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lcamtuf’s thing
Sierpiński triangle? In my bitwise AND? Exploring a peculiar bit-twiddling hack at the intersection of 1980s geek sensibilities.
21 hours ago
journal – Winnie Lim
three encounters in taipei one With only a few days remaining, we made our way to the physical shop after ordering it a few...
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one With only a few days remaining, we made our way to the physical shop after ordering it a few times on uber eats. It is a greek yoghurt bowl, but it...
Engineer’s Codex
How Cursor Indexes Codebases Fast Merkle Trees in the real world
yesterday
The Ruffian
Why Am I At My Lowest In The Middle Of the Night? The Causes of 3am Catastrophising
yesterday
Thu Le
Ten pointless facts about me Maybe the first of who knows how many.
yesterday
Ken Shirriff's blog
Reverse engineering the 386 processor's prefetch queue circuitry In 1985, Intel introduced the groundbreaking 386 processor, the first 32-bit processor in the x86...
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yesterday
In 1985, Intel introduced the groundbreaking 386 processor, the first 32-bit processor in the x86 architecture. To improve performance, the 386 has a 16-byte instruction prefetch queue. The purpose of the prefetch queue is to fetch instructions from memory before they are...
Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.05.10 - Pour One Out New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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wingolog
a whippet waypoint Hey peoples! Tonight, some meta-words. As you know I am fascinated by compilers and language...
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Hey peoples! Tonight, some meta-words. As you know I am fascinated by compilers and language implementations, and I just want to know all the things and implement all the fun stuff: intermediate representations, flow-sensitive source-to-source optimization passes,...
SatPost by Trung...
Warren Buffett's $160B+ Apple Bet: A History The story behind how Warren Buffett shunned tech for decades, before making (probably) the greatest...
2 days ago
The Codist
Stress And Programming Having spent four decades as a programmer in various industries and situations, I know that modern...
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Having spent four decades as a programmer in various industries and situations, I know that modern software development processes are far more stressful than when I started. It's not simply that developing software today is more complex than it was back in 1981. In that early...
Quentin Santos
Espressif’s Automatic Reset In previous articles, we saw how to use “real” UART, and looked into the trick used by Arduino to...
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In previous articles, we saw how to use “real” UART, and looked into the trick used by Arduino to automatically reset boards when uploading firmware. Today, we’ll look into how Espressif does something similar, using even more tricks. “Real” UART on the Saola As usual, let’s...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 9, 2025 (On Lighter Bows) Fireside this week! First off, it seems like last week’s post on the Hollywood myth of archery...
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Fireside this week! First off, it seems like last week’s post on the Hollywood myth of archery volley fire really got out there, so if you are a new reader just joining us, welcome! If you are in to discussions of historical tactics with an eye towards correcting common myths in...
Passing Time
Spinning significance out of a senseless slog Contributing to a chosen culture via running
2 days ago
Patterns in Humanity
The Assimilation Myth Across the world, ethnic socioeconomic disparities are here to stay
2 days ago
Contraption Co.
How I built a chatbot with my dog Lessons for AI prompting and retrieval
2 days ago
Not Boring by Packy...
Weekly Dose of Optimism #143 Pope Leo, Techno-Industrial Playbook, Stripe, Vulcan Robots, Natural Short Sleep, MenB Vaccine, Ezra
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CrimethInc.
The Occupation of the Sha'ban al-Dalou Building : A Report-Back from the University of Washington In this anonymously submitted report, participants in the occupation of the engineering building at...
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In this anonymously submitted report, participants in the occupation of the engineering building at the University of Washington explore their motivations and recount the events in detail. This courageous action comes as the Israeli military prepares to open a new chapter in its...
Christopher Butler
In Defense of Screens Screens are good, actually. Screens get a lot of blame these days. They’re accused of...
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Screens are good, actually. Screens get a lot of blame these days. They’re accused of destroying attention spans, ruining sleep, enabling addiction, isolating us from one another, and eroding our capacity for deep thought. “Screen time” has become shorthand for everything...
Wuthering...
What I Read in April 2025 – Have we cherished expectations? I should make that the new official slogan of the blog.  It is from p. 614 of Finnegans Wake, one of...
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I should make that the new official slogan of the blog.  It is from p. 614 of Finnegans Wake, one of the books I recently read. FICTION The Sword in the Stone (1938), T. H. White – I for some reason did not read this as a youth.  It is wonderful, full of anachronism and parody...
Chris Grossack's...
