Castles in the Sky
How I Make Room for the Year
The first of a three part series marking the transition from 2024 to 2025
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The first of a three part series marking the transition from 2024 to 2025
A Collection of...
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This week, we’re going to talk a bit about the brothers Tiberius (trib. 133) and Gaius (trib. 123-2)...
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This week, we’re going to talk a bit about the brothers Tiberius (trib. 133) and Gaius (trib. 123-2) Gracchus, the famous Roman reformers of the late second century. There’s actually a fair bit to say about both of them, so we’re going to split this treatment over two weeks,...
Blog System/5
Hands-on graphics without X11
A crash course on direct framebuffer and keyboard access via NetBSD’s wscons
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A crash course on direct framebuffer and keyboard access via NetBSD’s wscons
Weighty Thoughts
AI Reasoning—What is It?
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The Significant Implications of Test-Time Compute
Casey Handmer's blog
The Los Angeles wildfires are self-inflicted
I don’t ordinarily write about events “in the moment” but for this I will make an exception, as I...
2 hours ago
I don’t ordinarily write about events “in the moment” but for this I will make an exception, as I was personally affected. Caveats aside, my family and I are safe, we evacuated for several days, and due to heroic efforts by professional firefighters and psychotically brave...
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Agile Upgrade
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.
RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Filth
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Classical Wisdom
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The Diff
Meme Markets
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Linux Context Switches: The Truth About TLB Flushes
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Watch now (22 mins) | Is the TLB really flushed during context switches?
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 101: Strange bedfellows
January 17, 2025.
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Flashbak
The Handwriting of 12 Famous Authors
“My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”...
4 hours ago
“My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.” ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh In The Handwriting of 12 Famous Authors we look at writers who communicated in long hand, and sometimes wrote their books in the same manner. For...
Retail Design Blog
LAPACA Baturrocks by i g l o o studio
LAPACA, a café and chocolate shop in Huesca, Spain, founded by Silvia Buil and Raúl Bernal, Spain’s...
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Calculated Risk
Housing Starts Increased to 1.499 million Annual Rate in December
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Housing Starts Increased to 1.499 million...
5 hours ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Housing Starts Increased to 1.499 million Annual Rate in December
A brief excerpt:
Total housing starts in December were above expectations and starts in October and November were revised up.
Total starts were down 4.4% in...
Calculated Risk
Industrial Production Increased 0.9% in December
Earlier from the Fed: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization
Industrial Production (IP)...
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Earlier from the Fed: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization
Industrial Production (IP) increased 0.9 percent in December after moving up 0.2 percent in November. In December, gains in the output of aircraft and parts contributed 0.2 percentage point to total IP growth...
Retail Design Blog
Delight Showroom
The design of the Delight Showroom project in Belgrade focuses on creating a pleasant and functional...
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Society's Backend
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Calculated Risk
Housing Starts Increased to 1.499 million Annual Rate in December
From the Census Bureau: Permits, Starts and Completions
Housing Starts:
seasonally adjusted annual...
6 hours ago
From the Census Bureau: Permits, Starts and Completions
Housing Starts:
seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,499,000. This is 15.8 percent above the revised November estimate of 1,294,000, but is 4.4 percent below the December 2023 rate of 1,568,000. Single-family housing starts...
Uncharted...
Ten New US Cities: 3. Presidio
The fastest wealth creation in the history of humanity
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The fastest wealth creation in the history of humanity
Cheese and Biscuits
etch by Steven Edwards, Hove
Hove is a very acceptable place to spend a day. I was last in the area when visiting the Urchin, a...
6 hours ago
Hove is a very acceptable place to spend a day. I was last in the area when visiting the Urchin, a seafood-specialist gastropub and microbrewery (I bet there aren't too many of them around) which made the (pretty easy actually) journey down from Battersea more than worth my...
Retail Design Blog
NESS restaurant by OOAA
Along with Argentina‘s gradual but steady economic recovery, the Lomas de Núñez neighbourhood,...
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Along with Argentina‘s gradual but steady economic recovery, the Lomas de Núñez neighbourhood, situated in the north of the sprawling...
TheCollector
10 Ancient Greek Sculptures You Must Know
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IEEE Spectrum
How Antivirus Software Has Changed With the Internet
We live in a world filled with computer viruses, and antivirus software is almost as old as the...
7 hours ago
We live in a world filled with computer viruses, and antivirus software is almost as old as the Internet itself: The first version of what would become McAfee antivirus came out in 1987—just four years after the Internet booted up. For many of us, antivirus software is an...
Retail Design Blog
Peckish Bakery by guudpin design
Blending Neighborhood Culture and Urban Scenery: A Fusion of Old and New Culinary Experiences –...
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Blending Neighborhood Culture and Urban Scenery: A Fusion of Old and New Culinary Experiences – Peckish, the new bakery and...
Wrong Side of...
Britain is institutionally 'anti-racist'
The road from Macpherson to Rotherham
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The road from Macpherson to Rotherham
alexwlchan
randline: get a random selection of lines in a file using reservoir sampling
I’ve posted another command-line tool on GitHub: randline, which gives you a random selection of...
8 hours ago
I’ve posted another command-line tool on GitHub: randline, which gives you a random selection of lines in a file:
$ randline < /usr/share/dict/words
ultraluxurious
$ randline 3 < /usr/share/dict/words
unexceptionably
baselessness
salinity
There are lots of tools that solve...
lcamtuf’s thing
Investigating an "evil" RJ45 dongle
Reverse-engineering hardware can be difficult -- but sometimes, all you need is a comfy armchair and...
9 hours ago
Reverse-engineering hardware can be difficult -- but sometimes, all you need is a comfy armchair and some Google Translate.
