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Intel Core i9-10980XE Cascade Lake-X CPU benchmarks hit Geekbench
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Amazon will order 100,000 electric delivery vans from EV startup Rivian, Jeff Bezos says
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Tabletop Weekly Discussion #1 - Chain Suggestions
I'd love to see a recurring thread here in ~games.tabletop where we can talk about board games in a fun way. Here's my hook for this thread: List one boardgame that you like, and we will suggest a...
I'd love to see a recurring thread here in ~games.tabletop where we can talk about board games in a fun way. Here's my hook for this thread:
List one boardgame that you like, and we will suggest a boardgame that you may also like based on your one selection. Ideally, there will be an explanation for "why" as well.
Edit: I also encourage other people to post suggestions!
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Using "time outs" to discipline children is not going to harm them or your relationship with them, US research suggests
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How to be a professional author and not die screaming and starving in a lightless abyss
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Little Alchemy 2
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Tabletop Weekly Discussion #2 - Board Game Essentials
I'd love to see a recurring thread here in ~games.tabletop where we can talk about board games in a fun way. Since this is the second in series, my dream has become a reality! Here's my hook for...
I'd love to see a recurring thread here in ~games.tabletop where we can talk about board games in a fun way. Since this is the second in series, my dream has become a reality! Here's my hook for this thread:
If someone were wanting to start creating a collection of board games, what one game would you suggest that they put in their collection, and why? To standardize the question a bit, let's assume that the person is relatively into board gaming already, so it's not "introduce someone to the basics of board games".
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TCL Communication announces the Alcatel GO FLIP 3 and Alcatel SMARTFLIP, the first flip phones with Google Assistant
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A look inside Apple’s A13 Bionic chip and what it tells us about the future of mobile technology
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English is not normal: No, English isn’t uniquely vibrant or mighty or adaptable. But it really is weirder than pretty much every other language.
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What really brought down the Boeing 737 Max? Malfunctions caused two deadly crashes. But an industry that puts unprepared pilots in the cockpit is just as guilty
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Total War Saga: TROY - Announcement Trailer
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Google's Wing will test deliveries using drones from FedEx Express, Walgreens, and Sugar Magnolia in Christianburg, Virginia
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Why MoviePass really failed
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The blood-dimmed tide - Climate change is poised to alter the face of global conflict
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What are you reading these days? #26
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit. Notes Hi everyone! I'm @acdw, I'm taking over this thread...
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit.
Notes
Hi everyone! I'm @acdw, I'm taking over this thread from @cadadr. This is my first one, and I'm excited for the discussion!
If anyone has any suggestions about how to run this thread, please feel free to PM me (I don't want to clog up this thread with suggestions). If there's enough messages, I'll start a thread to discuss them publicly.
Previous topics
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Exposure to neurotoxin may have been cause of "Havana syndrome" affecting diplomats in Cuba, not "sonic attacks"
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Why Americans don’t fully trust many who hold positions of power and responsibility
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Safari 13 Release Notes
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How to Feed a Mars Colony of 1 Million People
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How to grow as a game designer - What to read, where to get ideas, and knowing thyself
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Automattic (owner of Wordpress) raises $300 million at $3 billion valuation from Salesforce Ventures
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Hot Lava | Launch trailer
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We need an alternative to Medium, and it’s not Wordpress
Introduction I hate medium and I think it should die a slow death. I tried to get some information on the subject to substantiate my belief. What Medium Does Bad Medium is slow On Gmetrix,...
Introduction
I hate medium and I think it should die a slow death. I tried to get some information on the subject to substantiate my belief.
What Medium Does Bad
Medium is slow
On Gmetrix, medium.com has a
F PageSpeed Score
, with a 11.8MB Total Page Size and a Fully Loaded Time of 12.4s . A random article got a little better, with aD
scorePingdom gives Medium a
B
score, with a page size of Page size 12.4 MB and Load time 2.15s (much better). This is from San Francisco, USA.Probably because I’m closer, the results for São Paulo, Brazil, are marginally better. The
B
score remains, but Load time dropped to 1.68s.Tildes gotta a
C
on GTmetrix and anA
on Pingdom. On Google, Tildes got a98
and medium.com got a48
.What is probably more concerning is that builtwith.com’s lists 106 different technologies at use on a single Medium page, ranging from AngularJS to Subversion, Wordpress Grid (aren’t they competitors?), Microsoft Azure and AliExpress. Tildes list only 13 technologies.
Medium is annoying
I’m sick and tired of opening a random Medium article and being bombarded with an immediate call to action for me to subscribe or to sign into a useless mailing-list. No: I do not pardon the interruption.
It’s 2019: I don't wanna sign-in just to read a free fucking article.
Medium weakens your brand
On Medium, you’re not a content maker. Your a Medium contributor. There’s a great difference. There are little customization options, but you’re encouraged to strengthen the Medium brand instead of your own.
Medium does not support Markdown
In 2019, this is utterly ridiculous. I should be able to write my posts in Emacs, Vim, VS Code, whatever. Markdown is a universal format that simply works and not supporting it natively is unacceptable.
The Default Editor Sucks
It forces you to write in a certain (clunky) way and it doesn't work at all.
