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10 votes
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Andrew Yang's plan to tackle climate change
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Swedish police can use spyware to hunt criminal gangs – police to use the latest technology to access everyday encrypted apps used by criminals
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What are you doing this week?
This topic is part of a weekly series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss their week. If you have any plans, goals, accomplishments, or even failures, whether they be personal or work...
This topic is part of a weekly series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss their week.
If you have any plans, goals, accomplishments, or even failures, whether they be personal or work related, I'd love to hear about them. This is a place for casual discussion about your week, past, present, and future.
A list of all previous topics in this series can be found here.
So, what (or how) are you doing this week?
9 votes -
Andrew Yang at the CNN Climate Crisis Town Hall
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Fitness Weekly Discussion #2
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
9 votes -
Songs with a downwards key change
9 votes -
Soccer team Brøndby IF in Denmark is using facial recognition to stop unruly fans
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Why does dairy-loving America still shun the “milk bladder” when it’s commonplace in so many other countries?
11 votes -
We asked some of the boldest thinkers what the world will be like in fifty years. Here’s what their answers tell us about the future
7 votes -
The stairstep approach to indie game marketing
4 votes -
Financial Bubbles are the Gnostic Heresy: The Voegelin-Minsky Synthesis
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What’s something you’ve done recently that you’re proud of / want to show off?
It can be anything; a small or big accomplishment, a project you‘re working on, or anything else you’re proud of.
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The lost river: The Colorado River serves over thirty-five million Americans before reaching Mexico – but it is dammed at the border, leaving locals on the other side with a dry delta
6 votes -
The not-com bubble is popping—The unicorn massacre unfolding today is exactly the opposite of what happened in 2000
22 votes -
Portrait of an inessential US government worker
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Air ticket booking site uses Math.random for "38 people are looking at this right now" UX dark pattern
@ophirharpaz: 1/4] Ok this is really funny, check this out. I was in the process of booking a flight via @OneTravel. Trying to make me book ASAP, they claimed: "38 people are looking at this flight". Whoa, 38 is a lot, I have to hurry up.
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New search capabilities available: phrases, excluding terms, alternatives ("or")
On Sunday, I took the site down for a short downtime to upgrade the database from PostgreSQL version 10 to 12. One of the main reasons I wanted to do that upgrade was to get access to a new search...
On Sunday, I took the site down for a short downtime to upgrade the database from PostgreSQL version 10 to 12. One of the main reasons I wanted to do that upgrade was to get access to a new search function, and I've updated to using it now, so we have multiple nice new search capabilities available.
These should all be pretty familiar since a lot of other search systems and search engines have similar capabilities with the same syntax:
- As before, by default, searching for multiple words will be treated as "all of these terms". So if you search ~games for steam play, you'll get all topics that have both "steam" and "play" in them.
- Phrases can now be searched for by putting double quotes around them. Searching ~games for "steam play" in quotes will only find topics that specifically have "steam play".
- Excluding terms can be done by putting a minus sign in front of it. For example, if you wanted to try to find ~games posts about Blizzard and exclude the recent China controversy, you could search for blizzard -china.
- Alternatives can be searched for by using "or". This changes to "any of these terms" instead of "all of these terms". For example, searching for overwatch or diablo will find any topic with either of those terms, instead of both.
- These capabilities can be combined, so you can exclude phrases, use "or" with phrases, and so on. For example: blizzard -"hong kong" or diablo.
This all works both through the main site topic search (at the top of the sidebar) as well as the new search for your own topics/comments.
I'm going to write a page for the Docs with info about these capabilities, but I think I want to try to find a full specification of what's supported first to make sure I cover it properly. The PostgreSQL docs are pretty vague about it, so I'll probably need to take a look in the actual code.
Please let me know if you notice any issues with it, or if anything's confusing that I should make sure to document.
And as usual, I've given everyone 10 invites, accessible on the invite page.
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Introduction to x86 assembly, part 1: MOVing numbers around
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Fortnightly Programming Q&A Thread
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads. Don't forget to format your code using the triple...
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, 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?
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The merger between T-Mobile and Sprint could be good for US businesses, despite opposition from state attorneys general and consumer advocacy groups
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Fascinated to Presume: In defense of fiction
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In Norilsk, Russia's most isolated major city, the arrival of high-speed internet gave residents a new window onto the world
9 votes -
Stealthy Russian hacker group resurfaces with clever new tricks
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Papers behind the pistol: Mauser's archives on the Model 1910
4 votes -
1915 Black Pepper Cake recipe
4 votes -
The Internet and the Third Estate
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Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" has been released
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Designing River City Girls' approachable, challenging brawling
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Paedophile hunters went too far
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The Syntax Cliff - Teaching syntax with Elm 0.19.1
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Google Pixel 4 and 4XL review: More than the sum of its sensors
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The #MeToo movement goes in fits and starts. But, suggests Reckoning’s Linda Hirshman, that’s to be expected. Every social change experiences a backlash.
