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In awe of InVision An aftermath promo for the nerdy designer
4 months ago
African History...
Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia. Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
a year ago
Applied Cartography
Order, Tailwind, DRY (Order in the CSS rule sense, not the metaphysical sense.) The time has come to begin exfiltrating...
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(Order in the CSS rule sense, not the metaphysical sense.) The time has come to begin exfiltrating some higher-traffic, higher-leverage parts of Buttondown's admin UI away from the autogenerated Django admin and into some more bespoke components. Take, for instance, this rather...
TheCollector
Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich undefined
6 months ago
The Modern House
The impeccably organised, grass-roofed, book-lined home of literary editor, Gail Pirkis
5 months ago
Ruud van Asseldonk
A type system for RCL, part 1: Introduction
5 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Winning from the back - late mover advantage We are open source is literally our top value ... and what better way to be transparent than to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We are open source is literally our top value ... and what better way to be transparent than to share a diary? Late mover advantage Product…
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Ideal African Safari Cruise For All Ages
a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation? undefined
5 months ago
Maps Mania
1000+ Streets Called Washington
5 months ago
Noahpinion
Why not put TSMC and Samsung fabs in Canada? A solution that's almost too perfect.
a year ago
The Works in...
Notes on Progress: Thinking like a dog How dog brains could save us from dementia
over a year ago
History Today Feed
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union JamesHoare Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
4 months ago
Arduino Blog
Explore underwater with this Arduino-controlled DIY ROV Who doesn’t want to explore underwater? To take a journey beneath the surface of a lake or even the...
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Who doesn’t want to explore underwater? To take a journey beneath the surface of a lake or even the ocean? But a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), which is the kind of robot you’d use for such an adventure, isn’t exactly the kind of thing you’ll find on the shelf at your local...
Seth's Blog
Cheaper than that The race to the bottom has been won. Anything cheaper than what’s on offer is a waste of the...
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The race to the bottom has been won. Anything cheaper than what’s on offer is a waste of the customer’s money, because it won’t get the job done. Once we’ve cut every corner, all that’s left is the brutality of less. One slogan is: You’ll pay less than you should have, and waste...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to add Tailwind 3 to Docusaurus 2 in 2022 We use Docusaurus at work, and while it shipped v2 this year it still has ([as of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We use Docusaurus at work, and while it shipped v2 this year it still has ([as of v2.3](https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/issues/2961)) not shipped with any Tailwind support at all. Googled and found [this...
xkcd.com
Magnet Fishing
6 months ago
Stephen Diehl
Bitcoin: The Postmodern Ponzi
over a year ago
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Advanced markdown processing in Go Using gomarkdown/markdown library This article describes an advanced markdown processing...
a year ago
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a year ago
Using gomarkdown/markdown library This article describes an advanced markdown processing in Go using gomarkdown/markdown library. All the code examples are available at https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/tree/master/examples Basics first Here’s a good...
Seth's Blog
The conspiracy of mediocrity Solo mediocrity is rampant, of course. We know that toasting the bread before making the sandwich...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Solo mediocrity is rampant, of course. We know that toasting the bread before making the sandwich makes it more delicious, but in service of convenience and speed, we skip a step. It becomes a conspiracy when more than one of us is involved. The freelancer who offers cheap and...
Common Edge
Worshiping the Old Isn’t Historic Preservation To keep buildings alive and relevant, some flexibility is required.
a month ago
TokyoDev
The 2021 International Developers in Japan results are live! In November 2021, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are...
over a year ago
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In November 2021, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are now live](/insights/2021-developer-survey), please check them out! With 435 people responding, I had about 20% more responses than [2020's...
Maps Mania
2024's Climate Tipping Points
11 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
7 Articles on Adventure and Wellness in the Nordic Countries
4 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
This Bedroom With A Partial Glass Floor Looks Down To The Living Room Below Fenda Arquitetura has shared photos of their project, a modern one-bedroom apartment in Sao Paulo,...
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a year ago
Fenda Arquitetura has shared photos of their project, a modern one-bedroom apartment in Sao Paulo, Brazil, that features a partial glass floor in the bedroom. The apartment has been designed with the living space on the lower floor, while the bedroom is located upstairs. One...
Tony Finch's blog
semaphoreslo in Golang and GNU make Semaphores are one of the oldest concurrency primitives in computing, invented over 60 years ago....
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5 months ago
Semaphores are one of the oldest concurrency primitives in computing, invented over 60 years ago. They are weird: usually the only numbers of concurrent processes we care about are zero, one, or many – but semaphores deal with those fussy finite numbers in between. Yesterday I...
Map of the Week
This One This one map (via New York Times) tells you quite a bit about what happened in the U.S. Election on...
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This one map (via New York Times) tells you quite a bit about what happened in the U.S. Election on Tuesday. Aside from a few strange outliers (western Oklahoma, suburban Atlanta, northwest Michigan) The "red shift" happened across all regions and demographics. Hard to look at...
TheCollector
How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare undefined
7 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
The Meeting of the Minds That Launched AI The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, held from 18 June through 17...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, held from 18 June through 17 August of 1956, is widely considered the event that kicked off AI as a research discipline. Organized by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Claude Shannon, and Nathaniel Rochester, it...
