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My epic rail journey to some of the continent’s most creative and edgy cities mimics a cruise – I hop on and off, eat too much and soak up the culture
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Definition Definition Did you know? Example Sentences Word History Entries Near Related Articles Podcast Cite this EntryCitation Share Kids DefinitionKids More from M-W To save this word, you'll need to log in. Log In litany noun lit·a·ny ˈli-tə-nē ˈlit-nē plural litanies Synonyms of litany 1 : a…
game theory The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices October 22, 2025 Recent findings reveal that even simple pricing algorithms can make things more expensive. Read Later Nash Weerasekera for Quanta Magazine Introduction Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer…
Text adventures are weird. They are so weird I don’t know how to write this article, so prepare to read something even more rambly than usual. Normally, when this happens, I decide not to publish the article. But I really want to share my enthusiasm for text adventures, and I needed something to…
들어가며 인류는 주변의 데이터를 눈으로 확인하고 그 형상을 기록하여 응용하고자 하는 기술 방향으로 발전해 왔다. 이러한 이유로 앞서 소개되어온 광학 현미경의 발전이 시작되어 사람의 눈만으로는 보기 힘든 작은 물질 구조들을 탐색할 수 있게 되었다. 광학 현미경의 경우 일반적으로 인간이 볼 수 있는 400 nm ~ 700 nm 사이의 전자기파장을 가진 가시광을 이용하여 물체를 확대하여 관측하는 방향으로 진행되어 왔고, 이를 기반으로 대략적으로 이 파장들의 절반 정도의 분해능인 500 nm까지 확인할 수 있는 기술에 도달하고 있다.…
'불가사리의 소비 대모험'을 기억하시는가. 안경닦이부터 와인 오프너, 돈까스까지 파헤치며 딴지일보의 제작비를 거덜 내던 바로 그 전설의 시리즈. 그랬던 내가. 돌아왔다. '불가사리의 법률 대모험'으로. 서정아트센터 조 단위 사기극의 뒤통수를 후려갈기고(물론 내 돈은 한 푼도 못 받았다), 일본인 미녀 '유키'의 로맨스 스캠을 간파해 냈지만(물론 이 과정에서도 돈이 들었다), 나의 텅 빈 통장은 채워지지 않았다. 엎친 데 덮친 격으로, 영혼까지 끌어모아 투자한 '오피스텔 분양권'이 휴지 조각이 되었고, 이에 어떻게든 빚을 갚아보려고…
This is a new pocket park in central London that was built over a Royal Mail car park as part of a modern housing development. Which sort of makes it a park above a park. The Royal Mail’s sorting office at Mount Pleasant had a very large open-air parking space at the northern end, which was for…
Here are some functions: What they all have in common, structurally, is that they each return one thing. Even though they may take any number of arguments, they must each have one return value. One shall be the number, and the number shall be one. This is true of all functions. (It’s not too…
published at 13.10.2025 21:34 by Jens WellerSave to Instapaper Pocket Recently I've used accumulate to sum up the t-shirt sizes for Meeting C++ 2025, and wondered if there as a ranges version I could use. And there is fold_left in ranges, while functions like accumulate from the header are not yet…
TL;DR: This post presents some improvements to the original Unforgettable Factory Registration by Nir Friedman. Reading that post is not a requirement (I explain everything from scratch), but if you’re already familiar with it, you can skip to the part. (In short, I’m explaining how to remove the…
TL;DR C++20 gives us multiple ways to constrain template functions: SFINAE, concepts with requires, and static_assert. Each has different effects on mangled symbol size and error messages. Named concepts in template parameters or requires clauses produce short symbols. Inline requires expressions…
This is a Fitzrovia alley with a misleading name, as anything called a Mews is usually an old passage behind old houses, lined with former horse stables – and Clipstone Mews is none of that. It was first laid out in the late 1700s as a residential street, later named Upper Charlton Street, and was…
in History, Music | October 20th, 2025 Leave a Comment The names Leo Fender and Les Paul will be forever associated with the explosion of the electric guitar into popular culture. And rightly so. Without engineer Fender and musician and studio wiz Paul’s timeless designs, it’s…