TheCollector
What Role Did Women Play in the Scientific Revolution?
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Seth's Blog
Embracing externalities
Freedom is something we desire. The freedom to choose, to speak up, to produce, to follow our...
9 hours ago
Freedom is something we desire. The freedom to choose, to speak up, to produce, to follow our passions and our dreams. And organizations in search of efficiency, shortcuts or profits often argue for freedom as well. The freedom to organize their production and to go to market...
Maps Mania
Roads, Railways, Runways & Rivers
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TheCollector
Discover This Historic Massachusetts Town Just Beyond Boston’s Reach
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diamond geezer
Capitalcard
Earlier this week I spotted this 40 year-old poster at Leytonstone station.
It's an original from...
11 hours ago
Earlier this week I spotted this 40 year-old poster at Leytonstone station.
It's an original from January 1985, unexpectedly uncovered.
come loose in the bottom left hand corner and half a dozen even older posters were lurking underneath.
Travelcards only allowed travel on the...
Odds and Ends of...
Yes, AI really can be used to tackle potholes
It's not bullshit, it's already happening.
12 hours ago
It's not bullshit, it's already happening.
Paul Cudenec
The truth about Davos
Monday January 20 sees the start of the World Economic Forum’s 2025 meeting at Davos, Switzerland.
13 hours ago
Monday January 20 sees the start of the World Economic Forum’s 2025 meeting at Davos, Switzerland.
TheCollector
Norse Mythology: Pantheon, Ragnarok, Creation, & More
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Anecdotal Evidence
'A Great or Wonderful Thing'
“Too greedy of
Magnalities, we are apt to make but favourable experiments concerning...
13 hours ago
“Too greedy of
Magnalities, we are apt to make but favourable experiments concerning welcome
Truths.”
Sir Thomas Browne in Pseudodoxia
Epidemica (1646), also known as Vulgar Errors, dismisses such
notions as the existence of unicorns and the impact of garlic on magnetism. In
the...
Open Culture
The Creative Genius of David Lynch (RIP): Discover His Films, Music Videos, Cartoons, Commercials,...
Image by Sasha Kargaltsev via Wikimedia Commons As every cinephile has by now heard, and lamented,...
13 hours ago
Image by Sasha Kargaltsev via Wikimedia Commons As every cinephile has by now heard, and lamented, we’ve just lost a great American filmmaker. From Eraserhead to Blue Velvet to Mulholland Drive to Inland Empire, David Lynch’s features will surely continue to bewilder and inspire...
The American Scholar
Keepers of the Old Ways
Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive
The post Keepers of the Old Ways...
14 hours ago
Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive
The post Keepers of the Old Ways appeared first on The American Scholar.
Christopher Butler
The Pigeonhole Principle
Why perfect organization is not possible.
I stare at the blank index pages of my new...
14 hours ago
Why perfect organization is not possible.
I stare at the blank index pages of my new commonplace book, my pen hovering uncertainly. More than two decades of digital design work, and I’m stumped by the simple task of organizing an analog notebook.
Come on, I thought to...
diamond geezer
London's least frequent bus routes
The withdrawal of route 347, London's least frequent bus, is a excellent excuse to update the new...
15 hours ago
The withdrawal of route 347, London's least frequent bus, is a excellent excuse to update the new top 10.
London's ten rarest bus routes *
scheduled TfL buses, in one direction, ordered by weekly frequency (no school journeys, no mobility services)
1) 389 Barnet →...
Mazdak
Biden Not to Block TikTok, Apple's Credit Card Dilemma, Google Says No to EU Rules, ...
The Biden administration has decided not to enforce the law that could force TikTok to go dark in...
17 hours ago
The Biden administration has decided not to enforce the law that could force TikTok to go dark in the U.S.
Mazdak
The Future of TikTok in the U.S.: What Happens on January 19?
The fate of TikTok in the United States hangs in the balance as we approach January 19.
17 hours ago
The fate of TikTok in the United States hangs in the balance as we approach January 19.
Calculated Risk
Friday: Housing Starts, Industrial Production
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
Housing Starts...
19 hours ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
Housing Starts for December. The consensus is for 1.315 million SAAR, up from 1.289 million SAAR.
Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization for December. The consensus is for a 0.3% increase...
Astral Codex Ten
Links For January 2025
...
19 hours ago
Notes on software...
Logical replication in Postgres: Basics
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here
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19 hours ago
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here
if you are not redirected.
Good Enough
There's no “A” or “I” in “Jelly”
The second half of 2024 was definitely an inflection point in the world of software. Large Language...
19 hours ago
The second half of 2024 was definitely an inflection point in the world of software. Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI started to permeate products everywhere, from chatbots to operating systems, and at times it felt like everyone was taking part in a race to...
mtlynch.io
Increase Your Reply Rate on Cold Emails to Me
The term “cold email” refers to emailing someone who you’ve never spoken to before.
There are lots...
19 hours ago
The term “cold email” refers to emailing someone who you’ve never spoken to before.
There are lots of guides on writing cold emails. This one is a bit niche, as it’s about cold emailing a particular person: me. But I guarantee you that it’s the best guide you can find on this...
Birchtree
Meta, moderation, and whose freedoms come first
A lot has been said about Meta’s recently-announced moderation changes, so I won’t add too much to...
20 hours ago
A lot has been said about Meta’s recently-announced moderation changes, so I won’t add too much to your reading backlog today, but I did want to comment on it after letting it simmer in my head for a bit.
Let me just start by repeating the
Overcoming Bias
What Would Socrates Do?
Christians often ask themselves, as a guide to living, “What would Jesus do?” In her new book Open...
21 hours ago
Christians often ask themselves, as a guide to living, “What would Jesus do?” In her new book Open Socrates, my podcast-cohost Agnes Callard suggests we instead ask “What would Socrates do?”
