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A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design (2011)

worrydream.com

So, here's a Vision Of The Future that's popular right now. It's a lot of this...
So, here's a Vision Of The Future that's popular right now. It's a lot of this sort of thing. As it happens, designing Future Interfaces For The Future used to be my line of work. I had the opportunity to design with real working prototypes, not green screens and After Effects, so there certainly are some interactio...
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Brightness of the Qianfan Satellites

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Cargo Airships Are Happening

elidourado.com

Last year, I published an article on airships. The article was the fruit of a few...
Last year, I published an article on airships. The article was the fruit of a few years’ exploration of the industry. I spoke to multiple airship manufacturers under NDA. I traded ideas with other cargo airship enthusiasts. And ultimately, along with my friends Ian McKay and Matt Sattler, I hired an engineer to deve...
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Zamba2-7B

zyphra.com

Zamba2-7B achieves SOTA evaluation benchmark performance and superior inference efficiency compared to currently leading 7B models...
Zamba2-7B achieves SOTA evaluation benchmark performance and superior inference efficiency compared to currently leading 7B models such as Mistral-7B, Gemma-7B, and Llama3-8BZamba2-7B is extremely inference-efficient, achieving 25% faster time to first token, a 20% improvement in tokens per second, and a significant...
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Music Thing Modular Workshop System

musicthing.co.uk

Music Thing Modular Workshop System is a complete modular synth. It is slightly smaller than a...
Music Thing Modular Workshop System is a complete modular synth. It is slightly smaller than a hardback book. It comes in a foam-lined hard case. It will be available exclusively as a DIY kit from Thonk, with the first small batch arriving before the end of 2024, costing around £400 (including sales taxes). To find ...
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Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78

arstechnica.com

Their new system allowed personal computer owners with modems to dial up a dedicated machine and...
Their new system allowed personal computer owners with modems to dial up a dedicated machine and leave messages that others would see later. The BBS concept represented a digital version of a push-pin bulletin board that might flank a grocery store entrance, town hall, or college dorm hallway. Christensen and Suess ...
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Tesla Optimus Bots Were Remotely Operated at Cybercab Event

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How to Make a Legit Sound Camera [video]

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RemotePulse – Boost your remote work productivity with effortless tracking

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The Larkin Soap Company

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Defunct soap company Larkin Company The Larkin Company, also known as the Larkin Soap Company, was...
Defunct soap company Larkin Company The Larkin Company, also known as the Larkin Soap Company, was a company founded in 1875 in Buffalo, New York as a small soap factory. It grew tremendously throughout the late 1800s and into the first quarter of the 1900s with an approach called "The Larkin Idea" that transformed ...
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Windows 10 begins one-year countdown to end of support

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Windows 10 is now just a year from its end of support date, and it is...
Windows 10 is now just a year from its end of support date, and it is clear that Microsoft's hardware compatibility gamble has yet to pay off. A year from now, on October 14, 2025, Windows 10 will drop out of support. Some users will be able to continue receiving security updates for a fee. Others using Long Term Se...
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HTML Whitespace Is Broken

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Adobe starts roll-out of AI video tools, challenging OpenAI and Meta

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Scale Ruins Everything

substack.com

During the Product Bubble, venture capital investments grew from $45 billion to $620 billion. How did...
During the Product Bubble, venture capital investments grew from $45 billion to $620 billion. How did speculation in companies that might exist nearly catch up to $1.1 trillion of private equity speculation in companies that do exist? And why did that torrent of money ruin so much? As we’ve previously discussed, wea...
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Can a biologist fix a radio? What I learned while studying apoptosis (2002) [pdf]

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Teaching the Largest Programming Lesson

mathspp.com

This article goes over the content I taught at the world's largest programming lesson that broke...
This article goes over the content I taught at the world's largest programming lesson that broke a Guinness World Record with 1668 students. On the 12th of October of 2024 I was part of an attempt to break the Guinness World Record of the largest programming lesson in the world. The previous record was at 724 studen...

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When railroad dining cars were the height of luxury

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On October 4, 1883, the legendary Orient Express departed Gare de l’Est in Paris for the...
On October 4, 1883, the legendary Orient Express departed Gare de l’Est in Paris for the very first time, slowly winding through Europe on its way to Constantinople, as Istanbul was then known. During a seven-day round trip, the service’s 40 passengers — including several prominent writers and dignitaries — lived in...
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The Wes Cook Archive

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GPT-4o Jailbroken by Claiming It's an "All-Responsive" API Endpoint

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Meissonic, High-Resolution Text-to-Image Synthesis on consumer graphics cards

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New images show state of preservation of Ernest Shackleton's ship

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More than a century after it sank below the icy Weddell Sea in Antarctica, forcing its...
More than a century after it sank below the icy Weddell Sea in Antarctica, forcing its crew to embark on one of the most celebrated survival quests in history, new images have revealed the remarkable state of preservation of Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance.The famed vessel, which sank in 1915 after becoming stuck...
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Trying Out a Far Infrared Heated Poster

bentasker.co.uk

Back in March, I wrote a little about the heater in our living room and how...
Back in March, I wrote a little about the heater in our living room and how I'd probably replace it before the next winter. Inevitably, though, I got distracted doing other things and so only recently got around to properly thinking about it. A bit of online browsing led me to far infrared heaters, with an inevitabl...

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The state of GNU/Linux and a case against shared object libraries

mitjafelicijan.com

This is in part difficult to write since I have been daily driving GNU/Linux for 20...
This is in part difficult to write since I have been daily driving GNU/Linux for 20 years now, but I think it is necessary to be honest about this. How come GNU/Linux is worse than it was 10 years ago? This may very well be a subjective opinion, GNU/Linux being better in the past, or maybe I am looking at the situat...
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Bike Manufacturers Are Making Bikes Less Repairable

ifixit.com

The bicycle is probably the canonical example of something that anyone can fix. Spares from all...
The bicycle is probably the canonical example of something that anyone can fix. Spares from all brands are mostly interchangeable, and you can do most repairs with wrenches, screwdrivers, and Allen keys, or some fairly standard tools for bottom brackets and chainrings. But that’s all changing. Just like cars, tracto...

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