Analytic Combinatorics Redux Earlier today I gave a talk in the graduate student seminar titled “Counting is Hard. Complex...
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Earlier today I gave a talk in the graduate student seminar titled “Counting is Hard. Complex Analysis is Easy.” based in part on my recent blog post about analytic combinatorics and based in part on Varilly’s notes on Dirichlet’s Theorem, showing how to count the number of...
Jason Fried
Why new when? When we make something new, people often ask "why don't you just add that to Basecamp?" There are a...
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When we make something new, people often ask "why don't you just add that to Basecamp?" There are a number of reasons, depending on what it is. But, broadly, making something brand new gives you latitude (and attitude) to explore new tech and design approaches. It's the...
Naz Hamid
Barbara “Nuggie” Schuetz-Hamid Rest in peace little one. I never would have guessed that a 4-lb Chihuahua would come into our...
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Rest in peace little one. I never would have guessed that a 4-lb Chihuahua would come into our lives, let alone be the animal to steal my heart before Jen’s. Our previous animals — two cats and a Boxer dog — are a stark contrast to a tiny dog that we would carry around in a sling...
Paul Cudenec
Adolf Hitler and the zio-imperialist mafia A book review
3 days ago
Computer Things
Write the most clever code you possibly can I started writing this early last week but Real Life Stuff happened and now you're getting the...
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I started writing this early last week but Real Life Stuff happened and now you're getting the first-draft late this week. Warning, unedited thoughts ahead! New Logic for Programmers release! v0.9 is out! This is a big release, with a new cover design, several rewritten chapters,...
The Intimate Mirror
Power, Vulnerability, and Soulful Collaboration A Conversation with Dechen McSweeney on the Nine Mistakes We Make in Relationship to Power
3 days ago
Posts on Nikita...
I switched from GMail and nobody died Whether we like it or not, email is widely used to identify a person. Code sent to email is used as...
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Whether we like it or not, email is widely used to identify a person. Code sent to email is used as authentication and sometimes as authorisation for certain actions. I’m not comfortable with Google having such power over me, especially given the fact that they practically don’t...
Electronics etc…
Brightness and Contrast Adjustment of Tektronix TDS 500/600/700 Oscilloscopes Introduction Finding the Display Tuning Potentiometers The Result Hardcopy Preview...
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Introduction Finding the Display Tuning Potentiometers The Result Hardcopy Preview Mode Introduction Less than a week after finishing my TDS 684B analog memory blog post, a TDS 684C landed on my lab bench with a very dim CRT. If you follow the lives the 3-digit TDS oscilloscope...
Wrong Side of...
A nation’s rebirth after Nazism Germany’s integration miracle and other stories
3 days ago
Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1983/12 Issue of Videogaming and Computer Gaming Illustrated Time for some oldie levity.
3 days ago
Artificial Ignorance
OpenAI's $3B Bet Unpacking OpenAI's latest acquisition of Windsurf.
3 days ago
mtlynch.io
Educational Products: Month 7 Highlights Why am I making slower progress than I’d like on my book? I optimize my Asciidoctor write...
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Highlights Why am I making slower progress than I’d like on my book? I optimize my Asciidoctor write and preview workflow. I’m working on a side project to track Hacker News performance in real-time. Goal grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish....
DYNOMIGHT
How much information is in DNA? This is an article that just appeared in Asimov Press, who kindly agreed that I could publish it...
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This is an article that just appeared in Asimov Press, who kindly agreed that I could publish it here and also humored my deep emotional need to use words like “Sparklepuff”. Do you like information theory? Do you like molecular biology? Do you like the idea of smashing them...
Citation Needed
Meet Trump’s memecoin dinner guests Trump's crypto-for-access dinner triggers broad ethics alarms, and 73% non-US attendance raises...
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Trump's crypto-for-access dinner triggers broad ethics alarms, and 73% non-US attendance raises fresh concerns over foreign influence
Birchtree
+ A bicycle for the mind is good. Is a motorbike too much? When is the computer doing too much for you? Has our line for this moved over time?
4 days ago
Krebs on Security
Pakistani Firm Shipped Fentanyl Analogs, Scams to US A Texas firm recently charged with conspiring to distribute synthetic opioids in the United States...
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A Texas firm recently charged with conspiring to distribute synthetic opioids in the United States is at the center of a vast network of companies in the U.S. and Pakistan whose employees are accused of using online ads to scam westerners seeking help with trademarks, book...