TheCollector
Los Angeles Museums Launch Fire Relief Fund for Artists
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TheCollector
How Did the Black Death Change the English Language?
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Calculated Risk
Housing Discussion with Altos Research's Mike Simonsen
Here is a YouTube video of a discussion with Mike Simonsen.
Enjoy.
yesterday
Here is a YouTube video of a discussion with Mike Simonsen.
Enjoy.
Flashbak
Cynthia The Celebrity Mannequin (1932)
Cynthia was a mannequin who looked remarkably human, in a sort of unusual way before extreme...
yesterday
Cynthia was a mannequin who looked remarkably human, in a sort of unusual way before extreme cosmetic surgery became a fashion choice. Created in 1932 by sculptor and retail display designer Lester Gaba (1907-1987) for Saks Fifth Avenue, New York, Cynthia caused a stir. When...
Escaping Flatland
A funny thing about curiosity
Following your curiosity, you can bring something new and beautiful into the world as a gift to...
yesterday
Following your curiosity, you can bring something new and beautiful into the world as a gift to others. But to go there you have to do things that others will think stupid and embarrassing.
The Marginalian
The Light in the Abyss Between Us
Bless consciousness, for making blue different to me than it is to you. I remember the moment a...
yesterday
Bless consciousness, for making blue different to me than it is to you. I remember the moment a friend’s son came home from school to recount with something between shock and exhilaration how he realized while talking to a classmate that the notion of a mental image is not merely...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Compete
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Honestly, I don't know why we allow people to dope...
yesterday
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Honestly, I don't know why we allow people to dope via exceptional genetics.
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GeoCurrents
Utah’s Declining Fertility Rate and the Changing Mormon Church
On the U.S. Total Fertility Rate (TFR) map of 2008, Utah clearly stands out. At the time, the...
yesterday
On the U.S. Total Fertility Rate (TFR) map of 2008, Utah clearly stands out. At the time, the state’s TFR was 2.60, well above the national average of 2.08. Utah’s relatively high birth rate has usually been linked to the demographic dominance of members of the Church of Jesus...
Mazdak
Can Google’s Gemini Overtake ChatGPT in the AI Race?
Google’s Gemini, the tech giant’s flagship AI chatbot, has been making headlines lately.
yesterday
Google’s Gemini, the tech giant’s flagship AI chatbot, has been making headlines lately.
TheCollector
6 Famous Musicians at the Center of Big Mysteries
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yesterday
The Diff
Two Models of Forward-Deployed Engineers
Plus! Corporate VC; The New AI Model; The New AI Model, Continued; The Long But Volatile March;...
yesterday
Plus! Corporate VC; The New AI Model; The New AI Model, Continued; The Long But Volatile March; Post-IPO
Open Culture
Freddie Mercury & David Bowie’s Isolated Vocals for Queen’s “Under Pressure” (1981)
In the summer of 1981, the British band Queen was recording tracks for their tenth studio album, Hot...
yesterday
In the summer of 1981, the British band Queen was recording tracks for their tenth studio album, Hot Space, at Mountain Studios in Montreux, Switzerland. As it happened, David Bowie had scheduled time at the same studio to record the title song for the movie Cat People. Before...
Mazdak
Google Challenges EU’s New Disinformation Rules
In a bold move that could reshape the future of content moderation, Google has informed the European...
yesterday
In a bold move that could reshape the future of content moderation, Google has informed the European Union it will not incorporate fact-checking into its search results or YouTube rankings, despite the requirements of the EU’s new Disinformation Code of Practice.
Calculated Risk
NAHB: Builder Confidence "Edges Up" in January
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reported the housing market index (HMI) was at 47,...
yesterday
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reported the housing market index (HMI) was at 47, up from 46 last month. Any number below 50 indicates that more builders view sales conditions as poor than good.
Builder Confidence Edges Up Even as Market Risk Concerns...
Calculated Risk
Retail Sales Increased 0.4% in December
On a monthly basis, retail sales increased 0.4% from November to December (seasonally adjusted), and...
yesterday
On a monthly basis, retail sales increased 0.4% from November to December (seasonally adjusted), and sales were up 3.9 percent from December 2023.
report:
Advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for December 2024, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and...
Quanta Magazine
Heat Destroys All Order. Except for in This One Special Case.
Heat is supposed to destroy anything it touches. But physicists have shown that an idealized form of...
yesterday
Heat is supposed to destroy anything it touches. But physicists have shown that an idealized form of magnetism is heatproof.
The post Heat Destroys All Order. Except for in This One Special Case. first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Calculated Risk
Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims Increase to 217,000
The DOL reported:
seasonally adjusted initial claims was 217,000, an increase of
14,000 from the...
yesterday
The DOL reported:
seasonally adjusted initial claims was 217,000, an increase of
14,000 from the previous week's revised level. The previous week's level was revised up by 2,000 from 201,000 to
203,000. The 4-week moving average was 212,750, a decrease of 750 from the previous...
Both Are True
why isn't there an A24 for kids?
my toddler has terrible taste and I've had enough
yesterday
my toddler has terrible taste and I've had enough
Mazdak
Apple’s Credit Card Shakeup: A Look at the Future of Fintech Partnerships
In 2019, Apple and Goldman Sachs partnered to launch the Apple Card, a bold move that combined...
yesterday
In 2019, Apple and Goldman Sachs partnered to launch the Apple Card, a bold move that combined technology and finance to offer a seamless credit experience.
Common Edge
How Should Architects Respond to the L.A. Conflagration?
The lesson here might be: listen first, design second.
yesterday
The lesson here might be: listen first, design second.
escape the algorithm
So you want to escape the algorithm
A primer
yesterday
Uncharted...
