https://flipso.com/ Latest posts on Flipso Flipso en-us https://flipso.com/static/img/favicon_rss.png https://flipso.com/ 144 144 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:20:10 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss v93qyf515 https://flipso.com/p/v93qyf515?ref=rss Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:20:10 GMT A Discworld explainer of Sam Vimes’s “Boots” theory from Men at Arms: cheap boots wear out quickly, while expensive ones last, so poverty can force people to spend more over time. It also connects the idea to broader costs of being poor, from repairs and laundrettes to bulk buying and time lost. [terrypratchett.com] avixcuquq https://flipso.com/p/avixcuquq?ref=rss Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:40:08 GMT A look at how VF Corporation consolidated major backpack brands like JanSport, The North Face, Eastpak, and Kipling, then pushed cost-cutting measures that helped lower durability while preserving brand trust. It also examines warranty limits, product segmentation, and how consumers end up paying more over time for bags that wear out faster. [worseonpurpose.com] ue75jx7e1 https://flipso.com/p/ue75jx7e1?ref=rss Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:40:27 GMT A personal essay arguing that confidence is learned: Hart says his mother repeatedly told him he was great, and that belief helped him persist through failures, build skill, and eventually succeed. He extends the lesson to parenting and self-talk, urging readers to give children — and themselves — more confidence and persistence. [molsonhart.com] 5l1be3vxz https://flipso.com/p/5l1be3vxz?ref=rss Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:20:29 GMT Egg freezing is more effective than many headlines suggest, especially when done younger. The article argues that recent coverage overstates the risks by relying on older patients’ outcomes, explains why fertility declines with age, and breaks down how IVF and freezing actually work. [worksinprogress.news] 1p2lw88tl https://flipso.com/p/1p2lw88tl?ref=rss Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:00:10 GMT Snapshots from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County’s Unearthed: Raw Beauty exhibition. [wchambliss.wordpress.com] orfdw2fnn https://flipso.com/p/orfdw2fnn?ref=rss Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:00:09 GMT A chemistry reference on the ingredients commonly found in road flares, including a table of example formulations and notes on how the components affect color and combustion. It also discusses why extracting strontium nitrate from a flare is difficult and unlikely to yield a pure product. [spiegl.org] 81epytfad https://flipso.com/p/81epytfad?ref=rss Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:40:09 GMT How Win32 lets you build non-rectangular windows directly with regions, layered windows, and message handling. The examples show an oval window, a bitmap-shaped cutout, and an animated desktop mascot, then explain why these custom UIs became rarer as the maintenance burden and edge cases outweighed the novelty. [warped3.substack.com] 2wo7y3w0w https://flipso.com/p/2wo7y3w0w?ref=rss Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:20:10 GMT A practical synthesis of sleep research focused on learning, creativity, circadian timing, naps, insomnia, shift work, and sleep phase disorders. [super-memory.com] 1csfr7bzo https://flipso.com/p/1csfr7bzo?ref=rss Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:00:33 GMT Ownership is often less absolute than it seems: land can erode, reputation is partly out of our control, and responsibility is something we accept rather than possess. The real question is how much we can influence, and what we should acknowledge as shared or uncertain. [seths.blog] u7sz7m42q https://flipso.com/p/u7sz7m42q?ref=rss Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:20:28 GMT A reflection on etiquette as a sliding scale rather than a set of absolutes, using hats, umbrella-carrying, and table manners to show how the logic of a rule matters as much as the rule itself. [permanentstyle.com] hroob64xz https://flipso.com/p/hroob64xz?ref=rss Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:00:09 GMT Mass surveillance isn't public safety - it's public control. [stopflock.com] g9j144265 https://flipso.com/p/g9j144265?ref=rss Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:00:31 GMT A language teacher guides three students through possessive pronouns, using a shy girl’s pink shoes as the prompt. The lesson becomes a small portrait of patience, confidence, and the moment a quiet student finally answers. [theamericanscholar.org] sanv1vsdx https://flipso.com/p/sanv1vsdx?ref=rss Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:00:10 GMT A critique of dependency cooldowns for supply-chain security, arguing that they shift risk onto others and that package-index upload queues would be a better default. [calpaterson.com] 9dl8iuiqb https://flipso.com/p/9dl8iuiqb?ref=rss Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:20:31 GMT A bean salad riff on Chicken Marbella with navy beans, prunes, olives, capers, parsley, and a sweet-tangy red wine vinaigrette, finished with toasted almonds. [tastecooking.com] 7pfpx4y3w https://flipso.com/p/7pfpx4y3w?ref=rss Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:00:23 GMT A concise history of Germany’s 1918 revolution, from wartime collapse and naval mutinies to the Kaiser’s abdication, the armistice, and the start of the Weimar Republic. [lflank.wordpress.com] lbzaupm9u https://flipso.com/p/lbzaupm9u?ref=rss Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:00:10 GMT A reverse-engineering story linking Bulgaria’s Pravetz computers, Apple II cloning, and the hidden function of the ISCAS-85 benchmark circuits. It traces how a Bulgarian personal-computer industry emerged from reverse