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Engineer’s Codex
How to Not Write "Garbage Code" (by Linus Torvalds) Linus Torvalds, Creator of Git and Linux, on reducing cognitive load
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Blog System/5
Trusting builds with Bazel remote execution Understanding how the architecture of a remote build system for Bazel helps implement verifiable...
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Understanding how the architecture of a remote build system for Bazel helps implement verifiable action execution and end-to-end builds
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Oracle and OpenAI Are Full Of Crap This week, something strange happened. Oracle, a company that had just missed on its earnings and...
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This week, something strange happened. Oracle, a company that had just missed on its earnings and revenue estimates, saw a more-than-39% single day bump in its stock, leading a massive market rally. Why? Because it said its remaining performance obligations — contracts signed...
A Collection of...
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVc: Rent and Extraction This is the third piece of the fourth part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) looking at...
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This is the third piece of the fourth part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers – a majority of all of the humans who have ever lived. Last time, we started looking at the subsistence of peasant agriculture by considering...
Dreams of Space -...
Babar's Moon Trip (1968) Babar's Moon Trip was a pop-up book I had never come across before. It seems influenced a little by...
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Babar's Moon Trip was a pop-up book I had never come across before. It seems influenced a little by the space race and the American efforts to get to the Moon.  They face problems like: not achieving escape velocity for the Moon, failure of stage separation, failure to adjust...
Citation Needed
Issue 92 – The scam of all scams The Trumps “debank” major customers from their “anti-debanking” cryptocurrency venture, and a CFTC...
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The Trumps “debank” major customers from their “anti-debanking” cryptocurrency venture, and a CFTC nominee says the Winklevosses are blackballing him
Global Inequality...
The Age of Discord: Fragmented politics and unhinged discourse Today I attended in New York, at Columbia University (which still looks a bit like a fortress...
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Today I attended in New York, at Columbia University (which still looks a bit like a fortress because of the students protests that took place there about 1.5 years ago) a conference at the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Institute for Policy Dialogue.
Cheese and Biscuits
Serra, Mayfair It's very often the case about the very top London hotels that despite the amount of money they have...
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It's very often the case about the very top London hotels that despite the amount of money they have at their disposal, and the pick of whatever celebrity or otherwise feted chefs they can choose from, the restaurants end up being rather mediocre. Partly this is due to the unique...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
How to discover competitors' pricing, the legal way | Out-Of-Pocket Please don’t ask me about the illegal way…I’m not telling you
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SatPost by Trung...
The iPhone 17 and iPhone Air Are New (Enough) PLUS: SpaceX's $17B Telecom Deal, Larry Ellison's $400B+ HODL.
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One Useful Thing
On Working with Wizards Verifying magic on the jagged frontier
2 days ago
Computer Ads from...
Comics from June 1983 Issue of Today Magazine Your latest serving of computing related humor
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The Works in...
Why feminism worked best in the West with Alice Evans Episode six of the Works in Progress podcast is about dating, drinking and tax
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Construction Physics
An Engineering History of the Manhattan Project The Manhattan Project, the US program to build an atomic bomb during WWII, is one of the most famous...
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The Manhattan Project, the US program to build an atomic bomb during WWII, is one of the most famous and widely known major government projects: a survey in 1999 ranked the dropping of the atomic bomb as the top news story of the 20th century. Virtually everyone knows that the...
FIRE v London
August ’25: Warm memories While the global soap opera of the Gaza crisis, Trump/Putin PR, Ukraine misery etc continued, I have...
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While the global soap opera of the Gaza crisis, Trump/Putin PR, Ukraine misery etc continued, I have created some warm memories in August. I spent a bit of time in the New Forest, at both ends, and the middle. Which included a trip to Mudeford, site of the UK’s most expensive...
Tony Finch's blog
first-class merges and cover letters Although it looks really good, I have not yet tried the Jujutsu (jj) version control system,...
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Although it looks really good, I have not yet tried the Jujutsu (jj) version control system, mainly because it’s not yet clearly superior to Magit. But I have been following jj discussions with great interest. One of the things that jj has not yet tackled is how to do better...
