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Lifesaving snippets
Some snippets to make my life easier.
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AI Economics for Dummies – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
4. Benjamin owns a farm. He employs 100 workers plowing his fields. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10 percent productivity gain. Benjamin fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000 percent productivity gain. The…
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Your Name in Landsat
The internet still has some very nice pages and tools. https://science.nasa.gov/mission/landsat/outreach/your-name-in-landsat/
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Ronin / The Forty-Seven
Source: The Forty-Seven
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Spectacular image of Earth
The snap was taken aboard the Orion capsule by its commander, Reid Wiseman, as the crew head towards the Moon. Source: Artemis II crew now halfway to Moon as they take ‘spectacular’ image of Earth
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What is Culture?
As I am often in contact with people from all around the world, sometimes I am asking myself: what makes a “culture” – geography, history, language, politics, belief system? I can in principle agree with the Wikipedia definition (a bit convoluted though)… Culture is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found…
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“Recursion” by Blake Crouch
Recursion by Blake Crouch My rating: 5 of 5 stars Quite original idea on time-travel and paradoxes involved, wrapped in an action filled thriller. View all my reviews
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Technical debt and vibe-coding
When looking at any system as-it-is, my perspective remains: tech debt is the state of a system that captured the understanding of the problem when it was created and doesn’t fully reflect today’s understanding. The (obsolete) understanding applies to both functional and non-functional requirements, so it might be about the business, technical, scaling, or another…
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First online article on technical debt
Ward Cunningham introduced the metaphor underlying the term technical debt in a 1992 experience report, where he described how his company incrementally extended a piece of financial software: Shipping first time code is like going into debt. A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with a rewrite. Objects make…
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Web Design Museum – Discover old websites, apps and software
Web Design Museum exhibits thousands of websites that chronicle forgotten trends in web design from its beginnings in the 1990s to the mid-00s. Source: Web Design Museum – Discover old websites, apps and software
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The Web We’ve (Never) Lost
Posted on July 28, 2024 by Jan Vlnas Based on my talk for PragueJS meetup from February 2024 Source: The Web We’ve (Never) Lost