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Last Place Comics
Boys vs Girls Club, Part 3 The post Boys vs Girls Club, Part 3 appeared first on Last Place Comics.
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Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #49: How bat protection regulations broke Britain's planning system Plus how Europe isn't *all bad* at growth, why every Netflix film is forgettable, and why you should...
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Confessions of a...
Linux Context Switching Internals: Part 1 - Process State and Memory How does the Linux kernel represent processes and their state: A breakdown of task_struct and...
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Eukaryote Writes...
Learn to write well BEFORE you have something worth saying Lessons learned from trip reports and journal articles.
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Patterns in Humanity
Age and infertility Facts and misconceptions about maternal age-related infertility
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Jonas Hietala
A type checking error in Elixir 1.18 Although I’m a big Elixir fan, the lack of static typing has always been my biggest annoyance (and...
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Although I’m a big Elixir fan, the lack of static typing has always been my biggest annoyance (and why I think Gleam is so cool). I think static typing helps catch bugs earlier and in an automated way, leading to less buggy software and saves time in the long run. To my great joy...
Andrew Fraknoi –...
Celebrating the Centennial of Galaxies January 1 2025 On January 1, 1925, at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, DC, astronomer...
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On January 1, 1925, at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, DC, astronomer Henry N. Russell read a paper contributed by a young astronomer named Edwin Hubble (who was too junior to earn a trip across the country from the California observatory where he...
The Convivial...
Life Cannot Be Delegated The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 15
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn JamesHoare Mon, 12/30/2024 - 11:40
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Marcus on AI
Where will AI be at the end of 2027? A bet We, Gary Marcus, author, scientist, and noted AI skeptic, and Miles Brundage, an independent AI...
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We, Gary Marcus, author, scientist, and noted AI skeptic, and Miles Brundage, an independent AI policy researcher who recently left OpenAI and is bullish on AI progress, have agreed to the following bet, at 10:1 odds, with criteria drawn from two earlier Substack essays by Gary...
Weighty Thoughts
From 6 Weeks to 600 Seconds (or Less) The revolutionary potential of utilizing AI for electronic hardware design
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ntietz.com blog -...
Reflecting on 2024, preparing for 2025 If you do things a few times, they're a tradition. This is the third time I'm writing one of these,...
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If you do things a few times, they're a tradition. This is the third time I'm writing one of these, so I guess it's an annual tradition now! This is where I reflect on the year that's been, and talk some about my hopes and goals for the next year. Reflecting on 2024 This year has...
Apoorva Srinivasan
diffusion models for protein generation Introduction Proteins are nature's versatile nanomachines— they have evolved to perform virtually...
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Introduction Proteins are nature's versatile nanomachines— they have evolved to perform virtually every important task in living systems. While nature has produced an incredible range of protein functions, these represent only a tiny fraction of what's possible in the protein...
blag
Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite Some of the interesting and insane facts I learned about SQLite
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Scarlet Ink
My 61k subscriber newsletter, about marketing, and a bit about relationships. An off-topic holiday... An off-topic holiday newsletter. And a happy New Year to you!
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The Works in...
Three percent more Monaco: Links in Progress, infrastructure edition Plus: high speed rail in Vietnam, India's first vertical lift sea bridge, and a £100 million bat...
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Rest of World -...
Kenya’s bus fleets want to go electric, but manufacturers can’t meet demand Companies have ordered hundreds of EV buses — but they won’t arrive for years.
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African History...
The Meroitic script and the documents of ancient Kush (ca. 300BC-450CE) The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic...
yesterday
Trying to Understand...
Le Missile passera toujours ... mais qui est prêt à l’admettre ? Another of my essays in French.
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Working Theorys
Writing Wrapped I published 52 pieces this year (plus favorite tweets and an essay from the vault).
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sancho.dev
Cram tests: a hidden gem of dune
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Koos Looijesteijn
How to get good at anything creative
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Global Inequality...
To be young, perchance to dream A review of Miloš Vojinović's “The political ideas of the Young Bosnia”
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Ken Shirriff's blog
Intel's $475 million error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running...
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In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running Pentium line. The Pentium had many improvements over the previous processor, the Intel 486, including a faster floating-point division algorithm. A year later, Professor Nicely, a number...
