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7 votes
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The battle to rewrite Texas history
10 votes -
The disappearing schools of Puerto Rico: The island's vicious cycle of poor governance, neglect by Washington, and environmental catastrophe
5 votes -
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wore brownface makeup to a party at the private school where he was teaching in the spring of 2001
15 votes -
The skills that helped Adam Neumann fuel WeWork's breakneck growth are piling up as potential liabilities as the company prepares to go public
7 votes -
New groups added, more work still happening on rearranging, moving topics, etc.
Alrighty, after the discussion last week, I've finally added the new groups, and everyone will have been mostly auto-subscribed to all of them. I'm still working on some of the details like adding...
Alrighty, after the discussion last week, I've finally added the new groups, and everyone will have been mostly auto-subscribed to all of them. I'm still working on some of the details like adding descriptions, and there will be some awkward pieces and interface aspects since we're still in the transition phase before I get those larger changes to subscriptions/etc. in (which I really hope will be soon), but it should mostly be fine.
If you want to change your subscriptions quickly, use this page: https://tildes.net/groups (linked from a button at the bottom of the home page's sidebar)
First, here are the new groups:
New top-level groups (everyone auto-subscribed)
New sub-groups (auto-subscribed only if you were subscribed to the parent group)
- ~games.game_design
- ~games.tabletop
- ~hobbies.automotive
- ~science.formal
- ~science.social
- ~science.natural
Some of this will be a little experimental and I'm not totally sure how it's going to work out (splitting ~science into the branches of science especially), but we'll see what happens. The names and such aren't necessarily 100% final either.
Since we now have some real sub-groups that people other than me can post in, I made a small behavior change to how sub-groups work until those larger changes are ready. Previously, subscribing to a group would automatically include all posts from its sub-groups in your home page as well. That is, if you subscribed to ~tildes, you would also see all posts from ~tildes.official, regardless of whether you subscribed to it or not.
Now, your home page will only include posts from groups (and sub-groups) that you are specifically subscribed to. So if you want to see topics from ~games but not ~games.tabletop, you should subscribe to ~games and unsubscribe from ~games.tabletop. However, if you visit ~games directly, posts from ~games.tabletop will still be included in the list there, regardless of whether you're subscribed or not. I know this isn't ideal, but it's not permanent and should be fine for now.
I'm going to get back to working on updating these groups and moving some of the older topics around now, but let me know if you have any questions or thoughts.
And as usual, I've topped everyone's invites up to 10. You can get your invite links here: https://tildes.net/invite
51 votes -
Patrick Street - Music For A Found Harmonium
3 votes -
A second chance - Twelve years ago, forty-seven dogs were rescued from Michael Vick’s dogfighting operation and allowed to live
7 votes -
Hodinkee's review of the Apple Watch Series 5 Edition in titanium
7 votes -
The new Steam Library
17 votes -
How Chagall’s daughter smuggled his work out of Nazi-occupied Europe
6 votes -
Productions that could have taken advantage of Swedish locations and craft expertise continue to run away to foreign locations for lower costs and tax incentives
4 votes -
Mike Pompeo calls attacks on Saudi Arabia ‘act of war’ as Donald Trump tightens Iran sanctions
6 votes -
The problem with sugar-daddy science
11 votes -
The Sojourn - Introduction to game mechanics
3 votes -
Astronomers detect the most massive neutron star yet
11 votes -
ActivityPub: The “worse is better” approach to federated social networking
10 votes -
Why rigged capitalism is damaging liberal democracy
5 votes -
Programming Q&A Thread
An experiment I've been thinking about lately: a (recurring?) Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer other users' questions, or post suggestions for future threads. Don't forget...
An experiment I've been thinking about lately: a (recurring?) Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer other users' questions, or post suggestions for future threads.
Don't forget to format your code using the triple backticks or tildes:
Here is my schema: ```sql CREATE TABLE article_to_warehouse ( article_id INTEGER , warehouse_id INTEGER ) ; ``` How do I add a `UNIQUE` constraint?