IEEE Spectrum
Franklin’s Franklins Were Freakishly Un-Fakeable To make something hard to fake, you can use exotic materials or clever tricks. Benjamin Franklin, a...
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a year ago
To make something hard to fake, you can use exotic materials or clever tricks. Benjamin Franklin, a printer by vocation, a scientist by avocation, leaned on cleverness, developing measures that are still in use. Those black arts have now yielded to the latest analytical...
Strange Loop Canon
Discovery is the original sin of the modern age technology, living post scarcity, and how to find what you want
a year ago
The American Scholar
We Are the Borg Is the convergence of human and machine really upon us? The post We Are the Borg appeared first on...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Is the convergence of human and machine really upon us? The post We Are the Borg appeared first on The American Scholar.
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji? undefined
5 months ago
Blog System/5
Windows NT: Peeking into the cradle A review of "Showstopper!" by G. Pascal Zachary and my own reflections
a year ago
The Rational Walk
Thomas Jefferson’s Advice to His Nephew Two letters from Thomas Jefferson to his nephew, Peter Carr, illustrate Jefferson's views on...
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7 months ago
Two letters from Thomas Jefferson to his nephew, Peter Carr, illustrate Jefferson's views on education, ethics, religion, and many other subjects.
Florian Bellmann |...
The late night coding session A small reflection on the joy of late night coding session
a year ago
History Today Feed
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake j.hoare Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
11 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Experience Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also what if this IS the experience machine and the...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also what if this IS the experience machine and the real world is way worse? Today's News:
Daniel Miessler
NO. 355 | NEWS & ANALYSIS SERIES SECURITY NEWS ⛔️ There is likely to be a critical TLS vulnerability released this week. Consider...
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over a year ago
SECURITY NEWS ⛔️ There is likely to be a critical TLS vulnerability released this week. Consider getting your teams ready by looking for your instances before it drops. ZDNET | GLOBALSIGN | REDDIT DISCUSSION  The US accused 13 Chinese nationals of committing espionage-related...
A Beautiful Site
Democratizing publishing One of the objectives Matt Mullenweg has for WordPress is to democratize publishing, which is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of the objectives Matt Mullenweg has for WordPress is to democratize publishing, which is excellent. But the very same article states another objective is to "capture the 75 percent of the internet that WordPress doesn't already manage." In my opinion, these goals conflict...
Open Culture
Watch a Japanese Artisan Hand-Craft a Cello in 6 Months Cellists unwilling to settle for any but the finest instrument must, sooner or later, make a...
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5 months ago
Cellists unwilling to settle for any but the finest instrument must, sooner or later, make a pilgrimage to Cremona — or rather, to the Cremonas. One is, of course, the city in Lombardy that was home to numerous pioneering master luthiers, up to and including Antonio Stradivari....
bt RSS Feed
Setting Up a Pi-hole Server with Eero Setting Up a Pi-hole Server with Eero 2022-03-14 For the past few years, I’ve been using a set of...
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over a year ago
Setting Up a Pi-hole Server with Eero 2022-03-14 For the past few years, I’ve been using a set of Eero routers as my home mesh network. It’s worked fairly great in that time and even seamlessly transitioned without any hiccups when my family moved house. During the initial setup,...
Londonist
Art Of The Brick: New LEGO Show Comes To London In March 90 sculptures, one million bricks.
10 months ago
Spoon & Tamago
Japan’s Tiniest Botanical Garden is in Shibuya photos by Kenta Hasegawa courtesy Suppose Design Office Walk south from Shibuya station and within...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
photos by Kenta Hasegawa courtesy Suppose Design Office Walk south from Shibuya station and within 10 minutes you’ll stumble upon a glass dome-shaped building sandwiched between several nondescript buildings. Hidden in plain sight is the Shibuya City Botanical Garden, Japan’s...
balajis.com
Going Meta Meta may be Android to Apple's Apple.
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
History as Tragedy? A Different View of Thucydides
5 months ago
Charles Chen
.NET Task Parallel Library vs System.Threading.Channels Wondering which concurrency library is right for you? Let's dive in!
a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
AI and User Manuals About half of Americans, when asked, report that they don’t read the user manual for new technical...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
About half of Americans, when asked, report that they don’t read the user manual for new technical devices they acquire. Although I suspect that many people are like me – I read them sometimes, and then only partly. If there is a “quick user guide” I will often look at that....
Alex Meub
Set Up Remote Desktop in Windows Here’s a quick guide to setting up Remote Desktop on Windows: 1. Allow Remote Connections Right...
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over a year ago
Here’s a quick guide to setting up Remote Desktop on Windows: 1. Allow Remote Connections Right click on the My Computer icon > Click Properties > Click on the Remote tab Check the box that says “Allow Users to Connect Remotely to this Computer” Add your username to the list of...
AFAR Media - Travel...
How Are Airplane Blankets, Seats, and Bathrooms Cleaned?
a year ago
History Today Feed
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon JamesHoare Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
11 months ago
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things to start your week (#23) SF's Market Street debacle, the debate over real wages, why U.S. growth has gotten smoother, TikTok...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
SF's Market Street debacle, the debate over real wages, why U.S. growth has gotten smoother, TikTok as a propaganda engine, and California homelessness
Society's Backend
Why Machine Learning Systems Misbehave And what makes them so difficult to work with
5 months ago
The Marginalian
Cordyceps, the Carpenter Ant, and the Boundaries of the Self: The Strange Science of Zombie Fungi "It is likely that fungi have been manipulating animal minds for much of the time that there have...
