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#bikes #culture #geometry #speed | Contemporary cycling is all about spandex and personal bests. The bicycle designer Grant Petersen has amassed an ardent following by urging people to get comfortable bikes, and go easy.

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You Won’t See Them at the Olympics, but These Speed Puzzlers Are World-Class (Gift Article)

#jigsaw #puzzle #speed | Puzzling has been around for more than 250 years, but a budding tournament featuring participants from more than 75 countries in Spain is giving it new life.

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Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them faster

#culture #economics #progress #speed #technology | Breaking through the illusion of convenience that's used to sell us automation

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A Nuclear Bomb Shot a Manhole Into Space Before Sputnik

#bomb #speed | <blockquote>Robert Brownlee told us how he shot an object into space before Sputnik.</blockquote>

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The Need for Speed, 23 Years Later

#download #history #optimisation #performance #speed #ux | <blockquote>In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved over time.</blockquote>

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computers-are-fast.github.io

#code #experiments #speed #teaching #understanding

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Most of the web really sucks if you have a slow connection

#bandwidth #bloat #internet #performance #scale #speed #web

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