engineering, then shows how researchers finally uncovered what long-used test circuits actually did after years of treating them as anonymous netlists. [llama.gs] xygeoxc0z https://flipso.com/p/xygeoxc0z?ref=rss Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:40:08 GMT Jason Scott argues that cloud services can put your data at risk if they’re the only copy, urging people to keep personal backups and not trust free platforms with irreplaceable work. He frames cloud services as convenient but unreliable for long-term ownership and control. [ascii.textfiles.com] qzhfm2sz7 https://flipso.com/p/qzhfm2sz7?ref=rss Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:20:10 GMT A California resident documents sending Flock Safety a CCPA opt-out and deletion request, then quotes the company’s reply saying it can’t directly fulfill the request because customers are the data controllers. The post argues that explanation may be legally wrong and suggests possible next steps, including consulting a lawyer. [honeypot.net] iqs8hjvfp https://flipso.com/p/iqs8hjvfp?ref=rss Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:32 GMT Edward Zitron argues that AI products should be treated like ordinary software rather than mystical future tech, criticizing the hype around “agents,” the defensiveness of AI boosters, and the gap between marketing claims and unreliable real-world performance. [wheresyoured.at] bbyau9apl https://flipso.com/p/bbyau9apl?ref=rss Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:00:27 GMT Most stories are small, but some are big enough to span powers, morals, and technologies across whole civilizations. Robin Hanson argues that while fiction has adapted to unstable tech, it still treats morals as too fixed, and calls for stories that reflect faster-changing cultural values over long timescales. [overcomingbias.com] r069ryvzk https://flipso.com/p/r069ryvzk?ref=rss Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:40:12 GMT A deep dive into how astronauts handle waste in microgravity, from Apollo and Skylab to the ISS and the engineering challenges of keeping a Mars mission sanitary during long transit, quiescence, and surface operations. [mceglowski.substack.com] xo073uyan https://flipso.com/p/xo073uyan?ref=rss Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:00:32 GMT A reader asks about retirement after fifteen jobless months, and the writer says it has made less difference than expected. He reflects on a career in newspapers and university science writing, the ease of sleeping later and taking mornings slowly, and quotes Maryann Corbett’s poem “Sleep, Loss” on the gains and losses of retired life. [evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com] 3u408k0jp https://flipso.com/p/3u408k0jp?ref=rss Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:40:07 GMT A sharp, skeptical essay on how LLMs may reshape software development, deskilling, automation bias, labor markets, and capital concentration. Argues that “AI coworkers” could make systems less robust, shift power toward large tech firms, and create broad economic disruption rather than shared abundance. [aphyr.com] aivrvdq3r https://flipso.com/p/aivrvdq3r?ref=rss Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:20:28 GMT Egg freezing may be far more effective than many media accounts suggest, especially when done younger, because egg quality and quantity decline with age. The piece argues that the main limit is timing, plus costs and clinic quality, not the procedure itself. [worksinprogress.co] 54x936jad https://flipso.com/p/54x936jad?ref=rss Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:00:08 GMT Renewables supplied more U.S. electricity than natural gas in March, a milestone in the clean-energy transition. But rising demand is helping keep aging coal plants online, and fossil fuels still generated less electricity than in any March in at least 25 years. [e360.yale.edu] cc9ccecxa https://flipso.com/p/cc9ccecxa?ref=rss Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:20:08 GMT https://blog.joeyschutz.com/the-case-against-gameplay-loops/ [blog.joeyschutz.com] odtwxz9li https://flipso.com/p/odtwxz9li?ref=rss Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:20:09 GMT Claude was tested in X-Plane 12 flying a Cessna from Haikou Meilan toward Qionghai Bo'ao. The writeup is a flight log of multiple takeoff, climb, circuit, and landing attempts, including controller tweaks, overshoots, and two crashes. The experiment suggests Claude could manage parts of the flight but not complete a landing reliably with the setup used. [so.long.thanks.fish] w0zopni1h https://flipso.com/p/w0zopni1h?ref=rss Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:20:08 GMT A sharp critique of the reflex to explain every bad decision by powerful people as secret strategy. Using Napoleon, Elon Musk, Trump, and OpenAI as examples, the piece argues that arrogance, ego, and poor judgment often explain as much as any grand plan—and that treating every blunder as 4D chess makes it harder to hold leaders accountable. [joanwestenberg.com] 5ucpz8klb https://flipso.com/p/5ucpz8klb?ref=rss Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:00:10 GMT Franklin Computer’s ACE 1000 and related Apple ][ clones turned Benjamin Franklin into a recurring ad mascot, with Ralph Archbold apparently posing for a long run of memorable campaigns. The post traces Franklin’s copycat hardware, the ads built around thrift and patriotism, and how the company’s marketing outlived the lawsuit drama. [buttondown.com] jlkbek1yg https://flipso.com/p/jlkbek1yg?ref=rss Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:00:15 GMT CipherCue tracked 7,760 ransomware leak-site claims in 2025, up 30.7% from 5,939 in 2024. Gartner’s worldwide information security spending rose from $193.4 billion to $213.0 billion over the same period, a 10.1% increase. [ciphercue.com]