The New York Times recently introduced a new daily puzzle called Pips. You place a set of dominoes on a grid, satisfying various conditions. For instance, in the puzzle below, the pips (dots) in the purple squares must sum to 8, there must be fewer than 5 pips in the red square, and the pips in the…
Culling Road, Canada Water. The stunning stations on the 1990s Jubilee line extension are acknowledged as a high point in London Underground's architectural heritage, but Ian Ritchie's innovative and exciting mid-tunnel ventilation shafts are definitely also worth seeking out for their individuality…
중앙SUNDAY 오피니언 먼나라 이웃나라 역사 프리즘 [먼나라 이웃나라 역사 프리즘] <102> 원조 팜파탈 중앙선데이 입력 업데이트 964호 29면 중앙일보 지면보기 서비스는 로그인 후 이용 가능합니다. 최근 1개월 내 지면만 열람하실 수 있습니다. 중앙일보 지면보기 서비스는 로그인 후 이용 가능합니다. 로그인 하시면 최신호의 전체 내용을 보실 수 있습니다. 로그인 하시겠습니까? 더중앙플러스 회원이 되시면 창간호부터 전체 지면보기와 지면 다운로드가 가능합니다. 더중앙플러스 회원이 되시겠습니까? 글·그림 이원복 앱에서만 제공되는…
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Adventure & Experience | Remote Places | Iceland | Europe The Icelandic town abandoned to the volcanoes (Image credit: Laura Hall) By Laura Hall A 2023 volcanic eruption forced 3,700 residents to flee Grindavík. Now, visitors can join guided tours of the ghost town to witness nature's power first…
muse 1 of 3 verb ˈmyüz mused; musing Synonyms of muse intransitive verb 1 : to become absorbed in thought especially : to think about something carefully and thoroughly musing about what might have been 2 archaic transitive verb : to think or say (something) in a thoughtful way "I could sell the…
Definition Definition Did you know? Example Sentences Word History Phrases Containing Entries Near Podcast Cite this EntryCitation Share Kids DefinitionKids More from M-W To save this word, you'll need to log in. Log In kibosh noun ki·bosh ˈkī-ˌbäsh kī-ˈbäsh ki-ˈbäsh Synonyms of kibosh : something…
in Architecture, History, Technology | October 16th, 2025 Leave a Comment We tend to think of the Roman Empire as having fallen around 476 AD, but had things gone a little differently, it could have come to its end much earlier — before it technically began, in fact. In the year 44 BC,…
The Microsoft Development Center in Belgrade (MDCS) recently marked its 20th anniversary. Two decades of building systems that run at a global scale, from Azure SQL to AI-powered troubleshooting platforms. Dejan Dunjerski is one of those who built the MDCS into what it is today. He’s a Principal…
Encuentra este artículo en español debajo del inglés. Argentina used to be rich: Images from Argentina en Color, via The Culturist. Find his Substack here. Its capital, Buenos Aires, was “the Paris of South America”. For decades, Argentina (which means “the country of silver”) was among the richest…
There are a few reasons, and not all of them are obvious. To start with, fitting seatbelts in trains would be an expensive endeavor, and train accidents (though sometimes devastating) are a rarity. "Work by the European Commission dating from 2019 suggested that the risk of death for a train…
in Life, Psychology | October 17th, 2025 Leave a Comment The twenty-first century so far may seem light on major technological breakthroughs, at least when compared to the twentieth. An artificial intelligence boom (perhaps a bubble, perhaps not) has been taking place over the…
Sapling is a scalable, user-friendly, and open-source source control system that powers Meta’s monorepo. As discussed at the GitMerge 2024 conference session on branching, designing and implementing branching workflows for large monorepos is a challenging problem with multiple tradeoffs between…
