Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon . *** T his week in 1976 saw disaster hit the Friuli area of Italy when an earthquake struck,…

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from Dean Baker Productivity growth is an old concept; we’ve been seeing it at a substantial pace for more than 200 years. Nonetheless, many elite intellectual types like to claim they know nothing…

Can your interior project benefit from using Figma and a touch of AI? Of course it can!

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"You're either going to win and be the world's top power, or lose and get a lesson in strategy from your mother-in-law." Source

I hope we all now understand that forging strategic policy partnerships with fascists is like trying to develop an intimate relationship with a running chainsaw.

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An EBM finally crossed 800M parameters without collapsing. Nobody has independently reproduced the 35% scaling claim. Both halves matter.

Neither the success of your marriage nor the memories of your guests will depend on the price of a party.

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And the American consumer is struggling! The post I thought Elon hated Anthropic appeared first on Cautious Optimism.

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Just random thoughts.

My dotfiles for my MacOS rice and Emacs configuration live in two public repositories. Both repos are shared as a reference; clone, fork, or just lift the bits that look useful to you!

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Home Assistant automation triggers are becoming easier to use. Here is what purpose-specific triggers and duration support mean in a real smart home.

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«My glorious prose, filtered through the minds of the insane? [a sudden, consoling thought] Who knows? They might improve it.» The Marquis, using the inmates [...]

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The codebase doesn’t care how it got written, but you will. Robby Russell wrote a piece that I keep thinking about. His argument: the pros dismissed Access and FileMaker, but founders built…

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Charlie Haden: Photos, Pt. 7Charlie Haden: Photos, Pt. 7. Photography of Cheung Ching-Ming.

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A study in the International Journal of Business Innovation and Research has looked at women’s employment in Saudi Arabia. It suggests that workplace empowerment is closely linked to an employee’s…

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