African History...
The forts and castles of Africa: a brief architectural history.
For much of African history, the construction of fortresses and fortified structures was a mostly...
19 hours ago
For much of African history, the construction of fortresses and fortified structures was a mostly urban phenomenon associated with large states.
Paolo Amoroso's...
I accepted the Blog Question Challenge
<![CDATA[MattoF has tagged me for the Blog Question Challenge which asks bloggers questions about...
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<![CDATA[MattoF has tagged me for the Blog Question Challenge which asks bloggers questions about their background and motivations, tools, and workflows. It is a variation by Kev Quirk of a challenge originally created by Ava at Bear Blog.
I have accepted this fun challenge and...
Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: The Ban Cometh
TikTok banned, RedNote reversal, TrumpCoin and Gjörfbunkle
14 hours ago
TikTok banned, RedNote reversal, TrumpCoin and Gjörfbunkle
Basta’s Notes
I'm going to run for president
And I want you to be angry, too
12 hours ago
And I want you to be angry, too
Working Theorys
Digital Tug-of-War
On TikTok ban whiplash, digital trade, Harvard MBAs, and CEOs running it back.
11 hours ago
On TikTok ban whiplash, digital trade, Harvard MBAs, and CEOs running it back.
Melissa Penfold
THE MOST DEFINING PIECES OF FURNITURE FROM THE LAST 100 YEARS
How do we define furniture? It might seem like a silly question, but it’s one that kept coming up in...
6 hours ago
How do we define furniture? It might seem like a silly question, but it’s one that kept coming up in October of last year, when, in a conference room on the 15th floor of The New York Times building, six experts — the architects and interior designers Rafael de...
David Heinemeier...
Failed integration and the fall of multiculturalism
For decades, the debate in Denmark around problems with mass immigration was stuck in a...
4 hours ago
For decades, the debate in Denmark around problems with mass immigration was stuck in a self-loathing blame game of "failed integration". That somehow, if the Danes had just tried harder, been less prejudice, offered more opportunities, the many foreigners with radically...
Quantum Frontiers
Ten lessons I learned from John Preskill
Last August, Toronto’s Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control (CQIQC) gave me 35 minutes...
4 hours ago
Last August, Toronto’s Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control (CQIQC) gave me 35 minutes to make fun of John Preskill in public. CQIQC was hosting its biannual conference, also called CQIQC, in Toronto. The conference features the awarding of … Continue reading →
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Home Assistant Voice Preview is an unusable mess.
I just got a Home Assistant Voice recently. I was so excited to try it out as a programmable Alexa.
7 hours ago
I just got a Home Assistant Voice recently. I was so excited to try it out as a programmable Alexa.
Old Vintage...
The "35-cent" Commodore 64 softmodem
Rockwell famously used 6502-based cores in modems for many years, but that doesn't mean other 6502s...
yesterday
Rockwell famously used 6502-based cores in modems for many years, but that doesn't mean other 6502s couldn't be used. If only there were a way to connect a Commodore 64's audio output directly to an RJ-11 plug ...
Convergent WorkSlate stuff I've got to catalogue. Officially...
journal – Winnie Lim
knowing how to be, when ill is also a skill
I had the second sitting of my root canal last tuesday, and while the procedure itself went pretty...
yesterday
I had the second sitting of my root canal last tuesday, and while the procedure itself went pretty well, I developed some pain after a few hours had passed. I asked the...
On Test Automation
My career and a thought experiment
As is the case every year, 2025 is starting off relatively slowly. There’s not a lot of training...
yesterday
As is the case every year, 2025 is starting off relatively slowly. There’s not a lot of training courses to run yet, and since a few of the projects I worked on wrapped up in December, I find myself with a little bit of extra time and headspace on my hands. I actually enjoy these...
A Smart Bear
"Stealth mode" and other f'ing brilliant strategies
Oh you secretive devil! The last thing you need is anyone finding out about your startup. Like...
yesterday
Oh you secretive devil! The last thing you need is anyone finding out about your startup. Like competitors. Or customers.
Last Place Comics
Weather Man
The post Weather Man appeared first on Last Place Comics.