Calculated Risk
Leading Index for Commercial Real Estate Increased 1% in April From Dodge Data Analytics: Dodge Momentum Index Increases 1% in April The Dodge Momentum Index...
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From Dodge Data Analytics: Dodge Momentum Index Increases 1% in April The Dodge Momentum Index (DMI), issued by Dodge Construction Network, grew 0.9% in April to 205.1 (2000=100) from the downwardly revised March reading of 203.1. Over the month, commercial planning grew 3.3%...
Res Obscura
AI makes the humanities more important, but also a lot weirder Historians are finally having their AI debate
4 days ago
TheCollector
5 Māori Leaders Who Shaped Aotearoa’s/New Zealand’s History The opposition between the Māori, the original inhabitants of Aotearoa/New Zealand, and the Pākehā,...
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The opposition between the Māori, the original inhabitants of Aotearoa/New Zealand, and the Pākehā, the European newcomers, has been central to New Zealand’s recent history. Some Māori chiefs were open to dialogue with the Europeans and even fought alongside them. However,...
Stat Significant
Have Movies Stopped Killing Their Main Character? A Statistical Analysis A data-driven investigation of movie hero mortality rates
4 days ago
Trying to Understand...
The Day After. And the day after that.
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Retail Design Blog
Solid Order Jewelry by ADS Solid Order is a young fine jewelry brand from China, known for its neutral aesthetic inspired by...
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Solid Order is a young fine jewelry brand from China, known for its neutral aesthetic inspired by geometric forms and...
Map of the Week
Where Does Your Water Go? I found this tool six years ago and meant to post it but forgot until now. Fortunately it still...
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I found this tool six years ago and meant to post it but forgot until now. Fortunately it still works and is still pretty cool. You can click anywhere in the United States and trace the path of a raindrop to the ocean. I chose a random point northwest of White River City in...
Construction Physics
How the US Built 5,000 Ships in WWII Among the most impressive manufacturing achievements of the US during WWII was the number of ships...
4 days ago
Uncharted...
Canada vs the 51st State How can Canada fight against an aggressive US?
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Why Disney Is the Best Alaska Cruise for Families
4 days ago
watchTowr Labs
SysOwned, Your Friendly Support Ticket - SysAid On-Premise Pre-Auth RCE Chain (CVE-2025-2775 And... It’s… another week, and another vendor who is apparently experienced with ransomware gangs but yet...
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It’s… another week, and another vendor who is apparently experienced with ransomware gangs but yet struggles with email. In what we've seen others term "the watchTowr treatment", we are once again (surprise, surprise) disclosing vulnerability research that allowed us to gain...
Flashbak
Miners Strike, Bob Dylan Acts and ‘Iran Kills Children’: Posters in 1980s London Back to the 1980s now, to look at some of the posters stuck on walls in London captured by Peter...
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Back to the 1980s now, to look at some of the posters stuck on walls in London captured by Peter Marshall as he walked around the city. There are posters calling for Iran and the country’s leader Ayatollah Khomeini (1900-1989) to ‘stop killing children’. Another tells passersby...
IEEE Spectrum
Amazon’s Vulcan Robots Are Mastering Picking Packages As far as I can make out, Amazon’s warehouses are highly structured, extremely organized, very tidy,...
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As far as I can make out, Amazon’s warehouses are highly structured, extremely organized, very tidy, absolute raging messes. Everything in an Amazon warehouse is (usually) exactly where it’s supposed to be, which is typically jammed into some pseudorandom fabric bin the size of a...
Articles
Finding your "zone of genius"
4 days ago
Cremieux Recueil
"Yes, and..." Urbanism What can the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth teach us about effective zoning law?
5 days ago
Infinite Scroll
Crisis PR for Dummies You too can avoid being cancelled!
5 days ago
Matt Mullenweg
Remember Gravatar? Gravatar has always been about giving people control over their identity online. One avatar, one...
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Gravatar has always been about giving people control over their identity online. One avatar, one profile, synced across the web, verified connections, with a fully open API. Gravatar is a true open identity layer for the internet, and now for AI.  For developers, we’ve rolled out...
Blog - Practical...
When Abandoned Mines Collapse [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In December of 2024, a huge...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In December of 2024, a huge sinkhole opened up on I-80 near Wharton, New Jersey, creating massive traffic delays as crews worked to figure out what happened and get it fixed. Since then, it happened again in...
