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10 votes
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Apple acquires self-driving startup Drive.ai, hires dozens of Drive.ai engineers
6 votes -
Lyme disease cases are exploding. And it’s only going to get worse.
8 votes -
We live in an age of assholes
14 votes -
Israel Folau's campaign shut down by GoFundMe, donors to be refunded
6 votes -
Would the German population more or less readily believe the Holocaust today as compared to 1945?
This is something I was thinking about. When I read about the end of the second world war, the thing which surprises me the most is how easily the German population accepted that their government...
This is something I was thinking about. When I read about the end of the second world war, the thing which surprises me the most is how easily the German population accepted that their government really committed such atrocities (Yes, I used Holocaust in the title, but I mean any genocide commited).
I was wondering how it might go down in our current culture with the emergence of Fake News and alternative "facts"; our post-fact culture. Would they more readily dismiss it as a photoshopped image? Would the impact be mitigated by the meme-ification of genocide?
(To a mod: The title should say « more or less »)
12 votes -
How Mario 64 was solved using parallel universes - Super Mario 64 tool-assisted speedrun explained
6 votes -
The internet is increasingly a low-trust society—one where an assumption of pervasive fraud is simply built into the way many things function
17 votes -
Reddit is testing a paid monthly membership on a per subreddit basis for core features.
95 votes -
Why Greta Thunberg's leadership of the environmental movement is so important
5 votes -
Pharmacies in Sweden run out of contraceptive pill Zoely
6 votes -
Dozens of public health groups call for urgent climate action
6 votes -
What Happens After Amazon’s Domination Is Complete? Its Bookstore Offers Clues
5 votes -
Android aftermarket development and its boring state
So many ROMs. So many features. But they all look the same. I mean, I love that there are many options, but aren't you bored of going to XDA and finding only ROMs that follow the [9.0] EDGY NAME...
So many ROMs.
So many features.
But they all look the same.
I mean, I love that there are many options, but aren't you bored of going to XDA and finding only ROMs that follow the [9.0] EDGY NAME IN CAPS formula?
They all look stock. Android is supposed to be about personalization. Where are the highly customized UIs? Why are all fanboys so scared of breaking the scheme that Material has inforced upon us, and then whine about how Android is inconsistent? I wish that something like MIUI would appear again, like, a ROM made by a no name that ended up making a gigantic empire.
I wish to see someday another developer, making its own thing.
Breaking the AOSP UI mold.
[NOTE] This is reposted from reddit (it was made by me tho) because I wanted to discuss it here.
15 votes -
NYPD confirm the death of YouTuber Desmond Amofah, aka Etika
@nypdnews: We regret to inform that Desmond Amofah aka Etika has been found deceased. https://t.co/sedwZZxglw
9 votes -
#IAmHere – The people trying to make Facebook a nicer place
6 votes -
Magic: The Gathering - Core Set 2020 card image gallery
8 votes -
Missing YouTube star Etika found dead in East River
12 votes -
Small change, big effects: An overview of payment systems
4 votes -
A short history of manly beauty products for masculine men
15 votes -
Mobile phones to be banned in Victoria state schools from 'first to last bell
19 votes -
The Stonewall of the south that history forgot: A month after the riots in New York, a raid on an Atlanta movie theater sparked a gay liberation movement of its own
7 votes -
Anybody use Strikethru?
I used Bullet Journal for a year, then went back to Org mode with Orgzly on mobile. I find I'm more productive with pen and paper b/c when I see a rabbit hole I can't do nothing but jump into it...
I used Bullet Journal for a year, then went back to Org mode with Orgzly on mobile. I find I'm more productive with pen and paper b/c when I see a rabbit hole I can't do nothing but jump into it and go right down, and trying to conform to ways app devs' workflows and hack them to behave the way I want cause friction which is for me greater than that of dealing with a meatspace physical notebook. Bullet Journal was nice, but I wonder if Strikethru could be even nicer. I never fully conform to these methods, but they are generally nice starting points to build a custom one, so I generally like starting out with them.
My use case is, I have four types of tasks: projects, like "study statistics" or "transcribe scans" which can take weeks or months to complete, and sometimes have deadlines; todos which have no specific completion time (e.g. long time shopping lists, books to buy, stuff to check back on later, things to research); tasks that are scheduled for a certain date/time or a range thereof; and lastly tasks that recur on varying intervals, like posting the thread to ~books every other week or completing a particular task that pertains to a project, say reading pages from a book that is relevant to the "study statistics" project. Bullet Journal provided a means for all of this, but the amount of rescheduling and rewriting was inconvenient, and inconvenient is the evil enemy of making habits and getting things done for a fucked up procrastinator like me. When I look at Strikethru, I am not sure if it can handle this, if it's too simple for more complex stuff. So I wonder what you guys do with it. I'd be glad if you could share your workflows and/or advice me on how I could make use of this particular system, or anything else out there!
