<strong>The long read: </strong>She is venerated around the world. She has outlasted 12 US presidents. She stands for stability and order. But her kingdom is in turmoil, and her subjects are in denial that her reign will ever end. That’s why the palace has a plan.<br>

'London Bridge is down': the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death | Queen Elizabeth II | The Guardian

Losing this badly will help wake up millions of Russians to some level of reality, and they will blame Putin. It is doubtful that the Russian military will keep fighting under these conditions for …

Russian Army Collapses—and Revolution—Near-Certain as Russia Loses War: When/Where Harder to Predict – Real Context News (RCN)

Dynamics over time are the key to analyzing just about anything, and they clearly favor Ukraine in Russia’s failing war of conquest (Russian/Русский перевод) By Brian E. Frydenborg (Twitter @bfry19…

Russia’s Defeat in Ukraine May Take Some Time, But It’s Coming and Sooner Than You Think – Real Context News (RCN)

On thinking the unthinkable (with postscript)

Going Nuclear - by Lawrence Freedman - Comment is Freed

Long cut off from the continent’s grid, Portugal and Spain built a system based on imports and alternatives like solar that is the envy of fellow European Union nations.

Portugal Could Hold an Answer for a Europe Captive to Russian Gas - The New York Times

Banco de Portugal aponta a redução dos preços no mercado imobiliário residencial como um dos riscos para a estabilidade financeira. Redução do peso da dívida pública também está mais ameaçada.

Banco de Portugal alerta para risco de queda dos preços da habitação – ECO

A timeline recording only some of the many disasters happening in crypto, decentralized finance, NFTs, and other blockchain-based projects.

Web3 is going just great

Can we really harness our brain chemicals to give ourselves a blast of positivity? Researchers share their shortcuts to boosting oxytocin, serotonin and more

Watch Strictly, eat sauerkraut, win at Monopoly: expert tips for hacking your happy hormones | Health & wellbeing | The Guardian

Absolute idleness is both harder and more rewarding than it seems.

How to Embrace Doing Nothing - The Atlantic

The difference between useEffect and useLayoutEffect - explained with a real-life example.

React Hooks - When to Use useLayoutEffect Instead of useEffect | JavaScript in Plain English

What's the deal with these two hooks?! Lots of devs find them confusing, for a whole host of reasons. In this tutorial, we'll dig deep and understand what they do, why they're useful, and how to get the most out of them.

Understanding useMemo and useCallback

I once had a discussion with a founder of an Israeli startup developing a GPU-based database with a focus on speed. The work stack included Haskell and C++, among others, and the founder was...

Is Haskell really the language of geniuses and academia? / Habr

George Leslie orchestrated an estimated 80% of all bank robberies in the US in the late 1800s, all while living a strange double life.

The architect who became the king of bank robberies

Scottish train operator ScotRail released a two-hour long MP3 file containing all of the components of its automated station announcements. Messing around with them is proving to be a huge …

Analyzing ScotRail audio announcements with Datasette—from prototype to production

The recently launched marvel of engineering, modern science, and international cooperation has been taking beautiful pictures of our universe with the help of JavaScript.

JavaScript had a hand in delivering James Webb Space Telescope’s images - The Verge

Pluralistic: 15 Aug 2022 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

You may not need 40 hours per week to build a successful career and balanced life

The future of work isn't just remote, it's part-time

GPT-3 says the title for this post is very bad.

How to Create a Blog Post Title Optimizer with GPT-3 and Hacker News Data | Max Woolf's Blog

The Car Last summer I bought a 2021 Hyundai Ioniq SEL. It is a nice fuel-efficient hybrid with a decent amount of features like wireless Android Auto/Apple CarPlay, wireless phone charging, heated seats, &amp; a sunroof.
One thing I particularly liked about this vehicle was the In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) system. As I mentioned before it had wireless Android Auto which seemed to be uncommon in this price range, and it had pretty nice, smooth animations in its menus which told me the CPU/GPU in it wasn&rsquo;t completely underpowered, or at least the software it was running wasn&rsquo;t super bloated.

How I Hacked my Car :: Programming With Style


    
      iOS Privacy: Instagram and Facebook can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser · Felix Krause
    
  

Why is recruiting developers so difficult?

Regulators are close to stopping Meta from sending EU data to the US, bringing a years-long privacy battle to a head.

Will Europe Force a Facebook Blackout? | WIRED

When The New York Times paywall launched , its meter count was the same for all users. Since then, The Times has transformed into a data-driven digital company, and its paywall is now successfully using a causal machine learning model called the Dynamic Meter to set personalized meter limits, making for a smarter paywall.

How The New York Times Uses Machine Learning To Make Its Paywall Smarter | by Rohit Supekar | NYT Open | NYT Open

Let’s move on to another question that I get asked frequently. Q: How do I progress to the next level in my career? This is a broad question, and every single person is different. However, this question is interesting because it can be used to begin some valuable self-inquiry. What we’ll do is: Explore what […]

How do I progress to the next level in my career? - The Engineering Manager

I think there's a lot of cool smart home stuff that could be realised, if a home could know exactly who is in what room at any time.

