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Dreams of Space -...
My Weekly Reader February 4, 1962 Happy 4th of July! Here is your My Weekly Reader for "Happy 4th of February, 1962."
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Global Inequality...
Pensioners for war Many years ago when I lived in Belgrade, just before the beginning of the “Yugoslav Wars of...
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Many years ago when I lived in Belgrade, just before the beginning of the “Yugoslav Wars of Succession”, I noticed an interesting phenomenon.
Construction Physics
Reading List 07/05/2025 A microscopic electric motor, California’s CEQA rollback, a US shipbuilding startup, Chinese map...
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A microscopic electric motor, California’s CEQA rollback, a US shipbuilding startup, Chinese map obfuscation, and more.
the singularity is...
Are we the baddies? I signed up for Hinge. Holy shit with the boosts. How does someone who works on this wake up every...
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I signed up for Hinge. Holy shit with the boosts. How does someone who works on this wake up every morning and feel okay about themselves? Similarly with the tip screens, Uber algorithm, all the zero sum bullshit using all the tricks of psychology to extract a little bit more...
A Collection of...
Collections: The American Civil-Military Relationship As is traditional here, I am taking advantage of the Fourth of July this week to write something...
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As is traditional here, I am taking advantage of the Fourth of July this week to write something about the United States, this time a brief discussion of the nature of civil-military relations in the United States. Civil-military relations (typically shortened to ‘civ-mil’ or...
Both Are True
the bravest thing you can do this 4th of july if america is so bold, why aren't you?
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AFAR Media - Travel...
9 Can’t-Miss Summer Events in Park City
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Artificial Ignorance
Idle Thoughts On Programming and AI I've been thinking a lot lately about how coding is changing.
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Epic Web Dev
Another tip (tip)
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IEEE Spectrum
This 1945 TV Console Showed Two Programs at Once As I try to write this article, my friend and I have six different screens attached to three types...
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As I try to write this article, my friend and I have six different screens attached to three types of devices. We’re working in the same room but on our own projects—separate yet together, a comfortable companionship. I had never really thought of the proliferation of screens as...
The Works in...
The end of lead How a single taxi ride saved millions of lives
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Wuthering...
What I Read in June 2025 - A life of agony was all for naught. My summer plan was to read, short, easy books, and I almost succeeded.  I read short, difficult...
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My summer plan was to read, short, easy books, and I almost succeeded.  I read short, difficult books in French, and accidentally read several grim, sad, violent books, alongside some playful nonsense.   FICTION The Field of Life and Death (1935), Xiao Hong – For example.  Ninety...
Trying to Understand...
An Apology And A Few Suggestions. More next week.
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Computer Things
Logical Quantifiers in Software I realize that for all I've talked about Logic for Programmers in this newsletter, I never once...
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I realize that for all I've talked about Logic for Programmers in this newsletter, I never once explained basic logical quantifiers. They're both simple and incredibly useful, so let's do that this week! Sets and quantifiers A set is a collection of unordered, unique elements....
Quentin Santos
The missing part of Espressif’s reset circuit In the previous article, we peeked at the reset circuit of ESP-Prog with an oscilloscope, and...
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In the previous article, we peeked at the reset circuit of ESP-Prog with an oscilloscope, and reproduced it with basic components. We observed that it did not behave quite as expected. In this article, we’ll look into the missing pieces. An incomplete circuit For a hint, we’ll...
Patterns in Humanity
The rise of life expectancy Illustrated and explained
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Build In Public...
Vibe Coding Showcase is back. Here are 10 new projects. If a fund accountant can build video platforms, a designer can ship icon libraries, and a marketer...
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If a fund accountant can build video platforms, a designer can ship icon libraries, and a marketer can create language learning apps, what's stopping you?
Tony Finch's blog
clamp / median / range Here are a few tangentially-related ideas vaguely near the theme of comparison operators. comparison...
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Here are a few tangentially-related ideas vaguely near the theme of comparison operators. comparison style clamp style clamp is median clamp in range range style style clash? comparison style Some languages such as BCPL, Icon, Python have chained comparison operators, like if...
Transit Maps
Submission – Official Map: Queensland Rail Network Submitted by Bushland Maps, who says: I have noticed that no one has submitted the Queensland Rail...
