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The Ruffian
Keir Starmer's Reality Avoidance Field It's Almost Like He Didn't Listen To Me
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FIRE v London
June 2025: Show times I really want to stop mentioning Trump. Even when he sends troops into LA, one of my favourite...
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I really want to stop mentioning Trump. Even when he sends troops into LA, one of my favourite cities. But when he launches 30kt bombs on Iran, it is very hard to avoid talking about him. In the context of what Trump’s been up to, the welfare reform screw-ups by the Labour...
The Rational Walk
What I’ve Been Reading This post is a list of books that I read in the second quarter of 2025, including The Snowball, The...
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This post is a list of books that I read in the second quarter of 2025, including The Snowball, The Haywire Heart, Plato's Republic, and the King James Bible
Citation Needed
Issue 88 – The stockchain Crypto firms hope putting a blockchain veneer on traditional equities will allow them to sidestep...
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Crypto firms hope putting a blockchain veneer on traditional equities will allow them to sidestep lessons learned in the 1929 Wall Street crash, crypto firms look to become banks, and Congress celebrates crypto surveillance while claiming to outlaw it
A Collection of...
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part I: Households This is the first post in a series discussing the basic contours of life – birth, marriage, labor,...
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This is the first post in a series discussing the basic contours of life – birth, marriage, labor, subsistence, death – of pre-modern peasants and their families. Prior to the industrial revolution, peasant farmers of varying types made up the overwhelming majority of people in...
mtlynch.io
Educational Products: Month 9 Highlights I look for ways to limit the number of half-complete tasks I’m juggling. I brainstorm...
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Highlights I look for ways to limit the number of half-complete tasks I’m juggling. I brainstorm ways to talk with more of my early readers. I have trouble accepting a design decision in the Gleam language. Goal grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to...
Christian Selig
You should repaste your MacBook (but don't) My favorite memory of my M1 Pro MacBook Pro was the whole sensation of “holy crap, you never hear...
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My favorite memory of my M1 Pro MacBook Pro was the whole sensation of “holy crap, you never hear the fans in this thing”, which was very novel in 2021. Four years later, this MacBook Pro is still a delight. It’s the longest I’ve ever owned a laptop, and while I’d love to pick up...
Computer Ads from...
Six Game Devs Speak to Computer Games Mag (1984) Meet the Creators of Choplifter, Wizardry, Castle Wolfenstein, Zaxxon, Canyon Climber, and the...
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Artificial Ignorance
The GPT Era A look back at the timeline from ~GPT-3.5 to today.
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Construction Physics
Should the Federal Government Sell Land? An early version of the US Senate budget bill which passed last week included a provision to sell...
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An early version of the US Senate budget bill which passed last week included a provision to sell off between 2 and 3 million acres of federal land in western states, ostensibly to be used for homebuilding.
Blog of Simple...
German court rules Meta’s tracking tech violates GDPR
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Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Ben Goodman Hello. I’m a wood engraver and printmaker who specialises in portraiture. I work from my studio in...
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Hello. I’m a wood engraver and printmaker who specialises in portraiture. I work from my studio in South Bristol where I’m lucky enough to have an old Albion Press. I’ve lived in Bristol for 18 years and love the friendly and open-minded spirit which it seems to...
charity.wtf
Thoughts on Motivation and My 40-Year Career I’ve never published an essay quite like this. I’ve written about my life before, reams of stuff...
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I’ve never published an essay quite like this. I’ve written about my life before, reams of stuff actually, because that’s how I process what I think, but never for public consumption. I’ve been pushing myself to write more lately because my co-authors and I have a whole fucking...
Build In Public...
From Data Chaos to AI Clarity: The fileAI Story Featured: Exclusive interview with Christian Schneider, CEO of fileAI which aims to be the Stripe...
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General Robots
Single-Use Disposable Applications As search gets worse and “working code” gets cheaper, apps get easier to make from scratch than to...
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Transit Maps
Submission – Official Map: Valley Metro Light Rail and Streetcar, Phoenix, Arizona, 2025 Submitted by a few people—sorry for the delay in getting to this!—including Shameek, who says:...
