Use – Blog...
The Exorcist movie titles Contributed by Nick Sherman License: All Rights Reserved. License: All Rights Reserved....
over a year ago
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The Exorcist movie titles

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over a year ago
Contributed by Nick Sherman License: All Rights Reserved. License: All Rights Reserved. License: All Rights Reserved. The Exorcist is a 1973 horror film directed by William Friedkin based on William Peter Blatty’s 1971 novel of the same name. The story focuses...
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On Life and Lisp
Clip control on the Apple GPU Neverball rendered on the Apple M1 GPU with an open source OpenGL driver After a year in...
over a year ago
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Clip control on the Apple GPU

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over a year ago
Neverball rendered on the Apple M1 GPU with an open source OpenGL driver After a year in development, the open source “Asahi” driver for the Apple GPU is running real games. There’s more to do, but Neverball is already playable (and a lot of fun!). Neverball uses legacy “fixed...
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Christian Selig
The Case for Getting Rid of TestFlight Review I tweeted today about how I think TestFlight review should become a thing of the past and many...
over a year ago
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The Case for Getting Rid of TestFlight Review

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over a year ago
I tweeted today about how I think TestFlight review should become a thing of the past and many developers seemed to agree, but some had questions so I wanted to expand on my thoughts a little. TestFlight’s awesome. But like App Store submissions, TestFlight betas also require a...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing HouseWatch: An open-source toolkit for ClickHouse We are big fans of ClickHouse. We rely on it heavily to store and retrieve the massive amount of...
over a year ago
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Introducing HouseWatch: An open-source toolkit for ClickHouse

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over a year ago
We are big fans of ClickHouse. We rely on it heavily to store and retrieve the massive amount of data we process every day. In doing this at scale for…
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Christopher Butler
The Elements of Good Craft How details, focus, time, and taste elevate craft. Attention to Detail The number one...
a year ago
113

The Elements of Good Craft

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a year ago
How details, focus, time, and taste elevate craft. Attention to Detail The number one distinction among designers who need a lot of direction and designers who do not is their attention to detail. This is because attention to detail is commonly misunderstood. Attention...
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Unpacked
IRS Direct Tax Filing: the end of Intuit's lobbying Thirty-eight years since the launch of e-filing, the IRS will pilot its own tax filing system ending...
a year ago
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IRS Direct Tax Filing: the end of Intuit's lobbying

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a year ago
Thirty-eight years since the launch of e-filing, the IRS will pilot its own tax filing system ending two decades of Intuit's regulatory capture of the tax software market
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IEEE Spectrum
The Rise of Groupware A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the...
11 months ago
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The Rise of Groupware

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11 months ago
A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the end of the long tail. These days, computer users take collaboration software for granted. Google Docs, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Salesforce, and so on, are such a big part of many...
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Drew Ex Machina
Memories of Project RAMOS (Russian American Observation Satellites) 1991 – 2004 During the course of my professional career, one of the more important projects I had the pleasure...
a year ago
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Memories of Project RAMOS (Russian American Observation Satellites) 1991 – 2004

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a year ago
During the course of my professional career, one of the more important projects I had the pleasure to work on was the joint US/Russian Federation (RF) […]
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Fresh Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Slightly regretting that he didn't also take the...
8 months ago
55

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Fresh

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8 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Slightly regretting that he didn't also take the guy's coat. Today's News:
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Maggie Appleton
The Best Illustration Books and Courses My favourite resources for learning to draw and developing your visual thinking skills
over a year ago
19

The Best Illustration Books and Courses

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

over a year ago
My favourite resources for learning to draw and developing your visual thinking skills
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Wrong Side of...
The Terrible Loneliness of Genius The Canon Club: Vincent van Gogh
5 months ago
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The Terrible Loneliness of Genius

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5 months ago
The Canon Club: Vincent van Gogh
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Matt Mullenweg
Greatest Hits I’ve been blogging now for approximately 8,465 days since my first post on Movable Type. My...
2 months ago
33

Greatest Hits

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2 months ago
I’ve been blogging now for approximately 8,465 days since my first post on Movable Type. My colleague Dan Luu helped me compile some of the “greatest hits” from the archives of ma.tt, perhaps some posts will stir some memories for you as well: Where Did WordCamps Come From?...
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Coffee with an...
How to be a better architect Ask yourself, “Is this needed?” Remove everything that isn’t. Study the function of the building...
over a year ago
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How to be a better architect