A Truly Smart Home Should Know Who Is In What Room — Benjamin Mayo


persistent.info: Infinite Mac on a (Virtual) LAN


Apple Passkeys are coming this fall to replace the password for good. Here's how they work and why they're better.

Exclusive: Apple just showed us how it will kill the password forever | Tom's Guide

The James Webb Space Telescope just dropped an amazing new image of the black hole-centered "Cartwheel Galaxy" in greater detail than ever seen before. 

Incredible New James Webb Image Shows "Cartwheel Galaxy" In Glorious Detail

The Council approves new rules for a fair and competitive digital sector through the Digital Markets Act.

DMA: Council gives final approval to new rules for fair competition online - Consilium

Ditch your guidebooks and venture to these lesser-known gems—there are so many underrated European cities you won't want to miss on your visit.

The 22 Most Underrated European Cities Worth Visiting, From Italy to Croatia | Condé Nast Traveler

A top Russia advisor to three U.S. presidents explains why the world shouldn’t fall for Moscow’s narrative that it can wait out the West in…

Fiona Hill: Putin's Running Out of Time in Ukraine War

Roadtrip de 10 dias pela zona dos fjords na Noruega: planeamento, roteiro dos dez dias e melhores trilhos de cada local.

Roadtrip de 10 dias na Noruega - Roteiro 📍 - Dama de Ouros

The 'Uber Files' leak reveals the power of the company’s multimillion-pound lobbying effort – and how it worked with governments across the world to undercut workers’ rights.

The Uber Leak Exposes the Global War on Workers

At WWDC 2022, I was very excited to see Apple announce a new feature for macOS and iPad called Stage Manager. It's a radical new way to manage windows.

Rising from the ashes: Stage Manager - Tech Reflect

Günstigere Fahrkarten sollen die Menschen in Busse und Bahnen locken und damit auch den Autoverkehr verringern. Das funktioniert offenbar.

Weniger Stau durch 9-Euro-Ticket - Analyse von Tomtom-Daten - Wirtschaft - SZ.de

Tiny countries are fascinating. They always remind me of fairy tales (“there was a small kingdom where everybody was happy”), even if with some un-Grimm-ly tones (“they happily never paid a dime of taxes ever after”). They also tell us something about the history of Europe and its languages.

Princely Tongues: The Languages of Europe’s Five Smallest Countries

Japan’s longest-serving Prime Minister wanted a more assertive place for his country on the international stage—at the expense of atonement and historical accountability.

How Shinzo Abe Sought to Rewrite Japanese History | The New Yorker

In this post I argue that integration-vs-unit is a confused, and harmful, distinction.I provide a more useful two-dimensional mental model instead.The model ...

Unit and Integration Tests

How We Built Infrastructure to Run User Forecasts at Spotify - Spotify Engineering : Spotify Engineering

  How did NASA communicate with the Apollo astronauts, hundreds of thousands of miles from Earth? The premodulation processor 1  (below) was...

Reverse-engineering the Apollo spacecraft's FM radio

Things You Should Know About Indexes and Transactions. This post covers internal workings of indexes and transactions of RDBMSs.

Things You Should Know About Databases

Dunning–Kruger Effect explains why the least competent at a task often incorrectly rate themselves as high-performers because they do not know otherwise.

Dunning–Kruger Effect - The Decision Lab

A collection of my thoughts on maintaining a component library as part of an existing design system used by a large number of frontend applications.

Notes on maintaining an internal React component library | Gabe's blog


Researchers have just discovered a previously unknown process that makes sense of the 'secret decisions' plants make when releasing carbon back into the atmosphere.

Plants Appear to Be Breaking Biochemistry Rules by Making 'Secret Decisions'

Writing CSS has probably never been more fun and exciting than it is today. In this post we’ll take a look at common problems and use cases we all have to face in our work and how to solve them with modern CSS. If you’re interested, we’ve also just recently covered [CSS auditing tools](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/03/css-auditing-tools/), [CSS generators](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/03/css-generators/), [front-end boilerplates](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/06/useful-frontend-boilerplates-starter-kits/) and [VS code extensions](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/05/useful-vs-code-extensions-web-developers/) — you might find them useful, too.

Smart CSS Solutions For Common UI Challenges — Smashing Magazine

A couple of weeks ago I was casually chatting with a friend, masks on, social distance, the usual stuff. He was telling me how he was trying to, and I quote, detox from the broker app he was using. I…

How To Create A Fully Automated AI Based Trading System With Python | by Rubén Romero | Towards Data Science

Apple’s executives had a critical design decision to make about the company’s riskiest product in years. It was 2019, and a growing team of Apple engineers had been working for more than three years on a headset that combined augmented and virtual reality capabilities. Now they had to figure out ...