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If PHP were British
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Unusual conversation with Meetup support regarding profile image uploads
I had a problem uploading a profile photo to Meetup today and so contacted support: I can't upload a profile photo so am unable to join a number of groups. The photo just fails to upload and have...
I had a problem uploading a profile photo to Meetup today and so contacted support:
I can't upload a profile photo so am unable to join a number of groups. The photo just fails to upload and have tried a number of different sizes (from 400x400 to over 2000 x 1000) and formats - jpg and png. Something seems to be failing!
I got a fairly quick reply:
What problem do you see when you try to upload a photo? Are you seeing any error messages?
The first thing to check when uploading a photo is the size and format of the image.
Images should be .jpg, .gif, or .png format.
The file size limit is 10MB. (If your file size is already below 10MB, try reducing the size further.)If your image meets these specifications, send the photo to me as an attachment and I'll take a look. I'll also need the link to the page where you're having trouble uploading the photo.
So I sent the image I was trying to photograph (a photo of me with a camera wearing my Refused tshirt) and received this reply:
Profile photos can't have text in them at all (even words written on clothing). It's one of the most common reasons you might have trouble uploading a profile photo. If your photo has any text or lettering, try uploading a different photo.
If that still doesn't work, the next things to check when uploading a photo are the size and format of the image.
Images should be .jpg, .gif, or .png format.
The file size limit is 10MB. (If your file size is already below 10MB, try reducing the size further.)
If your image meets those technical specifications and is free of text, send the photo to me as an attachment and I'll take a look. It's also helpful if you can send the link to the page where you're having trouble uploading the photo.
What? "Profile photos can't have text in them at all (even words written on clothing)"
I pixelated the word "Refused" from the photo and sure enough after uploading the edited photo, it uploaded.
Confused, I sent a reply:
I've pixelated out the text on my tshirt and that seemed to resolve it. It seems to be strange policy? Any reason for this?
And got this bizarre explanation:
To keep our design consistent across all devices, rich text formatting, embedded images, and embedded videos are not supported.
I've replied back to see if the support person can explain what they mean.
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Fortnite's new season has brought the game back to its roots
For at least a year I'd been rather disappointed with Fortnite. It kept appealing to the lowest common denominator and the game that I fell in love with in the end of season 2 (which is almost two...
For at least a year I'd been rather disappointed with Fortnite. It kept appealing to the lowest common denominator and the game that I fell in love with in the end of season 2 (which is almost two years ago) kept changing for the worse. It became less of a Battle Royale game and more of a playground where you never knew what you were gonna get. It kept getting worse through the seasons and I played it less and less. So during season 9 I was only barely hanging on - and once season 10 launched with even more proverbial bullshit, I finally decided to uninstall the game. That was in the beginning of August and I never looked back for a second - I was done with it!
With Chapter 2 however (season 11), it's back to basics. The many weapons have been trimmed and there are only very few left - and none of the crazy ones. It's simpler and easier to navigate, and all the vehicles and movement mechanics have also been scrapped almost entirely. There are no more hover boards, ATVs, golf carts, airplanes, jump pads, rifts, etc. There's a harmless boat, and that's it! So when I saw the trailer for this new version of Fortnite, I reinstalled the game immediately. I've played 9 games now and this is the version I fell in love with - if not better! It's so good in its simplicity. The mechanics with building and whatnot have stayed the same, but the gameplay itself is much improved. It went from chaotic and action-packed to feeling more like a survival game. And the aesthetic of the new map is also just beautiful.
I'm no game reviewer but I thought that this overhaul of a pretty massive game is worth talking about!
Edit: not to mention the marketing stunt they pulled before launching this new version of the game was insanely clever. It made headlines all over the world, they even talked about it on the evening news here in little ol' Denmark!
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Prolific Manga Creator Hideo Azuma Passes Away at 69
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What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
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Karl Ove Knausgård is to become the sixth contributor to the Future Library, which collects works by contemporary authors that will remain unread until 2114
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Sturgill Simpson - Sing Along (2019)
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This month, Las Vegas will let people pay for parking tickets with a food donation
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Tunnelling mole instrument on Mars InSight lander resumes movement into Martian surface
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"Where The Crawdad's Sing" Book Review
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Zion80 - Holy Brother (2016)
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Catalonia has created a new kind of online activism leveraging social media and peer-to-peer technology to orchestrate massive protests
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How Airbnb is silently changing Himalayan villages
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At the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss tournament, two games between high-ranked players on adjacent boards were identical for the first 19 moves, then diverged as soon as one of the games was relocated
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This sure looks like Mitt Romney’s secret Twitter account—Meet “Pierre Delecto”
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In face of rising sea levels the Netherlands ‘must consider controlled withdrawal’
10 votes -
100 hours of name change labor
9 votes