9 months ago
TheCollector
Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE undefined
4 months ago
The Oatmeal - Comics...
Godcat has a special message for you Your lord and savior, Godcat, has a favor to ask regarding his new Netflix series. View on my...
8 months ago
Essays - Benedict...
Ways to think about AGI How do we think about a fundamentally unknown and unknowable risk, when the experts agree only...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
How do we think about a fundamentally unknown and unknowable risk, when the experts agree only that they have no idea?
One Useful Thing
15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to Notes on the Practical Wisdom of AI Use
a week ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Why TV Lost
over a year ago
The Honest Broker
In Search of Dupree Bolton (Part 2 of 2) I conclude the story of my quest to find a legendary jazz musician who disappeared in the early...
8 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
The Marimba Virtuoso’s Desktop Planetarium The United States was at the time approaching “peak space.” The previous year, cosmonaut Yuri...
a year ago
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a year ago
The United States was at the time approaching “peak space.” The previous year, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin had become the first human to reach outer space, and on 12 September 1962 President Kennedy would announce the United States’ intention to put a man on the moon before the...
Londonist
David Hockney Makes A Splash With His Battersea Power Station Christmas Trees You can see them every night till Christmas Day.
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
$120k in Infoproduct Sales - How to Extend the Long Tail *This post originated as [an AMA on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
*This post originated as [an AMA on IndieHackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/post/made-121-326-since-launching-my-book-last-july-63-of-it-after-launch-month-ama-about-long-tail-infoproducts-41b55f5670)*
Tech + Economics +...
A requiem for Tumblr. Automattic's recent announcement that Tumblr is being put into maintenance mode feels like the end...
a year ago
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a year ago
Automattic's recent announcement that Tumblr is being put into maintenance mode feels like the end of a personal era. Tumblr wasn't just another social network; it was a cultural phenomenon, a haven for the eclectic and the expressive, where the internet's fringes found a...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Golden Isles: Barrier Islands & Port City Paradise
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
"Natural languages are adequate, but that doesn't mean they're optimal" Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with…
Arduino Blog
Galco goes Platinum! Welcome our newest SIPP Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Madison Heights, Michigan, Galco is a leading e-commerce...
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Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Madison Heights, Michigan, Galco is a leading e-commerce distributor that specializes in providing a wide range of industrial and commercial electrical and electronic products, focusing on maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO).  Known for...
Retail Design Blog
Yomatsuri whisky by Backbar Studios Yomatsuri, a blended Japanese whisky, takes its inspiration from the ‘Chichibu Yomatsuri Night...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Yomatsuri, a blended Japanese whisky, takes its inspiration from the ‘Chichibu Yomatsuri Night Festival,’ a 300-year-old celebration and one of...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Origin of Online Handles There are a few people online whose ubiquitous usernames I’ve always wondered about. For example:...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
There are a few people online whose ubiquitous usernames I’ve always wondered about. For example: Jeremy Keith is “Adactio”. I have no idea what that word means. A quick internet search reveals no hints. Even ChatGPT has no idea. Dave Rupert is davatron5000. I wonder where...
escape the algorithm
howdidyoufind.me a website about how people found this website
2 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Five Great Places to Visit on Your Next Vacation to Florida
8 months ago
Steve Klabnik
redis-namespace 1.3.1 security release
over a year ago
Handprinted - Blog
Testing your Copper Sulphate Solution When you’ve mixed a fresh batch of copper sulphate mordant, or if you have an old batch that you...
a year ago
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a year ago
When you’ve mixed a fresh batch of copper sulphate mordant, or if you have an old batch that you haven’t used for a few months, it’s good practice to test the strength of your solution. By creating some test strips for both line and tones, you’ll create yourself a reference point...
diamond geezer
Anorak Corner - bus edition Anorak Corner [bus edition] (annual update) Once again TfL have silently published their annual...
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a year ago
Anorak Corner [bus edition] (annual update) Once again TfL have silently published their annual spreadsheet listing the number of passengers using every London bus route and how many kilometres those buses travelled. Data is for April 2022 - March 2023. Comparisons are with the...
bt RSS Feed
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information...
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over a year ago
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information on the internet in regards to setting up “dynamic” navigation in Jekyll. The problem I’ve noticed is that a good amount of these implementations are overly complex. Here is the...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Focus Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I hereby release this idea to any stupid person in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I hereby release this idea to any stupid person in Silicon Valley. Today's News:
The Rational Walk
The Oresteia The Oresteia is a trilogy produced by Aeschylus in 458 BC. Trapped in a cycle of lawless savagery,...
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The Oresteia is a trilogy produced by Aeschylus in 458 BC. Trapped in a cycle of lawless savagery, mankind finds its way toward due process and justice.
Retail Design Blog
Pango office by Hagai Nagar Architects We were excited to undertake the planning Office Design for the new headquarters of Pango, a company...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
We were excited to undertake the planning Office Design for the new headquarters of Pango, a company synonymous with Israeli...
macwright.com
Make a ViewPlugin configurable in CodeMirror by () ViewPlugin.fromClass only allows the class constructor to take a single argument with the CodeMirror...
a year ago
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a year ago
ViewPlugin.fromClass only allows the class constructor to take a single argument with the CodeMirror view. You use a Facet. Great example in JupyterLab. Like everything in CodeMirror, this lets you be super flexible with how configuration works - it is designed with multiple...
