The map of reality is not reality. Even the best maps are imperfect. That's because they are reductions of what they represent. If a map were to represent the territory with perfect fidelity, it would no longer be a reduction and thus would no longer be useful…

What if you could grow a $1 billion company without the outside investment, the crazy sales and marketing spend, the pressure to grow ever faster?

lots of memes about speedy wikipedia editors — quick thread about what went down on wikipedia in the minutes after her death was announced

Current Western education allegory

A little post on why publishing statistics are so confusing

The #1 website for Artificial Intelligence and Prompt Engineering. Search the world's best AI prompts for models like Stable Diffusion, ChatGPT, Midjourney...

In Argentina, your money is worth double if you skip the airport currency exchange and instead go to one of the many black market exchanges hidden throughout Buenos Aires. These illegal exchanges are called "cuevas" (the word for "cave" in Spanish),......

High difficulty test. Munition is heavily occluded in grass and partially occluded in ground. Tailfins and main tube show scattered dirt. Early afternoon sunlight. Head mounted camera perspective.

Some thoughts on the universe.

"Workers are more productive than ever, but their pay hasn't kept pace while top 1% wages have skyrocketed," says the Economic Policy Institute.

Photographs were more than just pictures. While the inventors never intended more than to capture an image, the medium turned into a social force with far-reaching effects.

THIS is the difference between chasing an abstract aesthetic ideal that ill-designed marketing for a programming language has tricked people into believing, and doing actual engineering.

The goal is correctness and desirable behavior, not just memory safety.

Hollywood portrayals of computing superstars are more rooted in comic-book super-heroics than the realities of software development. Except that in programming, superpowers do exist. Fabrice Bellard has them.Computing in the movies is hard to recognize: Typographical…

Galene is a free and open source self-hosted WebRTC videoconference server

Brickit is an app that scans your pile of bricks, identifies every piece in it, gives you ideas what to build with them with step-by-step instructions and lets you share the things you make with other enthusiasts.

With workers continuing to stay home and housing in short supply, developers in the state’s largest metros are giving new life to old buildings.