Ten New US Cities: 2. Starbase
A city of dreams
yesterday
Retail Design Blog
NUNU Hamburger
NUNU Hamburger is a new restaurant by chef Yuriy Nikityuk, the founder of the NUNU street food...
yesterday
NUNU Hamburger is a new restaurant by chef Yuriy Nikityuk, the founder of the NUNU street food chain. Following our...
TheCollector
Explore Frida Kahlo’s Composition Techniques in 6 Works
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yesterday
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Transcarent, AI Therapists, Interoperability, and more | Out-Of-Pocket
Plus Out-Of-Pocket is hiring!!
yesterday
Plus Out-Of-Pocket is hiring!!
Retail Design Blog
ROOM
Our main challenge was to design a versatile space adaptable to diverse programs. Situated in Buenos...
yesterday
Our main challenge was to design a versatile space adaptable to diverse programs. Situated in Buenos Aires’ vibrant Palermo neighborhood,...
Irrational...
Bridging theory and practice in engineering strategy.
Some people I’ve worked with have lost hope that engineering strategy
actually exists within any...
yesterday
Some people I’ve worked with have lost hope that engineering strategy
actually exists within any engineering organizations.
I imagine that they, reading through the
steps to build engineering strategy,
or the strategy for navigating private equity ownership,
are not impressed....
TheCollector
Are You a Fan of Gothic Literature? 5 Most Iconic Locations in the UK
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yesterday
Unfiltered by Tim...
A Japanese Ikigai is Bullsh*t And Won't Help You Figure Out Your Life
Ignore the self-help gurus
yesterday
Ignore the self-help gurus
Seth's Blog
Building a process culture
Process is the investment we make in inefficiency now to prevent errors from costing us later. Jet...
yesterday
Process is the investment we make in inefficiency now to prevent errors from costing us later. Jet airlines are the safest form of travel ever created, largely because of the inefficient process that we put in place. They’re over tested and over staffed, with checklists and...
Open Culture
Watch Design for Disaster, a 1962 Film That Shows Why Los Angeles Is Always at Risk of Devastating...
“This is fire season in Los Angeles,” Joan Didion once wrote, relating how every year “the Santa Ana...
yesterday
“This is fire season in Los Angeles,” Joan Didion once wrote, relating how every year “the Santa Ana winds start blowing down through the passes, and the relative humidity drops to figures like seven or six or three per cent, and the bougainvillea starts rattling in the driveway,...
History Today Feed
What Counts as a Planet?
What Counts as a Planet?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/16/2025 - 09:24
yesterday
What Counts as a Planet?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/16/2025 - 09:24
Handprinted - Blog
Kathryn Desforges: Meet The Maker
I'm Kathryn Desforges, a Devon-born, Yorkshire-based artist with a passion for printmaking, process,...
yesterday
I'm Kathryn Desforges, a Devon-born, Yorkshire-based artist with a passion for printmaking, process, and material experimentation. I specialise in etching, lithography and woodcut, and alongside my studio practice, my career as a printmaking technician and tutor intertwines with...
Maps Mania
An Extremely Distorted Map of the US Election
yesterday
History Today Feed
Ronald Knox’s Radio Revolution
Ronald Knox’s Radio Revolution
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/16/2025 - 09:17
yesterday
Ronald Knox’s Radio Revolution
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/16/2025 - 09:17
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Colorado
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yesterday
Cremieux Recueil
National IQs Are Valid
National IQ estimates are robust, reliable, and realistic
yesterday
National IQ estimates are robust, reliable, and realistic
Noahpinion
The Pettis Paradigm and the Second China Shock
Will tariffs help rebalance the global economy (and the Chinese economy)?
yesterday
Will tariffs help rebalance the global economy (and the Chinese economy)?
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #52: A right to air conditioning?
Plus how New Zealand solved a housing crisis, dodgy Chinese robotaxis and Newsnight reviewing...
yesterday
Plus how New Zealand solved a housing crisis, dodgy Chinese robotaxis and Newsnight reviewing videogames.
TheCollector
How Did Victorian Fashion Show Grief Through Clothes?
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yesterday
Anecdotal Evidence
'They Require No Mortar'
“He is one of those
writers for whom, if you care at all, you care immensely.”
This reader started...
yesterday
“He is one of those
writers for whom, if you care at all, you care immensely.”
This reader started in
puberty as a serial monogamist, wedded briefly but intensely to Edgar Rice
Burroughs, and turned in time into a guiltless polygamist. In junior-high
school, sick at home with...
The American Scholar
Above the River of Your Longing
Two new prompts
The post Above the River of Your Longing appeared first on The American Scholar.
yesterday
Two new prompts
The post Above the River of Your Longing appeared first on The American Scholar.
Astral Codex Ten
Highlights From The Comments On Lynn And IQ
...
yesterday
diamond geezer
Route 347 RIP
London's next dead bus
347: Romford to Ockendon
Location: outer London/Essex
Length of journey: 12...
yesterday
London's next dead bus
347: Romford to Ockendon
Location: outer London/Essex
Length of journey: 12 miles, 45 minutes
347, which dies this weekend, is London's least frequent bus. It runs at two hourly intervals just four times a day - all journeys done and dusted by 5pm - and...
Society's Backend
Call of Duty has a data science problem
A lesson in why data science matters and what makes it so complex
yesterday
A lesson in why data science matters and what makes it so complex
lcamtuf’s thing
Random object: Sony Mavica MVC-FD73
Floppy disk digital cameras, or why our views of technological progress are not always rooted in...
yesterday
Floppy disk digital cameras, or why our views of technological progress are not always rooted in reality.
