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How do you find the positive integer solutions to \frac{x}{y+z}+ \frac{y}{z+x}+\frac{z}{x+y} = 4?Answer by Alon Amit (אלון עמית), PhD in Mathematics; Mathcircler. Quora 4,000 words Rated May 20th - sethherr |
Biking Is TherapyDerek Bolz made a video about what biking does for his mental health. A partial transcript (boldface mine): Life has been rough lately. I don’t want to air my dirty laundry on the internet, so I won’t go into detail. But for a number of rea kottke.org 1,000 words Rated May 20th - sethherr |
By Default, Signal Doesn't RecallSignal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats on Windows. This setting is automatically enabled by default in Signal Desktop on Windows 11. If you’re wondering why we’re on... Signal Messenger 1,000 words Rated May 21st - sethherr |
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Good WritingRated May 24th - sethherr |
After 20 Years, the Globally Optimal Boggle Boarddanvk.org Dan Vanderkam 2,000 words Rated May 26th - sethherr |
Cloudflare CEO: Football Piracy Blocks Will Claim Lives; "I Pray No One Dies" * TorrentFreakCloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says he "Pray no one dies" after revealing that piracy blocking denies access to critical resources in Spain. May 26th TF Publishing Andy Maxwell 1,000 words Rated May 26th - sethherr |
My review of Power Failure: the downfall of America's greatest companyPower Failure by William Cohan chronicles the spectacular collapse of General Electric, once America's most valuable company. From a $600 billion giant to near-bankruptcy, GE's downfall reveals how financialization and imperial CEOs destroyed a 130-year industrial icon. May 26th Gordon Wintrob 1,000 words Rated May 27th - sethherr |
Salsa Cutthroat Build - Brakes - 180mm flat-mount - Hike Bike CakeDuring the Salsa Cutthroat build we discover its unique design for the front brake mount - a flat-mount caliper that is able to take a 180mm rotor. 2020-04-23 HikeBikeCake kaitatari.com 1,000 words Rated May 28th - sethherr |
The Who Cares Eradansinker.com 1,000 words Rated May 28th - sethherr |
Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go ViralA new book, “Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading,” argues that notions get taken up not because of their virtue but because of their catchiness. #Sociology #Technology May 28th The New Yorker Gideon Lewis-Kraus 4,000 words Rated May 29th - sethherr |
Why I Broke Up with New YorkMost people accept the city’s chaos as a toll for an expansive life. It took Lena Dunham several decades to realize that she could go her own way. May 5th The New Yorker Lena Dunham 3,000 words Rated May 31st - sethherr |
Probe lenses and focus stacking: the secrets to incredible photos taken inside instrumentsPhotographer Charles Brooks embarked upon a quest to photograph the inside of musical instruments, creating images that look like monumental buildings. May 23rd DPReview Abby Ferguson 2,000 words Rated May 31st - sethherr |
Figma Slides is a Beautiful DisasterSome highlights and lowlights. Allen Pike 1,000 words Rated Jun 1st - sethherr |
Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted To KnowRated Jun 1st - sethherr |
Opinion | Christo Grozev Is the Man Putin Couldn’t KillPutin had Christo Grozev in his sights. Grozev was way ahead of him. #Assassination #Austria #Crime #New York City #Plane Crash Jun 2nd The New York Times M. Gessen ($) 6,000 words Rated Jun 2nd - sethherr |
My AI Skeptic Friends Are All NutsMy smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding. Fly 3,000 words Rated Jun 2nd - sethherr |
No One Knows How to Deal With 'Student-on-Student' AI CSAMA new report from Stanford finds that schools, parents, police, and our legal system are not prepared to deal with the growing problem of minors using AI to generate CSAM of other minors. May 29th 404 Media Emanuel Maiberg 1,000 words Rated Jun 3rd - sethherr |
Problems in Precious PlasticNews update: Precious Plastic is in problems. You can decide the future of the project. Die or grow preciousplastic.com 2,000 words Rated Jun 4th - sethherr |
Direct File on GitHubPersonal blog of Chris Given, government technologist. These words are always written by a human; I have no one to blame but myself. chrisgiven.com 500 words Rated Jun 4th - sethherr |
Claude’s System Prompt Changes Reveal Anthropic’s PrioritiesReviewing the few changes in the Claude 4.0 system prompts, we get a sense for how system prompts program chatbot applications. Jun 3rd Drew Breunig 1,000 words Rated Jun 5th - sethherr |
Oprah Shamed James Frey. He’s Back Anyway.Twenty years after “A Million Little Pieces” became a national scandal, James Frey is ready for a new audience. #Books #Writer Jun 8th The New York Times Sam Dolnick ($) 3,000 words Rated Jun 8th - sethherr |
The Men Who Fix Manhattan's Symbolic Shabbat BoundariesEvery Thursday and Friday morning, Rabbi Moshe Tauber leaves his home in Rockland County, New York, at about 3:30 a.m. He arrives in Manhattan an hour later... #Border #Law #Religion 2017-10-16 Atlas Obscura Michael Inscoe 2,000 words Rated Jun 9th - sethherr |
