What It Means Something described as multifarious has great diversity or variety, or is made up of many and various kinds of things. Multifarious is a formal word and a synonym of diverse. // He participated in multifarious activities throughout college. See the entry > multifarious in Context "Over…

Next Stay 40 42 00:00 00:00 / 04:35 10 Sec Familiar to anyone who pays attention to vintage aesthetics, I’m embarrassed to say it’s taken me 40 years to learn the name of the beloved typographic symbol that been guiding the way for centuries. Alas, that beloved inked symbol in the shape of a…

In the six months since London Centric launched we have often investigated the businesses and individuals who own the capital’s public spaces. From parks to shops and cinemas, the places in which Londoners live their lives are controlled by people and companies who aren’t household names, and who…

This is a very dispiriting and polluted little space right next to Great West Road, and was once a clean and peaceful space. The rise of the motor vehicle changed everything, and in the 1960s, plans were made to carve a main road through this part of London, linking Chiswick with Kensington. That…

Bernard Falk and friend. We've watched a LOT of old videos about London. This is among the very best. Do you know where to find London's only green phone box, a drapers shop that refuses to decimalise, or the major crossroads that was cursed by Sir John Oldcastle? You will after watching this…

Just over a century ago, Londoners heard the first recorded announcement telling people using escalators to stand on the right. “Keep moving please” “Let others pass on the left” “If you must stand, stand on the right” “Now, then, keep moving on the left” It’s early 1921, and the escalators were…

For more of all things London history, sign up for our new (free) newsletter and community: Londonist: Time Machine. 2 Gower Street is the only building with two Blue Plaques that both celebrate women. Three pioneering women. Two English Heritage Blue Plaques. One central London address. A spit from…

1967년 대통령 선거로 연임에 성공한 박정희는 1971년 선거에 출마 자체가 불가능했다. 그러나 박정희와 여당 의원들은 김종필의 반대에도 불구하고 헌법개헌을 날치기로 통과시켰고, 국민투표에 의해 삼선에 도전할 수 있게 되었다. 개헌안을 날치기 통과시키고 국회 별관 뒷문으로 몰래 빠져나가는 민주공화당 의원들 출처- 출처-<경향신문> "국민 여러분 덕에 제가 대통령 선거에 다시 나오게 되었습니다. 그동안 제가 벌여놓은 일이 많습니다. 이번 딱 한 번만 더 밀어주시면, 더 잘 사는 나라를 제 손으로 만들겠습니다." 한편, 야당인…

This feature first appeared in March 2024 on Londonist: Time Machine, our much-praised history newsletter. To be the first to read new history features like this, sign up for free here. The statue in Bloomsbury honouring Noor Inayat Khan. Image: Matt Brown/Londonist It can be easy to look at the…

This is a lengthy, upmarket passageway linking Holland Park with Kensington High Street. Although it looks like a narrow slip of an alley added when the areas were developed, in fact, it predates almost everything you can see around you. Although unnamed, in the 1740s, when all around here were…

Arrivals Learning to Lighten your Load There's no question: overpacking tops the list of biggest travel mistakes. So here is OneBag.com, a non-commercial Web site that teaches — in exhaustive (exhausting?) detail — the art and science of travelling light. Here you can learn how to go pretty much…

What It Means Quark is a word used in physics to refer to any one of several types of very small particles that make up matter. // Quarks, which combine together to form protons and neutrons, come in six types, or flavors: up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom. See the entry > quark in Context…

저는 1979년생입니다. 하지만 저는 늘 마음은 27~28세에 머물러 있습니다. 그러니 20대 청년입ㄴ… 시작부터 무리수네요. 죄송합니다. 믿기 힘든 숫자라 AI에게 79년생이 몇 살이냐고 물으니 47이라는 충격적인 답변이 돌아옵니다. 팩트로 때리는 가혹한 AI 마음속에 있는 이야기를 하자면 제 나이대 분들. 그러니까 70~80년대생 분들은 참으로 재미있는 경험을 하며 산 세대라고 생각합니다. 나이부심이 아니라 정말로 그렇습니다. 상상력이 풍부하던 어린 시절에 하이테크의 발전을 그대로 보면서 자랐거든요. 저보다 형님 세대 분들은…