Open Culture
10,000+ Free Online Certificates & Badges: A Resource for Lifelong Learners
For those looking to boost their skills or explore new fields without breaking the bank, Class...
yesterday
For those looking to boost their skills or explore new fields without breaking the bank, Class Central has done the heavy lifting. Known as a search engine for online courses, Class Central has compiled what might be the largest collection of free online certificates and badges...
Calculated Risk
Thursday: Retail Sales, Unemployment Claims, Philly Fed Mfg, Homebuider Survey
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
initial weekly...
yesterday
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 a increase to 215 thousand from 201 thousand last week.
Retail sales for December is scheduled to be released. The...
Marcus on AI
“LLMs amplify existing security risks and introduce new ones”
also: “the work of securing AI systems will never be complete”
yesterday
also: “the work of securing AI systems will never be complete”
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Giving pushback to leadership
Saying no to leadership is sometimes necessary when you’re at the helm of a project. Whether they’re...
yesterday
Saying no to leadership is sometimes necessary when you’re at the helm of a project. Whether they’re proposing a timeline that can’t be…
DYNOMIGHT
I am offering mentoring
What is this?
I am offering to act as a “mentor”, to you, in case that seems like something you’d...
yesterday
What is this?
I am offering to act as a “mentor”, to you, in case that seems like something you’d find useful.
How will it work?
We will meet three times for 30 minutes. During those sessions, I’ll try to help you do whatever it is you’re trying to do. Then I’ll sit back and...
mtlynch.io
Overcoming Gotchas in Samsung Secure Erase
I have a few Samsung SSDs, and I always have trouble remembering the process of secure erasing them,...
yesterday
I have a few Samsung SSDs, and I always have trouble remembering the process of secure erasing them, as Samsung Magician software is terrible.
Here are my notes for overcoming Samsung Magician’s gotchas in the process of secure erasing a Samsung SSD.
You need a Windows or MacOS...
Good Enough
TIL: Tiptap Excerpt Extension with Rails
While building Pika’s Stream of posts layout, we had need to add the capability to manage excerpts...
yesterday
While building Pika’s Stream of posts layout, we had need to add the capability to manage excerpts in the Pika editor.
These excerpts would be used to show a small portion of your post in a post stream while offering a “continue reading” link for readers to click to read the rest...
Chris Grossack's...
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via New York Times -...
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Click on graph for larger...
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The Cleveland Fed released the median CPI and the trimmed-mean CPI.
Click on graph for larger image.
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A new proof marks the first progress in decades on important cases of the so-called kissing problem. Getting there meant doing away with traditional approaches.
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Here are a few measures of inflation:
Click on graph for larger image.
Services were up 4.4% YoY as...
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Click on graph for larger image.
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From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Increase in Latest MBA Weekly Survey
Mortgage applications...
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From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Increase in Latest MBA Weekly Survey
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Officially Midsummer Day is 24th June.
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Midwinter is today.
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Officially Midsummer Day is 24th June.
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Midwinter is today.
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Nige tells me he attended
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Nige tells me he attended
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Earn attention before you use it.
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Persuasion is never one thing. It’s at least two: first, persuading someone to pay attention, and second, persuading them that your thing is worth their time, money, or effort.
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I was in a pinch.
I needed to make a full disk backup of a PC, but I had no external storage device with me to store it on.
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Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
mortgage...
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mortgage purchase applications index.
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Calculated Risk
Two Bank Failures in 2024
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There were four bank failures in 2024. The median number of failures since the FDIC was established in 1933 was 7 - so 2 failures in 2024 was below the median.
Click on graph for larger image.
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In one crucial respect at least, the human animal does not pass the mirror test of self-knowledge:...
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Flashbak
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Saturday Morning...
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Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Part 1: Current State of the Housing Market;...
3 days ago
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A brief excerpt:
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tells the tale! I’m watching...
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Open Culture
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Fifty years ago this month
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“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers
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Poems read aloud, beautifully
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On Twitter/X, I recently suggested that the network effects of the stablecoin market are massive. Tether, which has four times more wallets than all other stablecoins, is locked-in as the stablecoin lingua franca, just like English has been locked-in as the global language of...
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The...
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Crushing JIRA tickets is a party trick, not a path to impact
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This robot can dynamically change its wheel diameter to suit the terrain
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A vehicle’s wheel diameter has a dramatic effect on several aspects of performance. The most obvious is gearing, with larger wheels increasing the ultimate gear ratio — though transmission and transfer case gearing can counteract that. But wheel size also affects mobility over...
Calculated Risk
Las Vegas November 2024: Visitor Traffic Up 0.6% YoY; Convention Traffic Down 8.4%
From the Las Vegas Visitor Authority: November 2024 Las Vegas Visitor Statistics
Punctuated by the...
4 days ago
From the Las Vegas Visitor Authority: November 2024 Las Vegas Visitor Statistics
Punctuated by the second annual F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix and the SEMA tradeshow, Las Vegas
hosted more than 3.3M visitors in November, slightly up over last year (+0.6% YoY).
convention attendance
was...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Using Locally-Installed CLI Tools In Node Projects
You have a dependency that provides a CLI tool, how do you use it?
Even though you did npm i from...
4 days ago
You have a dependency that provides a CLI tool, how do you use it?
Even though you did npm i from your project root, if you run <tool> <command> it won’t work because that tool is not in your global path.
You could install <tool> globally, but then if you have <tool> in multiple...
Classical Wisdom
How To Beat Brain Rot
Combat the Word of the Year
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Saturday Morning...
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GeoCurrents
Mapping China’s Debated Fertility Figures
According to the United Nations Population Fund, China’s 2024 Total Fertility Rate (TFR: the...
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TheCollector
Yves Tanguy: 6 Facts About the Outstanding Surrealist
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Flashbak
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Just look at him! There he stands, With his nasty hair and hands. See! His nails are never cut; They...