A Beautiful Site
PlayCanvas: an easy, open source WebGL game engine Last week I wrote about faster JavaScript animations using VelocityJS. As if that wasn't impressive...
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Last week I wrote about faster JavaScript animations using VelocityJS. As if that wasn't impressive enough, today I'm giving you a dose of HTML5 and WebGL greatness. The project is called PlayCanvas, and it dubs itself an open source game engine that brings fun to the...
xkcd.com
Sphere Tastiness
10 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
The Forgotten Story of How IBM Invented the Automated Fab In 1970, Bill Harding envisioned a fully automated wafer-fabrication line that would produce...
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In 1970, Bill Harding envisioned a fully automated wafer-fabrication line that would produce integrated circuits in less than one day. Not only was such a goal gutsy 54 years ago, it would be bold even in today’s billion-dollar fabs, where the fabrication time of an advanced IC...
Julia Evans
What helps people get comfortable on the command line? Sometimes I talk to friends who need to use the command line, but are intimidated by it. I never...
a year ago
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a year ago
Sometimes I talk to friends who need to use the command line, but are intimidated by it. I never really feel like I have good advice (I’ve been using the command line for too long), and so I asked some people on Mastodon: if you just stopped being scared of the command line in...
beep.blog
.io considered harmful The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their...
a year ago
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a year ago
The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their homeland. Here's the history and the facts.
Cheese and Biscuits
The Rose, Deal A stroll along the High Street in Deal reveals a town very much at the forefront of the wider...
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a year ago
A stroll along the High Street in Deal reveals a town very much at the forefront of the wider Kentish food revolution. There seem to be more than the usual number of artisan butchers and fishmongers for what is otherwise a fairly small (albeit very quaint) seaside town. There's a...
TheCollector
15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy undefined
8 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Dread Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Humans all just get called FC, like it's their...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Humans all just get called FC, like it's their initials. Today's News: Last 72 hours!
On the Arts
On the Arts: A Year-End Review A brief guide to everything published this year.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
The State of AI Engineering (2024) Notes from the AI Engineer World's Fair.
5 months ago
Kagi Blog
Update to Kagi Search pricing It has been a while since our last update ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-search-dec22-update ) , and...
a year ago
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a year ago
It has been a while since our last update ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-search-dec22-update ) , and we have been busy with three main large-scale initiatives: a new pricing model that ensures Kagi’s sustainability, new plans including Family plans, and enhancing search experience...
The American Scholar
The Redoubtable Bull Shark Reflecting on one of nature’s most dangerous predators The post The Redoubtable Bull Shark appeared...
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7 months ago
Reflecting on one of nature’s most dangerous predators The post The Redoubtable Bull Shark appeared first on The American Scholar.
Anecdotal Evidence
'He Liked to Hold Ideas Up to the Light' The single most influential book in my life, the one that with time altered the way I think, not...
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11 months ago
The single most influential book in my life, the one that with time altered the way I think, not just what I think, is Guy’s Davenport’s The Geography of the Imagination (North Point Press, 1981). I bought it that year in a lesbian bookstore in Manhattan. Over the previous decade...
Rest of World -...
What we learned from reporting on global tech this year Rest of World contributors from Dhaka to Buenos Aires share their highlights, low points, and key...
2 weeks ago
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Rest of World contributors from Dhaka to Buenos Aires share their highlights, low points, and key takeaways from covering technology in 2024.
Spoon & Tamago
Tentacle-Inspired Leather Accessories Handcrafted by Cokeco Cokeco are a Fukuoka-based design duo who create leather accessories inspired by the natural...
3 months ago
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Cokeco are a Fukuoka-based design duo who create leather accessories inspired by the natural curiosities of the world around them. Lately, their attention has been focused on sealife: specifically, our multi-limbed mollusc friends whose tentacles provide endless inspiration for...
AI Snake Oil
New paper: AI agents that matter Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation
5 months ago
journal – Winnie Lim
how we were loved profoundly influences how we live and love a personal review of "A general theory of love"
a year ago
History Today Feed
The Allure of Medieval Churches The Allure of Medieval Churches JamesHoare Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
a month ago
Arduino Blog
DIY ECU controls Honda Insight’s Kubota diesel engine The Honda Insight was the first hybrid car released in North America and Honda put serious effort...
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The Honda Insight was the first hybrid car released in North America and Honda put serious effort into making it as efficient as was practical at the time. That meant aerodynamic streamlining, which is why the first-generation Insight had very distinct covers over the rear...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Building an all-remote company from scratch Many companies are currently having to adjust to remote work, but what about the ones that started...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Many companies are currently having to adjust to remote work, but what about the ones that started this way from scratch? PostHog has a team of 12, 1…
Seth's Blog
Taken for granted A poignant definition of civilization is all the conveniences, courtesies, standards, insulation and...
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A poignant definition of civilization is all the conveniences, courtesies, standards, insulation and tools that we hardly notice now but that we would miss if they were gone.