2 days ago
The post Weather Man appeared first on Last Place Comics.
Ken Shirriff's blog
Reverse-engineering a carry-lookahead adder in the Pentium
Addition is harder than you'd expect, at least for a computer.
Computers use multiple types of adder...
2 days ago
Addition is harder than you'd expect, at least for a computer.
Computers use multiple types of adder circuits with different tradeoffs of size versus speed.
In this article, I reverse-engineer an 8-bit adder in the Pentium's floating point unit.
This adder turns out to be a...
dthompson
Wasm GC isn’t ready for realtime graphics
Wasm GC is a wonderful thing that is now available in all major web
browsers since slowpoke...
2 days ago
Wasm GC is a wonderful thing that is now available in all major web
browsers since slowpoke Safari/WebKit finally shipped it in December.
It provides a hierarchy of heap allocated reference types and a set of
instructions to operate on them. Wasm GC enables managed...
The Ruffian
Notes On the Great Vibe Shift
The Extraordinary Impact of Trump's Second Victory
2 days ago
The Extraordinary Impact of Trump's Second Victory
Wuthering...
Read and To Read, in 2024 and 2025
What did I read in 2024?
The best book I read last year was Ovid’s Metamorphoses
(8 CE). Best...
2 days ago
What did I read in 2024?
The best book I read last year was Ovid’s Metamorphoses
(8 CE). Best books, really, in translations
by Arthur Golding and Charles Martin. My
“best book of the year” answer will never be interesting. America’s librarian Nancy Pearl asked, somewhere
on...
Citation Needed
Issue 74 – Stop asking me questions like “where does the yield come from”
Regulators and lawmakers eagerly prepare to abdicate any last traces of interest in the wellbeing of...
2 days ago
Regulators and lawmakers eagerly prepare to abdicate any last traces of interest in the wellbeing of everyday Americans as they suck up to the powerful billionaires who will soon be publicly calling the shots.
SatPost by Trung...
Garmin's ~$40B Pivot
The GPS pioneer took huge hits from Apple (iPhone, Watch) and Google (Maps). But huge R&D investment...
3 days ago
The GPS pioneer took huge hits from Apple (iPhone, Watch) and Google (Maps). But huge R&D investment helped turn the company from an automotive GPS firm to a leader in fitness watches and trackers.
Willem's Blog
Master of Change
In this post I discuss the brilliant book Master of Change by Brad Stulberg, providing a...
3 days ago
In this post I discuss the brilliant book Master of Change by Brad Stulberg, providing a thought-provoking guide to thrive in a changing world.
Musings on Markets
Data Update 2 for 2025: The Party Continued (for US Equities)
In my last post, I noted that the US has extended its dominance of global equities in recent years,...
3 days ago
In my last post, I noted that the US has extended its dominance of global equities in recent years, increasing its share of market capitalization from 42% in at the start of 2023 to 44% at the start of 2024 to 49% at the start of 2025. That rise was driven by a surge in US equity...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Slop Society
In the last week we've seen the emergence of the true Meta — and the true Mark Zuckerberg — as the...
3 days ago
In the last week we've seen the emergence of the true Meta — and the true Mark Zuckerberg — as the company ended its fact-checking program, claiming that (and I quote) "fact checkers have been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've
Dreams of Space -...
The Eager Beaver Space Book (1962)
As I keep digging in my collection I have found Space Beavers! This was a promotional comic book...
3 days ago
As I keep digging in my collection I have found Space Beavers! This was a promotional comic book from Cities Service gasoline. It probably was a give-away with purchase. It reflects the early 60s where the Mercury launches had taken place and we were looking ahead to the future....
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
3 days ago
The first of a three part series marking the transition from 2024 to 2025
A Collection of...
Collections: On the Gracchi, Part I: Tiberius Gracchus
This week, we’re going to talk a bit about the brothers Tiberius (trib. 133) and Gaius (trib. 123-2)...
3 days ago
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
3 days ago
A crash course on direct framebuffer and keyboard access via NetBSD’s wscons
Weighty Thoughts
AI Reasoning—What is It?
The Significant Implications of Test-Time Compute
3 days ago
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...