Edit: prior art:
- https://tildes.net/~talk/9jl/do_you_use_a_todo_manager_or_something_like_a_bullet_journal_my_story_of_trying_different_planners
- https://tildes.net/~life/7yk/note_taking_bookmarks_reminders_and_todos_what_do_you_use_to_organize_your_life
I've commented on both of these talking about how I use a modified Bullet Journal method.
8 votes -
Russia wants concessions from Ukraine for continuing gas transit to Europe
9 votes -
Indonesian police officer claims he was fired for being gay, files lawsuit for wrongful dismissal
4 votes -
Grazhdanskaya Oborona - Lobotomija (Lobotomy) (1989)
3 votes -
Denmark's first high-speed rail line officially inaugurated
5 votes -
Why do people faint?
6 votes -
US Iran sanctions spell the end of diplomacy, senior official says
7 votes -
Canada’s chance for a Green New Deal
4 votes -
Our Stories: How Instagram accounts like @lgbt_history and @h_e_r_s_t_o_r_y are weaving queer history into everyday life.
4 votes -
Sweden is on track to see a record number of British people applying for Swedish citizenship this year
4 votes -
A generation of hip-hop was given away for free. Can it be archived?
6 votes -
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – Breaking convention
5 votes -
Twins for a Day
8 votes -
Istanbul mayoral re-run: Turkey's ruling AKP set to lose in blow for Erdoğan
27 votes -
How Oxford university shaped Brexit — and Britain’s next prime minister
13 votes -
Celebrating thirty years of Warp with a special weekend broadcast. Warp Records and NTS present WXAXRXP Fri 21 June 2019 12:00 — Sun 23 June 2019 23:59
7 votes -
Bill Gates on making “one of the greatest mistakes of all time”
10 votes -
Norway is building the world's first submerged floating tunnel to cross the fjords
7 votes -
Sweden beat Canada 1-0 in a hard-fought game at the Women's World Cup
4 votes -
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.
13 votes -
SpaceX preps Falcon Heavy for “most difficult” flight
9 votes -
When Myspace was king, employees abused a tool called ‘overlord’ to spy on users
8 votes -
Statement on 32-bit i386 packages for Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04 LTS
11 votes -
Updates to "Activity" sorting method (the site's default)
Since it launched, Tildes has always been using "Activity" as the site's default sorting method, which behaves like a classic forum—any new comment in any topic causes it to "bump" back to the top...
Since it launched, Tildes has always been using "Activity" as the site's default sorting method, which behaves like a classic forum—any new comment in any topic causes it to "bump" back to the top of the list. This has generally worked well overall, and has been a good way to keep threads visible and active over longer periods.
However, there have been a few issues related to it, such as controversial threads staying at the top of the site for long periods of time, and bickering back and forth between two users causing threads to constantly bump back up to the top even if nobody else is interacting with the topic at all. We haven't had great ways to deal with this so far, and have mostly had to work around it by setting the default time period to "last 3 days" so that threads can't dominate the site indefinitely, or even locking threads to force them to drop off.
As an attempt at a better solution, "Activity" has now had its behavior changed so that topics will only bump to the top when something "interesting" happens, instead of for every single comment. The exact methods we're using to determine "interesting" will need experimentation and to be adjusted as we see how they work, but initially it's entirely based on comment labels:
If a comment or any of its parent comments has an active Noise, Offtopic, or Malice label (note: it generally takes at least two users applying the label to make it "active"), the comment will not cause the thread to bump to the top. For example, this means that if a particular comment gets labeled as Offtopic, any replies "below" that comment will no longer bump the thread in the Activity sort. This will also apply retroactively, so if someone posts a new top-level comment, the thread will still initially bump to the top, but if that comment is then labeled as Noise, it will "un-bump" and return back to its previous location in the listing.
Since this will give us a better way to prevent threads from staying at the top of the site forever, I've also now changed the default time period back to "all time".
If you'd rather keep the previous behavior and continue having threads always bump to the top when a new comment is posted in them, you can use the new "All activity" sorting method instead. Logged-in users can set it as their default sorting across the site by changing to it on the home page and clicking "Set as default" to the right of the time period dropdown.
Any feedback is welcome, but these are questions that I'm particularly interested in:
- Are there cases where the label-based "uninteresting" judgment won't work well? Links to specific examples would be ideal, if possible.
- What other methods could we use to judge a new comment as "uninteresting"?
- Should we try triggering bumps from other non-comment events? For example, if a topic is getting voted up a lot, should it bump even if there isn't a new comment?
As usual, I've also given everyone 10 invites again (and don't worry, I haven't forgotten about turning the visible comment votes back on either, and I'll do that this afternoon, along with posting a thread to discuss it).
65 votes -
How people want to feel determines whether others can influence their emotions, Stanford psychologists find
7 votes -
Staining The Timbre XXL Freshman Class Review Series - Megan Thee Stallion
2 votes -
England fans escorted from stadium amid Cameroon World Cup tensions
5 votes -
What happens after Amazon’s domination is complete? Its bookstore offers clues
11 votes