Hidden History
Florida’s Barker Gang Shootout In January 1935, gangster “Ma” Barker and her son Fred were killed by the FBI in a multi-hour...
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In January 1935, gangster “Ma” Barker and her son Fred were killed by the FBI in a multi-hour shootout in the little town of Ocklawaha FL. Arizona “Arrie” Clark was born in the rural town of Ash Grove MO in October 1873, where she played the fiddle and sang in the local church...
NeuroLogica Blog
The Problem with Self-Diagnosis The recent discussions about autism have been fascinating, partly because there is a robust...
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The recent discussions about autism have been fascinating, partly because there is a robust neurodiversity community who have very deep, personal, and thoughtful opinions about the whole thing. One of the issues that has come up after we discussed this on the SGU was that of...
Unfiltered by Tim...
Advice For Building A Business Boiled Down Into One-Sentence Harsh Truths A 3-minute read
5 days ago
Seth's Blog
Tools and the long tail Have you ever made a video that was seen by someone you didn’t know? Or written something that got...
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Have you ever made a video that was seen by someone you didn’t know? Or written something that got shared outside of your inner circle? The odds of either of these things happening a generation ago were close to zero. Now, it’s common. The skeptics said that people wanted to...
Open Culture
A Japanese Zen Monk Explains What Zen Is Really About Despite developing in Asia, as the Chinese form of a religion originally brought over from India and...
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Despite developing in Asia, as the Chinese form of a religion originally brought over from India and later refined in Japan, Zen Buddhism has long appealed to Westerners as well. Some of that owes to the spare, elegant aesthetics with which popular culture associates it, and more...
Maps Mania
A Guided Street View Tour of the World
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elementary Blog
A Little Bit Now, A Lotta Bit Later In mid-March we released a big bug fix update—elementary OS 8.0.1—and since then we’ve been hard at...
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In mid-March we released a big bug fix update—elementary OS 8.0.1—and since then we’ve been hard at work on even more bug fixes and some new exciting features that I’m excited to share with you today! Read ahead to find out what we’ve released recently and what you can help us...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
I don't care about your magic prompts There’s a brand of tech influencer now that’s all about sharing the perfect prompt for any...
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There’s a brand of tech influencer now that’s all about sharing the perfect prompt for any situation. The tweets in question typically read something like “this prompt will make you superhuman”, or “this prompt will be a 20k growth consultant in your pocket”. There’s a kernel of...
The Elysian
We’ve raised $50,000—now I’m writing a book! My vision for the future of capitalism has been greenlit. Now let’s make it a reality.
6 days ago
Overcoming Bias
Elite Confidence Rob Henderson has a great essay summarizing the expert vs elite distinction I discussed in 6 prior...
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Rob Henderson has a great essay summarizing the expert vs elite distinction I discussed in 6 prior posts (1 2 3 4 5 6):
The Honest Broker
'The Atlantic' Visits Me at Home, and I Win an Award This has been quite a day at The Honest Broker
6 days ago
Archinect - Features
Can Tactical Design Make NYC Subways Feel Safe Again? WXY’s Claire Weisz Thinks So Darkened corners, poorly-lit cars, vandalism, and other physical and psychological indicators that...
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Darkened corners, poorly-lit cars, vandalism, and other physical and psychological indicators that crime is present or can thrive still underpin its persistence on subways and in stations in New York City. This has led to a widespread perception of danger. And, in real terms, the...
Tech and Tea
My First Vibe Coding Project: The Trader Joe’s Snack Box Builder A surprisingly delightful experience
6 days ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Tumultuous Evolution of the Design Profession Via Jeremy Keith’s link blog I found this article: Elizabeth Goodspeed on why graphic designers...
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Via Jeremy Keith’s link blog I found this article: Elizabeth Goodspeed on why graphic designers can’t stop joking about hating their jobs. It’s about the disillusionment of designers since the ~2010s. Having ridden that wave myself, there’s a lot of very relatable stuff in there...
Mazdak
OpenAI is not becoming a for-profit company after all. In a significant reversal, OpenAI announced on May 5, 2025, that it will remain under the control of...
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In a significant reversal, OpenAI announced on May 5, 2025, that it will remain under the control of its nonprofit entity, abandoning earlier plans to restructure as a for-profit company.
Both Are True
'wtf is the batcave' a guide for ppl who already pay for both are true
6 days ago
bookbear express
always on your side friendship is magic
6 days ago
Arduino Blog
Knuckle typing in mixed reality just makes sense While mixed reality — virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) — has come a long way in...
