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What's a good habit that you're proud of? What's a bad one that you want to change?
thought it would be interesting to hear some of your guys' habits in day to day life. feel free to answer only one of the questions if you feel uncomfortable or anything :) these are mine: the...
thought it would be interesting to hear some of your guys' habits in day to day life.
feel free to answer only one of the questions if you feel uncomfortable or anything :)these are mine:
the good habit is definitely walking for 20 minutes every day.
and the bad one is not sleeping enough.27 votes -
First law firm in Canada focusing on eSports opens in Toronto
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Thirteen overlooked and forgotten murals of San Francisco
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A fourteen-year-long oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico verges on becoming one of the worst in US history
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Antiwar movement spreads among tech workers
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"Discussion threads" for groups
I'm a big fan of "discussion threads" over on reddit, if you're unfamiliar they're essentially threads a subreddit will pin every day or week where you can post things that don't deserve a full...
I'm a big fan of "discussion threads" over on reddit, if you're unfamiliar they're essentially threads a subreddit will pin every day or week where you can post things that don't deserve a full post or are slightly frivolous or off topic. To give an example, a while back I wanted to make a post with some thoughts on Coleridge's "Ode to Dejection", but after typing it out didn't think there was enough to warrant making a thread over it. I didn't feel like doing a more extensive analysis or trying to artificially broaden the scope (ie, doing something like "what's a poem you like?" as an excuse for sharing my thoughts), so I just trashed it.
I like discussion threads because they help save "small" content like that as well as helping to build a sense of community and are just generally quite comfy.
However, I recognize that there can be some downsides:
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May end up being "low quality" in the minds of certain users. I know this is somewhat contentious, since the site culture is still being established, I personally don't want Tildes to be that serious but I know some people do.
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Normal group activity could drop if people opt to use the discussion thread instead of making a post. This is doubly bad because the site is small.
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Vreal - The first broadcast platform for VR games
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Baby box safety doubts raised by experts
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Singapore flying taxi trial set to begin in the second half of 2019
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison apologises to victims of institutional child sex abuse
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'The Conners' showrunner Bruce Helford: Why we killed off Roseanne like that
The show-runner explains: 'The Conners' Showrunner Bruce Helford: Why We Killed Off Roseanne Like That Some fan reactions: ‘The Conners’ Has Officially Killed Off Roseanne, And Fans Can’t Believe...
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The show-runner explains: 'The Conners' Showrunner Bruce Helford: Why We Killed Off Roseanne Like That
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Some fan reactions: ‘The Conners’ Has Officially Killed Off Roseanne, And Fans Can’t Believe The Shade
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The oldest true stories in the world
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A digital clock in Conway's Game of Life
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This week in Anime: week 42 of 2018
It's Friday once more, and may I say, you look stunning today? How do? Since we're currently lacking native spoiler tags, I'd ask all of you to follow this scheme: Post a top level comment with...
It's Friday once more, and may I say, you look stunning today?
How do?
Since we're currently lacking native spoiler tags, I'd ask all of you to follow this scheme:
Post a top level comment with the title and episode number of the anime you want to talk about like this
**JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Vento Aureo - Episode 1**
Then reply to those top level comments with your thoughts. This way people who haven't seen something yet or plan on binge watching once all the episodes are out can simply collapase the top level comment to not get spoiled ^.^What do?
Simply post, discuss or joke about any currently airing anime you want. For Anime you've been watching that aren't currently airing refer to Cleb's weekly thread
When do?
But what if the anime I want to talk about hasn't aired yet?
No problem, just post a comment here once the episode has aired, these threads aren't meant to last one single day.
Archive
Going forward, I'll maintain archives of these threads at the unofficial wiki
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Bureau of Meteorology hits out at 'inaccurate' reports of local forecasting changes
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Vienna Teng - The Hymn of Acxiom (2018)
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‘Transgender’ Could Be Defined Out of Existence Under Trump Administration
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Built a 60% mechanical keyboard!
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Miscarrying at work: The physical toll of pregnancy discrimination
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Marta Pereira da Costa & Tara Tiba - Moon (2016)
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Eureka Stockade rebellion
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US school apologises after canteen serves dish with kangaroo meat
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UpTown Spot
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Indonesian policewomen measured through 'purity and beauty', subjected to virginity testing
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Sir Mix-A-Lot with the Seattle Symphony - Baby Got Back
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All flags of Africa redesigned, based on national emblems and coat of arms - by Reddit user Smiix
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Microsoft’s problem isn’t how often it updates Windows—it’s how it develops it
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Sway 1.0-beta.1 release highlights
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The pieties of the liberal class
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Nadine Gordimer wrote furiously, in every sense. The Nobel Prize-winning South African writer cared very much how people think, and not at all what people thought of her.