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Submitted by Bushland Maps, who says: I have noticed that no one has submitted the Queensland Rail network map, so here it is! Sort of… I have attached the link to the web page rather than the image because the legend isn’t on the map, its actually below it on the webpage… That...
mtlynch.io
goHardDrive Leaked Personal Data for Thousands of Customers I recently returned a product to goHardDrive, a merchant that specializes in selling used hard...
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I recently returned a product to goHardDrive, a merchant that specializes in selling used hard drives. During the return process, I discovered that they were accidentally publishing details about thousands of their customers, including their full names, mailing addresses, email...
elementary Blog
Supporting Disability Is Our Social Responsibility July is Disability Pride Month, an opportunity for us to consider how we’re serving our disabled...
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July is Disability Pride Month, an opportunity for us to consider how we’re serving our disabled community and work on breaking down barriers to access. Last year we had the pleasure of being introduced to Florian—a fully blind cybersecurity enthusiast—and thanks to his feedback...
99% Invisible
Open Borders A border is an idea so powerful that we never even have to see it to believe it. Or believe in it....
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A border is an idea so powerful that we never even have to see it to believe it. Or believe in it. Global borders can be sites of peace and conflict, violence and celebration, opportunity and confinement. And borders as they exist today – which is to say, increasingly militarized...
Diaries of Note
Diaries of Note: 366 Lives, One Day at a Time A diary is a rare thing: an unfiltered space where a person can meet themselves without judgement,...
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A diary is a rare thing: an unfiltered space where a person can meet themselves without judgement, without audience, and (for most, at least) without performance. In an age of constant sharing and curated lives, the diary remains stubbornly private, gloriously unedited. It offers...
Citation Needed
Issue 87 – SO ORDERED Trump’s crypto empire attracts more foreign millions, the FHFA pushes crypto on mortgage lenders,...
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Trump’s crypto empire attracts more foreign millions, the FHFA pushes crypto on mortgage lenders, and Mamdani’s mayoral primary win makes billionaires sweat
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Ontario, Day 3 (Lake and Mountain) Now it was time to get serious about seeing some local sights. We got to Ontario without any issues,...
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Now it was time to get serious about seeing some local sights. We got to Ontario without any issues, we had an entire down day, and next we needed something fun. Everyone in the family has a different version of fun but I had an idea. But before we started all that I still wanted...
High Signal
What is a B2B SaaS? How these software companies make money B2B SaaS is a software business which sells to business customers instead of ordinary consumers....
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B2B SaaS is a software business which sells to business customers instead of ordinary consumers. SaaS is delivered over the internet so users do not have to download any software.
Blog - Practical...
The Hidden Engineering of Liquid Dampers in Skyscrapers [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] There’s a new trend in...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] There’s a new trend in high-rise building design. Maybe you’ve seen this in your city. The best lots are all taken, so developers are stretching the limits to make use of space that isn’t always ideal for...
Arduino Blog
This unique electronic toy helps children learn their shapes It isn’t a secret that many kids find math to be boring and it is easy for them to develop an...
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It isn’t a secret that many kids find math to be boring and it is easy for them to develop an attitude of “when am I ever going to use this?” But math is incredibly useful in the real world, from blue-collar machinists using trigonometry to quantum physicists unveiling the...
Machine Learning for...
ML Jobs, Resources, and Content for Software Engineers #14: How do we combat cognitive decline? An AI reading list curated to make you a better engineer: 7-1-25
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Steve Blank
Why Investors Don’t Care About Your Business Founders with great businesses are often frustrated that they can’t raise money. Here’s why. I’ve...
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Founders with great businesses are often frustrated that they can’t raise money. Here’s why. I’ve been having coffee with lots of frustrated founders (my students and others) bemoaning most VCs won’t even meet with them unless they have AI in their fundraising pitch. And the AI...
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Digital hygiene: Emails Email is your most important online account, so keep it clean.
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Rest of World -...
Chinese students are using AI to beat AI detectors As Chinese universities crack down on AI use, some students report false positives — and a booming...
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As Chinese universities crack down on AI use, some students report false positives — and a booming industry of work-around tools is emerging.