Vadim Kravcenko
I’m sorry Question: Answer: The post I’m sorry appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
7 months ago
Noahpinion
Vibes vs. data It's asymmetric warfare out there.
a year ago
Oxide Computer...
A Tool for Discussion At Oxide, RFDs (Requests for Discussion) play a crucial role in driving our architectural and design...
a year ago
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a year ago
At Oxide, RFDs (Requests for Discussion) play a crucial role in driving our architectural and design decisions. They document the processes, APIs, and tools that we use. The workflow for the RFD process is based upon those of the Golang proposal process, Joyent RFD process, Rust...
Math Is Still...
AI System Beats Chess Puzzles With ‘Artificial Brainstorming’ By bringing together disparate approaches, machines can reach a new level of creative...
a year ago
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a year ago
By bringing together disparate approaches, machines can reach a new level of creative problem-solving. The post AI System Beats Chess Puzzles With ‘Artificial Brainstorming’ first appeared on Quanta Magazine
History Today Feed
The Great Fire of Smyrna The Great Fire of Smyrna JamesHoare Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
Tinloof - Blog
Explain Like I'm Five: Website speed This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and terms easy to understand. In this two minutes read, we'll explain why website speed matters, how to measure it, and how to improve it. Why website speed matters
TheCollector
How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons? undefined
6 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Pergas Cafe by SAD Office & AMA Studio Pergas Cafe is located in the busy Armenian neighborhood of Jolfa, Isfahan, and the location of the...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Pergas Cafe is located in the busy Armenian neighborhood of Jolfa, Isfahan, and the location of the property has its...
TheCollector
What Is Solipsism? undefined
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Highest Kind of Verbal Exercise' John Updike published “Kenneths” in the July 5, 1958 issue of The New Yorker and collected it in his...
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John Updike published “Kenneths” in the July 5, 1958 issue of The New Yorker and collected it in his second book of poems, Telephone Poles (1963):  “Rexroth and Patchen and Fearing—their mothers Perhaps could distinguish their sons from the others, But I am unable. My inner eye...
Jonas Hietala
An Epic Start Oh what a mistake. I woke up at 05.00 when my girlfriend woke up, she’s working early today, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Oh what a mistake. I woke up at 05.00 when my girlfriend woke up, she’s working early today, and went to the bathroom. After I was done, still pretty tired, I made a big mistake. I checked the current theme for Ludum Dare 29: Beneath the Surface and guess what? Now I wasn’t tired...
Stoic Simple
Using Stoicism to Develop a Rational Perspective on Life Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for thousands of years, yet its teachings remain as...
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In an area of pronounced water scarcity high on the Deccan plateau, at an altitude removed from river-water and of water extraction from the ground, despite being historically nourished by monsoons, Bangalore's current population faces deep inequities of access to water which are...
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We’re often told that a “single-threaded, ordered list” is the correct way to prioritize the work of the future, however this confuses “prioritization” with “work-planning,” and forces the comparison of un-comparable things. Here’s how to solve those problems.
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There hasn't been a major, dedicated Rails conference in Europe since 2008, so perhaps it's no surprise that there was pent-up demand. But I was still shocked to see the forthcoming Rails World visit to Amsterdam sell out in less than 45 minutes yesterday! What an awesome...
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Rest of World -...
Nigeria’s dating app for people who want to stop dating and get hitched already What started out as a matchmaking WhatsApp group has turned into a popular dating app with over 2.1...
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diamond geezer
Canary Wharf 25 Today is Canary Wharf station's 25th birthday. Not the DLR station (that's 33) nor the Crossrail...
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Today is Canary Wharf station's 25th birthday. Not the DLR station (that's 33) nor the Crossrail station (that's 2) but the Jubilee line station which opened mid-afternoon on Friday 17th September 1999. The relentless commercialisation of Canary Wharf station "Twenty banks of...
TheCollector
Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species? undefined
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mtlynch.io
How I Collected a Debt from an Unscrupulous Merchant A few years ago, I learned a handy technique for resolving disputes with uncooperative businesses....
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A few years ago, I learned a handy technique for resolving disputes with uncooperative businesses. It’s simple to understand and easy to implement. You don’t need lawyers or a prominent social media presence. All it requires is for you to behave like an organized professional....
Both Are True
The self is a gut-hole - the first podcast ever made Are Both True?? - The Podcast is a new form of media entertainment that is making studio execs go...
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TheCollector
Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations undefined
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Nat Eliason's...
The Window of Opportunity is Here Don't get stuck in neutral
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Chicken Noodle Soup Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Honestly, soup matters a lot more to my life than...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Honestly, soup matters a lot more to my life than love or bravery. Today's News: Behold! (slightly NSFW)
Flashbak
Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a...
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When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
History Today Feed
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review ‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review JamesHoare Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
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Anecdotal Evidence
'The Energy in Things Shone Through Their Shapes' Some fugitive thinkers among us long for order in a manner almost nostalgic:  “I envied those past...
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Some fugitive thinkers among us long for order in a manner almost nostalgic:  “I envied those past ages of the world When, as I thought, the energy in things Shone through their shapes, when sun and moon no less Than tree or stone or star or human face Were seen but as fantastic...
Londonist
Review: Fashion City At Museum Of London Docklands New exhibition traces fashion history from the Jewish East End.
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TheCollector
The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification? undefined
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Londonist
London Overground Strikes Announced For February And March Plan ahead if you use the Ginger Line.
