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The History of the...
Three attempts at making payments secure In the early 1990s, three companies pioneered online transactions, facing challenges of security and...
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In the early 1990s, three companies pioneered online transactions, facing challenges of security and user accessibility. They are hardly known today. The post Three attempts at making payments secure appeared first on The History of the Web.
Confessions of a...
Understanding Registers and Data Movement in x86-64 Assembly A hands-on guide to general-purpose registers and data movement in x86-64
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Trying to Understand...
A Little Intelligence ... ... about Intelligence.
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tonsky.me
Gaslight-driven development Any person who has used a computer in the past ten years knows that doing meaningless tasks is just...
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Any person who has used a computer in the past ten years knows that doing meaningless tasks is just part of the experience. Millions of people create accounts, confirm emails, dismiss notifications, solve captchas, reject cookies, and accept terms and conditions—not because they...
Strange Loop Canon
The Slow Apocalypse: When will we run out of kids? More than you wanted to know about the fertility crisis
8 hours ago
Escaping Flatland
I went looking for friends, see what I found Of all the ways this blog have changed my life, the most exciting was in December 2021 when I wrote...
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Of all the ways this blog have changed my life, the most exciting was in December 2021 when I wrote a post about Ivan Illich that ended up, to my utter astonishment, to get read by almost a hundred people.
Build In Public...
We preach 'focus' while context-switching between 6 AI tools The desktop app that turns AI chaos into productivity superpowers. No more context switching. No...
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AI Snake Oil
Could AI slow science? Confronting the production-progress paradox
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Mazdak
Google’s New AI Summaries in Discover: The Next Blow to Publishers? If you work in media or publishing, brace yourself — another platform update from Google is quietly...
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If you work in media or publishing, brace yourself — another platform update from Google is quietly shifting the ground beneath us.
Tech and Tea
9 Things from My Summer (So Far) Mama summer camp, Monopoly, a summer roadtrip, long bike rides, and more!
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Blog - Practical...
The Hidden Engineering of Floating Bridges [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In the early 1900s, Seattle...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In the early 1900s, Seattle was a growing city hemmed in by geography. To the west was Puget Sound, a vital link to the Pacific Ocean. To the east, Lake Washington stood between the city and the farmland and...
Fonts In Use – Blog...
Fonts In Use is not active on Instagram Contributed by Nick Sherman Fonts In Use. License: CC BY-SA. The Fonts In Use staff was never...
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Contributed by Nick Sherman Fonts In Use. License: CC BY-SA. The Fonts In Use staff was never especially enthusiastic about maintaining our account on Instagram. The platform is antithetical to so much of the what we love on the web: hyperlinks, web feeds (e.g., RSS),...
Farza's Newsletter
my homie told me drink electrolytes and now my name is static shock and i have super powers Sup everyone.
yesterday
David Heinemeier...
The 6 Hours of Lex When I drive the 24 Hours of Le Mans, I spend a total of about 6-9 hours in the car, divided into...
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When I drive the 24 Hours of Le Mans, I spend a total of about 6-9 hours in the car, divided into stints of roughly two hours at a time. It's intense. But talking with Lex Fridman in Austin on his podcast? Over six hours straight! We only interrupted the session for five minutes...
James Cheshire
The Library of Lost Maps Really thrilled to announce that The Library of Lost Maps will hit bookshops this autumn! I will...
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Really thrilled to announce that The Library of Lost Maps will hit bookshops this autumn! I will share more details over the summer, but you can pre-order and subscribe for updates here: https://libraryoflostmaps.com/
Common Edge
Confronting the Reality of Climate Displacement Planner Hilary Brown on how underpopulated areas across the U.S. could absorb population...
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Planner Hilary Brown on how underpopulated areas across the U.S. could absorb population resettlements resulting from sea-level rise, flooding, wildfires, and extreme heat.
Commoncog
Announcing Speedrunning the Idea Maze A live course, limited to 30 people. Applications close 21st July.
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Working Theorys
Encore Anxiety Fear of disappointing people you've already impressed is more paralyzing than fear of impressing...
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Fear of disappointing people you've already impressed is more paralyzing than fear of impressing nobody at all.
./techtipsy
How a Hibernate deprecation log message made our Java backend service super slow It was time to upgrade Hibernate on that one Java monolithic1 backend service that my team was...
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It was time to upgrade Hibernate on that one Java monolithic1 backend service that my team was responsible for. We took great precautions with these types of changes due to the scale of the system, splitting changes into as many small parts as possible and releasing them as often...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Windows XP NT Vincit Omnia
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GeoCurrents
Mapping the Return of Wolves in Europe As I was preparing to resume posting on GeoCurrents after a short hiatus, I decided to examine...