Moneyness
Someone is wrong on the internet about the SWIFT network There's a chart that has been circulating for a while now on social media that shows payments...
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There's a chart that has been circulating for a while now on social media that shows payments traffic on SWIFT, a key global financial messaging network. Below is a version from the Economist, but I've seen other versions too. Source: The Economist When banks make...
journal – Winnie Lim
chiang mai’s scenes of creativity Chiang Mai is a city that is buzzing with creative energy, though I am not sure why. Is it the long...
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Chiang Mai is a city that is buzzing with creative energy, though I am not sure why. Is it the long history of their hill tribes and their crafts? I thought I’ll...
The Ruffian
Best of The Ruffian 2024 Catch-up service:
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Blog System/5
Revisiting the NetBSD build system I recently picked up an embedded project in which I needed to build a highly customized full system...
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I recently picked up an embedded project in which I needed to build a highly customized full system image with minimal boot times and NetBSD was the best choice for it. Let's look at why its build system helps.
SatPost by Trung...
11 Best Things of 2024 My favourite book, film, podcast, quote, meme, purchase and more for the year.
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McMansion Hell
on neuschwanstein castle (part 1) This is an essay in two parts. Neuschwanstein Concept Drawing by the stage designer (!!) Christian...
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This is an essay in two parts. Neuschwanstein Concept Drawing by the stage designer (!!) Christian Jank (1869). There exist in architecture clear precedents to the McMansion that have nothing to do with suburban real estate. This is because “McMansionry” (let’s say) has many...
mtlynch.io
The Case for Open Borders by John Washington If you’re a liberal who’s interested in becoming a radical progressive, this is a good book for you....
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If you’re a liberal who’s interested in becoming a radical progressive, this is a good book for you. If you’re anyone else, you’re probably not the target audience.
somethingaboutmaps
Journey’s End Nearly five years ago, I completed a project that, to my mind, remains the most significant of my...
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Nearly five years ago, I completed a project that, to my mind, remains the most significant of my cartographic career: An Atlas of Great Lakes Islands, manually printed in cyanotype, with a hand-stitched binding. I wanted to share this project with all of you, but there were only...
lcamtuf’s thing
Against the hydraulic analogy The most popular tool for teaching electronics makes the trade harder to learn.
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GeoCurrents
The Forests of Northern Somalia? Somalia (including Somaliland) is widely known as an arid and drought-plagued land. Climate maps...
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Somalia (including Somaliland) is widely known as an arid and drought-plagued land. Climate maps depict most of the country as having a hot and dry desert climate (“BWh” in the Köppen classification system). Much of southern Somalia, as well as a portion of the far northwest...
CONTEMPORIST
An Orange Spiral Staircase Is An Eye-Catching Feature Inside This Apartment Architecture and interior design firm S+PS Architects, has shared photos of a penthouse apartment in...
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Architecture and interior design firm S+PS Architects, has shared photos of a penthouse apartment in Mumbai, India, that has two eye-catching orange spiral staircases. Stepping inside the penthouse, there’s an open plan living room with a variety of sitting areas and decor that...
Artificial Ignorance
10 AI stories that shaped 2024 Agents, deepfakes, Strawberries, and more.
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Unitree Talent Awakening Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ICRA 2025: 19–23 May 2025, ATLANTA,...
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 27, 2024 (Year in Review) Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year...
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Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year reflection on the state of the project, along with a brief ‘what’s on the stove’ coverage of what may be coming up. Also, here’s a cat picture: In terms of the project itself, 2024 was,...
Paolo Amoroso's...
A brief experience with the Cardputer uLisp Machine <![CDATA[For Chrismtas 2024 I bought myself a lovely little Cardputer uLisp Machine, an M5Stack...
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<![CDATA[For Chrismtas 2024 I bought myself a lovely little Cardputer uLisp Machine, an M5Stack Cardputer that can run uLisp. The M5Stack Cardputer is a card-sized, microcontroller-based portable system for home automation, hobby, and industrial applications. Although not...
Retail Design Blog
Odiseo Gastronomic and Leisure Center by Clavel Arquitectos Odiseo is the result of the desire to create a big urban leisure complex, which wants to become a...
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Electronics etc…
Symbolic Reference and Hardware Models in Python The Traditional Hardware Design and Verification Flow An Image Downscaler as Example Design The...