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TheCollector
Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love undefined
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Map of the Week
Soprano Land The Sopranos is having a bit of a moment with the recent HBO documentary about David Chase....
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The Sopranos is having a bit of a moment with the recent HBO documentary about David Chase. Illustrator Robert Sikoryak made a nice map to orient fans to the New Jersey landscape of the show. You can click above to see a larger version. I've only watched bits of the show so I...
Matt Mazur
It’s Time to Build It’s been a few months so I wanted to say hey to the 7 of you who follow this blog and share a few...
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It’s been a few months so I wanted to say hey to the 7 of you who follow this blog and share a few updates about what I’ve been up to. Quick recap At the start of 2023 I quit consulting to go full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker, after growing it on … Continue reading...
Ink & Switch
02 · Tracking provenance Automatically tracking provenance in computational documents
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Classical Wisdom
Do You Need Children to Care About the Future? Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
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Basta’s Notes
No hassle detected! The importance of tools
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Math Is Still...
The ‘Beautiful Confusion’ of the First Billion Years Comes Into View Astronomers are reveling in the James Webb Space Telescope’s discoveries about the formative epoch...
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Astronomers are reveling in the James Webb Space Telescope’s discoveries about the formative epoch of cosmic history. The post The ‘Beautiful Confusion’ of the First Billion Years Comes Into View first appeared on Quanta Magazine
alexwlchan
Telling mechanize how to find local issuer certificates I was doing some work on my library lookup tool recently, and I ran into an issue with mechanize,...
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I was doing some work on my library lookup tool recently, and I ran into an issue with mechanize, the Python library I use to simulate a web browser. I’d upgraded my version of Python and mechanize, and now I wasn’t able to connect to HTTPS sites. If I tried a simple...
SatPost by Trung...
The Concorde Jet vs. Boeing 747 PLUS: The Matrix's 25th Anniversary.
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Old Vintage...
An Apple district manager's Macintosh Portable in 1989-91 (featuring GEIS AppleLink and a look at... a late prototype Macintosh Portable. But it turns out it's not merely notable for what it is than...
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a late prototype Macintosh Portable. But it turns out it's not merely notable for what it is than what it has on it: a beta version of System 6.0.6 (the doomed release that Apple pulled due to bugs), Apple sales databases, two online services — the maligned Mac Prodigy client,...
TheCollector
Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM undefined
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Math Is Still...
The Cryptographer Who Ensures We Can Trust Our Computers Yael Tauman Kalai’s breakthroughs secure our digital world, from cloud computing to our quantum...
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Yael Tauman Kalai’s breakthroughs secure our digital world, from cloud computing to our quantum future. The post The Cryptographer Who Ensures We Can Trust Our Computers first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Londonist
Best Of London 2023: It's The Annual Londonist Awards! Dust off your tux - it's trophy time!
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TheCollector
Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire undefined
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mtlynch.io
Aardvark'd: The Fog Creek Documentary, 18 Years Later In 2005, Joel Spolsky’s software company, Fog Creek, filmed a documentary about their summer...
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In 2005, Joel Spolsky’s software company, Fog Creek, filmed a documentary about their summer internship program. The film is called Aardvark’d: 12 Weeks with Geeks, and it follows four college interns as they design, implement, and launch a completely new software product. That’s...
Open Culture
Free: 356 Issues of Galaxy, the Groundbreaking 1950s Science Fiction Magazine Along with Astounding Science Fiction and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy...
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Along with Astounding Science Fiction and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy Magazine was one of the most important science fiction digests in 1950s America. Ray Bradbury wrote for it–including an early version of his masterpiece Fahrenheit 451–as did Robert A....
The Honest Broker
Tell Us What You're Doing? Today is open mic day at The Honest Broker—and you can promote your own projects
3 months ago
The Rational Walk
Buffett Accelerates Gifts to Family Foundations For the second year in a row, Warren Buffett has made gifts to four family foundations in excess of...
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For the second year in a row, Warren Buffett has made gifts to four family foundations in excess of the annual commitments pledged in 2006.
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...
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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.
Old Structures...
 A Simple Drawing For A Difficult Structure – Part 2 The illustration above, from the May 1883 issue of Harper’s Magazine, courtesy of the New York...
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a year ago
The illustration above, from the May 1883 issue of Harper’s Magazine, courtesy of the New York Public Library, gives a better sense of the Brooklyn Bridge caissons than yesterday’s working drawing (repeated below) even if it’s got less technical information. Note that May 1883...
Arduino Blog
Adding real-time local voice controls to a SMARS Quad Mod robot with an Arduino RP2040 Connect Robotics kits like the Screwless/Screwed Modular Assemblable Robotic System (SMARS) are great tools...
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Robotics kits like the Screwless/Screwed Modular Assemblable Robotic System (SMARS) are great tools for learning more about how electronics, mechanics, and software can combine to perform useful tasks in the physical world. And in his latest project, Edge Impulse’s senior...
TheCollector
Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch” undefined
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Londonist
When London Had No Sea Gulls "Astonishing" sight as two gulls seen near London Bridge.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Gold Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: When I think of altruism, I think of guys selling...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: When I think of altruism, I think of guys selling apocalypse gold on youtube. Today's News:
A Weekly Dose of...