Too Much White Space
Medium uses space poorly.
Not FOSS
Wanna host your own? No can do amigo.
Your content is not (really) yours
Wanna export your Medium posts? Should be easy, like a single button, right? NOPE. And it can stop working at any time.
Most Content is Shit
I don’t wanna generalize, there are some good things on Medium. But most Medium articles are bellow 300-words, full of unnecessary subtitles with nothing more than obvious statements I could easily get from Google. Most Medium articles are from developers trying to leverage their status by showing knowledge of trivial technologies.
What Medium Does Right
A Social Network With Content Instead of Content With Social Networking
This is something no amount of Wordpress widgets will ever top. Medium is a social network. It gets views, it gets you “applauses”, it gets you validation. It’s the Instagram of text content. Medium makes you feel good about yourself, and give you the shot (illusion?) of exposure. Maybe you can be in a publication, which is just an assortment of posts within Medium itself! See, you’re growing! You’re reaching a larger audience! They might even read your stuff!
The Alternative
It is obvious that Medium does a lot of things right. It is an actual social network that engages people like no other current blogging tool. People that know better use Medium to their advantage. People use Medium to talk trash about Medium. So we need another Medium. One that is just as social, but that is faster, less annoying, less of walled-garden and respects your content. I’m not in a position to do such a thing yet. But I certainly wish it existed.
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Modern games look amazing on CRT monitors
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Some NASA contractors appear to be trying to kill the Lunar Gateway
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We replaced sixty-eight Tube adverts with cats
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US drone strike kills thirty pine nut farm workers in Afghanistan
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Closing the gap: cross-language LTO between Rust and C/C++
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Anderson .Paak - Old Town Road in the Live Lounge
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Just watched 'Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia' (1974). Any fans of Sam Peckinpah in the house?
Some of the works of Peckinpah had been on my watch list for months, sitting there in a subfolder of a subfolder. From the choice of Straw Dogs and Cross of Iron, I chose the aforetitled, liking...
Some of the works of Peckinpah had been on my watch list for months, sitting there in a subfolder of a subfolder. From the choice of Straw Dogs and Cross of Iron, I chose the aforetitled, liking the idea of embarking on a bit of a journey through Mexico with a gritty protagonist as we experience splatterings of violence and negotiate the thoughts of a down and out vagabond making a ran for his riches.
The film left me with mixed feelings. I enjoyed the path of Benny, experiencing how his character is unwavering in his desire to take that last lucky ticket out of debauchery street, but didn't care much for his journey's partner. While I appreciated the dynamic of the relationship, the understanding they both had that they weren't in love with each other, but all they both had, the chemistry and dialogue didn't really resonate with me at parts. I actually was rather glad when this relationship came to its abrupt end as the film entered its final 3rd.
On top of that, there was major issues with the sound which made it difficult to fully immerse myself in the journey at times. I found myself feeling I was watching a caricature of a 70s movie now and again, as opposed to be engrossed in a gritty noir-esque adventure.
But all in all, an enjoyable film which has left an impression. I always appreciate watching unpolished characters navigating circumstances plotted outside their usual courses, then watching how they deal with the inevitable implosion. From what I've read since, the film was one which perhaps accurately portrayed the director's life at the time of filming; dealing with various booze-infused demons. That rawness definitely shows, as does the inevitable imperfections in this movie's execution.
7.5/10
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Huawei’s flagship Mate 30 Pro has impressive specs but no Google
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Let’s go further and hope for every last drop of joy to be drained from the world
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New DDoS vector observed in the wild leveraging WS-Discovery for amplification, attacks hitting 35 Gbps
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What would a climate crisis doomsday bunker need?
I have been thinking recently, if a climate crisis is almost inevitable at this point what actions could an individual take to stay safe? I'm thinking some kind of underground bunker able to to...
I have been thinking recently, if a climate crisis is almost inevitable at this point what actions could an individual take to stay safe? I'm thinking some kind of underground bunker able to to sustain life. The main things you would need is power, water and food. The power is fairly simple since you could set up solar and wind generation and probably use that to grow food underground but I'm wondering what you would do for water. How possible would it be to collect barrels from the sea and have a personal desalination plant.
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Rockstar releases their own game launcher, which is now required to play some of their Steam games like GTA5 and Max Payne 3
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Viva New Vegas: A Comprehensive 2019 Fallout New Vegas Modding Guide
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Popular Podcasts app Pocket Casts goes free, web & desktop app now subscription-based
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How to save a glacier – Iceland's scientists offer hope with carbon capture technology
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11 Forgotten Books of the 1920s Worth Reading Now
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The tiny algae at ground zero of Greenland's melting glaciers
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Dark crystals: The brutal reality behind a booming wellness craze
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Babies born by Caesarean section have different gut bacteria, microbiome study finds
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Erling Haaland, the Norwegian beast ripping up the record books
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TinyGo - A Go Compiler For Small Places
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Inside the little-known story of the socialist Green Corn Rebellion, which blazed through Oklahoma a century ago
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Vadim Kazachenko - Yellow Night (1994)
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Colorado town offers 1 gbps for $60 after years of battling Comcast
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Too Much Dark Money in Almonds
9 votes