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The Traditional Hardware Design and Verification Flow An Image Downscaler as Example Design The Reference Model The Micro-Architecture Model Comparing the results Conversion to Hardware Combining symbolic models with random input generation Specification changes Things to...
The Elysian
This Chinese philosopher reformed politics in one generation Mòzǐ replaced his corrupt government with a humanist one.
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seangoedecke.com RSS...
What can strong engineers do that weak engineers can't? Right now people are blowing up on Twitter about whether the USA needs to import top talent from...
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Right now people are blowing up on Twitter about whether the USA needs to import top talent from other countries, and if that means that…
Lighthouse Blog
Browser extensions to add articles
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The Honest Broker
The 25 Best Online Articles of 2024 Here's my favorite longform writing of the year
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Casey Handmer's blog
Part 7 Senzeni Na Part of the Mars Trilogy Technical Commentary Series. Contains spoilers for this chapter and earlier...
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Part of the Mars Trilogy Technical Commentary Series. Contains spoilers for this chapter and earlier chapters. Google Mars .kml. Literary commentary podcast. [Edit: If you enjoy this kind of thing, you may find a career at my company, Terraform Industries, rewarding. We’re hiring...
The Rational Walk
What I’ve Been Reading This post is a list of books that I read in the fourth quarter of 2024, including Euripides, The...
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This post is a list of books that I read in the fourth quarter of 2024, including Euripides, The Stoic Emperor, The Intelligent Investor, The Trail, and more.
alexwlchan
Not all blog posts are created equal For a while now, this website has been my own personal writer’s block. I was struggling to write,...
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For a while now, this website has been my own personal writer’s block. I was struggling to write, even when I had good ideas; if I wrote something I liked, I was often reluctant to publish it; if somebody asked to read the site, I’d wince before giving them the link. Something...
The Modern House
Seeking sea spray: a collection of nine covetable coastal homes Taking the Boxing Day Dip as inspiration for this week’s collection, we have gathered nine beachside...
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Taking the Boxing Day Dip as inspiration for this week’s collection, we have gathered nine beachside homes that would easily facilitate this bracing, peculiarly British tradition. Here, we’ve collected some of our most far-flung fantasies, from Cornwall to Norfolk and all the way...
Computer Ads from...
Merry Christmas 2024 and a Happy New Year
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Notes on software...
Picking up volleyball in NYC with Goodrec and New York Urban I was so intimidated to go at first, but it is in fact easy and fun to start playing beginner...
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I was so intimidated to go at first, but it is in fact easy and fun to start playing beginner volleyball in New York. The people are so friendly and welcoming that it has been easy to keep playing consistently every week since I started for the first time this August. It's been a...
Ben Borgers
Now
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Dreams of Space -...
Santa and The Space Men It has been a while but here is a strange Christmas post for you.  Something about Santa and Flying...
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It has been a while but here is a strange Christmas post for you.  Something about Santa and Flying Saucers seems to go together like White wine and Cracker Jack. Sort of sweet and tangy and gets your attention. Santa and the Space Men is a play for children about how Santa is...
The Marginalian
Birds, Loves, and Obscure Sorrows: The Best of The Marginalian 2024 Hindsight is how we connect the dots that figure our lives. To look back on even a single year is to...
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Hindsight is how we connect the dots that figure our lives. To look back on even a single year is to see clearly the contour of who we are in its points of attention and priority. “How we spend our days,” Annie Dillard wrote, “is how we spend our lives.” How we spend our minds is...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Some More 2025 predictions | Out-Of-Pocket OOP readers always have some interesting ones
5 days ago
Map of the Week
Merry Gridmas! Gridviz is a Javascript library for visualizing gridded (raster) data. They created a Christmas...
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Gridviz is a Javascript library for visualizing gridded (raster) data. They created a Christmas themed map showing land use with holiday emojis.  Also if you visit the Gridmas page you can watch the snow fall over Europe. You can pan and zoom around, however if you try to go...
Old Vintage...
A mostly merry Southern Hemisphere Commodore Christmas A merry Christmas and happy holidays from the Southern Hemisphere, where it's my year to be with my...