Yale e360
London Inches Closer to Running Transit System Entirely on Renewable Power Under a new agreement, London will source enough solar power to run its light railway and tram...
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Under a new agreement, London will source enough solar power to run its light railway and tram networks entirely on renewable energy. Read more on E360 →
Alice GG
Building a container orchestrator Kubernetes is not exactly the most fun piece of technology around. Learning it isn’t easy, and...
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Kubernetes is not exactly the most fun piece of technology around. Learning it isn’t easy, and learning the surrounding ecosystem is even harder. Even those who have managed to tame it are still afraid of getting paged by an ETCD cluster corruption, a Kubelet certificate...
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From building ships to shipping builds: how to succeed in making a career switch to software... I have worked with a few software developers who made the switch to this industry in the middle of...
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I have worked with a few software developers who made the switch to this industry in the middle of their careers. A major change like that can be scary and raise a lot of fears and doubts, but I can attest that this can work out well with the right personality traits and a...
The Honest Broker
The 30 Most Intriguing Musicians of 2025 Today I’m sharing the third (and final) installment of my guide to the 30 most intriguing musicians...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
An Analysis of Links From The White House’s “Wire” Website A little while back I heard about the White House launching their version of a Drudge Report style...
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A little while back I heard about the White House launching their version of a Drudge Report style website called White House Wire. According to Axios, a White House official said the site’s purpose was to serve as “a place for supporters of the president’s agenda to get the real...
The Elysian
How can we rewild the Earth at scale? From global targets to backyard projects
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Commoncog
Tycoon Succession Most Asian conglomerates are family-controlled businesses. Succession in any family business is a...
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Most Asian conglomerates are family-controlled businesses. Succession in any family business is a tricky thing. We look at a few cases as part of the Asian Conglomerate Series.
Flashbak
Hannah Arendt on Jews, Refugees And Suicide, 1943 “The comity of European peoples went to pieces when, and because, it allowed its weakest member to...
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“The comity of European peoples went to pieces when, and because, it allowed its weakest member to be excluded and persecuted.” – Hannah Arendt, We Refugees, 1943     Hannah Arendt (October 14, 1906–December 4, 1975) was a German Jew who escaped the Holocaust, became an American...
nanoscale views
Science slow down - not a simple question I participated in a program about 15 years ago that looked at science and technology challenges...
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I participated in a program about 15 years ago that looked at science and technology challenges faced by a subset of the US government. I came away thinking that such problems fall into three broad categories. Actual science and engineering challenges, which require...
Christian Selig
A slept on upscaling tool for macOS I uploaded YouTube videos from time to time, and a fun comment I often get is “Whoa, this is in...
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I uploaded YouTube videos from time to time, and a fun comment I often get is “Whoa, this is in 8K!”. Even better, I’ve had comments from the like, seven people with 8K TVs that the video looks awesome on their TV. And you guessed it, I don’t record my videos in 8K! I record them...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Make Fun Of Them Have you ever heard Sam Altman speak? I’m serious, have you ever heard this man say words from his...
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Have you ever heard Sam Altman speak? I’m serious, have you ever heard this man say words from his mouth?  Here is but one of the trenchant insights from Sam Altman in his agonizing 37-minute-long podcast conversation with his brother Jack Altman from last week: “I
Atoms vs Bits
Successful Suck-ers I mean, it's a claim
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Quanta Magazine
Researchers Uncover Hidden Ingredients Behind AI Creativity Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity...
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Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study suggests that it’s an inevitable by-product of their architecture. The post Researchers Uncover Hidden Ingredients Behind AI Creativity first...
Common Edge
Andrés Duany and Others on the Legacy of Léon Krier With tributes from Witold Rybczynski, Gerhard W. Mayer, James Howard Kuntsler, and Jeff Speck.
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NeuroLogica Blog
Animals Adapting to Cities Humans are dramatically changing the environment of the Earth in many ways. Only about 23% of the...
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Humans are dramatically changing the environment of the Earth in many ways. Only about 23% of the land surface (excluding Antarctica) is considered to be “wilderness”, and this is rapidly decreasing. What wilderness is left is also mostly managed conservation areas. Meanwhile,...