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over a year ago
Ask yourself, “Is this needed?” Remove everything that isn’t. Study the function of the building well, but don’t let it drive the design. Connect the spaces with nature. Master the use of natural light. Create a balance between public and private spaces. Organize the Floorplan....
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Retail Design Blog
FENDI pop-up store As Spain‘s top luxury resort where tycoons and royalty reside or fly in a few times a year to...
11 months ago
40

FENDI pop-up store

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11 months ago
As Spain‘s top luxury resort where tycoons and royalty reside or fly in a few times a year to frolic...
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CONTEMPORIST
Handmade Turquoise Tiles Line The Entrance To This Spanish Restaurant Photography by Adria Goula EL EQUIPO CREATIVO has designed Txalupa Gastroleku, a restaurant in San...
a year ago
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Handmade Turquoise Tiles Line The Entrance To This Spanish Restaurant

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Photography by Adria Goula EL EQUIPO CREATIVO has designed Txalupa Gastroleku, a restaurant in San Sebastian, Spain, that draws inspiration from the nearby old port and the small and colorful fishing boats. Photography by Txalupa Gastroleku Stepping inside, you’re immediately...
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Calculated Risk
Housing April 21st Weekly Update: Inventory up 2.4% Week-over-week, Up 33.4% Year-over-year Altos reports that active single-family inventory was up 2.4% week-over-week. Inventory is now up...
2 months ago
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Housing April 21st Weekly Update: Inventory up 2.4% Week-over-week, Up 33.4% Year-over-year

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2 months ago
Altos reports that active single-family inventory was up 2.4% week-over-week. Inventory is now up 15.2% from the seasonal bottom in January and is increasing.   Usually, inventory is up about 6% or 7% from the seasonal low by this week in the year.   So, 2025 is seeing a...
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Hixie's Natural Log
Extracts from a private Q&A retrospective about the WHATWG Several years ago, a group involved in standardisation in an industrial field reached out to me to...
a year ago
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Extracts from a private Q&A retrospective about the WHATWG

from Hixie's Natural Log [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Several years ago, a group involved in standardisation in an industrial field reached out to me to learn more about our experience with the WHATWG. I thought some of my responses might have broader interest, and saved them for publication at some later date, and then promptly...
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Asterisk
Rat Traps Does the rationalist blogosphere need to update?
8 months ago
24

Rat Traps

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8 months ago
Does the rationalist blogosphere need to update?
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Steve Klabnik
Introducing issue2pr
over a year ago
31

Introducing issue2pr

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over a year ago
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Posts on Made of...
Stripe's monorepo developer environment I worked at Stripe for about seven years, from 2012 to 2019. Over that time, I used and contributed...
a year ago
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Stripe's monorepo developer environment

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

a year ago
I worked at Stripe for about seven years, from 2012 to 2019. Over that time, I used and contributed to many generations of Stripe’s developer environment – the tools that engineers used daily to write and test code. I think Stripe did a pretty good job designing and building that...
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 The Deeper Reasons Democrats Lost In other words, the story is less a rightward shift than an anti-Trump collapse. And, more...
7 months ago
15

🔗 The Deeper Reasons Democrats Lost

from Naz Hamid — Journal + Links [alt+shift+b] in literature

7 months ago
In other words, the story is less a rightward shift than an anti-Trump collapse. And, more importantly, that many people have generally exited the political process all together. I'm mostly abstaining from the many hot takes on why the election went the way it did. This may be...
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Electronics etc…
HP 33120A Repair - Shutting Down the Eye of Sauron Introduction Opening Up an HP 33120A A Walk Through the Block Diagram Bug Hunting Zener...
over a year ago
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HP 33120A Repair - Shutting Down the Eye of Sauron

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

over a year ago
Introduction Opening Up an HP 33120A A Walk Through the Block Diagram Bug Hunting Zener Replacement Staring at the Eye of Sauron FLIR IR Imaging To Destroy a PCB in Order to Save It Circuit Reconstruction Success! Trust but Verify Conclusion References Introduction When the...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
In Defense of Hammers Let's say you needed a multipurpose tool. Which of these would you pick?
over a year ago
30

In Defense of Hammers

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

over a year ago
Let's say you needed a multipurpose tool. Which of these would you pick?
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Tom Blomfield
Advice Starting a company is a challenging process - you’re thrown into the deep-end with nothing but your...
over a year ago
24

Advice

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

over a year ago
Starting a company is a challenging process - you’re thrown into the deep-end with nothing but your wits to help you. Often, though, advice will be forthcoming. This post is about that advice, and how to spot the difference between good and bad. Some advice is expert - your...
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balajis.com
The Elondrop Build the political support necessary to free Twitter with the largest airdrop in history.
over a year ago
32

