High speed doesn’t have to mean non-stop.
Will New Technology Make High-Speed Rail Obsolete?
Do new technologies undermine the case for fast trains?
Our Duty - shepherds in the future
walking the path of acceleration means sticking together
The Direction of Interoperability
Talking in terms of horizontal or vertical interoperability is too constrictive a mental model to understand what interoperability does. Doing better matters, and it's right within reach.
Games Done Quick's Long, Difficult Journey To A Better Gaming Future
Progress isn't linear, and there are no skips or shortcuts
Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge
In an abrupt shift, the company may release future AI models without ironclad safety guarantees
WCAG 3’s road to hell is paved with supplemental requirements · Eric Eggert
First, I want to apologize to the participants of the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AGWG) at W3C, as this blog post will …
Knowing When to Stop: The Art of Making a Loop Converge | Andreessen Horowitz
The systems that matter will not be the ones that can keep going. They all can.
USB hardware
The initial versions of the USB standard specified connectors that were easy to use and that would have high life spans; revisions of the standard added smaller connectors useful for compact portable devices. Higher-speed development of the USB standard gave rise to another family of connectors to permit additional data links. All versions of USB specify cable properties. Version 3.x cables, marketed as SuperSpeed, added a data link; namely, in 2008, USB 3.0 added a full-duplex lane (two twisted pairs of wires for one differential signal of serial data per direction), and in 2014, the USB-C specification added a second full-duplex lane.
Liminality
The word liminal comes from the Latin root limen, which means “threshold.” In anthropology, liminality is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a rite of passage, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the rite is complete. (Wikipedia). What Turner described as betwixt and between.
Don't Accomplish Everything
P50 goals, the shift to exploration, & managing in spite of volatility
The Paradox of Perfection: When ‘Good Enough’ is Actually Better
Exploring the tension between engineering perfectionism and pragmatic delivery. Discover why striving for the perfect solution often prevents us from shipping valuable improvements and how to find the balance.
Toronto's slow streetcars — and the search for silver bullets
City Hall Watcher #393: Damien Moule returns with a look at Toronto's seriously slow streetcars, plus notes on budgets, Bike Share and basketball
What About Rails? | Jared Norman
DHH's opening keynote had shockingly little to say about Rails.
Physics of LM: Part 4.2, Canon Layers at Scale where Synthetic Pretraining Resonates in Reality