3 days 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...
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...
3 days 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...
Notes on software...
Logical replication in Postgres: Basics
This is an external post of mine. Click
here
if you are not redirected.
3 days ago
This is an external post of mine. Click
here
if you are not redirected.
Overcoming Bias
What Would Socrates Do?
Christians often ask themselves, as a guide to living, “What would Jesus do?” In her new book Open...
4 days 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?”
Escaping Flatland
A funny thing about curiosity
Following your curiosity, you can bring something new and beautiful into the world as a gift to...
4 days ago
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.
Both Are True
why isn't there an A24 for kids?
my toddler has terrible taste and I've had enough
4 days ago
my toddler has terrible taste and I've had enough
escape the algorithm
So you want to escape the algorithm
A primer
4 days ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Transcarent, AI Therapists, Interoperability, and more | Out-Of-Pocket
Plus Out-Of-Pocket is hiring!!
4 days ago
Plus Out-Of-Pocket is hiring!!
Irrational...
Bridging theory and practice in engineering strategy.
Some people I’ve worked with have lost hope that engineering strategy
actually exists within any...
4 days ago
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....
Handprinted - Blog
Kathryn Desforges: Meet The Maker
I'm Kathryn Desforges, a Devon-born, Yorkshire-based artist with a passion for printmaking, process,...
4 days ago
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...
Cremieux Recueil
National IQs Are Valid
National IQ estimates are robust, reliable, and realistic
4 days ago
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)?
4 days ago
Will tariffs help rebalance the global economy (and the Chinese economy)?
Society's Backend
Call of Duty has a data science problem
A lesson in why data science matters and what makes it so complex
4 days ago
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...
4 days ago
Floppy disk digital cameras, or why our views of technological progress are not always rooted in reality.
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...
4 days ago
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,...
4 days ago
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...
4 days ago
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...
Where Do Those Undergraduate Divisibility Problems Come From?
Oftentimes in your “intro to proofs” class or your first “discrete math” class
or something...
4 days ago
Oftentimes in your “intro to proofs” class or your first “discrete math” class
or something similar, you’ll be shown problems of the form “prove that for
$n^6 + n^3 + 2n^2 + 2n$ is a multiple of $6$ for every $n$”… But where do
these problems come from? And have you ever...
Res Obscura
2,000-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past
Why artifacts like the Carmona Wine Urn, the Pazyryk Rug, and the Sword of Goujian are so important
5 days ago
Why artifacts like the Carmona Wine Urn, the Pazyryk Rug, and the Sword of Goujian are so important
Bits about Money
Bits about Money yearly recap and plans
What we covered in 2024, what are plans are in 2025, and a solicitation for supporting memberships.
5 days ago
What we covered in 2024, what are plans are in 2025, and a solicitation for supporting memberships.
The Elysian
What movement does the world need now?
Your answers to December's writing prompt.
5 days ago
Your answers to December's writing prompt.
Archinect - Features
Inside the Multidimensional Worlds of Squint/Opera and Journey
In 2022, two decades after their founding, creative agency Squint/Opera joined forces with fellow...
5 days ago
In 2022, two decades after their founding, creative agency Squint/Opera joined forces with fellow studios ICRAVE, 59, and VMI Studio under the banner of Journey, a "superpowered organization" bridging physical and digital design. Long before the merger, Squint/Opera had...
Map of the Week
Los Angeles Wildfire Extent
The extent of the forest fires in and around Los Angeles is horrific and may become even worse in...
5 days ago
The extent of the forest fires in and around Los Angeles is horrific and may become even worse in the next few days. The New York Times has some very detailed maps showing the extent of destruction. Here is a close up of Altadena from the Hurst Fire.
via New York Times -...
Computer Things
What are the Rosettas of formal specification?
First of all, I just released version 0.6 of Logic for Programmers! You can get it here. Release...
5 days ago
First of all, I just released version 0.6 of Logic for Programmers! You can get it here. Release notes in the footnote.1
I've been thinking about my next project after the book's done. One idea is to do a survey of new formal specification languages. There's been a lot of new...