The Elondrop

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over a year ago
Build the political support necessary to free Twitter with the largest airdrop in history.
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Arduino Blog
This spinning water contraption is actually a functional battery If you ask someone to think of a battery, they’re probably going to picture a chemical battery, like...
3 weeks ago
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This spinning water contraption is actually a functional battery

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

3 weeks ago
If you ask someone to think of a battery, they’re probably going to picture a chemical battery, like a AA alkaline or a rechargeable lithium-ion battery. But there are other kinds of batteries that store energy without any fancy chemistry at all. If you find a way to save energy...
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Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 2-8 October 2023 The best articles from the past week.
a year ago
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Best Of Londonist: 2-8 October 2023

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a year ago
The best articles from the past week.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Google Sheets v4 API with Netlify Dev wiring up Google Sheets via a Netlify Function
over a year ago
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Google Sheets v4 API with Netlify Dev

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over a year ago
wiring up Google Sheets via a Netlify Function
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Lighthouse Blog
Inbox zero for your content
a year ago
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Inbox zero for your content

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a year ago
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The Ruffian
Notes on a History of the Florentine Renaissance The Return of The Ruffian's Book Club
a year ago
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Notes on a History of the Florentine Renaissance

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a year ago
The Return of The Ruffian's Book Club
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - DD Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: His pall Quantum Quail insists that even if history...
5 months ago
57

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - DD

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5 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: His pall Quantum Quail insists that even if history is a random process it wouldn't permit free will. Today's News:
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Epic Web Dev
Git Fundamentals (tutorial)
a year ago
44

Git Fundamentals (tutorial)

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a year ago
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
over a year ago
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Weekend Roundup

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over a year ago
Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
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Open Culture
Everything You Need to Know About Saturday Night Live: A Deep Dive into Every Season of the Iconic... Saturday Night Live began its 50th season last fall, around the same time as the premiere of Jason...
5 months ago
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Everything You Need to Know About Saturday Night Live: A Deep Dive into Every Season of the Iconic Comedy Show

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5 months ago
Saturday Night Live began its 50th season last fall, around the same time as the premiere of Jason Reitman’s film Saturday Night, which dramatizes the program’s 1975 debut. All of this has put fans into something of a retrospective mood, especially if they happen to have been...
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Paul Graham: Essays
What I've Learned from Users
over a year ago
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What I've Learned from Users

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over a year ago
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Blog System/5
Links: January 2024 edition Interesting articles, videos and projects from this time period—with commentary
a year ago
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Links: January 2024 edition

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a year ago
Interesting articles, videos and projects from this time period—with commentary
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Notes on software...
How I run a software book club I've been running software book clubs almost continuously since last summer, about 12 months ago. We...
a year ago
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How I run a software book club

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a year ago
I've been running software book clubs almost continuously since last summer, about 12 months ago. We read through Designing Data-Intensive Applications, Database Internals, Systems Performance, and we just started Understanding Software Dynamics. The DDIA discussions were...
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Common Edge
The Brilliant, Unhinged Spectacle of Megalopolis A rare film that celebrates design and urban planning, Coppola’s latest epic is a mishmash of...
9 months ago
126

The Brilliant, Unhinged Spectacle of Megalopolis

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9 months ago
A rare film that celebrates design and urban planning, Coppola’s latest epic is a mishmash of architectural, cinematic, and literary history.
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Mazdak
Canadian Mortgage Debt Growth Slows to Two-Decade Low, But Remains Elevated Canadians are taking on mortgage debt at a slower pace than ever before in two decades, according to...
a year ago
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Canadian Mortgage Debt Growth Slows to Two-Decade Low, But Remains Elevated

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a year ago
Canadians are taking on mortgage debt at a slower pace than ever before in two decades, according to data from the Bank of Canada (BoC). However, mortgage debt growth remains historically high, despite the recent slowdown. The BoC's latest data shows that outstanding mortgage...
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Blog System/5
Strings, encodings, NULs and Bazel A story on how strings without NULs are problematic for interop with the OS
a year ago
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Strings, encodings, NULs and Bazel

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a year ago
A story on how strings without NULs are problematic for interop with the OS
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Archinect - Features
Inside the Multidimensional Worlds of Squint/Opera and Journey In 2022, two decades after their founding, creative agency Squint/Opera joined forces with fellow...
5 months ago
152

