BlogFlockI was recently listening to an episode of The Idea Roastery about personal life gamechangers and toward the end of the episode, Herman asked Jason:
What is the best purchase you've ever made for less than £100?
For Jason is was an egg poacher, and for Herman it was a…
ghoulish
My mate Dr Lucy Rogers has written a book! This is a charming and thought provoking exploration of everything that goes on above our heads. This isn't an impersonal and imperious manuscript, it's a deeply personal and joyful book filled with science, anecdotes, and the thrill of discovery.
It's spectacularly…
In 1840, England’s Great Western Railway started running the trains on “railway time” - a single standard, set by Greenwich, instead of the local // solar time each town had kept, independently for centuries.
Before the railway, noon in Bristol happened roughly ten minutes after noon in London, and nobody…
Behind the counter in a coffee shop I visited last week there was a whiteboard which read [1]:
Sunday debate:
Custard creams or chocolate bourbons
There were dozens of tally marks on the board and counts from a social media poll. The results were:
I…
[Palantir]
Palantir CEO Alex Karp wrote a book last year called the Technological Republic, but perhaps because it didn’t have the impact he hoped, the company posted a tweet thread (and LinkedIn post, etc) that summarizes its core points. Which are, to be clear, an argument for…
I still use my obsolete LG 360 Camera. When copying MP4 videos from its SD card, they come out in "Dual Fisheye" format - which looks like this:
VLC and YouTube will only play "Equirectangular" videos in spherical mode. So, how to convert a dual fisheye to equirectangualr?
as someone with an anxiety disorder who gets bad brain fog during very anxious periods, choosing software engineering and then writing as careers was certainly a series of decisions
When will they learn? The party remains far too solicitous of an industry that’s rewarded their fealty with four years of Trump and untold damage to democracy.
A brotherhood of owls praying to the debugger God.<p><a href="https://twitter.com/AdeptsOf0xCC" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@AdeptsOf0xCC</a></p>
A fleshed out story, one you just might want to read.
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