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The CrowdA Study of the Popular MindAuthor: Gustave Le Bon Gustave Le Bon’s “The Crowd - A Study of the Popular Mind” is often hailed as a classic exploration of crowd psychology, but for me, it fell short of expectations. While it does delve into the dynamics of how crowds think and act, it focuses more on...
I've enjoyed being able to show my new team who I am... with documentation!
Alongside silly licenses, I really enjoy seeing and thinking of funny versioning schemes as well. One such scheme is Binary Versioning (binver), which is just a fun time.I suppose I should mention that most of these schemes are in conversation with Semantic Versioning (semver), which is by and large the most common...
By adding a few lines of CSS you can enable smooth page transitions.
Lots of scientific Python libraries are often used within Jupyter notebooks. At work, we develop and maintain plenty of such libraries for quantum computing, and some more higher-level ones include extensive user guides in form of Jupyter notebooks. Recently, I've been involved in building a new library, and it...
As a leader, your name should be attached to good things so that people will like you and follow you more. Not only good things but good people, too. When presenting or talking with others, be careful with what you are attaching yourself to. If you’re known as the person of bad news or challenging or annoying...
Acabo de descubrir de forma accidental una cosa sobre la funda de mi móvil. Es una funda de AliExpress, bonita en mi opinión. Y con una especie de marco metálico para la cámara que pensaba que simplemente era para separarla más de la superficie donde pueda apoyar el móvil. Pero resulta que se abre. He visto de...
22mo
Links Balatro dev swings at PEGI for rating it 18+ because of its ‘evil playing cards’, jokes that he should ‘add microtransactions’ like EA Sports FC 25 to ‘lower that rating to a 3+’ by Harvey Randall in PC Gamer — everything I read about LocalThunk fucking rules. How Video Streamers Conquered the Media by Justin...
If you pick dates close to each other, they also make for a great “find the differences”-puzzle.
22mo
This post was written as an examination in the Premodern History of China, a course I took at Stockholm University, and is available as a PDF here. Throughout Chinese history, there have been two great divides. First, that of the east-west, and later the north-south. These two dynamics have been instrumental in how...
There is some dispute about the 'correct' way to answer this hashtag brief, this is my rationale
Update 2025-10-01: See the /incense page for additional resources. While I like to post incense builds, I haven’t yet posted on exactly how to go about turning raw ingredients into Japanese style incense sticks. Here’s a 1,000 mile overview of the process to accompany a video I recently uploaded to my new PeerTube...