Inside the Multidimensional Worlds of Squint/Opera and Journey

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

5 months ago
In 2022, two decades after their founding, creative agency Squint/Opera joined forces with fellow studios ICRAVE, 59, and VMI Studio under the banner of Journey, a "superpowered organization" bridging physical and digital design. Long before the merger, Squint/Opera had...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - (Mathematics) Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Come on Depths of Wikipedia, where's your...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - (Mathematics)

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Come on Depths of Wikipedia, where's your topological Pair of Pants post? Today's News:
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Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Mirror As the year draws to a close with gloomy December days compensated with lots of artificial lighting,...
7 months ago
33

Mirror

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

7 months ago
As the year draws to a close with gloomy December days compensated with lots of artificial lighting, it's not surprising that many people take the time to reflect on their recent past — what we've managed to achieve, what we learned, what we failed in, where we went, and what we...
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AVC
What Will Happen In 2024 As we enter 2024, the capital markets have found their footing and are moving higher. The Fed has...
a year ago
72

What Will Happen In 2024

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a year ago
As we enter 2024, the capital markets have found their footing and are moving higher. The Fed has taken interest rates as far as they want at this time and inflation has come down. It seems that a “soft landing” is likely. That is good news for the innovation economy because...
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wingolog
finalizers, guardians, phantom references, et cetera Consider . Compared to finalizers, in which the , guardians allow the mutator to control...
11 months ago
22

finalizers, guardians, phantom references, et cetera

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11 months ago
Consider . Compared to finalizers, in which the , guardians allow the mutator to control concurrency. See for more notes. Java’s / seems to be similar in spirit, though the details differ.guardianscleanup procedures are run concurrently with the mutator, by the...
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seangoedecke.com RSS...
How strong engineers break the rules and get away with it At every large tech company, some engineers get rewarded for visibly breaking the rules. This can be...
3 months ago
26

How strong engineers break the rules and get away with it

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3 months ago
At every large tech company, some engineers get rewarded for visibly breaking the rules. This can be really frustrating for a certain kind…
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Both Are True
Wait the Piña Colada song is about what?! 45 years ago today, the world was changed // hint: its not about frikkin piña coladas I can tell you...
9 months ago
97

Wait the Piña Colada song is about what?!

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9 months ago
45 years ago today, the world was changed // hint: its not about frikkin piña coladas I can tell you that right now
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Casey Handmer's blog
Why do we need a Department of Government Efficiency? President Trump’s recent sweeping electoral victory is a clear mandate for change. There is some...
7 months ago
44

Why do we need a Department of Government Efficiency?

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

7 months ago
President Trump’s recent sweeping electoral victory is a clear mandate for change. There is some urgency, and Trump has assembled the early stages of a team and coalition that can deliver it. It’s not exactly a mystery what Elon and Vivek plan for The Department of Government...
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37signals Dev
A happier happy path in Turbo with morphing Last week, we presented in Rails World an upcoming addition to Turbo that uses morphing to offer...
a year ago
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A happier happy path in Turbo with morphing

from 37signals Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Last week, we presented in Rails World an upcoming addition to Turbo that uses morphing to offer smoother page updates and a simplified broadcasting system. This is the article version of the presentation I delivered. The starting point The traditional server-side full-page...
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Common Edge
NCARB’s Michael Armstrong on Pathways to Architectural Practice “If we are really serious in promoting inclusion and opportunities to practice, we need to take a...
9 months ago
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NCARB’s Michael Armstrong on Pathways to Architectural Practice

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

9 months ago
“If we are really serious in promoting inclusion and opportunities to practice, we need to take a fresh look at everything.”
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AI Snake Oil
What the executive order means for openness in AI Good news on paper, but the devil is in the details
a year ago
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What the executive order means for openness in AI

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a year ago
Good news on paper, but the devil is in the details
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 104: Deep Research February 7, 2025.
5 months ago
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AI Roundup 104: Deep Research

from Artificial Ignorance [alt+shift+b] in AI

5 months ago
February 7, 2025.
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diamond geezer
Bonesgate Stream THE UNLOST RIVERS OF LONDON Bonesgate Stream Malden Rushett → Chessington → Tolworth (4...
a month ago
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Bonesgate Stream

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

a month ago
THE UNLOST RIVERS OF LONDON Bonesgate Stream Malden Rushett → Chessington → Tolworth (4 miles) Bonesgate Stream is the river which drains this elongated extrusion, from a field in sight of Chessington World of Adventures to a rewilded channel on the Watersedge Estate. Most of it...
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