Handprinted - Blog
Autumnal Bunting with Speedball Acrylic Screen Printing Ink As the seasons turn we like to have a cosy project on the go. We used orange Speedball Acrylic...
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As the seasons turn we like to have a cosy project on the go. We used orange Speedball Acrylic Screen Printing Ink to create some autumnal themed bunting. Paper bunting in an ideal printing project as it requires multiples! We're making a design from Drawing Fluid and Filler -...
Artificial Ignorance
Anthropic Might Legally Owe Me Thousands of Dollars On shadow libraries, legal documents, and judicial skepticism.
3 days ago
Tech and Tea
How to know the right next step when everything feels uncertain A guest post by Vinamrata Singal, on navigating the journey from quitting her PM job to entering...
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Archinect - Features
12 Tips for Architecture Students as the School Season Begins As the academic year begins, architecture students are entering the next stage in their design...
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As the academic year begins, architecture students are entering the next stage in their design education, be it starting a new undergraduate or postgraduate degree or beginning a new semester midway through their studies. If you are one of the many students embarking on this next...
Machine Learning for...
ML for SWEs 66: Safety is a fundamental AI engineering requirement The debate about prioritizing speed or safety is over and reality has made the decision for us.
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Trying to Understand...
The Truth Market. The Scum also rises.
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Steve Blank
How To Sell to the Dept of War – The 2025 PEO Directory Announcing the 2025 edition of the DoW PEO Directory. Online here. Think of this PEO Directory as a...
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Announcing the 2025 edition of the DoW PEO Directory. Online here. Think of this PEO Directory as a “Who buys in the government?” phone book. Finding a customer for your product in the Department of War is hard: Who should you talk to? How do you get their attention? What is the...
Computer Things
Many Hard Leetcode Problems are Easy Constraint Problems In my first interview out of college I was asked the change counter problem: Given a set of coin...
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In my first interview out of college I was asked the change counter problem: Given a set of coin denominations, find the minimum number of coins required to make change for a given number. IE for USA coinage and 37 cents, the minimum number is four (quarter, dime, 2 pennies). I...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
If Apple cared about privacy Defaults matter
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This Space
Reading, forgetting When John Updike read À la recherche du temps perdu after having read Scott-Moncrieff's translation,...
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When John Updike read À la recherche du temps perdu after having read Scott-Moncrieff's translation, he was surprised to find Proust less Proustian, the epithet we associate with flowery prose blossoming over prodigious sentences proliferating clause within clause. While I cannot...
The Marginalian
Virginia Woolf on Love “I think we moderns lack love,” Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882–March 28, 1941) diagnosed us in the...
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“I think we moderns lack love,” Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882–March 28, 1941) diagnosed us in the first year of our deadliest war. The paradox is that when we lack something long enough, we forget what it looks like, what it means, how to recognize it when it comes along. And...
Spoon & Tamago
Exploring the Toilet Culture Museum: Celebrating Craftsmanship, Innovation,and Humanity’s Essential... the new Toilet Culture Museum that opened in April 2025 Let’s be honest – for most of us, Japanese...
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the new Toilet Culture Museum that opened in April 2025 Let’s be honest – for most of us, Japanese toilets are a marvel of modern life. They’re not just toilets; they’re an experience. With heated seats that save us from Japan’s bone-chilling winters, lids that open and close...
Nat Eliason's...
The Little Kegel App that Could After 9 years and $380,000, Stamena has a new home
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Mazdak
Apple’s 2025 Product Unveiling: What’s New and What Actually Matters Apple’s latest keynote delivered a sweeping set of updates across AirPods, iPhones, and the Apple...
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Adventures In...
Smokey data visualization The vector data format is unbelievably useful, but one artifact of the format is discrete...
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The vector data format is unbelievably useful, but one artifact of the format is discrete boundaries. Vector has to draw a line somewhere, but the visual result can imply more certainty or discrete solidity than is really going on, in this case smoke concentration in the air. How...
The Elysian
So, America wants a dictator Are we doomed to repeat history—or can we build something better first?
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Scott DeLong
OpenAI’s Latest Paper on Hallucinations Is Embarrassing It's either an admission of massive incompetence or being the greatest illusionists of all time....