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Evolution of Emacs Lisp
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Could cryptominers be the good alternative to ads?
Everyone hates ads. Frankly, no one wants to pay for anything online. And places like CoinHive offer a service that doesn't clutter the screen and pays people. Too good to be true right? Well the...
Everyone hates ads. Frankly, no one wants to pay for anything online. And places like CoinHive offer a service that doesn't clutter the screen and pays people. Too good to be true right? Well the first group of people to latch on the service ramped up the mines to 8 threads at 100% because they were hackers and didn't care if they slowed your computer or drained your battery. They just wanted their almost untraceable money.
What I'm proposing is that if sites were to use miners that instead use 2/4 threads at 10% thereby using far less resources, across enough users provided your traffic is ok, could the results be tangible if we gave it a chance?
edit: I hate cryptocurrency but I was more trying to discuss the idea of getting paid for passive CPU usage more described in this comment by @spctrvl
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Saudis’ image makers: A troll army and a Twitter insider
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Brazil museum fire: Prized 'Luzia' fossil skull recovered
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Jean-Paul Dub - Dub Escape Plan (2018)
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Why should you read "Waiting For Godot"? | Iseult Gillespie
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How Sears was gutted by its own CEO
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Breaking all the rules
In most of my programming, I try and remain professional, and do things in a readable, maintainable way, that doesn't involve pushing the language to breaking point. But, occasionally, I give...
In most of my programming, I try and remain professional, and do things in a readable, maintainable way, that doesn't involve pushing the language to breaking point.
But, occasionally, I give myself free reign. What if you didn't care about the programmer who came after you? What if you didn't care about what a programmer should do in a certain circumstance?
For myself, over the years I've written and rewritten a C library, I like to call CNoEvil. Here's a little taste of what you could do:
#define EVIL_IO #define EVIL_COROUTINE #include "evil.h" proc(example, int) static int i = 0; coroutine(); While 1 then co_return(++i); end co_end(); return i; end Main then displayln(example()); displayln(example()); end
(And yes, that compiles. Without warnings. Even with
-Wpedantic
.)So... Here's the challenge:
Ignoring the rules, and best practices... How can you take your favourite programming language... And make it completely unrecogniseable?
(Might be best to choose a language with macros, like Nim, Rust, any of the Lisps. Though, you can still do some impressively awful things in Java or Python, thanks to overloading inbuilt classes.)
Challenge Ideas:
- Make Python look like C
- Make Java look like Python
- Make anything look like BrainFuck
I don’t know how to really explain my fascination with programming, but I’ll try. To somebody who does it, it’s the most interesting thing in the world. It’s a game much more involved than chess, a game where you can make up your own rules and where the end result is whatever you can make of it. - Linus Torvalds
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25 Mistakes that Peg You as an Amateur Writer
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The pyramid scheme that collapsed a nation
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Fireworks Drowned Siren Of Train That Ran Over 60 Celebrating Dussehra
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Open offices have driven Panasonic to make horse blinders for humans
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About time: why western philosophy can only teach us so much
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Jack Stauber – Pumpkin Song (2018)
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Looking for opinions on how to moderate a community
Hello. I moderate a reddit sub with about 450 thousand people and we have had trouble with transgender people facing abuse from idiots in two different threads. In one of them, a woman chimed in...
Hello.
I moderate a reddit sub with about 450 thousand people and we have had trouble with transgender people facing abuse from idiots in two different threads. In one of them, a woman chimed in and it got ugly (4 bans in the first 12 comments), in the other a trans woman took part and got shit for it (also featured a few users banned).Now, each of them had a very different approach. The first got defensive and stopped participating, while the second took the time to respond to the stupid but not offensive ones, trying to educate them.
So even if this is something that bothers me a lot and makes considerably angry, I realised that maybe I should take a more nuanced view on this, and I should actually ask for more opinions on how to handle thiS, instead of simply applying my own standards and maybe making things worse and/or missing a chance to make things better. And since Tildes has always provided me with intelligent, thoughtful and interesting points of view and opinions, I thought this would be the best place for this question.
And so here I am, asking anyone that would care to give an opinion: what would a good moderator do? How harsh or lenient should we be with ignorant but not offensive comments? Should we get involved at all if the discussion is not offensive? What would make our sub a nicer place to everyone? Any other thoughts?
Thank you very much to all.
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Victory for 'Valve Turners' as Judge Allows 'Necessity Defense' for Climate Trial
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Kino - Zarkoj za mnoj dver, ja uhozhu (Close the door, I am leaving) (1988)
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Wentworth by-election: Independent candidate Kerryn Phelps claims victory, Government loses majority.
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Will lurkers have access to the same privileges active commenters will have?
Or do you have to comment in order to count as an active user?
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