Behind the Apple Design Decisions That Bogged Down Its Mixed-Reality Headset — The Information

Leslie Lamport revolutionized how computers talk to each other. Now he’s working on how engineers talk to their machines.

Quanta Magazine

Everything you need to know about web applications in modern web development. You will learn about traditional websites, full-stack web applications, client-side and server-side rendering/routing, single-page applications, code splitting, APIs, microservices, static site generation ...

Web Applications 101

Algorithm set for deployment in Japan could identify giant temblors faster and more reliably

Gravity signals could detect earthquakes at the speed of light | Science | AAAS

Normas da “Lei dos Metadados” foram chumbadas pelo Tribunal Constitucional português. Para melhor entendermos o que está em causa, importa perceber o que dizem essas normas e o que são, afinal, metadados.

Metadados, a lei que nem sabias que existia e uma questão de privacidade

Why I left Google: work-life balance / Scott Kennedy

This is a story of how it took me way too long to ship a product, and I ended up paying for a competitor product instead.

The saddest "Just Ship It" story ever

Laffer curve - Wikipedia

The Big Brotherly boss will see you now—and always | Business

Welcome to the era of the hyper-surveilled office | The Economist

Estudo é da Federação Europeia de Transportes e Ambiente e foi divulgado em Portugal pela associação Zero. Nove das 230 empresas analisadas são portuguesas e nenhuma delas surge com uma classificação positiva.

Análise a 230 empresas mostra que 84% ignora sustentabilidade nas viagens de avião | Transportes | PÚBLICO

Yuki Tsunoda told his story in his own words.

I Will Never Forget the Tears From That Day by Yuki Tsunoda | The Players’ Tribune

Governador do Banco de Portugal pede “alguma calma” aos seus colegas do BCE que têm vindo a dar sinais relativamente a uma decisão próxima do BCE de subir taxas de juro.

Centeno defende subida de taxas de juro “só quando for seguro fazê-lo” | Banca | PÚBLICO

Volkswagen's premium brands Audi and Porsche will join Formula One after convincing the German automaking group that the move will bring in more money than it will cost, VW Chief Executive Herbert Diess said on Monday.

Audi, Porsche to join Formula One, VW CEO says | Reuters

Writing is an increasingly important skill for engineering leaders. Indeed, poor writing can hamper career progression, above a certain level. Tactics for more clear, more frequent and more confident writing. I’ve observed that my writing is not up to par with my peers. How can I improve my professional

Becoming a Better Writer as a Software Engineer - The Pragmatic Engineer

The battle for Ukraine is one campaign Putin must lose, completely and unequivocally. The future of the West is at stake.

Ukraine Crisis of 2022: The Final Battle of the Cold War - 19FortyFive

The home furnishings giant enlists a maze-like layout, cheap food, and crafty psychology to get you to fill up your cart.

How Ikea tricks you into buying more stuff


    
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Quem justifica, legitima, favorece, protege o PCP com o seu discurso contorcido sobre a guerra? Os russos. Façam-nos justiça de perceber que nós percebemos.

PCP: ocultar que há um agredido e um agressor | Opinião | PÚBLICO

One of the key questions today is can we use words like fascism with fidelity to the meaning of that word in world history? Open Culture, openculture.com

Umberto Eco Makes a List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism |  Open Culture

Why I changed my mind on Tailwind CSS, and why I now consider it the Goldilocks Styling Solution. Tagged with css, tailwindcss, reflections.

Why Tailwind CSS - DEV Community

In April 2021, Russia's financial intelligence unit met in Moscow with the regional head of Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange. The Russians wanted Binance to agree to hand over client data, including names and addresses, to help them fight crime, according to text messages the company official sent to a business associate.

Special Report: How crypto giant Binance built ties to a Russian FSB-linked agency | Reuters

(Sorry this is late! Dealing with COVID.) I have mild ADHD. I can focus on strenuous mental tasks, but I can’t handle boring or repetitive work. Even...

You can automate more than you think • Buttondown

O plano anunciado pelo Governo chileno pretende salvaguardar os rios Maipo e Mapocho, que fornecem a capital, Santiago. Apresentando um sistema de alerta, a estrat&eacute;gia prev&ecirc; a restri&ccedil;&atilde;o de press&atilde;o e cortes de &aacute;gua.


Em seca há quase 13 anos, o Chile tem um plano inédito para racionar água | Seca | PÚBLICO

Karl Nehammer becomes first western leader to hold face-to-face talks with Russian president since invasion of Ukraine 

Austrian chancellor confronts Putin over Ukraine war crimes | Ukraine | The Guardian

Amid concerns about climate change, Europe is investing heavily in trains. The idea is to make rail more appealing, especially as an alternative to short-haul flights.

Why Europe Is Investing Heavily in Trains - The New York Times

When the fast-food chain first opened in Russia on January 31, 1990, it was hailed as a sign of thawing Cold War relations and crowds of Muscovites flocked to taste their first Big Mac.

The Big Mac In Moscow Turns 30

A terrible plane crash prompts a revealing anti-media backlash | China

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