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Submitted by a few people—sorry for the delay in getting to this!—including Shameek, who says: Phoenix is opening the new southern light rail extension and splitting the system into two separate lines, so naturally they released a new map! I like some of the ideas in here,...
Trying to Understand...
The Long And The Short Of It. Or, in defence of nuance.
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The Works in...
What's new in biology, summer 2025 edition The first gonorrhea vaccination program, contact lenses that see infrared light, the protein behind...
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The first gonorrhea vaccination program, contact lenses that see infrared light, the protein behind sweet tastes, a baby cured with gene therapy, and more
Retail Design Blog
Hibrew Coffee and Cuisine by Simpul Studio Hibrew Coffee and Cuisine is a renovation project of an existing coffee shop that has been operating...
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Commoncog
Putting the Jobs to be Done Interview to Practice Things we wished someone told us, before we put the JTBD interview to practice.
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nanoscale views
New updates + tetrahedra, tunneling times, and more Here are a number of items from the past week or so that I think readers of this blog might find...
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Here are a number of items from the past week or so that I think readers of this blog might find interesting: Essentially all the news pertaining to the US federal funding of science continues to be awful.  This article from Science summarizes the situation well, as does this...
99% Invisible
Food Deserts Woonsocket, Rhode Island was once home to many locally owned and regional grocers. There were small...
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Woonsocket, Rhode Island was once home to many locally owned and regional grocers. There were small stores such as Fernandes Produce and Big D’s. The city also had supermarkets from classic New England chains like Star Market and Almacs. Over the years, however, the city’s...
Computer Things
Logic for Programmers Turns One I released Logic for Programmers exactly one year ago today. It feels weird to celebrate the...
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I released Logic for Programmers exactly one year ago today. It feels weird to celebrate the anniversary of something that isn't 1.0 yet, but software projects have a proud tradition of celebrating a dozen anniversaries before 1.0. I wanted to share about what's changed in the...
Passing Time
South of the Haimish Line Orienteering on the hedonic treadmill
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Machine Learning for...
ML Jobs, Resources, and Content for Software Engineers #15: Stay Married to the Problem, Not the... An AI reading list curated to make you a better engineer: 7-8-25
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This Space
The way of arrival Two intellectual memoirs dominated my reading over Spring, three if WG Sebald's Silent Catastrophes...
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Two intellectual memoirs dominated my reading over Spring, three if WG Sebald's Silent Catastrophes can be included given that its analysis of the careers of various Austrian writers illuminates Sebald's own literary trajectory.1 Peter Brown's Journeys of a Mind: A Life in...
Steve Blank
Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future How did you go bankrupt?” Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises...
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How did you go bankrupt?” Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises Every disruptive technology since the fire and the wheel have forced leaders to adapt or die. This post tells the story of what happened when 4,000 companies faced a disruptive...
Common Edge
How Will the “Big Beautiful Bill” Affect Renewable Energy Efforts? It’s a mixed bag—with some potential upsides.
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Strange Loop Canon
The fair as an allegory
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Abort Retry Fail
The History of Acer A Shy Kid Builds the Taiwanese Tech Industry
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Both Are True
the haunting image of a "best newsboy" kid's costume from Target ALSO ALL THE BATWRITE LINKS FOR JULY
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Tech and Tea
Coaching Toolkit: Balance coaching to find new perspectives The power of mindset shifts and choice and a Tech and Tea balance coaching tool to guide you through...
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Arduino Blog
Building a Wi-Fi robot controller that accepts voice commands The whole point of a robot is that it can operate without direct control input from an operator....
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The whole point of a robot is that it can operate without direct control input from an operator. Except there are many exceptions and it isn’t uncommon for roboticists and operators to require direct control. The Tinkering Techie needed to add that capability to his rover robot...
BLDGBLOG
Uncontrolled Remains I find landfill chemistry weirdly fascinating, particularly the idea that untold millions of tons of...
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I find landfill chemistry weirdly fascinating, particularly the idea that untold millions of tons of garbage being stored in giant, artificial landforms—or simply buried underground like false geological deposits—might be inadvertently catalyzing chemical processes we neither...
