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A forgotten poem by Chronicles of Narnia author CS Lewis reveals details of friendships between fantasy writers and medievalists at the University of Leeds
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Ballkids? No thanks, we’ll stick to boys and girls says Wimbledon. – Change comes slowly at the All England Club, which will not follow the other Grand Slams by scrapping the gender-specific titles
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Why Copa America is being played on small fields – and what it means
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Midweek Movie Free Talk
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any films you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
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FreeDOS open-source text-based OS turns 30, still in active development and primarily used for retro gaming
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AI-powered scams and what you can do about them
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The Lakers select Bronny James in the second round of the NBA draft
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How to build an AI data center
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AirPods with camera modules to reportedly enter mass production in 2026, will be designed to deliver an enhanced spatial audio experience
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After a shaky debate performance top US Democrats talk about replacing Joe Biden on the ticket
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‘Inside Out 2’ crosses $1B global box office; fastest animated movie ever to milestone
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Slovenia's beautiful beehives turn apiaries into art
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Once threatened with extinction, towel animals are absolutely thriving
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Kalle Rovanperä has pulled off a remarkable victory in Rally Poland, despite only entering the rally five days earlier as a last-minute stand-in for eight-time WRC champion Sébastien Ogier
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Hay grown for cattle consumes nearly half the water drawn from Colorado River, study finds
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San Francisco home selling for $488,000 but you can't move in until 2053
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TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
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Omar Rudberg – Talk (2024)
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Game studio co-founded by Dr Disrespect ‘immediately’ terminating relationship with the streamer
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The real-life ‘Fall Guys’: How a tight-knit stunt team pulled off Ryan Gosling’s death-defying scenes
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Norwegian and or European salary expectations?
Short version: is there a levels.fyi or equivalent for employees in the European Economic Area (EEA)? How do I figure out what an equivalent employee in Norway makes vs one in the US? Long...
Short version: is there a levels.fyi or equivalent for employees in the European Economic Area (EEA)? How do I figure out what an equivalent employee in Norway makes vs one in the US?
Long version: I just found out my partner got the offer for a job that'll force relocation to Norway from the US for a new role. My current role, schedule, and responsibilities will likely work just fine in Norway and I expect that I can keep my job if I pitch it correctly to the executive team. I need to figure out what:
- I should be making
- What potential hires from Norway or the EEA would need to make
I work as the Head of AI running a team of 4 technical (ML Engineers) and non-technical (Data Capture technicians) people in a Series A startup. I am the Engineering Manager, the Team Lead, the Tech Lead, an IC, and periodically do pre-sales and technical customer support/onboarding. My team is all new, basically, having been hired in the last 90 days or less, and I am excited to delegate after finishing their onboarding! Currently, I have 1% equity and make $200,000. My role is remote and requires 20-30% travel. Where I live now is actually more expensive for flying across the US than from Oslo and about the same time factoring layovers, so travel costs will decrease. Due to how meeting schedules work out, no meetings will have to be moved to accommodate me at all. Is advocating for maintaining the same salary correct or should it decrease given the higher worker protections and benefits required by Norwegian employment law? Separately, what would hiring Norwegian employees look like from a comp perspective? I'd really like to keep this job and make a strong case for why it won't be a huge net-negative for the company.
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Save Point: A game deal roundup for the week of June 30
Add awesome game deals to this topic as they come up over the course of the week! Alternately, ask about a given game deal if you want the community’s opinions: e.g. “What games from this bundle...
Add awesome game deals to this topic as they come up over the course of the week!
Alternately, ask about a given game deal if you want the community’s opinions: e.g. “What games from this bundle are most worth my attention?”
Rules:
- No grey market sales
- No affiliate links
If posting a sale, it is strongly encouraged that you share why you think the available game/games are worthwhile.
All previous Save Point topics
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What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
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The strange origin story behind Akira's megacity, Neo Tokyo
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Happy Matariki!
Matariki is New Zealand's celebration of the new year. You can celebrate it along with me by watching this traditional Matariki video. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GiEC5Wm5mnM
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W11 Bluetooth won't pair but can see devices. BT works w/ Linux
tldr; W11 bluetooth doesn't work with multiple cards. It will see devices but will not pair. Same hw pairs under Linux. hey folks. I posted this to /r/techsupport on reddit and for some reason...
tldr; W11 bluetooth doesn't work with multiple cards. It will see devices but will not pair. Same hw pairs under Linux.
hey folks. I posted this to /r/techsupport on reddit and for some reason they say they don't support Windows 11 Enterprise... and it took them a day to tell me instead of using automod. I thought this was both funny and the dumbest thing. Anyway, here's a fun little issue I'm trying to sort out.