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A merry Christmas and happy holidays from the Southern Hemisphere, where it's my year to be with my wife's family in regional New South Wales, Australia. A friend of the family had an "old Commodore" in their house and asked if I wanted it. Stupid question, yeah? The...
Paul Cudenec
Stickergate and the crumbling of the system By way of bringing a little festive cheer to my readers, I thought I would share this short extract...
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By way of bringing a little festive cheer to my readers, I thought I would share this short extract from a rather lengthy historical account that I discovered on The FastForward Machine Internet Pre-Archive, first saved on January 1, 2052.
xkcd.com
Sun Avoidance
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Mind Mine
the taste issue things i've loved this past year / things i'm excited about in 2025
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99% Invisible
New Year, New Neighborhood Every year, millions of eyes turn to Times Square on New Year’s Eve. The ball drops, confetti flies,...
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Every year, millions of eyes turn to Times Square on New Year’s Eve. The ball drops, confetti flies, and people around the world celebrate as one of the most iconic urban spaces transforms into a glowing, glittering symbol of hope and renewal. But this carefully orchestrated...
Overcoming Bias
What Priority The Innocent? It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
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Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: X-ocracy Now The government is now run by Elon Musk's X
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anderegg.ca
Trying out GoodLinks The weeks leading up to the holidays have been hectic. I’m behind on “internet stuff” since entering...
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The weeks leading up to the holidays have been hectic. I’m behind on “internet stuff” since entering Christmas-mode, and have been looking for a better way to capture things I want to look at later. I’ve had this issue before, but solved it in an ad-hoc way. Previously I’d made...
Hidden History
Antarctic Snow Cruiser In 1939, the United States began work on a colossal motor vehicle to be used for exploration and...
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In 1939, the United States began work on a colossal motor vehicle to be used for exploration and field work in Antarctica. By 1939 Antarctica remained as one of the last unexplored regions on the planet. Norwegian adventurer Roald Amundsen had been the first human to reach the...
Old Structures...
Genteel That’s the Hotel Marlborough at 36th Street and Broadway, shortly after 1900. The hotel opened in...
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That’s the Hotel Marlborough at 36th Street and Broadway, shortly after 1900. The hotel opened in 1888 when the entertainment district on Broadway was further south; by the time it was demolished in 1922, that district had moved to Times Square, a few blocks to the north. It’s a...
Irrational...
Wardley mapping the LLM ecosystem. In How should you adopt LLMs?, we explore how a theoretical ride sharing company, Theoretical Ride...
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In How should you adopt LLMs?, we explore how a theoretical ride sharing company, Theoretical Ride Sharing, should adopt Large Language Models (LLMs). Part of that strategy’s diagnosis depends on understanding the expected evolution of the LLM ecosystem, which we’ve build a...
Wrong Side of...
Hearing the language of Christ on the road to Damascus Notes on Christian Syria
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Seth's Blog
The challenge of excess capacity Marketing as we know it happened because of machines. Machines made factories dramatically more...
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Marketing as we know it happened because of machines. Machines made factories dramatically more efficient, which meant that producers could no longer easily sell everything they made. When you go from making four ceramic plates a day to 4,000, your capacity starts to look like a...
Unfiltered by Tim...
To Make Enough Money to Retire Early, Stop Doing These 7 Things What Harvard research bizarrely shows about retirement
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Noahpinion
Yes, Americans are much richer than Japanese people GDP is not a perfect guide to wealth, but it's pretty darn good.
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Astral Codex Ten
Why Worry About Incorrigible Claude? ...
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Open Culture
How A Charlie Brown Christmas, and Its Beloved Soundtrack Album, Almost Never Happened A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of...
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A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of seasonal depression, and culminates in the recitation of a Bible verse, all to a jazz score. It was not, safe to say, the special that CBS had expected, to say nothing of its sponsor, the...
diamond geezer
The Kingsdown Avenue air crash 100 years ago today, on Christmas Eve 1924, an Imperial Airways passenger flight crashed onto a hill...
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100 years ago today, on Christmas Eve 1924, an Imperial Airways passenger flight crashed onto a hill near Purley killing everyone on board. It was one of Britain's earliest commercial air disasters and resulted in the very first public inquiry into a civil aviation accident. The...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Honest Before Anything Else' A reader doesn’t understand how tastes in books and writers might evolve across a lifetime, how...