What It Means Imperturbable describes someone or something marked by extreme calm; such a person or thing is very hard to disturb or upset. // The imperturbable captain did not panic when the boat sailed into the path of a violent storm. // Nothing disrupted the contestant's imperturbable focus. See…

pgRouting is a Postgres extension. It's often used for finding the “shortest path” between two locations, however it's a hidden gem in Postgres and can be used for basic graph functionality. pgRouting is typically combined with PostGIS for working with geospatial data, but it can also be useful…

1. Introduction Yesterday, ~$1.4bn was stolen from Bybit. This is the largest hack in crypto history, completed by Lazarus Group, North Korea’s state sponsored cyber-crime unit. It wasn't a hack of keys or passwords, it was something much more sophisticated. Attackers tricked multiple employees into…

A gorgeous new walking guide to the capital's green spaces. A new book by David Fathers is always cause for celebration. Each of his guides features a dozen or so superbly researched walks across the capital on a given theme. What sets them apart on a crowded bookshelf is the illustrations and maps.…

▲베트남 최북단 하장성 소수민족 여인이 아이를 안고 있다. ⓒ 캠프비엣 자전거 여행 둘째 날(2월 27일) 오후 코스의 주제도 베트남 소수민족 몽족이 살고 있는 마을 탐방이었다. 연무에 휩싸여 더욱 신비로운 분위기를 자아내는 산봉우리와 층층이 형성된 다랑이 논밭을 바라보며 달리는 아늑한 산길. 급격하게 깎아지른 산비탈에 아슬아슬 달라붙어서 땅을 일구는 사람들. 공용 빨래터에 모여 빨래하는 사람들. 소박하기 그지없는 아담한 집들이 옹기종기 모여있는 마을은 한 폭의 수채화였다. 마을 한복판에 있는 800년 이상 된 나무와 서낭당도…

What It Means Wend is a literary word that means “to move slowly from one place to another usually by a winding or indirect course”; wending is traveling or proceeding on one’s way in such a manner. // Hikers wend along the marked trails to the top of the mountain, which provides a panoramic view of…

A recent visit to Teotihuacán — the ancient Mesoamerican city in present-day Mexico, built by earlier cultures around 600 BCE and later rediscovered by the Aztecs — left me wonder-smitten by the see-saw of our search for truth and our search for meaning, by a peculiar confluence of chemistry,…

by Noah Franz Noah is a second-year astronomy graduate student at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on multiwavelength (but mostly radio) observations of high-energy transients. He is very passionate about writing and promoting reusable astronomy codes and is currently working on…

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On a humid August afternoon last summer, I helped my mother unpack the boxes of her parents’ home, the decluttering of which we had put off for years. I was only 9 when my maternal grandfather Alfio Leotta, a retired bus driver, died at the age of 82; his wife, my grandmother, passed away three…

What It Means Gregarious is used to describe someone who enjoys the company of other people. // Justin’s gregarious personality made it easy for him to get to know people at the networking event. See the entry > gregarious in Context “How can we reap the benefits of deep connection if we are not…

Why Do We Have a Cache-Control Request Header? Written by Harry Roberts on CSS Wizardry. Table of Contents I’ve written and spoken many, many times about the Cache-Control response header and its many directives, but one thing I haven’t covered before—and something I don’t think many developers are…

Recently, there’s been a lot of chatter online about compilers “ruining” hand-tuned branchless code. Developers expect a ternary expression or manual cmove trick to result in branchless assembly. Instead, the compiler happily emits a branch. What gives? I had my own confusion…see my original article…

Branch prediction plays a critical role in optimizing modern C++ applications, especially when low latency is a core requirement. Every time a program reaches a conditional branch, the CPU must decide which way the program will flow next. This prediction isn’t just a small detail — it directly…

This checklist serves as a practical reference you can apply whenever you’re writing or reviewing performance-critical C++ code — particularly in low-latency systems like financial trading engines, real-time processing pipelines, or embedded systems. ✅ General Mindset Think about branch prediction…