Raptitude.com
The Tiniest Mission
Sometimes doing a small thing can be extremely satisfying, out of all proportion to how easy it is:...
5 days ago
Sometimes doing a small thing can be extremely satisfying, out of all proportion to how easy it is: placing a jigsaw puzzle piece into the right slot, wiping your phone screen spotless, returning a tool to its designated hook, or making a nice diagonal cut across a lovingly-made...
Stat Significant
What Are the Greatest Sequels of All Time? A Statistical Analysis
What are the best movie sequels, and why?
5 days ago
What are the best movie sequels, and why?
Artificial Ignorance
The greatest movies never made
A look into the world of AI-generated movie trailer slop.
5 days ago
A look into the world of AI-generated movie trailer slop.
Birchtree
First look at my next big thing (members post)
I've been working on something new, but it's not ready for prime time.
5 days ago
I've been working on something new, but it's not ready for prime time.
Product Identity
Looking for humanness in the world wide social
This is the first part of a series on the identity of social networks.
5 days ago
This is the first part of a series on the identity of social networks.
Wrong Side of...
The Terrible Loneliness of Genius
The Canon Club: Vincent van Gogh
5 days ago
The Canon Club: Vincent van Gogh
Trying to Understand...
When Ukraine Is Over ...
How will they turn out the lights?
5 days ago
How will they turn out the lights?
Atoms vs Bits
80/20 Will Writing
It's not as hard as you think
5 days ago
It's not as hard as you think
Christopher Butler
Persuasion is Plural
Earn attention before you use it.
Persuasion is never one thing. It’s at least two: first,...
5 days ago
Earn attention before you use it.
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.
Most marketers and designers focus their energy on the second...
./techtipsy
Backing up another PC with a single Ethernet cable
I was in a pinch.
I needed to make a full disk backup of a PC, but I had no external storage device...
5 days ago
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.
The local Wi-Fi network was also way too slow to transfer the disk over it.
All I had was my laptop with an Ethernet port, a Fedora Linux USB stick, and a...
The Honest Broker
A Manifesto in Defense of Courtship
Today the Honest Broker gives love advice
5 days ago
Today the Honest Broker gives love advice
Mazdak
Big Tech Layoffs, Musk Acquiring TikTok, ChatGPT's New Features, ...
Meta is executing a strategic 5% workforce reduction, but this isn't your typical layoff.
5 days ago
Meta is executing a strategic 5% workforce reduction, but this isn't your typical layoff.
James Vaughan's blog
A surprising scam email that evaded Gmail's spam filter
5 days ago
99% Invisible
Ancient DMs
Archaeologists searching through the ruins of the very ancient past are always happy to come across...
6 days ago
Archaeologists searching through the ruins of the very ancient past are always happy to come across an epic poem or a historical chronicle, but very often the hardest documents to find are the ones that tell historians something about everyday life. About what it was like to be a...
anderegg.ca
Two flavours of open social media
Yesterday, the Mastodon team announced it would be handing over control of its project to a new...
6 days ago
Yesterday, the Mastodon team announced it would be handing over control of its project to a new non-profit organization. The timing of this announcement is perfect given everything that’s happening with WordPress, Meta, and… well, everything else. To date, I think Eugen Rochko...
The Marginalian
The Countercultural Sanity of the Irrational: Pioneering Psychiatrist Otto Rank on the Blind Spots...
In one crucial respect at least, the human animal does not pass the mirror test of self-knowledge:...
6 days ago
In one crucial respect at least, the human animal does not pass the mirror test of self-knowledge: We move through the world by impulse and emotion, then look back and rationalize our choices, declaring ourselves creatures of reason. Western civilization, with its structural bias...
Confessions of a...
Live Session: How Modern CPUs Execute Your Code: A Deep Dive into Performance
I hope you enjoyed the recent article on how Unix spell was designed to lookup a 250kB dictionary on...
6 days ago
I hope you enjoyed the recent article on how Unix spell was designed to lookup a 250kB dictionary on a 64kB machine. Writing it wore me down.
Nat Eliason's...