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As I was preparing to resume posting on GeoCurrents after a short hiatus, I decided to examine recent posts on the fascinating but unfortunately named Reddit site called “MapPorn.” As always, I was struck by many contributions, but what really caught my eye was a five-map...
Internal Tech Emails
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook's strategy tax Zuckerberg on rebranding Facebook, spinning off Instagram, antitrust regulation, and more.
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Daniel Bourke
A dog called Seven Our crazy neighbours had a dog called Seven. And we had our dog Bella. Bella and Seven would yell at...
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Our crazy neighbours had a dog called Seven. And we had our dog Bella. Bella and Seven would yell at each other and sometimes say something nice like hello how was your day by sniffing each other through the gaps in the fence. One day my younger brothers opened the
journal – Winnie Lim
primal sadness I still feel afflicted by my mind in many ways. I try to focus on the present, and distract myself...
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I still feel afflicted by my mind in many ways. I try to focus on the present, and distract myself by trying to live life in my fullest possible manner, but once...
The Ruffian
Keir Starmer's Reality Avoidance Field It's Almost Like He Didn't Listen To Me
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The Marginalian
Why Bats Shouldn’t Exist: The Limits of Knowledge, the Pitfalls of Prediction, and the Triumph of... Prediction is the sharpest tool the human animal has devised — the chisel with which we sculpted...
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Prediction is the sharpest tool the human animal has devised — the chisel with which we sculpted survival out of chance, the fulcrum by which we lifted civilization out of survival. Among the greatest gifts of the imagination, that crowning curio of consciousness, is our ability...
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...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Anthropic Is Bleeding Out 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, please subscribe and support my independent brain madness. Also, thank you to Kasey Kagawa for helping with the maths on this. Soundtrack:
AFAR Media - Travel...
Why Spring and Fall Are the Best Seasons for a Yosemite Trip
5 days ago
Atoms vs Bits
Is This Anything? 8 no attempts
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Classical Wisdom
Fate and Free Will The Stoic Perspective
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nanoscale views
US science funding - now time to push on the House appropriators Some not-actively-discouraging news out of Washington DC yesterday:  The Senate appropriations...
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Some not-actively-discouraging news out of Washington DC yesterday:  The Senate appropriations committee is doing its markups of the various funding bills (which all technically originated in the House), and it appears that they have pushed to keep the funding for NASA and NSF...
Machine Learning for...
AI Has Fundamentally Changed the Music Industry A case study of Spotify's algorithm, including how it works and the impact it has
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Yale E360
In a First, Solar Was Europe's Biggest Source of Power Last Month For the first time, solar was the largest source of electricity in the EU last month, supplying a...
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For the first time, solar was the largest source of electricity in the EU last month, supplying a record 22 percent of the bloc's power. Read more on E360 →
The Works in...
Stian Westlake on the intangible economy and paying for social science Episode two of The Works in Progress Podcast is out now
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Announcing…our next event this fall!!! And other fun stuff!! | Out-Of-Pocket Calling all the builders
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The American Scholar
Michael Douglas Explains It All Jessa Crispin on what the actor’s roles tell us about the crisis of masculinity The post Michael...
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Jessa Crispin on what the actor’s roles tell us about the crisis of masculinity The post Michael Douglas Explains It All appeared first on The American Scholar.
xkcd.com
Building a Fire
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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...
The Elysian
No, KKR is not “equity washing” Contra Katie Boland on the private equity company’s employee-ownership model.
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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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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Computers Are a Feeling Exploring diagram.website, I came across The Computer is a Feeling by Tim Hwang and Omar Rizwan: ...
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Exploring diagram.website, I came across The Computer is a Feeling by Tim Hwang and Omar Rizwan: the modern internet exerts a tyranny over our imagination. The internet and its commercial power has sculpted the computer-device. It's become the terrain of flat, uniform, common...
The Honest Broker
The Nine Best Movies on the Creative Life I share my favorite films on artistry from the 21st century
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Contemporist...
A Kitchen Island That Feels More Like Modern Furniture In Montreal’s leafy Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood, a 1905 home has been reimagined by...
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In Montreal’s leafy Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood, a 1905 home has been reimagined by RobitailleCurtis for a young doctor couple seeking more space and flow. What began as a pandemic purchase evolved into a sensitive expansion, making way for a growing family and a lifestyle...
Both Are True
remember, dad, who we are? storytime in the land of milk and bee spit
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Wasp Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: With apologies to Gary Larson. Today's News:
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Twelve Mile Circle –...
Ontario, Day 6 (Owen Sound) Our time along the southern tip of Georgian Bay was quickly drawing to an end but we still had one...
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Our time along the southern tip of Georgian Bay was quickly drawing to an end but we still had one more destination along the shoreline towards the northwest. But first I took my final early morning stroll through Collingwood before the family woke up. I retraced some of the more...