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Quanta Magazine
Can AI Models Show Us How People Learn? Impossible Languages Point a Way.
Certain grammatical rules never appear in any known language. By constructing artificial languages...
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Certain grammatical rules never appear in any known language. By constructing artificial languages that have these rules, linguists can use neural networks to explore how people learn.
The post Can AI Models Show Us How People Learn? Impossible Languages Point a Way....
The Diff
The Economics of Logos
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Cheese and Biscuits
Vetch, Liverpool
The best way of experiencing 90% of the fun and frolics of a top-end restaurant whilst shelling out...
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The best way of experiencing 90% of the fun and frolics of a top-end restaurant whilst shelling out less than 50% of the usual cost is to go for a weekday lunch or early bird menu. Some of the most exciting dining spots in the country have some remarkably reasonably priced...
Calculated Risk
2nd Look at Local Housing Markets in December
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 2nd Look at Local Housing Markets in...
4 days ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 2nd Look at Local Housing Markets in December
A brief excerpt:
NOTE: The tables for active listings, new listings and closed sales all include a comparison to December 2019 for each local market (some 2019 data is not...
Retail Design Blog
Lingyun Tang hot spring water by Lion Peng
Lingyun Tang brand, dedicated to hot spring healing aesthetics. The design focuses on a number of...
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Retail Design Blog
Hewlett Packard Enterprise offices by Setter Architects
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Common Edge
Unlocking the Mysteries of Zoning
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NeuroLogica Blog
Should the US Ban TikTok?
My recent article on social media has fostered good social media engagement, so I thought I would...
4 days ago
My recent article on social media has fostered good social media engagement, so I thought I would follow up with a discussion of the most urgent question regarding social media – should the US ban TikTok? The Biden administration signs into law legislation that would ban the...
Calculated Risk
Housing Jan 13th Weekly Update: Inventory down 1.7% Week-over-week, Up 23.6% Year-over-year
Altos reports that active single-family inventory was down 1.7% week-over-week.
Inventory will...
4 days ago
Altos reports that active single-family inventory was down 1.7% week-over-week.
Inventory will continue to decline seasonally and probably bottom in late January or February.
The first graph shows the seasonal pattern for active single-family inventory since 2015.
Click...
GitButler
Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?
Why does Git's autocorrect wait 0.1s before executing a mistyped command? Let's dig in.
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Blog - Bitfield...
How to know when it's time to go
Leaving a job is never easy, and it’s a consequential decision. But when
it’s time, it’s time....
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Leaving a job is never easy, and it’s a consequential decision. But when
it’s time, it’s time. Here’s how to escape the comfort trap, and take the
next step in your career.
Construction Physics
Why Skyscrapers Became Glass Boxes
Everything put into the building that is unnecessary, every cubic foot that is used for purely...
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Retail Design Blog
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TheCollector
Is Sufism a Part of Islam or Separate From It?
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Meta: you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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latest projects -...
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Seth's Blog
Decisions and choices
Decisions are easy, choices are hard. A good decision is our best analysis of the facts, options and...
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Decisions are easy, choices are hard. A good decision is our best analysis of the facts, options and risks. If it’s too close to call, flip a coin, because it’s too close to call. On the other hand, a choice involves understanding our priorities, evaluating our preference for...
History Today Feed
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The Congolese Teen Exhibited in a US Zoo: Who was Ota Benga?
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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...
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wingolog
an annoying failure mode of copying nurseries
I just found a funny failure mode in the
garbage collector and
thought readers might be...
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I just found a funny failure mode in the
garbage collector and
thought readers might be amused.Whippet
Say you have a semi-space nursery and a semi-space old generation. Both
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TheCollector
The Collector’s Guide for the Art Fair
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Noahpinion
Should economists read Marx?
Yes, but not for the reasons Marxists think.
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Yes, but not for the reasons Marxists think.
Open Culture
Nirvana Before They Were Nirvana: Watch Their 1988 Performance Recorded in a Radio Shack
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Here’s a strange home video of Nirvana when they were unknown, playing inside a Radio Shack in the band’s hometown of Aberdeen, Washington. The video was recorded on the evening of January 24, 1988, after the store had closed. In those days the group went by the name of Ted Ed...
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Britain's Chernobyl?
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Faster journeys for you
You may have seen a lot of these posters around the tube network recently.
Signalling improvements...
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You may have seen a lot of these posters around the tube network recently.
Signalling improvements will mean faster journeys for you
And by 'in the future' they mean today, 13th January 2025, so hurrah for faster journeys.
improving the signalling on the four sub-surface...
TheCollector
The Skeletons of Shanidar Cave: What Can They Tell Us About the Past?
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Thy Auld Damn'd Elbow Yeuks Wi' Joy'
It’s the sheer unembarrassed
redundancy of English I love. We have a dozen ways or more to say...
4 days ago
It’s the sheer unembarrassed
redundancy of English I love. We have a dozen ways or more to say everything.
Synonyms are never scrupulously identical, and each encourages us to refine our
expression and avoid the lazy articulation of the herd. Even so childishly slangy
a word as...
Scarlet Ink
4 Patterns in Software Development Projects Which Lead to Failure
With experience, you can recognize the less obvious patterns which lead to costly disasters.
4 days ago
With experience, you can recognize the less obvious patterns which lead to costly disasters.
Christopher Butler
The Geography of Interface
Is there a pattern language for digital spaces?
We navigate digital spaces as if they were...
4 days ago
Is there a pattern language for digital spaces?
We navigate digital spaces as if they were physical ones. We “visit” websites, “go to” pages, get “lost” in apps, and find our way “back” to where we started. These spatial metaphors are so deeply embedded in how we think about...