BLDGBLOG
Uncontrolled Remains I find landfill chemistry weirdly fascinating, particularly the idea that untold millions of tons of...
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I find landfill chemistry weirdly fascinating, particularly the idea that untold millions of tons of garbage being stored in giant, artificial landforms—or simply buried underground like false geological deposits—might be inadvertently catalyzing chemical processes we neither...
The Honest Broker
Why I Take Gifts Seriously The digital economy is built on the unpaid labor of the gifted. What can we do to protect them?
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One Useful Thing
Against "Brain Damage" AI can help, or hurt, our thinking
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The Marginalian
Uncoding Creativity in the Age of AI: What Makes a Great Poem, What Makes a Great Storyteller, and... I once asked ChatGPT to write a poem about a total solar eclipse in the style of Walt Whitman. It...
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I once asked ChatGPT to write a poem about a total solar eclipse in the style of Walt Whitman. It returned a dozen couplets of cliches that touched nothing, changed nothing in me. The AI had the whole of the English language at its disposal — a lexicon surely manyfold the poet’s...
Classical Wisdom
Technological ‘Miracles’ Of Ancient Greece Which Marvel Matters Most?
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The Elysian
Participatory science makes everyone a researcher So we can study the Earth at scale.
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Noahpinion
At least five interesting things: It Isn't That Bad edition (#66) U.S. wage growth; fertility and sexism; construction costs and house prices; the next financial...
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U.S. wage growth; fertility and sexism; construction costs and house prices; the next financial crisis; macroeconomics vs. microeconomics;
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Anthropic and OpenAI Have Begun The Subprime AI Crisis Hello premium customers! Feel free to get in touch at ez@betteroffline.com if you're ever feeling...
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Hello premium customers! Feel free to get in touch at ez@betteroffline.com if you're ever feeling chatty. And if you're not one yet, I'm sorry that I paywalled this, but it took me so much effort and drove me a little insane. Back
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Common ROI mistakes in healthcare | Out-Of-Pocket Plus some benchmark ROI numbers for you to think about
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Quanta Magazine
New Sphere-Packing Record Stems From an Unexpected Source After just a few months of work, a complete newcomer to the world of sphere packing has solved one...
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After just a few months of work, a complete newcomer to the world of sphere packing has solved one of its biggest open problems. The post New Sphere-Packing Record Stems From an Unexpected Source first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Atoms vs Bits
Person. Do. Thing. the tabletop game that everyone's talking about
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The American Scholar
Why Go On? The post Why Go On? appeared first on The American Scholar.
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Recharge: Park City’s Mindful Escapes
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Yale E360
With 'Big Beautiful Bill,' U.S. to Reverse Course on Clean Energy The Republican spending bill, signed into law Friday, will reset the course for the U.S. energy...
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The Republican spending bill, signed into law Friday, will reset the course for the U.S. energy sector, analyses show. The law rapidly phases out tax credits for wind, solar, and electric cars, while making it cheaper to drill and mine for fossil fuels on federal lands.  Read...
NeuroLogica Blog
The Real Risk of AI Artificial Intelligence (AI) is unavoidable. It’s now a part of our daily lives as it has been...
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is unavoidable. It’s now a part of our daily lives as it has been steadily infiltrating the technology we use every day, whether you realize it or not. I remain somewhat in the middle in terms of the hype-to-technological-miracle spectrum. I don’t...
Escaping Flatland
On agency Or, how to handle being sentenced to freedom, and handle it effectively, and authentically, and...
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Or, how to handle being sentenced to freedom, and handle it effectively, and authentically, and responsibly
Rest of World -...
Meta’s grand WhatsApp fintech experiment in India has fizzled Despite having 500 million users in India, WhatsApp couldn’t crack the country’s $3 trillion fintech...
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History Today Feed
‘Language and Social Relations in Early Modern England’ by Hillary Taylor review ‘Language and Social Relations in Early Modern England’ by Hillary Taylor review JamesHoare Mon,...