The Ruffian
NEW POD: Jasmine Sun On How AI Will Change Writing and Work A (Mostly) Optimistic Take
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Cheese and Biscuits
Studio Gauthier, Fitzrovia Hard as it may be to believe from my supremely easy-going and liberal attitude these days (no...
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Hard as it may be to believe from my supremely easy-going and liberal attitude these days (no laughing at the back), there was a time when I was, well, if not completely anti-vegan then certainly vegan-skeptic. To someone who once considered vegetarianism radically restrictive,...
Retail Design Blog
The Italian Pavilion Expo 2025 Osaka by Mario Cucinella Architects + Yoshiki Matsuda Architects Mario Cucinella, Architect and Founder of MCA, commented: “Designing the Italian Pavilion for Expo...
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markround.com
AmigaGuide Reference Library As I slowly but surely work towards the next release of my setcmd project for the Amiga (see the 68k...
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As I slowly but surely work towards the next release of my setcmd project for the Amiga (see the 68k branch for the gory details and my total noob-like C flailing around), I’ve made heavy use of documentation in the AmigaGuide format. Despite it’s age, it’s a great Amiga-native...
History Today Feed
‘The Big Hop’ by David Rooney review ‘The Big Hop’ by David Rooney review JamesHoare Mon, 06/30/2025 - 08:00
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Maps Mania
A Time Traveller's Guide to the Zoo
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Open Culture
Hear Newly Rediscovered Music by Erik Satie on the 100th Anniversary of His Death https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kuFyuH6tvOjqf-ugVZ1RXulJtFUqnDPz0Video can’t be loaded...
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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kuFyuH6tvOjqf-ugVZ1RXulJtFUqnDPz0Video can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Satie: Discoveries (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kuFyuH6tvOjqf-ugVZ1RXulJtFUqnDPz0) If asked to name our favorite French composer...
The American Scholar
Greg Ito The life cycle of a candle The post Greg Ito appeared first on The American Scholar.
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xkcd.com
Dehumidifier
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The Marginalian
Uncaging the Bird in the Mind: William Henry Hudson and the Gift of the Ruin of Your Best Laid Plans “The mind is its own place, and in it self can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n,” wrote...
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“The mind is its own place, and in it self can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n,” wrote Milton in Paradise Lost. Because the mind (which may in the end be a full-body phenomenon) is the cup that lifts the world to our lips to be tasted — a taste we call reality — it is...
ntietz.com blog -...
That boolean should probably be something else One of the first types we learn about is the boolean. It's pretty natural to use, because boolean...
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One of the first types we learn about is the boolean. It's pretty natural to use, because boolean logic underpins much of modern computing. And yet, it's one of the types we should probably be using a lot less of. In almost every single instance when you use a boolean, it should...
Passing Time
The Asymmetry of Destruction It's easier to destroy than to create
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David Heinemeier...
The parental dead end of consent morality Consent morality is the idea that there are no higher values or virtues than allowing consenting...
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Consent morality is the idea that there are no higher values or virtues than allowing consenting adults to do whatever they please. As long as they're not hurting anyone, it's all good, and whoever might have a problem with that is by definition a bigot.  This was the overriding...
Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.06.29 - Crack Baby New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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Words and Buttons...
Why learn about the golden-section search An interactive demo of bisection search and golden ratio search algorithms. There is also a...
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An interactive demo of bisection search and golden ratio search algorithms. There is also a motivation to learn them both. Spoiler alert! One converges better, and the other has a better computational cost.
Contemporist...
Exploring A House and Barn Where Raw Materials Meet Scenic Views Worrell Yeung has designed a two-part retreat in the wooded hills of Columbia County, New York, for...
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Worrell Yeung has designed a two-part retreat in the wooded hills of Columbia County, New York, for a young family looking to connect with the landscape. Set on an 88-acre ridgeline, the project includes Ridge House and Ridge Barn, two structures that balance clean architecture...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Self Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Weirdly, his authentic self is three teenagers in a...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Weirdly, his authentic self is three teenagers in a trenchcoat. Today's News:
Computer Ads from...
Computer Games mag Interviews Don Bluth (1984) Talks about the famous Dragon's Lair
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Classical Wisdom
Weekly Wisdom Quiz Up to the Stars, and In to Our Souls
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TheCollector
6 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky Before the 19th century, art was centered around naturalistic depictions designed to create a...