Basta’s Notes
The ghosts that lives in my garage
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ntietz.com blog -...
Beginning of a MIDI GUI in Rust
A project I'm working on (which is definitely not my SIGBOVIK submission for this year, and...
4 days ago
A project I'm working on (which is definitely not my SIGBOVIK submission for this year, and definitely not about computer ergonomics) requires me to use MIDI.
And to do custom handling of it.
So I need something that receives those MIDI events and handles them.
But... I'm going...
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Five – A Sci-Fi Short Story – Chapter 1
Chapter 1 of a Sci-Fi short story i wrote
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Chapter 1 of a Sci-Fi short story i wrote
Applied Cartography
Truncating timedeltas in Django
Consider a fan-out-ish model that you want to aggregate a bunch of: likes on a post, for...
4 days ago
Consider a fan-out-ish model that you want to aggregate a bunch of: likes on a post, for instance.
class Post(models.Model):
created_at = models.DateTimeField()
class Event(models.Model):
post = models.ForeignKey(Post, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
created_at =...
Calculated Risk
Sunday Night Futures
Weekend:
Schedule for Week of January 12, 2025
Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures S&P 500 are...
5 days ago
Weekend:
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Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures S&P 500 are unchanged and DOW futures are up 68 (fair value).
WTI futures at $76.57 per barrel and Brent at $79.76 per barrel. A year ago, WTI was at $73, and Brent was at $80 - so WTI oil...
The Honest Broker
My Survey of 16 Classic Works of New Journalism
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Are Supernatural Beliefs Real?
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Internal Tech Emails
"OpenAI is on a path of certain failure"
There obviously needs to be immediate and dramatic action or everyone except for Google will be...
5 days ago
There obviously needs to be immediate and dramatic action or everyone except for Google will be consigned to irrelevance.
African History...
A complete history of the Sudano-Sahelian architecture of west Africa: from antiquity to the 20th...
The westernmost region of Africa which forms the watershed of the great rivers of the Senegal, the...
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The westernmost region of Africa which forms the watershed of the great rivers of the Senegal, the Volta and the Niger, is home to one of the world's oldest surviving building traditions, called the ‘Sudano-Sahelian’ architecture.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Gotchas in Naming CSS View Transitions
I’m playing with making cross-document view transitions work on this blog.
Nothing fancy. Mostly...
5 days ago
I’m playing with making cross-document view transitions work on this blog.
Nothing fancy. Mostly copying how Dave Rupert does it on his site where you get a cross-fade animation on the whole page generally, and a little position animation on the page title specifically.
To...
Flashbak
A Trip To Butlin’s In 1982
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Nabeel S. Qureshi
Principles
// This was originally a Google Doc where I gathered hard-won life lessons; eventually I open...
5 days ago
// This was originally a Google Doc where I gathered hard-won life lessons; eventually I open sourced it. It got a great response, including a shoutout from Tim Ferriss, so here it is on Substack.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Probable
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5 days ago
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The avocado of not being such a dick would've been nice as well.
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Ken Shirriff's blog
It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor
The cargo cult metaphor is commonly used by programmers.
This metaphor was popularized by Richard...
5 days ago
The cargo cult metaphor is commonly used by programmers.
This metaphor was popularized by Richard Feynman's
"cargo cult science" talk with a vivid description of South Seas cargo cults.
However, this metaphor has three major problems.
First,
the pop-culture depiction of cargo...
TheCollector
What Was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Stoicism and Buddhism
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Calculated Risk
January 12th COVID Update: COVID in Wastewater Increasing
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
For deaths, I'm...
5 days ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
For deaths, I'm currently using 4 weeks ago for "now", since the most recent three weeks will be revised significantly.
Note: "Effective May 1, 2024, hospitals are no longer required to report...
Arduino Blog
This maker designed a custom flight controller for his supercapacitor-powered drone
Basic drones are very affordable these days—you can literally find some for less than the cost of a...
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Basic drones are very affordable these days—you can literally find some for less than the cost of a fast food drive-thru meal. But that doesn’t mean drones are easy to control. That is actually quite difficult, but manufacturers are able to work off of established reference...
Confessions of a...
How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM
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How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and compression tricks. Here's the fascinating story behind it.
Anarchy Unfolds
We Don't Need Conspiracies
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The real stories behind our problems are scary enough
Birchtree
📕 I recommend: Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
Hey everyone, this post is for everyone, but it’s a part of a new series I’m doing on More Birchtree...
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Hey everyone, this post is for everyone, but it’s a part of a new series I’m doing on More Birchtree where I review the books and games I read and play in 2025. My movie reviews have been a relative hit on social media for the
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Peter (Simon) of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Death, Legacy
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What Was Colonialism? Causes and Impact
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Seth's Blog
“That will never work”
Every successful SNL sketch, every bestselling book, every landslide-winning candidate… every single...
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Every successful SNL sketch, every bestselling book, every landslide-winning candidate… every single one… had skeptics. Someone in the writer’s room, or on the editorial board or even an investor looked at what was on offer and said, “no.” Not just, “I’m sorry, this doesn’t match...
watchTowr Labs
Exploitation Walkthrough and Techniques - Ivanti Connect Secure RCE (CVE-2025-0282)
As we saw in our previous blogpost, we fully analyzed Ivanti’s most recent unauthenticated Remote...
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As we saw in our previous blogpost, we fully analyzed Ivanti’s most recent unauthenticated Remote Code Execution vulnerability in their Connect Secure (VPN) appliance. Specifically, we analyzed CVE-2025-0282.
Today, we’re going to walk through exploitation. Once again, however,...
TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Sites in Utah
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A Smart Bear
The Important Thing -- powerful enough to override all your deficiencies
This is the reason that startups succeed despite their many weaknesses. And it's a reason to build a...