Meta questions:
- Should I turn this into a recurring thread?
- If yes, should it be a weekly or a monthly thing?
- Should DBA and SysAdmin questions be allowed or should someone else make a separate recurring thread for these?
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Kind Words (Tildes Edition)
For those that aren't familiar with it, Kind Words is a recently released "game" where players can write a message about a difficulty they're facing or something that's troubling them. Other real...
For those that aren't familiar with it, Kind Words is a recently released "game" where players can write a message about a difficulty they're facing or something that's troubling them. Other real people in the game can then respond, letting that person know that they're not alone. Players can also write un-addressed messages of positivity in the game, which are spread to other users via paper airplanes.
I figured we could have a thread on Tildes with our own version of the game via comments.
Here's how I figure it will work. We'll have three post types:
Request: share your situation in order to get kind words in response
Response: offer kind words to other people who have posted here
Airplane: write general thoughts of goodwill for all the readers of the threadPlease begin your post by naming its type in bold font. For those posing Requests, please let people know if you would rather receive public responses or PMs.
Example post:
Request: Sometimes I find myself wondering if there's any point to anything. It feels like I'm working so hard at meaningless stuff, just to get by. Anyone else feel this way?
That isn't my request, just an example of what someone might type.
Remember that the point of the thread is to let people know that they are heard and that they are not alone!
Let's all be kind!
27 votes -
AI learning to play hide and seek
7 votes -
PayPal co-founder Ken Howery confirmed as US ambassador to Sweden
6 votes -
New infrared-based technology promises to give textiles recycling a giant leap forward by replacing manual sorting with an automated method in Finland
3 votes -
West Zealand has given the green light to rebuild a Viking fortress on its original archaeological site, more than 1,000 years after it first stood there
8 votes -
New Wi-Fi 6 certification is officially released, up to 3x faster than 802.11ac
11 votes -
When a newspaper started a town: The story of Lake Michigan Beach
6 votes -
Inside the launch of the Cosmic Crisp apple, the “largest launch of a produce item in American history”
9 votes -
A bronze cauldron dating back to the Roman Age has been unearthed in a burial cairn in central Norway
10 votes -
Elon Musk spent $50,000 digging into Thai submarine critic Vern Unsworth’s personal life
15 votes -
List of Apple Arcade games available at launch this Thursday
8 votes -
Raising prices is hard
8 votes -
Humble Builder Bundle - featuring Portal Knights, Bridge Constructor Portal, and others
7 votes -
GameInformer interview with Hideo Kojima about Death Stranding
6 votes -
GitLab announces $268 million in Series E funding, at a valuation of $2.75 billion
13 votes -
Joel Spolsky and Clive Thompson discuss the past, present, and future of coding
4 votes -
Wi-Fi just turned twenty, but things could have gone very differently for the now ubiquitous wireless connectivity standard
8 votes -
Where to put buttons on forms
12 votes -
Could we terraform Mars?
6 votes -
AI: The Somnium Files | Release trailer
5 votes -
When prosecutors bury NYPD officers' lies
7 votes -
Inside the narrative design of Control, Remedy Entertainment's least linear game
6 votes -
Square wants to be a bank but doesn’t want to be taxed like one
15 votes -
American becomes first person to swim English Channel four times without stopping
8 votes -
WeWork's parent company is expected to postpone its IPO
9 votes -
NBCUniversal announces "Peacock" as the name of its streaming service and unveils initial content lineup for April 2020 launch
5 votes -
Moving Firefox to a faster four-week release cycle
10 votes -
Motorsports
Anyone here into motorsports? Also, anyone into simracing?
10 votes -
Scientists taught rats to play hide-and-seek with them
9 votes -
Iceland hosts first major international #metoo conference – three-day gathering will explore why movement gained traction and effect it has had
3 votes -
The powerful women whose patronage shaped art history
5 votes