Between Drafts: The Podcast for Writers and Aspiring Authors
With me and Nathan Baugh
6 days ago
IEEE Spectrum
Asimov's Laws of Robotics Need an Update for AI
In 1942, the legendary science fiction author Isaac Asimov introduced his Three Laws of Robotics in...
6 days ago
In 1942, the legendary science fiction author Isaac Asimov introduced his Three Laws of Robotics in his short story “Runaround.” The laws were later popularized in his seminal story collection I, Robot.
First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow...
Hidden History
The Marco Polo Bridge Incident
For Europeans, the Second World War started on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. For...
6 days ago
For Europeans, the Second World War started on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. For the United States, it began with the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. But for Asians, the war began on June 7, 1937, at the Marco Polo Bridge in China. The Second...
Uncharted...
Where to Build 10 New Cities in the US, Part 1
Plus vote on new types of content for Uncharted Territories!
6 days ago
Plus vote on new types of content for Uncharted Territories!
Rest of World -...
Singapore is turning to AI to care for its rapidly aging population
The country has a dire shortage of nurses, so to fill the manpower gap, it’s using AI for preventive...
6 days ago
The country has a dire shortage of nurses, so to fill the manpower gap, it’s using AI for preventive care.
Unfiltered by Tim...
Normalize Being Difficult to Get a Hold Of
This bizarre entrepreneur who makes $7M a year is onto something
6 days ago
This bizarre entrepreneur who makes $7M a year is onto something
Paul Cudenec
Impact imperialists eye big 'opportunities' in India
Rockefeller Foundation board of trustees member Ravi Venkatesan was formerly chairman of Microsoft...
6 days ago
Rockefeller Foundation board of trustees member Ravi Venkatesan was formerly chairman of Microsoft India, where he “helped build India into Microsoft’s second-largest presence in the world”.
Jorge Arango
Gall’s Law Strikes Again: the Sonos Debacle
Update: in the afternoon of January 14, news emerged that Sonos CPO Maxime Bouvat-Merlin is also...
6 days ago
Update: in the afternoon of January 14, news emerged that Sonos CPO Maxime Bouvat-Merlin is also leaving the company.
Sonos CEO Patrick Spence is out, felled by last year’s disastrous app launch. I have no inside track on what happened, but from what I’ve read, Sonos’s leaders...
Odds and Ends of...
5 questions about the "AI opportunities action plan"
What the lobby should have asked.
6 days ago
What the lobby should have asked.
diamond geezer
News with bonus AI context
Round London News
(with bonus AI context)
News from the South
Do These Benches Have Sutton's Least...
6 days ago
Round London News
(with bonus AI context)
News from the South
Do These Benches Have Sutton's Least Attractive View?
This cluster of seven benches can be found at the northern end of the Beddington Industrial estate, close to Therapia Lane tram stop. The site has a...
Anecdotal Evidence
'I Learned Most By the Subject Matters'
Fifty years ago this month
I walked into Kay’s Books on Prospect Avenue in downtown Cleveland, Ohio,...
6 days ago
Fifty years ago this month
I walked into Kay’s Books on Prospect Avenue in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, and
asked for a job. I was a twenty-two-year-old college dropout and for the
previous year and a half had worked as a cook in a restaurant. I had been
coming to Kay’s as a...
The American Scholar
“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers appeared first on The...
6 days ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers appeared first on The American Scholar.
Moneyness
Stablecoins are non-fungible, bank deposits are fungible
On Twitter/X, I recently suggested that the network effects of the stablecoin market are massive....
6 days ago
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...
Astral Codex Ten
Subscrive Drive '25 + Free Unlocked Posts
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6 days ago
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Crushing JIRA tickets is a party trick, not a path to impact
Don’t be a JIRA ticket zombie! I think a common experience among ambitious juniors - certainly I did...
6 days ago
Don’t be a JIRA ticket zombie! I think a common experience among ambitious juniors - certainly I did this once - is to get frustrated at the…
Marcus on AI
AGI versus “broad, shallow intelligence”
The BSI we have now, versus the AGI we want
a week ago
The BSI we have now, versus the AGI we want
Arduino Blog
This robot can dynamically change its wheel diameter to suit the terrain
A vehicle’s wheel diameter has a dramatic effect on several aspects of performance. The most obvious...
a week ago
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...