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A reader doesn’t understand how tastes in books and writers might evolve across a lifetime, how indifference might replace enthusiasm and love, indifference. He mentions Hart Crane, a poet I’m unlikely ever to reread. I swooned over The Bridge in high school, spurred on by our...
The American Scholar
“Snow” by Louis MacNeice Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Snow” by Louis MacNeice appeared first on The American...
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Maps Mania
Santa's Big Adventure Tracker
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Society's Backend
Google Leads New AI Releases, OpenAI Gives First Glimpse of AGI with o3, AI Policy Will Be... Society's Backend Reading List 12-23-2024
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Citation Needed
Issue 72 – A seat at the table The SEC is still busy even though it may soon be undermined, crypto industry capture of government...
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The SEC is still busy even though it may soon be undermined, crypto industry capture of government continues to worsen, and several media outlets botch their crypto reporting at a time it’s needed most.
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Thank You Soundtrack: Spinnerette - The Walking Dead - (Alt: Postmodern Jukebox - Radioactive)  Thanks so much...
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Soundtrack: Spinnerette - The Walking Dead - (Alt: Postmodern Jukebox - Radioactive)  Thanks so much to everybody that has supported me in the last year. This newsletter started as a way for me to process the complex feelings I have about the technology industry, and still...
HTMHell
The search input: They almost got it right by Steve Frenzel This example is a classic - in a bad way - and can cause quite some confusion for...
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by Steve Frenzel This example is a classic - in a bad way - and can cause quite some confusion for users of assistive technology (AT). But it's also very easy to fix! It's the <input> element missing its dear friend, the <label>... 😭 Bad code <input placeholder="Search" /> It's...
Josh Collinsworth
Things I enjoyed in 2024 Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2024.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Genie Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later they go out for dinner. He stares in the...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later they go out for dinner. He stares in the distance while she happily scrolls through instagram. Today's News:
Birchtree
Starship is a late contender for favorite new things in 2024 I don't have a huge love for Star Fox 64. I mean I played it with friends and I still have the...
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I don't have a huge love for Star Fox 64. I mean I played it with friends and I still have the cartridge all these years later, but it's not as big a part of my childhood as Ocarina of Time was. That said, the Ocarina
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Indiana I-69 Time Zone Crossing If you’re driving along Indiana’s portion of Interstate 69, say from Evansville to Bloomington, you...
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If you’re driving along Indiana’s portion of Interstate 69, say from Evansville to Bloomington, you are going to cross a Time Zone boundary. It happens between Mile Markers 37.5 and 39.0, about forty minutes north of Evansville at normal highway speeds. But please note that the...
Arduino Blog
This autonomous go-kart only needs a camera to navigate a workshop circuit Autonomous vehicles, and self-driving cars in particular, are probably one of the most enticing...
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Autonomous vehicles, and self-driving cars in particular, are probably one of the most enticing technologies of the 21st century. But despite a great deal of R&D and even more speculation, we have yet to see a self-driving car that can actually operate on real public roads...
TheCollector
Marathon: 7 Sites & Museums to Visit undefined
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Tech and Tea
On gentle personal growth in 2024 Reflections on things I’m learning and continue to learn this year.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Making o(m)g:image, Part IV: URLs This is part four of my series of posts describing how I made my quiz game o(m)g:image. Project...
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This is part four of my series of posts describing how I made my quiz game o(m)g:image. Project Announcement Pt. I: Design Iterations Pt. II: As Little JS As Possible Pt. III: The HTML Pt. IV: URLs The design of the game is simple: Each page has one question with four possible...
Classical Wisdom
Andromeda: The Beauty of the Mediterranean Take a Santa Pause
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Flashbak
The Prostitutes’ Gaze: The Integrity of Mid-Century Sex Workers (NSFW) “I take photos to amuse myself” – Georges Thiry     Georges Thiry (1906 – 19940 took many pictures...
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“I take photos to amuse myself” – Georges Thiry     Georges Thiry (1906 – 19940 took many pictures in his native Belgium. From 1935 to 1975, he produced 40,000 negatives, almost as many contact sheets and a number of prints. His focus was on artist, chiefly Surrealists – René...
