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things that caught my attention
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24 apr 2026
QWERTY is 150 years old, designed by trial and error on a machine that jammed. Why are we still using it?
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9 apr 2026
The shorter your ruler, the longer the coast. Nobody warned Lewis Fry Richardson about this.
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7 apr 2026
Homer had no word for blue. Neither did anyone else, for a very long time.
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6 apr 2026
You can't flatten a sphere without breaking something. The question is what you choose to break.
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