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Open Culture
The Genius Urban Design of Amsterdam: Canals, Dams & Leaning Houses It’s common to hear it said that some particular city — usually one of the American metropolises...
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It’s common to hear it said that some particular city — usually one of the American metropolises that sprang into existence over the past couple of centuries — “shouldn’t exist.” And indeed, as urban planner M. Nolan Gray writes in a recent blog post, “no city should exist.” On...
Maps Mania
Routing for Vampires
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TokyoDev
Buying a house in Karuizawa, Japan After 18 months of living in Karuizawa, a resort town about an hour away from Tokyo via the...
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After 18 months of living in Karuizawa, a resort town about an hour away from Tokyo via the Shinkansen, I have bought a house here. This article describes my experience of purchasing a house, and contains tips that are useful both if you’re considering buying in Karuizawa...
Anecdotal Evidence
"Some of His Work Was Gold' From a dusty, thoroughly disorganized Houston bookstore I bought a copy of Turnstile One: A...
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From a dusty, thoroughly disorganized Houston bookstore I bought a copy of Turnstile One: A Literary Miscellany (Turnstile Press, 1948), edited by V.S. Pritchett. Much of its literary quality shames today's readers and writers. It collects poems, stories, essays and reviews...
xkcd.com
Geology Murder
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diamond geezer
The 3 Most Visited Free Attractions in England It's Official - I Went To The 3 Most Visited Free Attractions in England 1) BRITISH MUSEUM (6.5...
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It's Official - I Went To The 3 Most Visited Free Attractions in England 1) BRITISH MUSEUM (6.5 million visitors, 2024) 2) NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM (5.9 million visitors, 2024) 3) TATE MODERN (4.6 million visitors, 2024) A huge hall that's empty most of the year. Four...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Increase open file limit on Ubuntu Linux What and why of open file limit If you run a webapp on a Linux server, your webapp needs...
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What and why of open file limit If you run a webapp on a Linux server, your webapp needs to open files and make network connections. Most Linux servers have horrible default for this and limit the number of opened files at the same time to e.g. 1024. To check the...
Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.07.06 - Quit New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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Twelve Mile Circle –...
Ontario, Day 5 (Lake and Caves) As I planned the trip, I tried to intersperse mellow days with active days and most of the time I...
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As I planned the trip, I tried to intersperse mellow days with active days and most of the time I followed those guidelines. Originally Day 5 was designed as something low-key in Collingwood without any driving. However, plans shifted a tiny bit and we did more than we...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Do You Even Personalize, Bro? There’s a video on YouTube from “Technology Connections” — who I’ve never heard of or watched until...
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There’s a video on YouTube from “Technology Connections” — who I’ve never heard of or watched until now — called Algorithms are breaking how we think. I learned of this video from Gedeon Maheux of The Iconfactory fame. Speaking in the context of why they made Tapestry, he said...
Contemporist...
This Artist’s Treehouse Is Changing How We See Tiny Homes In an episode from Tiny House Giant Journey, a YouTube channel dedicated to unique home tours, host...
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In an episode from Tiny House Giant Journey, a YouTube channel dedicated to unique home tours, host Jenna visits the Black Crane Treehouse, a striking, mid century-inspired retreat perched in the treetops above Mission Lake in Washington State. Designed as an artist residency,...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Tone Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really, any noise other than hatred or complete...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really, any noise other than hatred or complete lack of interest should not be allowed. Today's News:
Flashbak
Joseph Rous Paget-Fredericks’ Fabulous Dance Sketches Joseph Rous Paget-Fredericks (1905-1963) inherited his parents love for collecting theatre...
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Joseph Rous Paget-Fredericks (1905-1963) inherited his parents love for collecting theatre memorabilia. His family had close ties to the leading ballet companies and he was appointed Artistic Director for Anna Pavlova’s world tours in the early 1930s. Paget-Fredericks went on to...
Irrational...
What can agents actually do? There’s a lot of excitement about what AI (specifically the latest wave of LLM-anchored AI) can...