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This is the reason that startups succeed despite their many weaknesses. And it's a reason to build a startup in the first place.
diamond geezer
Onslow Square/Osborne Square
45
45 Squared
2) ONSLOW SQUARE, SW7
Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, 150m × 90m
Onslow Square is one...
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45
45 Squared
2) ONSLOW SQUARE, SW7
Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, 150m × 90m
Onslow Square is one of the larger examples, tucked away between Old Brompton Road and Fulham Road. Turn left out of South Kensington station and you'll be there in two minutes. When Queen Victoria...
TheCollector
7 Works by Yves Tanguy You Should Know
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Anecdotal Evidence
'I Find a Demanding Medium Liberating'
One can argue that the
essential purpose of art, despite what the humorless say, is to give...
5 days ago
One can argue that the
essential purpose of art, despite what the humorless say, is to give pleasure
to its consumers. If so, I rather uncharacteristically denied myself a lot of it
by not discovering the poems of Turner Cassity until the final year of his life.
He is a poet...
journal – Winnie Lim
2025: may I have an uneventful year
Last year I wrote that I wanted to be able to do one pull up. This year, I just want the year to...
5 days ago
Last year I wrote that I wanted to be able to do one pull up. This year, I just want the year to progress uneventfully. I first started using the word “uneventful”...
Matt Mullenweg
Matt 4.1
Forty-one is a nice birthday because it doesn’t feel like too much pressure. For forty I did a big...
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Forty-one is a nice birthday because it doesn’t feel like too much pressure. For forty I did a big eclipse thing that ended up amazing, this year I’m replicating what I did a few years ago and celebrating in New York, Houston, and San Francisco. My birthday today has already been...
Ruud van Asseldonk
LLM text makes human interactions less fun
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anderegg.ca
WordPress is in trouble
Since I last wrote about WordPress, things have gone off the rails. This after a brief period when...
6 days ago
Since I last wrote about WordPress, things have gone off the rails. This after a brief period when things were blissfully quiet. Matt Mullenweg stopped commenting for a while, though his company had launched WP Engine Tracker — a site for tracking WordPress-driven websites that...
TheCollector
Why Are Most Female Pharaohs Unrecorded in History?
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Weekly Scroll: Zuck Kisses the Ring
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Calculated Risk
Real Estate Newsletter Articles this Week: Apartment Vacancy Rate Increased in Q4
At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week:
Click on graph for larger image.
Moody's:...
6 days ago
At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week:
Click on graph for larger image.
Moody's: Apartment Vacancy Rate Increased in Q4; Office Vacancy Rate at Record High
1st Look at Local Housing Markets in December
Asking Rents Mostly Unchanged Year-over-year
Update: The...
GeoCurrents
Regional Demographic Convergence in India as the Country Slips Below the Replacement Rate
Most demographers agree that the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) of India has dropped below the...
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Most demographers agree that the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) of India has dropped below the replacement rate of 2.1 to 2.2 children per woman. The United Nations Population Fund places it at 2.0 for 2024, while Database Earth puts it at 1.94. As the graph from the latter...
Flashbak
Far Out Images from Johann Zahn’s Oculus Artificialis (1685)
“A complete treatment of the construction and use of lensed optical instruments. Presented in three...
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“A complete treatment of the construction and use of lensed optical instruments. Presented in three fundamentals, that is, bases: the physical, the mathematical, and the practical or mechanical” – Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus sive Telescopium The German student of light...
Contemporist...
A Stone Covered Home That Surrounds A Central Courtyard With Sunken Seating
YDR estudio has shared photos of a contemporary stone house they completed in Mexico that includes a...
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YDR estudio has shared photos of a contemporary stone house they completed in Mexico that includes a central courtyard with sunken outdoor seating.
The Diff
Longreads + Open Thread
Longreads
Gwern has a lengthy meditation on effort, specifically the kind of effort involved in...
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Longreads
Gwern has a lengthy meditation on effort, specifically the kind of effort involved in doing what was previously thought to be impossible. It's not so much a unified theory of extreme effort as it is a comprehensive refutation of the existence of such theories. There...
TheCollector
Marcus Garvey: A Leader in the Pan-Africanist Movement
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diamond geezer
Footways Clerkenwell
The fine folk at Footways, the walk-friendly social enterprise, have just produced another of their...
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The fine folk at Footways, the walk-friendly social enterprise, have just produced another of their gorgeous free walking maps, This time it's for Clerkenwell, the historic Islington neighbourhood, and depicts all sorts of places to visit as well as the best ways to thread...
Birchtree
This remote has me questioning everything
I recently lost my Apple TV remote (the latest model) and despite apparently being somewhere in the...
6 days ago
I recently lost my Apple TV remote (the latest model) and despite apparently being somewhere in the couch according to Find My, my wife and I can not find it. We were using our phones as remotes for a couple days, which was annoying, but got the job done. But
Archinect - Features
How Mecanoo Delivers on Architectural Renders
The acclaimed Dutch architectural studio Mecanoo excels at crafting renderings of unbuilt projects...
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The acclaimed Dutch architectural studio Mecanoo excels at crafting renderings of unbuilt projects that faithfully convey the design and atmosphere of the project ultimately constructed. As modern rendering engines offer architects unprecedented capabilities to create dynamic...
Calculated Risk
Schedule for Week of January 12, 2024
The key reports this week are December CPI, retail sales, and housing starts.
----- Monday, January...
6 days ago
The key reports this week are December CPI, retail sales, and housing starts.
----- Monday, January 13th -----
No major economic releases scheduled.
----- Tuesday, January 14th -----
6:00 AM: NFIB Small Business Optimism Index for December.
Producer Price Index for December...
TheCollector
The Battle of Borodino: Napoleon vs. Russia
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