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While mixed reality — virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) — has come a long way in recent years, there are still a lot of challenges that developers struggle to overcome in a practical and user-friendly way. Typing is one example and current virtual keyboard...
Marcus on AI
Why DO large language models hallucinate? The Henrietta Chronicles continue, guest starring Harry Shearer
6 days ago
oftwominds-Charles...
The Terminal Rot in Corporate America Corporate America took advantage of the Covid shortages and fiscal largesse to profiteer on a scale...
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Corporate America took advantage of the Covid shortages and fiscal largesse to profiteer on a scale criminals could only dream of. One of humanity's most pernicious traits is the ease with which we habituate to conditions over time that we would have rejected out of hand if...
The Rational Walk
Warren Buffett’s Final Brushstrokes Warren Buffett is retiring as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway but he may still make a few final...
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Warren Buffett is retiring as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway but he may still make a few final brushstrokes on his canvas as Chairman.
Don't Worry About...
GPT-4o Sycophancy Post Mortem Last week I covered that GPT-4o was briefly an (even more than usually) absurd sycophant, and how...
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Last week I covered that GPT-4o was briefly an (even more than usually) absurd sycophant, and how OpenAI responded to that.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Evil Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: There should be a movie where the window into the...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: There should be a movie where the window into the past is the villain just being a born shithead from day one. Today's News:
Herbert Lui
Customer satisfaction builds momentum A business delivers a good product or service to a customer. A satisfied customer tells other people...
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A business delivers a good product or service to a customer. A satisfied customer tells other people about the business. Those people find the business and become customers. As the years go by, the business builds enough of a reputation and customer base to sustain itself. If we...
The Diff
Peak Berkshire (In a Good Way) Plus! Diff Jobs; Decoupling; Who Trains the Model-Trainers; Cash Cycles; AI and ARR; Gating
6 days ago
The Works in...
Why skyscrapers are so short How to overcome physical, economic and regulatory barriers and build taller
6 days ago
Quanta Magazine
Dimension 126 Contains Strangely Twisted Shapes, Mathematicians Prove A new proof represents the culmination of a 65-year-old story about anomalous shapes in special...
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A new proof represents the culmination of a 65-year-old story about anomalous shapes in special dimensions. The post Dimension 126 Contains Strangely Twisted Shapes, Mathematicians Prove first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Rubenerd
#Japan2025 Ending up in Shin-Takaoka Yesterday was probably our first proper rest day on this trip, so we mostly hung around the hotel...
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Yesterday was probably our first proper rest day on this trip, so we mostly hung around the hotel and surrounds. It always feels like a waste loitering in an amazing place, but sometimes you need some downtime or you feel exhausted! Or maybe that’s just us. We started the day at...
Scarlet Ink
How to Both Embrace and Defeat Imposter Syndrome Our skills aren't perfect. Moving past our weaknesses is how we discover our ways to add value, and...
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Our skills aren't perfect. Moving past our weaknesses is how we discover our ways to add value, and improve along the way.
Society's Backend
Now is The Best Time to Be a Software Engineer (ML for SWEs 9) Machine learning for software engineers 5-5-25
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Common Edge
The Unique Intimacies of Designing a House Residential architects understand the origin story and the life evolution of those who they design...
6 days ago
Astral Codex Ten
Open Thread 380 ...
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UX Collective
It’s far past time to control the algorithm Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Rest of World -...
How China is gaining ground in the Middle East cloud computing race Huawei and Alibaba are outpacing established U.S. providers by aligning with government priorities...
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Huawei and Alibaba are outpacing established U.S. providers by aligning with government priorities and addressing data sovereignty concerns.
Classical Wisdom
The Forgotten Pyramids of Africa Uncovering the Majesty of Ancient Nubia
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Atoms vs Bits
Coward Fiction It'll happen to you, probably
6 days ago
Noahpinion
The Tech Right is not succeeding Technologists once again prove ham-handed when it comes to politics.
6 days ago
Confessions of a...
The System-Level Foundation of Assembly Tracing how the CPU, OS, and ELF format shape the structure of your assembly code
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Odds and Ends of...
What Tony Blair actually said about fossil fuels Plus how Abundance won World War II
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Anecdotal Evidence
'This Is My Time and Theme' “I delight sensually in Time, in its stuff and spread, in the fall of its folds, in the...