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It's either an admission of massive incompetence or being the greatest illusionists of all time. The post OpenAI’s Latest Paper on Hallucinations Is Embarrassing appeared first on Scott DeLong.
Both Are True
gorillas in the misteries dads, sons, and the tender chaos therein
4 days ago
AI as Normal...
A guide to understanding AI as normal technology And a big change for this newsletter
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Yale E360
With Cheap Chinese Solar, Developing Countries Leapfrog U.S. on Clean Energy Chinese solar and wind manufacturers are not only driving a massive buildout of renewable energy in...
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Chinese solar and wind manufacturers are not only driving a massive buildout of renewable energy in China but also propelling a rapid shift away from fossil fuels in much of the developing world, according to a new analysis.  Read more on E360 →
The History of the...
Stumbling upon Something like a channel changer, for the web. That's what the idea was at first. But it led to a...
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Something like a channel changer, for the web. That's what the idea was at first. But it led to a whole new path of discovery that even the site's creators couldn't have predicted. The post Stumbling upon appeared first on The History of the Web.
Rest of World -...
Latin American musicians say AI is stealing their streams Musicians from Chile to Mexico say bots are stealing streams, siphoning income, and shortening the...
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Musicians from Chile to Mexico say bots are stealing streams, siphoning income, and shortening the lifespan of songs. Even Bad Bunny isn’t safe.
The American Scholar
“Dear Possible” by Laura Riding Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Dear Possible” by Laura Riding appeared first on The...
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Antoine Mayerowitz
By the way, what are AA?
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mtlynch.io
Educational Products: Month 11 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m...
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New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one to share how things are...
nanoscale views
DOE experimental condensed matter PI meeting, + other items This week I am attending the every-two-years DOE Experimental Condensed Matter Physics PI meeting. ...
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This week I am attending the every-two-years DOE Experimental Condensed Matter Physics PI meeting.  Previously I have written up highlights of these meetings (see here, here, here, here, here), though two years I was unable to do so because I was attending virtually.  I will do...
Arduino Blog
An old PC case becomes a Halloween vending machine Halloween is creeping up on us like some kind of impatient ghoul, which means that half the maker...
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Halloween is creeping up on us like some kind of impatient ghoul, which means that half the maker community is currently scrambling to throw together some spooky projects. Those projects become a lot more approachable when you start with something the already exists—anything,...
Flashbak
Watching The Commuter at 42nd and Vanderbilt, NYC – 2007–2016 “The idea of finding the regulars in this chaos came up – then much later in the process, finding...
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“The idea of finding the regulars in this chaos came up – then much later in the process, finding their behaviours and rituals in their commute from A to B.” – Peter Funch     For nine years, Peter Funch photographed the same corner of New York City – 42nd Street and Vanderbilt...
Christian Selig
App Clip Local Experiences have consumed my day Okay, I have to be doing something astronomically stupid, right? This should be working? I’m playing...
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Okay, I have to be doing something astronomically stupid, right? This should be working? I’m playing around with an App Clip and want to just run it on the device as a test, but no matter how I set things up nothing ever works. If you see what I’m doing wrong let me know and I’ll...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Some Love For Python I really enjoyed watching Python: The Documentary (from CultRepo, formerly Honeypot, same makers as...
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I really enjoyed watching Python: The Documentary (from CultRepo, formerly Honeypot, same makers as the TypeScript documentary). Personally, I don’t write much Python and am not involved in the broader Python community. That said, I love how this documentary covers a lot of the...
General Robots
Benjie's Humanoid Olympic Games A gauntlet thrown
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Quanta Magazine
Tiny Tubes Reveal Clues to the Evolution of Complex Life Scientists have identified tubulin structures in primitive Asgard archea that may have been the...
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Scientists have identified tubulin structures in primitive Asgard archea that may have been the precursor of our own cellular skeletons. The post Tiny Tubes Reveal Clues to the Evolution of Complex Life first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Atoms vs Bits
I'm Not Sure We Should Let 18 Year Olds Sign Long Term Contracts I truly don't know
5 days ago
Farza's Newsletter
i was in the boiler room with fred and we were eating eggs agains Hey all, really short one today :).
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