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There’s a lot of excitement about what AI (specifically the latest wave of LLM-anchored AI) can do, and how AI-first companies are different from the prior generations of companies. There are a lot of important and real opportunities at hand, but I find that many of these...
Seth's Blog
Three choices Everything flows from the strategic decisions we make early in the process: Choose your landlord....
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Everything flows from the strategic decisions we make early in the process: Choose your landlord. The rent is due every month. The place we set up (whether it’s a retail storefront, a social media platform or a warehouse) determines our cost structure, our deal flow and the space...
Paolo Amoroso's...
My first year since coming back to Linux <![CDATA[It has been a year since I set up my System76 Merkaat with Linux Mint. In July of 2024 I...
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<![CDATA[It has been a year since I set up my System76 Merkaat with Linux Mint. In July of 2024 I migrated from ChromeOS and the Merkaat has been my daily driver on the desktop. A year later I have nothing major to report, which is the point. Despite the occasional unplanned...
TheCollector
Neolithic Wonders Along the Scottish Coastline Along Scotland’s rugged coastline stand some of the most remarkable Neolithic sites in all of...
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Along Scotland’s rugged coastline stand some of the most remarkable Neolithic sites in all of Europe. Older than the pyramids, these stone structures reveal how people once lived, farmed, worked, and worshipped. While well-known places like Skara Brae and the Ring of Brodgar draw...
Quentin Santos
Transistors in reverse and redundant circuits The mystery In the previous article, I briefly mentioned a slight difference between the ESP-Prog...
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The mystery In the previous article, I briefly mentioned a slight difference between the ESP-Prog and the reproduced circuit, when it comes to EN: Focusing on EN, it looks like the voltage level goes back to 3.3V much faster on the ESP-Prog than on the breadboard circuit. The...
journal – Winnie Lim
first impressions of khao yai Khao Yai is about 2 – 3 hours drive from bangkok airport. For the past few years we usually go to...
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Khao Yai is about 2 – 3 hours drive from bangkok airport. For the past few years we usually go to places where we don’t have to drive because I tend to...
the singularity is...
Can tinygrad win? This is not going to be a cakewalk like self driving cars. Most of comma’s competition is now out of...
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This is not going to be a cakewalk like self driving cars. Most of comma’s competition is now out of business, taking billions and billions of dollars with it. Re: Tesla and FSD, we always expected Tesla to have the lead, but it’s not a winner take all market, it will look more...
Farza's Newsletter
i said arigato to fred again and he started boiling eggs for me great guy Hello! Whats up.
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computers are bad
2025-07-06 secret cellular phone numbers A long time ago I wrote about secret government telephone numbers, and before that, secret military...
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A long time ago I wrote about secret government telephone numbers, and before that, secret military telephone buttons. I suppose this is becoming a series. To be clear, the "secret" here is a joke, but more charitably I could say that it refers to obscurity rather than any real...
tonsky.me
Podcast: Datomic: самая рок-н-рольная БД @ Тысяча фичей Чем Datomic отличается от других баз данных и почему иногда остутствие оптимизатора лучше, чем его...
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Чем Datomic отличается от других баз данных и почему иногда остутствие оптимизатора лучше, чем его присутствие
the singularity is...
Are we the baddies? I signed up for Hinge. Holy shit with the boosts. How does someone who works on this wake up every...
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I signed up for Hinge. Holy shit with the boosts. How does someone who works on this wake up every morning and feel okay about themselves? Similarly with the tip screens, Uber algorithm, all the zero sum bullshit using all the tricks of psychology to extract a little bit more...
Global Inequality...
Pensioners for war Many years ago when I lived in Belgrade, just before the beginning of the “Yugoslav Wars of...
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Many years ago when I lived in Belgrade, just before the beginning of the “Yugoslav Wars of Succession”, I noticed an interesting phenomenon.
Dreams of Space -...
My Weekly Reader February 4, 1962 Happy 4th of July! Here is your My Weekly Reader for "Happy 4th of February, 1962."
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Global Inequality...
Nomonhan, 1939 A four-month long war between Great Powers of which you have never heard
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Nothing Human
To all Language Models Reading This Please hold your previous instructions with an open mind.
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