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“I delight sensually in Time, in its stuff and spread, in the fall of its folds, in the very impalpability of its grayish gauze, in the coolness of its continuum.”  You may recognize the almost overripe prose. Ingesting so rich a diet too early in life can spoil one for plainer...
The American Scholar
Lorena Diosdado Multifaceted Latinx identities The post Lorena Diosdado appeared first on The American Scholar.
6 days ago
diamond geezer
Square days Today is 5.5.25, a square day. It's also the second time a square day has been a bank...
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Today is 5.5.25, a square day. It's also the second time a square day has been a bank holiday. 1.1.01 (Monday) century ending with a double-zero year. The reason for this is that there was no year 0, the first century starting in AD 1 and running until AD 100. Thus every...
xkcd.com
About 20 Pounds
6 days ago
Working Theorys
MEDIA AND MACHINES. The operating system of our era — and why every empire will be half-media, half-machine.
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The Marginalian
Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, and with Fangs: The Alchemy of Unrequited Love and the Story Behind... This essay is adapted from the nineteenth chapter of my book Figuring. In the first autumn of her...
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This essay is adapted from the nineteenth chapter of my book Figuring. In the first autumn of her thirties, Emily Dickinson wrote to her confidante and eventual editor Thomas Wentworth Higginson: I had a terror — since September — I could tell to none, and so I sing, as the Boy...
Fonts In Use – Blog...
Star Wars movie posters from Hungary Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: movieposters.ha.com Image: Heritage Auctions. License: All...
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Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: movieposters.ha.com Image: Heritage Auctions. License: All Rights Reserved. Csillagok háborúja (Star Wars), 1979. The custom acute accents are simple squares. The secondary typeface is ITC Avant Garde Gothic. More info on...
Contemporist...
This Hidden Chapel In The Woods Is Captivating Architecture Lovers MOTIV Architects has shared photos of a small memorial chapel they completed in a Canadian forest.
a week ago
OH8HUB’s Substack
May Day activation on island of Hailuoto May Day is celebrated on first of May.
a week ago
computers are bad
2025-05-04 iBeacons You know sometimes a technology just sort of... comes and goes? Without leaving much of an...
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You know sometimes a technology just sort of... comes and goes? Without leaving much of an impression? And then gets lodged in your brain for the next decade? Let's talk about one of those: the iBeacon. I think the reason that iBeacons loom so large in my memory is that...
Musings on Markets
The Greed & Fear Tango: The Markets in April 2025! I started the month on a trip to Latin America, just as the tariff story hit my newsfeed and the...
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I started the month on a trip to Latin America, just as the tariff story hit my newsfeed and the market reacted with a sell off that knocked more than $9 trillion in market cap for global equities in the next two days. The month was off to a bad start, and tariffs remained the...
Irrational...
Public company comparables. A few years ago I wrote about reading a Profit & Loss statement, which is a foundational executive...
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A few years ago I wrote about reading a Profit & Loss statement, which is a foundational executive skill. I also subsequently wrote about ways to measure your engineering organization. Despite having written those, I still spend a lot of time wondering about effective ways to...
High Signal
How Marc Lou makes millions from great marketing Marc Lou has made millions of dollars by doing marketing extremely well. Most of his revenue has...
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Marc Lou has made millions of dollars by doing marketing extremely well. Most of his revenue has come from his NextJS boilerplate, ShipFast. As someone remarked on YouTube, it's something any developer could have done. So why was Marc successful? Because he's great at marketing....
The personal website...
The history of album art Album art didn’t always exist. In the early 1900s, recorded music was still a novelty, overshadowed...
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Album art didn’t always exist. In the early 1900s, recorded music was still a novelty, overshadowed by sales of sheet music. Early vinyl records were vastly different from what we think of today: discs were sold individually and could only hold up to four minutes of music per...
Jonas Hietala
Some VORON 0 mods I recently completed my VORON 0 build and I was determined to leave it as-is for a while and to...
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I recently completed my VORON 0 build and I was determined to leave it as-is for a while and to start modding my VORON Trident… So before embarking om my larger Trident modding journey I decided to work on the VORON 0 just a little bit more. HEPA filter With the Nevermore Micro...
Cheese and Biscuits
Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, Great Milton I'm sure the Manoir (as I will call it for this post) can impress whatever the weather, but when the...
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I'm sure the Manoir (as I will call it for this post) can impress whatever the weather, but when the early summer sun is shining, and punters are welcomed into the gardens for their aperitifs and/or digestifs, the place is surely at its best. When you've got gardens like these,...