Book Briefs #48 This latest installment of "Book Briefs" — the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand...
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This latest installment of "Book Briefs" — the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that publishers send to me for consideration on this blog — features six books in three pairs. Obviously, these briefs are not...
Arduino Blog
Easily add Python-controlled GPIO pins to any computer Let’s say that, hypothetically, you wanted to use your computer to blink an LED or read the state of...
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Let’s say that, hypothetically, you wanted to use your computer to blink an LED or read the state of a button. Could you? Almost certainly not — at least not without additional hardware. Most modern computers don’t provide any interface for direct interaction with low-level...
CONTEMPORIST
A Bathroom Renovation Where Adding A Vanity That Wraps Around The Corner Added Much Needed... Designer Ana Dahlman has shared photos of a bathroom renovation she completed that included...
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Designer Ana Dahlman has shared photos of a bathroom renovation she completed that included replacing the vanity with a floating L-shaped corner vanity. Before we see the renovated bathroom, here’s what it looked like originally, with cream-colored walls and a small vanity with...
Retail Design Blog
Contentful Workplace by toi toi toi creative studio toi toi toi creative studio (T3) researches, designs, and delivers feel-good spaces. This ethos was...
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toi toi toi creative studio (T3) researches, designs, and delivers feel-good spaces. This ethos was applied to the 8,215 sq.m...
Seth's Blog
Flashing on contempt It doesn’t have to happen with intent, in fact, it rarely does. Micro-emotions appear on our face...
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It doesn’t have to happen with intent, in fact, it rarely does. Micro-emotions appear on our face and then disappear in less than a second. Blink and you’ll miss them. But sometimes, people don’t blink. We’ve evolved to be hyperware of these tiny displays of emotion. And yet,...
Londonist
BBC's Desert Island Discs Announces Live Palladium Shows Celebrating 80 years of the hit radio programme.
11 months ago
HTMHell
#33 make me one (input) with everything The good intentions were there but in the HTML and Accessibility world, less is sometimes more. Bad...
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The good intentions were there but in the HTML and Accessibility world, less is sometimes more. Bad code <label for="textinput">First name</label> <input type="text" id="textinput" aria-label="First name" placeholder="First name" title="First name"> Issues and how to fix them The...
Laetitia@Work
What if generative AI was actually underwhelming? Laetitia@Work #69
8 months ago
TheCollector
The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia undefined
8 months ago
Old Structures...
A Story With A Happy Ending There’s a moral at the end of this story – a story which has nothing to do with engineering,...
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There’s a moral at the end of this story – a story which has nothing to do with engineering, architecture, construction, or NYC history – that has something to do with engineering, architecture, and construction, and maybe NYC history as well. I like mechanical keyboards, with a...
bt RSS Feed
Applying Email-Based Git Patches in Evolution on Linux Applying Email-Based Git Patches in Evolution on Linux 2023-04-25 Users who work with git patches...
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Applying Email-Based Git Patches in Evolution on Linux 2023-04-25 Users who work with git patches through email most likely use a terminal-based program such as aerc or mutt. CLI email clients tend to have built-in support for easily applying patches directly to their local...
Open Culture
The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically... Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
Anecdotal Evidence
‘Of Course’ “Auden says, Wordsworth says, Valery says, Shakespeare says. Always the present tense. Of...
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“Auden says, Wordsworth says, Valery says, Shakespeare says. Always the present tense. Of course.” —Geoffrey Grigson, The Private Art: A Poetry Notebook (Allison and Busby, 1982).
Open Culture
The Amazing Engineering of Roman Baths Few depictions of ancient Roman life neglect to reference all the time ancient Romans spent at the...
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Few depictions of ancient Roman life neglect to reference all the time ancient Romans spent at the baths. One gets the impression that their civilization was obsessed with cleanliness, in contrast to most of the societies found around the world at the time, but that turns out...
TheCollector
What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787? undefined
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Robot Dog Handstand Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids 2024: 22–24 November...
The Ruffian
In Praise of Slow Learners How the Tortoise Beats the Hare
9 months ago
The Ruffian
Can we blame Sam Bankman-Fried's parents for Sam Bankman-Fried? Can we blame anyone for anything?
a year ago
symmetry magazine
IceCube and NANOGrav open new windows onto the universe New results from a neutrino telescope and a gravitational-wave observatory show how astronomers use...
a year ago
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a year ago
New results from a neutrino telescope and a gravitational-wave observatory show how astronomers use different forms of messengers to study the cosmos.
TheCollector
Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby undefined
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Making software...
Simple Accessibility Simple Accessibility 2018-09-07 Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little...
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over a year ago
Simple Accessibility 2018-09-07 Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little daunting at first, but there are a few basic standards you can introduce into your project work-flow that are fairly straightforward: Basic design Test that your project has the proper...
HTMHell
Do you know color-scheme? Do you know of color-scheme yet? If not, I bet you still think you do. It will certainly look...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Do you know of color-scheme yet? If not, I bet you still think you do. It will certainly look familiar, as prefers-color-scheme has been around for longer and is clearly related. You're in good company if it's new to you - the State of CSS 2022 results just came in, and 73% of...
devonzuegel.com
Misreading Milei: The American press can only see Argentina through a US lens It's been frustrating to see the US coverage of Milei, Argentina's new president. The American press...
a year ago
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a year ago
It's been frustrating to see the US coverage of Milei, Argentina's new president. The American press seems to deeply misunderstand what's going on. It seems the US reporters can only understand Argentine politics through the lens of the US, when really it's just a totally...