Calculated Risk
LA Ports: Traffic Increased Sharply Year-over-year in November Container traffic gives us an idea about the volume of goods being exported and imported - and...
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Container traffic gives us an idea about the volume of goods being exported and imported - and usually some hints about the trade report since LA area ports handle about 40% of the nation's container port traffic. Los Angeles and Long Beach in TEUs (TEUs: 20-foot equivalent units...
AFAR Media - Travel...
7 Chilean Food Festivals to Plan Your Trip Around
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Explore Patagonia's Untamed Beauty in Chile's Magallanes
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Road Trip in Chile's Lake District with Hikes & Hot Springs
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The Diff
Economic Lessons from the Last Few Singularities Plus! Conflicts and Confluence; Bonds; Empire Building; China; The Capital and Talent Cycle
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CrimethInc.
Sacrificial Violence and Retribution In the following analysis, we explore the responses to two different extrajudicial killings as a way...
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In the following analysis, we explore the responses to two different extrajudicial killings as a way to understand the different forms of violence that are coming to the fore in our society right now. In the appendix, we offer an incomplete roundup of various responses to the...
XO Capital - Field...
Everything I've learned about buying small software businesses over the past 4 years 💡 We started out buying 1 business for $25k in 2020. Our deals are now around $1M - $2M purchase...
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💡 We started out buying 1 business for $25k in 2020. Our deals are now around $1M - $2M purchase price. So my notes below relate to a mostly linear path from $25k to ~$2M. XO has been a tough ride. We had some wins, some losses and overall haven&
Herbert Lui
Deliberate play When I was a child, my parents enlisted me in piano class for the better half of a decade. Those...
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When I was a child, my parents enlisted me in piano class for the better half of a decade. Those were long years. Every day, I was tasked with practicing two or three songs six times. During exam season, I would need to practice my exam songs ten times perfectly—which meant that...
Ian Betteridge
Weeknote, Monday 23rd December A week off work, yay! Obviously that has not stopped me checking and replying to a few emails. My...
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A week off work, yay! Obviously that has not stopped me checking and replying to a few emails. My team were also attempting to get me to help them cheat at the work Christmas quiz using WhatsApp. Shamefully, they didn’t even win. I had my first face to face physio session about...
davidyat.es
Advent of Code 2024: Days 6–10
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Common Edge
Why Is NYC’s Mandatory Composting Program So Invisible? The city is rolling out an ambitious effort to divert organic waste from landfills. Is it set up for...
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NeuroLogica Blog
The Jersey Drones Are Likely Drones The latest flap over drone sightings in New Jersey and other states in the North East appears to be...
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The latest flap over drone sightings in New Jersey and other states in the North East appears to be – essentially nothing. Or rather, it’s a classic example of a mass panic. There are reports of “unusual” drone activity, which prompts people to look for drones, which results in...
UX Collective
Our top UX stories this year Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
a week ago
Quantum Frontiers
Finding Ed Jaynes’s ghost You might have heard of the conundrum “What do you give the man who has everything?” I discovered a...
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You might have heard of the conundrum “What do you give the man who has everything?” I discovered a variation on it last October: how do you celebrate the man who studied (nearly) everything? Physicist Edwin Thompson Jaynes impacted disciplines from quantum information theory to...
Mazdak
Can Quantum Break Crypto? Trump to Rescue TikTok? Tech in Defence ... Google’s Quantum Breakthrough: Should Crypto Be Worried?
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Ryan Mulligan
Scrolling Rails and Button Controls Once again, here I am, hackin' away on horizontal scroll ideas. This iteration starts with a custom...
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Once again, here I am, hackin' away on horizontal scroll ideas. This iteration starts with a custom HTML tag. All the necessities for scroll overflow, scroll snapping, and row layout are handled with CSS. Then, as a little progressive enhancement treat, button elements are...
Ink & Switch
Reflecting on 2024, Droste's Lair, Version control for game dev A year-end note from our director; a recap of a recent unconf; Droste's Lair; a sneak preview of...
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Uncapped notes dont work for first rounds. Uncapped safe notes misalign incentives in first rounds… let me explain why
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A Beautiful Site
Revisiting FOUCE It's been awhile since I wrote about FOUCE and I've since come up with an improved solution that I...
