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T he concert piece, Franz Liszt’s E-flat Concerto, opened with a bracing call and response: a seven-note motif from the strings, answered by a rousing clarion from the horns and woodwinds. Then the sa
Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android . “T IE AN ITALIAN’S hands behind his back,” runs an old joke, “and he’ll be speechless.” The gag rests on a national stereotype:
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Welcome back. Have you thought about subscribing? It's free. seths.blog/subscribe Fabled author Ursula Le Guin had a sign over her desk: Is it true? Is it necessary or at least useful? Is it compassio
You’re a developer, you’ve just written a chunk of code that solves the problem you’ve been given, and you didn’t break any tests. Let’s check that code into the repository and check out the next prob
Hire for Floors, not Ceilings “Floors” and “ceilings” are a metaphor that analysts use when talking about sports performance. (I hear this most often around basketball, but that’s also the sport I fol
Within my particular subfield of theoretical computer science there’s perhaps no individual more celebrated than Edsger Dijkstra. His career spanned half-a-century, beginning with a young Dijkstra for
Why Chatbots Are Not the Future Last night, over wine and seafood, the inevitable happened... Someone mentioned ChatGPT. I had no choice but to start into an unfiltered, no-holds-barred rant about cha
Paris city hall is to impose higher parking fees on owners of SUVs in its battle to reduce pollution in the capital. Details of the charges have not been announced but the size, weight of the vehicle
Resignations happen in a moment, and it’s not when you declare, “I’m resigning.” The moment happened a long time ago when you received a random email from a good friend who asked, “I know you’re reall
Posted by Patrick Tyska and Terry Yiu on June 6, 2023 Most features within Cash App revolve around money. We must display money accurately and understandably so our customers can make informed financi
How Amsterdam Works Coming to KubeCon EU ? Here's tips on Amsterdam from an American expat - me! I moved from Austin to Amsterdam almost five years ago. For those of you coming here for KubeCon, here’
A hollow crater bright with wild flowers marks the spot where the little village school used to stand. Another, the former bakery. Today, on the ridge above Verdun in eastern France, buttercups and cl
Senior Tories are warning their party will be finished should it undergo “a Trumpian style takeover” from the right, amid growing concerns that it risks political meltdown in its “blue wall” heartland
May 11th 2023 The Once Upon a Time World. By Jonathan Miles. Pegasus Books; 464 pages; $29.95. Atlantic Books; £22 I n the summer of 1922 Gerald Murphy, an American artist and collaborator with Sergei
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L ike Elvis , he conked out, bathetically, in a bathroom, only in Logan Roy’s case it was on a private plane, en route to haggle with a Swedish billionaire over the sale of his media conglomerate, Way
Introduction: In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid took the unusual step of hiring a market research firm. Their brief was simple. Understand what Americans
T he leaflets are called Flugblätter in German: “flying sheets of paper”. And on that February morning in 1943, they did just that. The students had been carrying so many in their suitcase—perhaps 1,8
After a little over 5 years, I'm going to be leaving GitLab for my next adventure. It's no surprise to those of you who have been following me that I have absolutely loved my time there. I'm so proud
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A s a teenager, I remember being moved almost to tears by the sound of a family member chewing muesli. A friend eating dumplings once forced me to flee the room. The noises one former housemate makes
What would happen if public transportation were free? What if it were paid for by congestion pricing, digitally implemented? What if public toilets were safe, beautiful, well-appointed and consistentl
Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under
Hilt includes extensions for providing classes from other Jetpack libraries.Hilt currently supports the following Jetpack components: ViewModel Navigation Compose WorkManager You must add the Hilt dep
F or the whole of human history, we have shared our world with birds . We have hunted and domesticated them for food; worshipped them in our religions; placed them at the heart of our myths and legend
O VID WAS exiled by Augustus Caesar to a bleak village on the Black Sea. His satirical guide to seduction, “The Art of Love”, was banished from Roman libraries. In 1121 Peter Abelard, known for his wr
T he county of Yorkshire, in northern England, is not only God’s own, as most residents think. It is also home to a breed of folk who judge themselves tougher, blunter, more hard-working and more bloo
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T he denouement was undramatic. The Cuban missile crisis in 1962 might have begun with public declarations from President John Kennedy and the threat of nuclear annihilation for all, but its conclusio
Feb 23rd 2023 | KYIV A LEX has gained some weight, and started walking. The bloody welts that covered his body when he arrived at Natalia Popova’s shelter in January are gone. He still suffers from ga
T he problem with Wordle isn’t that some people use it to show off to strangers or that it’s especially time-consuming, or even that it’s a bit of a waste of brain, but the minuscule feeling of emptin