Artificial Ignorance
The GPT Era A look back at the timeline from ~GPT-3.5 to today.
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Quanta Magazine
How Can Regional Models Advance Climate Science? Elfatih Eltahir explains why we need more local and social data, like disease spread and population...
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Elfatih Eltahir explains why we need more local and social data, like disease spread and population growth, to better predict and address climate-related challenges. The post How Can Regional Models Advance Climate Science? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Noahpinion
Free-market economics is working surprisingly well Which economic approach works depends a lot on where you start from.
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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.
Flashbak
1960s London Through A Russian Horizont Panoramic Camera We’ve been to East London in the 1960s with Tony Hall before, heading down the pub and to the shops....
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We’ve been to East London in the 1960s with Tony Hall before, heading down the pub and to the shops. Now we get to see the streets in panoramic pictures taken by his Horizont (Горизонт) camera. Made between 1967 and 1973 by Russia’s Krasnogorsky Mekhanichesky Zavod (KMZ), the...
Rest of World -...
Politics and USAID cuts put a telehealth program on life support Despite poor internet and power cuts, Bangladesh’s telehealth service connected rural residents to...
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Maps Mania
How Big is it Really?
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Seth's Blog
Notes to myself
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Blog of Simple...
German court rules Meta’s tracking tech violates GDPR
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History Today Feed
God’s Machines: Descartes and Nature God’s Machines: Descartes and Nature JamesHoare Thu, 07/10/2025 - 09:08
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Open Culture
Stephen King’s Top 10 All-Time Favorite Books Image by The USO, via Flickr Commons So you might think that if Stephen King – the guy who wrote...
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Image by The USO, via Flickr Commons So you might think that if Stephen King – the guy who wrote such horror classics like Carrie and The Stand – were to rattle off his top ten favorite books, it would feature works by the likes of Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft or maybe J. […]
Retail Design Blog
ALEA RESORT POOL SUITE the ALEA RESORT POOL SUITE in bad orb is a striking new example of how architecture and interior...
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the ALEA RESORT POOL SUITE in bad orb is a striking new example of how architecture and interior design from...
TheCollector
The Incredible Life of Cicero, Rome’s Greatest Orator & Last Senator A novus homo, no one expected Marcus Tullius Cicero to reach not only the rank of consul, but be...
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A novus homo, no one expected Marcus Tullius Cicero to reach not only the rank of consul, but be hailed princeps senatus, in the dying years of the Roman Republic. He championed Rome’s republican traditions while strongmen such as Pompey Magnus and Julius Caesar were dismantling...
diamond geezer
c2c Senior Rover Often the best value travel comes from a rover ticket, and this is an absolute bargain. Senior...
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Often the best value travel comes from a rover ticket, and this is an absolute bargain. Senior Rover allows unlimited train travel on the c2c network beyond London, i.e. all the stations on this map, for the measly sum of £7. It can only be used after 9.30am on weekdays, not at...
Anecdotal Evidence
'After the Rain, Perhaps, Something Will Show' Most of us are born with a brain but without a user’s manual. This soggy organ weighs on average...
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Most of us are born with a brain but without a user’s manual. This soggy organ weighs on average about three pounds and contains 86 billion neurons. That’s our birthright, and we did nothing to earn it. We tend to operate our brains passively, ignoring most available perceptions....
Arduino Blog
This Beyblade battlebot is like a whirling dervish of destruction Battlebots are fascinating, because their builders always manage to come up with unique new ways of...
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Battlebots are fascinating, because their builders always manage to come up with unique new ways of destroying opponents while avoiding damage at the same time. Like any good sport, it involves metagaming to develop a strategy based on expected opponent strategies. Ari’s strategy...
Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.07.10 - Moment New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
New Edna feature: multiple notes I started working on Edna several months ago and I’ve implemented lots of functionality. Edna is a...
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I started working on Edna several months ago and I’ve implemented lots of functionality. Edna is a note taking application with super powers. I figured I’ll make a series of posts about all the features I’ve added in last few months. The first is multiple notes. By default we...
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...
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,...
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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BLDGBLOG
Architectural Dressage You’ve likely already seen the large complex of buildings in Shanghai that was picked up as a single...
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You’ve likely already seen the large complex of buildings in Shanghai that was picked up as a single block and walked to an adjacent site by a phalanx of miniature robots. Then walked back into place again. The 432 individual machines used for the move were “actually...
BLDGBLOG
Architectural Dressage You’ve likely already seen the large complex of buildings in Shanghai that was picked up as a single...
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You’ve likely already seen the large complex of buildings in Shanghai that was picked up as a single block and walked to an adjacent site by a phalanx of miniature robots. Then walked back into place again. The 432 individual machines used for the move were “actually...
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...
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...
One Useful Thing
Against "Brain Damage" AI can help, or hurt, our thinking
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