Windows 11 Enterprise 22h2 (22621.3810)
About two weeks ago (after a year of having this system) my bluetooth decided not to pair with anything. It will see devices and try to pair, but it never goes through.
I have tried:
- a different wireless card / bt combo (PCIE)
- removing the wireless / bt combo and using a bt dongle
- removing all drivers (show hidden devices etc), rebooting clean, reinstalling
- changing the USB connection to the mobo for the PCIE card
- live boot of latest Ubuntu LTS -- successfully paired DS4 controller and Sony Headphones
The event logs for Bluetooth Policy are all positive (e.g. A connection to a remote device 0xA4538553B7FD was successfully established) -- but nothing is paired.
This happened on a day when I added two HDDs to the box and ran updates etc. I also tried everything above without the drives installed without any luck.
Any ideas?
notes:
- I just finished with a W11 windows-to-go install off a super slow USB and I wasn't able to pair headphones or the DS4, but I did pair some sony TW earbuds. I'm sensing a fresh install in my future.
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Chicago’s NASCAR Race is a marvel of physics
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Paul Reubens (Pee-wee Herman) | The man behind the bowtie
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When medical tech can keep us alive, families face tough choices
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Monet's Slumber Party on Dropout.tv | Trailer
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How English wine came of age – As a changing climate makes southern counties ripe for viticulture, the largest producers are attracting investment from overseas
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Inside a violent gang's ruthless crypto-stealing home invasion spree
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Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- game review
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Deja Vu (But Worse) - Biden vs. Trump ft. "Weird Al" Yankovic (2024)
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Book review: Dominion
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Why didn't Chris and Dan get into Berghain? - Search Engine with PJ Vogt
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What is self hosted? What is a stack?
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29% of global, 46% of US, EV owners likely to switch back to ICE cars per McKinsey consumer survey
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The US Supreme Court weakens federal regulators, overturning decades-old Chevron decision
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US congressional testimony on the impact of climate-related disasters on the solvency of homeowner's insurance
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Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims
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Berkshire was too cheap, then too pricey
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of June 24
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
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What did you do this week (and weekend)?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do...
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
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Why so many bitcoin mining companies are pivoting to AI
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Question about Google's Find My Device network with the new trackers
Hi everyone, Have a quick question if you have the time. I want to buy some of the new Android Find My Device trackers, have wanted to ever since destroying my Tiles when they were bought by that...
Hi everyone,
Have a quick question if you have the time. I want to buy some of the new Android Find My Device trackers, have wanted to ever since destroying my Tiles when they were bought by that scummy data-retailer.
My question is: if I buy, for example, a Pebblebee device, does Pebblebee get my location data? Google already has that; that's the deal with the devil you have to decide whether or not you want to take. But I don't want to give this information to another third party.
I've done some Googling on this but of course search is useless these days. I tried to read Pebblebee's privacy policy but gave up pretty quickly:
➜ ~ cat pebblebee | wc -w 17391
Does anyone have an authoritative answer on this? Would love to know.
TIA and thanks for your time!
ETA: I have seen where Pebblebee claims they don't sell user data; I'm not even questioning that with this post (although I do question every company's trustworthiness). This is more a question about the architecture of the Find My Device network itself.
Edit 2: I'm already carrying around a personal spy that reports everything I do to Google, I don't think it matters whether they can get my location from the trackers lol. I just wondered if I was exposing that to Pebblebee (just as an example) as well.
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What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
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US Supreme Court allows cities to enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outside
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What should I cook with my grill's smoker box?
I have a Weber Summit S-670 grill that has a built-in smoker box and burner, and despite having this grill for a couple of years I have never before used that accessory. With the traditional...
I have a Weber Summit S-670 grill that has a built-in smoker box and burner, and despite having this grill for a couple of years I have never before used that accessory. With the traditional grilling weekend coming up I figure I should give it a shot but I have no idea on what to make. What kind of easy or idiot-proof recipes would you recommend?
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