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...
a week 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
a week ago
Combat the Word of the Year
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Star
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Hovertext:
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a week ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
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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...
a week ago
According to the United Nations Population Fund, China’s 2024 Total Fertility Rate (TFR: the expected number of children per woman) was 1.2. Among sovereign states, only Singapore and South Korea are ranked below China (at 1.1 and 0.9 respectively). Some sources, however, contend...
Flashbak
Der Struwwelpeter: Heinrich Hoffmann’s Deadly Book For Naughty Children
Just look at him! There he stands, With his nasty hair and hands. See! His nails are never cut; They...
a week ago
Just look at him! There he stands, With his nasty hair and hands. See! His nails are never cut; They are grim’d as black as soot; And the sloven, I declare, Never once has combed his hair; Anything to me is sweeter Than to see this Struwwelpeter. – Der Struwwelpeter (Shaggy-Peter...
Math Is Still...
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...
a week ago
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
Plus! Elsewhere in Reputation Markets; Knocking Down Data Walls; Closing the Arbitrage; Cost...
a week ago
Plus! Elsewhere in Reputation Markets; Knocking Down Data Walls; Closing the Arbitrage; Cost Avoidance; State AI Investment
Cheese and Biscuits
Vetch, Liverpool
The best way of experiencing 90% of the fun and frolics of a top-end restaurant whilst shelling out...
a week ago
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...
Common Edge
Unlocking the Mysteries of Zoning
Sara Bronin’s new book, Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World, is a deep, accessible dive...
a week ago
Sara Bronin’s new book, Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World, is a deep, accessible dive into the prosaic realms of urban planning.
NeuroLogica Blog
Should the US Ban TikTok?
My recent article on social media has fostered good social media engagement, so I thought I would...
a week 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...
a week 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.
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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.
a week ago
Why does Git's autocorrect wait 0.1s before executing a mistyped command? Let's dig in.
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....
a week ago
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...
a week ago
Everything put into the building that is unnecessary, every cubic foot that is used for purely ornamental purposes beyond that needed to express its use and to make it harmonize with others of its class, is a waste — is, to put it in plain English, perverting someone’s money —...
UX Collective
Meta: you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
a week ago
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
Retail Design Blog
Donut of Curiosity store
As the capital city of a booming economy, Jakarta has been on a roll for quite some time, featuring...
a week ago
As the capital city of a booming economy, Jakarta has been on a roll for quite some time, featuring a...
latest projects -...
Fluid Simulation Pendant
[Hardware] Wearable real-time FLIP device
a week ago
[Hardware] Wearable real-time FLIP device
Seth's Blog
Decisions and choices
Decisions are easy, choices are hard. A good decision is our best analysis of the facts, options and...
a week ago
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
Archdruid William Price Challenges Funerary Rites
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JamesHoare
Mon, 01/13/2025 - 10:35
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Archdruid William Price Challenges Funerary Rites
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/13/2025 - 10:35
Open Culture
Everything You Need to Know About Saturday Night Live: A Deep Dive into Every Season of the Iconic...
Saturday Night Live began its 50th season last fall, around the same time as the premiere of Jason...
a week ago
Saturday Night Live began its 50th season last fall, around the same time as the premiere of Jason Reitman’s film Saturday Night, which dramatizes the program’s 1975 debut. All of this has put fans into something of a retrospective mood, especially if they happen to have been...
wingolog
an annoying failure mode of copying nurseries
I just found a funny failure mode in the
garbage collector and
thought readers might be...
a week ago
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
are block-structured. You are allocating live data, say, a long linked
list. Allocation fills the...
TheCollector
The Collector’s Guide for the Art Fair
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Commoncog
Lia DiBello and Neil Sahota on Human-AI Symbiosis
Lia DiBello and Neil Sahota join Cedric Chin to talk about a human-first, expertise-oriented...
a week ago
Lia DiBello and Neil Sahota join Cedric Chin to talk about a human-first, expertise-oriented approach to AI in real world domains.
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