./techtipsy
Things I've learned during my self-hosting adventure This is a list of lessons that I’ve learned while playing around with my computer setup during the...
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over a year ago
This is a list of lessons that I’ve learned while playing around with my computer setup during the last 6-7 years or so. USB connected storage is a bad idea when you are using BTRFS. USB connected storage is still a bad idea when you are using ZFS, but it is at least much more...
alexwlchan
Getting faster Jekyll builds with caching in plugins This website is a static site built with Jekyll, and recently I overhauled the process for...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
This website is a static site built with Jekyll, and recently I overhauled the process for generating the site. This should be invisible if you’re just a reader, but it makes a big difference to me – like any software project, I’d accumulated cruft and complexity, and it was time...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Introducing o(m)g:image I was popping off on Mastodon with an idea for a physical board game then decided to just make a...
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I was popping off on Mastodon with an idea for a physical board game then decided to just make a digital version. It’s called “o(m)g:image” and you can play it now: omgimg.jim-nielsen.com Here’s the idea: You have a bunch images Each image is a real-life og:image pulled from an...
Blog - Bitfield...
Suite smells: testing legacy code How do you rescue a legacy codebase that has no tests? Let's look at some techniques for clawing...
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How do you rescue a legacy codebase that has no tests? Let's look at some techniques for clawing your way back to maintainability, one test at a time.
Open Culture
The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
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We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
The DESK Magazine
The secret behind inspiration I wrote about inspiration before. It's a fascinating topic to me personally. In fact, it's on my...
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5 months ago
I wrote about inspiration before. It's a fascinating topic to me personally. In fact, it's on my mind almost every day. As creatives, its the fuel that powers us through our days, and we are all painfully aware how it feels on those days when inspiration
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...
a year ago
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a year ago
Learn in public, build your own projects, start the job before you have it, polish your resume and practice, practice, practice!
Christopher Butler
Periodical – 7 I spend a lot of time looking at websites; it’s a big part of what I do for a living. With practice,...
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I spend a lot of time looking at websites; it’s a big part of what I do for a living. With practice, I’ve learned to look at the products of interaction design in a variety of different ways — on the basis of formal design considerations, usability, functionality, accessibility,...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Victorians Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Everyone thinks the Victorians were polite, but...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Everyone thinks the Victorians were polite, but Dickens' corpus is basically 14,000 pages of talking shit. Today's News:
computers are bad
2024-12-11 travelers information stations Histories of radio broadcasting often make a particular focus on the most powerful stations. For...
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Histories of radio broadcasting often make a particular focus on the most powerful stations. For historic reasons, WBCT of Grand Rapids, Michigan broadcasts FM at 320¸000 watts. Many AM stations are licensed to operate at 50,000 watts, but this modern license limit represented a...
Anecdotal Evidence
'My Soul, Beyond Distant Death" More than any secular writer I can think of, Vladimir Nabokov hints at the existence of an...
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More than any secular writer I can think of, Vladimir Nabokov hints at the existence of an afterlife. He never preaches and makes no theological assertions. His frequent use of the word “paradise” is often ambiguous, blurring its mundane, metaphorical meaning – an earthly place...
TokyoDev
A Horrifying User Experience After years of living in a cramped Tokyo apartment, I'm going to move to a slightly more spacious...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After years of living in a cramped Tokyo apartment, I'm going to move to a slightly more spacious one. Finding an apartment went smoother than I could have imagined, and in half-a-day, I had found a new apartment. The following day I set out to take care of the tasks surrounding...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Cold-blooded Software Patrick Duboy has an interesting post making the rounds titled, “Cold-blooded Software”. He...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Patrick Duboy has an interesting post making the rounds titled, “Cold-blooded Software”. He analogizes the idea of warm-blooded software: projects that are warm-blooded: everything is great when there’s constant motion on the project, generating heat. But put warm-blooded...
Alice GG
Is technical analysis just stock market astrology? Technical analysis is a part of finance that studies price moves to guide investment decisions. A...
a year ago
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a year ago
Technical analysis is a part of finance that studies price moves to guide investment decisions. A lot of investors seem skeptical of the use of past price data, which leads to technical analysis often being perceived as similar to astrology. In this article, I will try to see if...
The Elysian
Writing Prompt: What movement does the world need right now? And how do we build it?
3 weeks ago
Paolo Amoroso's...
Exploring Lisp programs as hypertexts with NoteCards <![CDATA[I'm examining in depth NoteCards, the hypermedia environment of Medley Interlisp well...
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<![CDATA[I'm examining in depth NoteCards, the hypermedia environment of Medley Interlisp well described in the 1987 paper NoteCards in a Nutshell. To experiment with the NoteCards API I set out to explore the space of possible answers to the question: what if Lisp programs were...
diamond geezer
grumpytutters Modern life, eh, it's not what it was. People are so badly behaved these days, they get away with so...
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a year ago
Modern life, eh, it's not what it was. People are so badly behaved these days, they get away with so much and it's incredibly irritating. So many things aren't as good as they should be because rules are ignored, adults are selfish, children have no respect, officials are...