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Before the 19th century, art was centered around naturalistic depictions designed to create a realistic window onto the world. Artists were inspired by history, mythology, and the Bible, with Michelangelo, Caravaggio, and Vermeer representing the pinnacle of artistic expression....
Noahpinion
Would you rather have cheap energy, or stupid culture wars? Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is an attack on American energy production.
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Seth's Blog
A billion choices Game theory has a lousy name. When most people think of games, they think of commercial stuff for...
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Game theory has a lousy name. When most people think of games, they think of commercial stuff for kids, like Chutes and Ladders or possibly Monopoly. But a game is simply a system where humans, facing scarcity, make choices. Scarcity leads to choices and to competition. It turns...
journal – Winnie Lim
my strange memory I’ve been on a rabbit hole to learn more about the human memory after watching college kids perform...
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I’ve been on a rabbit hole to learn more about the human memory after watching college kids perform seemingly impossible memory feats on a tv variety show. It has made me reflect...
diamond geezer
Last week in photos Last week in photos (all clickable) Sunday It opened in 2011 with a futuristic flourish and it...
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Last week in photos (all clickable) Sunday It opened in 2011 with a futuristic flourish and it closed in 2022 after an arson attack over Hallowe'en weekend. Two youths were arrested but nobody's ever been charged. 2½ years later everything's still behind barriers, even the...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Ledge Itself Invents the Leap' Good hearts try to talk us out of phobias. After all, people are naïve about the powers of...
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Good hearts try to talk us out of phobias. After all, people are naïve about the powers of rationalism: “Explain it, and it goes away.” As a kid I fell for that, almost literally, when I tried to muscle my way with sheer will power past the Terminal Tower in downtown...
Old Vintage...
Refurb weekend: Gremlin Blasto arcade board totally unreasonable price for a completely untested item, as-was, no returns, with no power supply,...
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totally unreasonable price for a completely untested item, as-was, no returns, with no power supply, no wiring harness and no auxiliary daughterboards. At the end of this article, we'll have it fully playable and wired up to a standard ATX power supply, a composite monitor and...
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Custom search UI in CodeMirror 6 and Svelte 5 CodeMirror 6 has @codemirror/search package which provides UI for searching within a document,...
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CodeMirror 6 has @codemirror/search package which provides UI for searching within a document, triggered via Ctrl + F. In my note-taking application Edna I wanted something slightly different. This article describes how I implemented it. The UI went from: to: CodeMirror is very...
Nothing Human
The Hero as Flexible Bureaucrat against efficiency and accountability
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SatPost by Trung...
Hayao Miyazaki: 9 Creative Lessons Notes on the creative process for the legendary Japanese filmmaker and founder of Studio Ghibli.
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Confessions of a...
Why This Old Python Performance Trick Doesn’t Matter Anymore A deep dive into Python’s name resolution, bytecode, and how CPython 3.11 quietly made a popular...
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SatPost by Trung...
Best of SatPost (First Half of 2025) PLUS: Novo vs. Eli Lilly, Din Tai Fung's $28m Stores, RIP Fred Smith (FedEx), Appel's $40m...
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Tech and Tea
Last chance to join Creating Space! Today is your last chance to join Creating Space, the 6-week journaling course I co-created with...
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Today is your last chance to join Creating Space, the 6-week journaling course I co-created with Buster Benson of 750 Words!
Blog posts of...
You can just do things – Creating a pan-European legal entity, the right way First the good news: Brussels is convinced, something like EU-Inc will come. Now the bad news:...
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First the good news: Brussels is convinced, something like EU-Inc will come. Now the bad news: Politicians will create a solution that won’t be useful for founders and investors – unless we stay actively involved in the details. We need your help!
tomcritchlow.com
Taking Blogging Seriously It’s a warm summer night in NYC and I’m walking through central park with a friend, the fireflies...
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It’s a warm summer night in NYC and I’m walking through central park with a friend, the fireflies blink around us like an external reflection of the neurons firing in our brains as the conversation sparks.
Mazdak
Trillions Flow into AI: The New Infrastructure Arms Race 🌐 Big Tech Bets Trillions on AI Infrastructure
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