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It's been awhile since I wrote about FOUCE and I've since come up with an improved solution that I think is worth a post. This approach is similar to hiding the page content and then fading it in, but I've noticed it's far less distracting without the fade. It also adds a two...
Benny Kuriakose
Hiring Experienced Office Manager at Benny Kuriakose and Associates We are looking for a highly capable Office Manager for ourChennai office. This person will provide...
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We are looking for a highly capable Office Manager for ourChennai office. This person will provide office services with proactivity,...
Anarchy Unfolds
Age of Empires but make it Solarpunk My favorite strategy game re-imagined
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Benny Kuriakose
Hiring Experienced Engineers and Architects at Benny Kuriakose and Associates Benny Kuriakose and Associates is now inviting applications, which offer an opportunity for...
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Ian Betteridge
When dealing with Musk, Labour needs to understand the world has changed There are plenty of objections to preventing Elon Musk from donating to Reform. The first is it’s...
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There are plenty of objections to preventing Elon Musk from donating to Reform. The first is it’s politically motivated. A party shouldn’t (the theory goes) use its power in government specifically to target another party. Of course, Labour could do this in a way which prevented...
Cheese and Biscuits
Tuétano Taqueria, San Diego On the shortest day of the year, in the middle of the gloomiest and wettest of England's gloom and...
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On the shortest day of the year, in the middle of the gloomiest and wettest of England's gloom and wet, I thought it might be fun to review a taco shop in southern California, because it's days like this you need to remind yourself that there are places in the world where the sun...
escape the algorithm
ETA's Best links of 2024 Relinking some Links links
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A Smart Bear
When you have nothing: How to find potential customers to interview How do you find potential customers to interview before you have a product, a website, or even a...
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Wuthering...
The Story of the Stone, volume 4 - It was an eerie, desolate night. At the two-thirds mark, after 80 chapters of the 120, three big changes hit The Story of the Stone...
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At the two-thirds mark, after 80 chapters of the 120, three big changes hit The Story of the Stone (c. 1760 / 1791).  First, David Hawkes, the original translator of the Penguin edition, dies; John Minford finishes the job.  Second, the author of the novel, Cao Xueqin, dies,...
ben-mini
Making My SQL Skills Obsolete Quick Update: I updated my domain to ben-mini.com! All old URLs and the RSS feed under...
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Quick Update: I updated my domain to ben-mini.com! All old URLs and the RSS feed under ben-mini.github.io will automatically redirect, so no changes are needed on your end. By far, the most useful LLM app I’ve made is the Kibu Schema God: I try not to make my posts too...
The Diff
Longreads + Open Thread Inflation, AI, Linkrot, Data, Research, Pod Shops, Life Advice, Nvidia
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Contemporist...
Before + After - A Mid-Century Modern Kitchen Renovation Blaine Architects together with Marshall Interiors, have completed the renovation of a mid-century...
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Blaine Architects together with Marshall Interiors, have completed the renovation of a mid-century modern home in San Mateo, California, for a young couple who wanted to update the kitchen, living room, dining room, and family room.
Archinect - Features
The Brutalist Is a Cinematic Reflection of Brutalism Brutalist architecture is raw, powerful, emotional, and unapologetically honest. It rejects...
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Brutalist architecture is raw, powerful, emotional, and unapologetically honest. It rejects ornamentation and architectural devices designed to make its inhabitants feel comfortable, instead creating a visceral, primal experience. Brutalism is a feeling—a bold statement that...
Christopher Butler
Organization – Office – 2024 After the kitchen, the office is still the most used room in our home. This is how we have optimized...
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After the kitchen, the office is still the most used room in our home. This is how we have optimized it this year. About a year and a half ago, I wrote a long entry to this blog about how we keep this office space organized. While much of it is still as it was then, it is...
Chris Grossack's...
$\mathsf{B}\text{Diff}(\Sigma)$ Classifies $\Sigma$-bundles I’ve been trying to learn all about topological (quantum) field theories, the cobordism hypothesis,...
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I’ve been trying to learn all about topological (quantum) field theories, the cobordism hypothesis, and how to use $(\infty,n)$-categories. This is all in service of some stuff I’m doing with skein algebras (which are part of a “$3+1$ TQFT” often named after Crane–Yetter, but...