Articles by bschne
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Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015) (jsomers.net)

2

What happens when you add a new Teller? (johndcook.com)

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The Plonk It Guide to GeoGuessr (plonkit.net)

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Bayside Canadian Railway (wikipedia.org)

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Tech on the Toilet: Driving Software Excellence, One Bathroom Break at a Time (googleblog.com)

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Uber is turning its app into an AI training ground (theverge.com)

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Mobile Adapter GB (wikipedia.org)

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Hazardous States and Accidents (entropicthoughts.com)

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The Second Law of Thermodynamics (edge.org)

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Asked to do something illegal at work? Here's what these software engineers did (pragmaticengineer.com)

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Is Nitrous Oxide Food? (ft.com)

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Explaining, Blaming, and Being Slightly Sympathetic Toward Enron (2020) (mattlakeman.org)

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The Battle to Protect Time (ft.com)

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When the Blade Breaks (theverge.com)

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Wolf Rock Lighthouse maintenance visit and tour [video] (youtube.com)

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Reading Books vs. Engaging with Them (cold-takes.com)

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Do Things That Don't Scale (2013) (paulgraham.com)

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Comfort Noise (wikipedia.org)

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Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony (bactra.org)

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What you didn't know about ropeways [video] (youtube.com)

2

Dutch Dikes (dutchdikes.net)

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How to Teach Programming Badly (benjaminschneider.ch)

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The Mechanical Transmission of Power: Endless Rope Drives (lowtechmagazine.com)

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Designing for the different stages of a system's life (bellroy.com)

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How to Reason from First Principles (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)

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English Translation of Morris Chang's Autobiography (karinabao.substack.com)

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Book Review: The Laws of Trading (astralcodexten.com)

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Jane Street's Indian Options Trade Was Too Good (bloomberg.com)

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What every programmer should know about how CPUs work [video] (youtube.com)

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Wind Knitting Factory (merelkarhof.nl)

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Flounder Mode – Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work (joincolossus.com)

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Browser.dating – Dating website matching people based on their browser history (browser.dating)

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What programmers should know about how CPUs work [video] (youtube.com)

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I No Longer Recommend RAG for Autonomous Coding Agents (pashpashpash.substack.com)

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Networks of Trust vs. Markets (lesswrong.com)

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How Kim Jong Il Kidnapped a Director, Made a Cult Hit Godzilla Knockoff (2015) (vanityfair.com)

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Accidentally Turing-Complete (tuxen.de)

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SRE's Review of Democracy (250bpm.substack.com)

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A tour of AT&T's Network Operations Center (1979) – AT&T Archives [video] (youtube.com)

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Wind Knitting Factory (merelkarhof.nl)

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Cephalopod Sentience and Cognition (thebrooksinstitute.org)

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Rosalind – a platform for learning bioinformatics through problem solving (rosalind.info)

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SwissMicros – most precise RPN calculators (swissmicros.com)

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Decimal Day (wikipedia.org)

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Obama's Trauma Team (2014) (time.com)

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Urban legend: I think there is a world market for maybe five computers (geekhistory.com)

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Mercator: Extreme (mrgris.com)

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Timelines Wiki (issarice.com)

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Is NYC's Congestion Pricing Working? Fewer Private Cars Are on the Road (bloomberg.com)

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Nycsubway.org Table of Contents (nycsubway.org)

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Everything About Grain Bins [video] (youtube.com)

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O1-pro scores in the range of 80-90/120 on 2024 Putnam problems (twitter.com/academisfit)

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List of Gear Nomenclature (wikipedia.org)

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Strategies for Learning (andymasley.substack.com)

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No one can teach you to have conviction (benkuhn.net)

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The Dirty Little Secret of Credential Inflation (2002) (chronicle.com)

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Elite misinformation is an underrated problem (slowboring.com)

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Oral History of Jim Keller [pdf] (computerhistory.org)

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Four Ways to Scale Up: Smart, Dumb, Forced, and Fumbled (2021) (ssrn.com)

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Oral History of Jim Keller [video] (youtube.com)

2

MIT Sloan School Case Studies (mitsloan.mit.edu)

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Factorio – Visualizing construction material dependencies (wolfram.com)

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Ask HN: What are some good publicly available postmortems to read?

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Street-Fighting Mathematics [pdf] (sept.mit.edu)

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The Deadly Consequences of Rounding Errors (2019) (slate.com)

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The Gitlab Team Handbook (handbook.gitlab.com)

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How to Give Away a Fortune (newyorker.com)

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Unloading a Coal Train: The NS Sandusky Coal Dock in Action [video] (youtube.com)

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The Aussie from the Housing Projects Making Gear for Next-Gen Spielbergs (forbes.com/sites/schifrin)

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Autonomous Mining Trucks, Blasting, and Koalas? [video] (youtube.com)

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Musical Notation for Modular Synthesizers (perfectcircuit.com)

3

The Communal Plot (perthirtysix.com)

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Every map of China is wrong (medium.com/anastasia.bizyayeva)

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Investing Is a Fascinating Business (2016) (fool.com)

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Management of IP numbers by peg-DHCP (ietf.org)

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The Domino Computer (andrewt.net)

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Histomap: Visualizing the 4000 year history of global power (2021) (visualcapitalist.com)

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Hidden cities (2019) (nadia.xyz)

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The Nicest Place on the Internet (thenicestplace.net)

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The Kekulé Problem (nautil.us)

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An Action Plan to increase the safety and security of advanced AI (gladstone.ai)

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How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/kg (2023) (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)

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A Digital Media Primer for Geeks [video] (xiph.org)

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C64 Demo, No C64 (hackaday.com)

1

Digital Nicotine Patches (streams.place)

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Shave and a Haircut (wikipedia.org)

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2024 MIT Integration Bee – Finals [video] (youtube.com)

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Montage fallacy (herbertlui.net)

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Algorithmic Nuggets in Content Delivery (2015) (acm.org)

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Give each of your users their own SQLite database (turso.tech)

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EBV and Multiple Sclerosis: More of the Story (science.org)

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[flagged] Elon Musk is not understood (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)

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Making the Micropipette (asimov.com)

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Why Squared Error? (2014) (benkuhn.net)

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Homemade Sauce Recipes (saucerecipes.info)

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Intransitive Dice (wikipedia.org)

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Special Lecture: F-22 Flight Controls [video] (youtube.com)

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You don't need to work on hard problems (2020) (benkuhn.net)

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Whitworth Three-Plate Method (wadeodesign.com)

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ChatLZMA – text generation from data compression (pepijndevos.nl)