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Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

https://apple-tree.life/~michael/blog/2005/

over time, ergonomics improvements, upgrades, improved functionality - blissful in comparison with IssueZilla; log-in & return to the same bug authenticated eg. Did another ru

ANCIENT EGYPT : The impact of Ancient Egypt on Greek philosophy : Memphite & Theban thought

http://www.sofiatopia.org/maat/hermes1.htm

The major structural improvement made by the Archaic Greeks was the outer colonnade, also called "peripteros", around the sacred space of the temple (the "cella&quo
The Memphis Theology : fugal monotheism, creative command and panentheism in Ancient Egypt

Fooled by Randomness - by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Derek Sivers

https://sive.rs/book/FooledByRandomness

(taking the subway home after dinner) can make you relax at dinner instead of hurrying to catch a scheduled train. Helps you be a satisficer instead of maximizer. RANDOMNESS AND O
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.

How web bloat impacts users with slow devices

http://danluu.com/slow-device/

is how much performance improvement programmers have given us. There are cases of algorithmic improvements that result in massive speedups but, as we noted above, Discourse, the f

Best practices for inclusive textual websites - Seirdy

https://seirdy.one/posts/2020/11/23/website-best-practices/

which is a welcome improvement given the round-trip latency that plagues onion routing implementations. Transfer size and user flows I find advice on page weight to be too simplis
A lengthy guide to making simple, inclusive sites focused on content before form. Emphasizes brutalist design and accessibility to include under-represented users.

Nikola Tesla On His Work With Alternating Currents -- Chapter IV

http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/nt_on_ac.htm

is another improvement in that particular device, which was the weakness of the invention and which I tried to eliminate.  This device incorporated many spark gaps in series.
NIKOLA TESLA ON HIS WORK WITH ALTERNATING CURRENTS: Preface, Introduction, Section IV, Apparatus for Transformation by Condenser Discharge; Damped Waves, and Section VII, Theory an

Jordan B. Peterson - Jungians on myth and religion.

https://www.stenudd.com/myth/jungians_on_myth_and_religion/JordanBPeterson.htm

that the change is an improvement of the present situation.        Also, loud calls for change are often propagating the return to a real or imagined
Jordan B. Peterson - his theories on mythology and religion critically examined by Stefan Stenudd.


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