Design systems are extremely powerful when it comes to quickly creating prototypes. As a design systems professional, I’ve experienced this firsthand. In this article, I’d like to share my personal experience of using design systems to create prototypes and the real benefits. As a Front-end…

I’ve been seriously traveling for more than 50 years, and I’ve learned a lot. I’ve traveled solo, and I’ve led a tour group of 40 friends. I’ve slept in dormitories and I’ve stayed in presidential suites with a butler. I’ve hitchhiked penniless for months, and I’ve flown by private jet. I’ve…

This is a tiny alley a few minutes to the south of Marylebone station that’s small enough to be a blink and you’ll miss it sort of passage. This part of London was still largely fields until just a couple of hundred years ago. The mews and area around started being developed by the Portman family in…

What It Means A non sequitur is a statement that either does not logically follow from, or is not clearly related to, what was previously said. // We were talking about the new restaurant when she threw in some non sequitur about her dog. See the entry > non sequitur in Context “Late on Saturday, as…

I don’t usually do guest posts, but today is an exception. Maxwell Tabarrok is an economics researcher at Dartmouth College and author of the substack Maximum Progress. He proposed this article about the end of Japan’s stagnation, and I found it super interesting, especially as I am just studying…

인간의 존재와 자유. 니체 다음의 철학자를 고민하다가 자연스럽게 넘어왔다. 다소 추상적인 삶의 의미와 자유를 이야기 했던 니체에서 좀 더 구체적인 고민을 하다가 사르트르로 넘어오게 됐다. 불안 타인은 지옥이다. 남의 평가에 휘둘리는 순간, 남이 만들어준 역할에 갇히게 된다. 누구나 그렇겠지만 무언가 결정되지 않은 상태가 집중을 어렵게 하곤 한다. 실제로 직장이 없는 채 지낸다는 것은 꽤 어려운 일이다. 구직을 적극적으로 하는 중이라면 더 불안해질 수 있다. 이런 불안은 어디에서 오는 것일까? 불안을 직시하면 어디에서 오는지 알 수…

(Photo by Nick Hilton, all other photos by Mark Duffy unless stated) For tourists visiting London, the beating heart of the West End isn’t the Eros statue, Chinatown, or the flagship Waterstones book store, or any of the other high-profile TripAdvisor-friendly attractions. It’s the palatial white…

에세이 예술은 어떻게 길을 잃었나 진지하지 않은 문화는 고급 예술을 지속시킬 수 없다 조지 발란신의 작품 '주얼스'를 연습하고 있는 뉴욕시티발레단. /사진=로이터/뉴스1 2025.02.14 17:08 기타 9min 이제 나는 알린 크로체Arlene Croce에게 감명을 줄 기회를 영영 잃었다. 지난 12월 90세로 타계한 크로체는 미국 무용의 전성기에 무용 평론계의 거인이었다. 나는 글쓰기 경력을 무용 평론가로 시작했고, 그것만이 내가 오랫동안 작가로서 가졌던 꿈이었다. 내가 처음 발표한 글 60여 편은 모두 무용 리뷰였고,…

Warning: this article contains images of nudity, which are NSFW. "In Soho there is no routine, which is the reason why it has so much character. I mention these points at this stage of my writing because it is not really possible to divide Soho up into set patterns—the shops are mixed up with the…

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This warren of narrow streets, some so tight that only the noon sunshine penetrates all the way down to the cobbles, is part gothic, part romanesque, and all beautiful. It’s blessed with an embarrassment of architectural riches and wrapped up in wonderfully preserved medieval walls that hug the city…

Explore An elusive Andean bear emerges from the shadowy undergrowth of Colombia’s highland rainforests. Eyes narrowed with intense focus and an inky black paw outstretched, the massive ursid—nicknamed Nariz de Calavera (Skull Nose)—appears ready to pounce on the photographer. Nautilus Members enjoy…

What It Means Livid means "very angry, enraged, or furious." It may also describe things having a dark purplish or reddish color. // The teen's parents were livid when they discovered she had lied about her whereabouts. // He had a livid bruise on his right arm. See the entry > livid in Context…

geometry The Largest Sofa You Can Move Around a Corner February 14, 2025 A new proof reveals the answer to the decades-old “moving sofa” problem. It highlights how even the simplest optimization problems can have counterintuitive answers. Read Later Mathematicians have proved that any sofa bigger…

Mother Joanna has spent the last 30 years of her life cloistered in various parts of the world, the latest two here at Tyburn Convent. Having dedicated herself to the perpetual adoration of God, Joanna is only permitted to leave the sanctity of her enclosure for medical necessities and,…