Opinion | The Problems Democrats Don’t Like to SeeThe Democratic future isn’t going to look like the Democratic past. #Books #California #Chicago #Housing #Real Estate #Texas #US Politics Jun 8th The New York Times Ezra Klein ($) 3,000 words Rated Jun 11th - sethherr |
Don't Panic, but Douglas Adams Predicted All of ThisHow the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy foresaw AI chatbots, voice assistants, and irritating kitchen appliances decades before anyone else Jun 7th My Blameless Life Kris St.Gabriel 3,000 words Rated Jun 11th - sethherr |
Air-dried vs. Kiln-dried WoodAre they different to saw, chisel and plane? Does it matter? Jun 8th The American Peasant Christopher Schwarz, Kara Gebhart Uhl ($) 6,000 words Rated Jun 12th - sethherr |
Call it Blue TapeDown with anti-government sentiment in blue states // Interstate praise of the federal system Mar 30th Maximum New York Daniel Golliher 2,000 words Rated Jun 17th - sethherr |
Opinion | The Problem With Everything-Bagel LiberalismRated Jun 17th - sethherr |
How I'm Voting for Mayor in NYC's Democratic Primary1. Tilson // 2. Myrie // 3. Adams // 4. Lander* // 5. Cuomo // (X) Not Mamdani Jun 16th Maximum New York Daniel Golliher 5,000 words Rated Jun 17th - sethherr |
New Terms of Service IP clause cannot be terminated or revoked, not even by deleting content · Issue #35086 · mastodon/mastodonSummary Since it first opened, mastodon.social has operated without any sort of explicit IP grant from the users to the service, which is unusual for a social networking service. Today Mastodon announced effective July 1 there will be a ... Jun 17th GitHub mcclure 3,000 words Rated Jun 19th - sethherr |
Guess I’m A Rationalist NowA week ago I attended LessOnline, a rationalist blogging conference featuring many people I've known for years---Scott Alexander, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Zvi Mowshowitz, Sarah Constantin, Carl Feynman---as well as people I've known only online and was delighted to meet in person, like Joe Carlsmith and Jacob Falkovich and Daniel Reeves. The conference was at Lighthaven, a… Jun 10th Shtetl-Optimized 10,000 words Rated Jun 20th - sethherr |
The NO FAKES Act Has Changed – and It’s So Much WorseA bill purporting to target the issue of misinformation and defamation caused by generative AI has mutated into something that could change the internet forever, harming speech and innovation from here on out.The Nurture Originals, Foster Art and Keep Entertainment Safe (NO FAKES) Act aims to... Jun 23rd Electronic Frontier Foundation Katharine Trendacosta and Corynne McSherry 1,000 words Rated Jun 25th - sethherr |
What Problems to Solve - By Richard Feynmangenius.cat-v.org 1,000 words Rated Jun 26th - sethherr |
Lovable makes $75m in 7 months—but is it nailing pricing?The current (and future) monetization strategies of "Shopify for SaaS" Jun 25th The Bill, Please Finn 3,000 words Rated Jun 26th - sethherr |
The effect of noise on sleepUsing Apple Watch Empirical Health 500 words Rated Jun 27th - sethherr |
The Claude Bliss Attractor... Jun 13th astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 25,000 words Rated Jun 29th - sethherr |
Woman in custody after car hits bicyclist on closed OpenStreetsPGH course in North Point BreezePolice took a woman into custody after witnesses said a car drove through a barricade and onto streets that had been closed for OpenStreetsPGH, striking at least one person on a bicycle. Jun 29th WESA Rachel McDevitt, Julia Maruca 1,000 words Rated Jun 29th - sethherr |
Sudden loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back ‘decades’Scientists left scrambling amid hurricane season after irreplaceable program is slotted to be shuttered Jun 28th The Guardian Eric Holthaus 2,000 words Rated Jun 30th - sethherr |
Defense Department will stop providing crucial satellite weather datatext.npr.org 2,000 words Rated Jun 30th - sethherr |
Your Review: Alpha School... Jun 27th astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 60,000 words Rated Jun 30th - sethherr |
The cheapest cars aren't cheap anymoremedia.hubspot.com 1,000 words Rated Jun 30th - sethherr |
Toxic US Landfills: Overheating Trash Sites Pose Health RisksRated Jul 2nd - sethherr |
Cloudflare Introduces Blocking of A.I. Scrapers By DefaultRated Jul 2nd - sethherr |
COROS Confirms Substantial Watch Security Vulnerablity: Says Fixes Are ComingA German IT security firm has published a list of 8 different security bugs found in all COROS watches that give essentially full access to not only the user's watch, but also their COROS account. This includes everything from Jun 30th DC Rainmaker 5,000 words Rated Yesterday 8:40pm - sethherr |
Tools: Code Is All You NeedThe solution to agentic flows was code all along. Yesterday 7:00am Armin Ronacher 2,000 words Rated Yesterday 11:56pm - sethherr |
hydrogen jukeboxes: on the crammed poetics of "creative writing" LLMshydrogen jukeboxes: on the crammed poetics of “creative writing” LLMsThis is a follow-up to my earlier brief rant about the new, unreleased OpenAI model that’s supposed “good at creative writing.” It... Mar 15th nostalgebraist.tumblr.com nostalgebraist 200 words Rated 3:58am - sethherr |