If you wander down the side streets of Mayfair, you might stumble upon the fashion photographer, Terence Donovan, photographing the model Twiggy near his studio. Or at least, a public set of three sculptures shows a shopper doing just that in the 1960s. They were created by the sculptor Neal French…
From a user's perspective an uncaught panic in a Rust program is a crash. A panic will terminate the thread and unless the developers have taken some care, that leads to the program terminating. This is not an exploitable crash and Rust usually ensures that destructors are called, but the program…
Recursive type state in Rust 2025-10-10 Tech Rust TL;DR; It’s possible to implement a binary tree using Rust’s trait solver. I didn’t set out to implement a binary tree. It started with a requirement to store one or more implementors of a trait in a struct. Dynamic dispatch seemed like the obvious…
Oct 10, 2025 - 8 min read What is an effect system? According to Wikipedia, it is a formal system that describes the computational effects of computer programs, such as side effects. It is also an extension of a type system, and allows you to statically verify that your program is sound with regard…
Definition Definition Did you know? Example Sentences Word History Entries Near Related Articles Podcast Cite this EntryCitation Share Kids DefinitionKids More from M-W To save this word, you'll need to log in. Log In biannual adjective bi·an·nu·al (ˌ)bī-ˈan-yə(-wə)l 1 : occurring twice a year…
In 1972, pieces of a top secret GAMBIT reconnaissance satellite similar to the ones being assembled here at Eastman-Kodak in Rochester, fell in England. They were retrieved and taken back to the United States. (credit: NRO) This spacecraft will self-destruct in 5, 4, 3, 2… In July 1959, one of the…
A flow chart describing some steps and decisions done within curl when a HTTP URL is provided. For hostnames, protocol and port numbers. This flow chart ignores proxies, authentication considerations and use of unix domain sockets to keep things simpler. URL An initial step is of course to extract…
coalesce verb co·a·lesce ˌkō-ə-ˈles coalesced; coalescing Synonyms of coalesce intransitive verb 1 : to grow together The edges of the wound coalesced. 2 a : to unite into a whole : fuse separate townships have coalesced into a single, sprawling colony—Donald Gould b : to unite for a common end :…
mathematical physics The Hidden Math of Ocean Waves Crashes Into View October 15, 2025 The math of even the simplest ocean waves is notoriously uncooperative. A team of Italian mathematicians has made major advances toward understanding it. Read Later Kristina Armitage/Quanta Magazine; Somavarapu…
Wheelbuilding Wheelbuilding Translations of this article (earlier version): French German Russian Spanish This article (earlier version) in pdb format for your Palm OS PDA substantially expanded by John "Bespoke" Allen Why build wheels? The wide availability of inexpensive, well-built replacement…
I have long wanted to write about how root cause analysis is a crap technique for learning from failure. In order to do that, we need to know some fundamentals first. These are good to know for anyone designing anything they want to be reliable. A hazard is an accident waiting to happen In…
This unassuming little park in Battersea was once the scene of fierce legal battles — and even a riot — all sparked by a dog. It sits on what was once a much larger area of common land, which by the 1830s had been enclosed by housing around it and was being used as public allotments. However, the…
1976년, 디피Whitfield Diffie; 1944~와 헬만Martin Hellman; 1945~은 제목부터 심상치 않은 논문 [1] 으로 세상을 놀라게 했다. 마치 선언문처럼 “우리는 지금 암호학 변혁의 문턱 위에 서 있다.1”라는 문장으로 시작하는 이 논문에서 둘은 공개키 암호Public Key Cryptography라는 혁신적인 패러다임을 제시하고, 디피–헬만 키교환 프로토콜을 통해 이를 부분적으로 구현했다. 이 개념들은 오늘날 인터넷 보안의 핵심을 이루고 있으며, 온라인에서 한 번이라도 안전하고 편리하게 결제를…
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