Part 1: Creating the Source of Truth for Impressions Netflix Technology Blog 6 min read· Feb 15, 2025 -- By: Tulika Bhatt Imagine scrolling through Netflix, where each movie poster or promotional banner competes for your attention. Every image you hover over isn’t just a visual placeholder; it’s a…

/사진제공=Google DeepMind 2025.02.14 17:07 Boston Review 29min 마치 허공에서 뚝 떨어진 것 같은 기술이었지만 생성AI는 지난 2년간 놀라운 성장을 이뤘다. 이 혁명의 대표주자인 챗GPT가 널리 사용 가능해진 게 2022년 11월 30일이었다는 것이 믿기지 않을 정도다. 거품이 곧 터지리라는 이야기에도 불구하고 과장과 열광은 끊임없었고 앞으로도 계속될 것이다. 하지만 호들갑을 떠는 사람들의 말에도 일리가 있다. 생성AI는 수많은 산업을 뒤흔들고 있으며, 많은 사람들은 이것이 충격적으로…

Latest News Lifting the Liberty’s marvelous mosaics In 2022 we discovered the best-preserved Roman mosaics found in London for over 50 years. Uncovered during excavations... Uncovering the heart of Roman London We’ve recently been working in the basement of 85 Gracechurch Street - a commercial…

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Some time ago, I shared some patterns for implementing a COM object that hands out references to itself, and the first was something I called the “weak pattern”. As a reminder, the weak pattern uses a separate callback object that holds a weak reference to the main object and forwards method calls…

We learned some time ago about Async-Async, a feature that reduces the chattiness of cross-thread asynchronous operations. One thing we didn’t cover in the diagram is cancellation. How does cancellation work in Async-Async? Recall that Async-Async works by creating two helper objects, one on the…

Last time, we saw that the default C locale is not a very interesting one. So how do you get a locale that does something better? One way to get functions like _strlwr and _wcslwr to follow a specific locale is to set that other locale as the current C runtime locale. // Set the C runtime locale for…

It is often said by those who have been around C++ for a long time that: “If the behavior of your program changes when using some level of optimization, then it is likely you have undefined behavior”. This is not to say that there are no compiler bugs they do happen but chances are what you are…

플러그 전기 회로를 쉽게 접속하거나 절단하는 데 사용하기 위하여 코드 끝에 부착하는 접속 기구 국립국어원 표준국어대사전 1. 한 집 당 벽면 콘센트 한 개 로터리 컨버터 크기는 대략 이렇습니다 전기 기술은 1800년에 개발된 볼타의 파일을 시작으로 19세기에 급속도로 발전합니다. 불과 100년도 안 되어서 전기가 가정용으로 사용되기 시작했죠. 전기가 가정용으로 보급될 수 있었던 이유는 1888년 로터리 컨버터(Rotary Converter)가 발명되었기 때문입니다. 로터리 컨버터는 전압, 주파수, 위상 등을 원하는 형태로 바꿀 수…

The Lost Girl D. H. Lawrence 138,583 words (8 hours 24 minutes) with a reading ease of 76.93 (fairly easy) № 2 in the James Tait Black Memorial Fiction Prize Winners series. Fiction Description Alvina Houghton is the only daughter of James Houghton, a merchant in the English Midlands whose business…

The Rust language ecosystem is growing each day, its popularity increasing, and with good reason. It’s the only mainstream language that provides memory and concurrency safety at compile time, with a powerful and rich build system (cargo), and a growing number of packages (crates). My daily driver…

This article is part of our Rust Interop Guide. Contents JNI The Java Native Interface (JNI) is the original built-in method to interact with native libraries from Java. Native libraries are libraries which do not run in the JVM but are instead built for a specific operating system using a language…

Often times we find ourself writing quite repetitive code in Rust with slight difference. This is against Don't repeat yourself principle. In this article I'm going to show you a specific example of such repetition when reading Parquet file in Rust and how to generalize it using traits, generics and…

FOSDEM 2025 - Using embedded Rust to build an unattended, battery-powered device fosdem-2025 Home About News Schedule Stands Volunteer Practical Brussels / 1 & 2 February 2025 schedule News Sponsors Contact FOSDEM 2025/Schedule/Events/Developer rooms/Embedded, Mobile and Automotive/Using embedded…

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In the realm of operating systems, the heart of performance lies in the CPU scheduler: a critical component responsible for managing the execution of tasks on a system. Exploring and customizing CPU scheduling policies has long been the realm of few highly specialized kernel developers, leaving most…