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5 votes
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The fisherman's secret
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What's your favorite track from Africa?
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“Affordances” - A new science-fiction short story by Cory Doctorow about algorithmic bias
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It's time to break up Disney: Part one
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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?
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OpenAI releases the largest version (1.5B parameters) of their GPT-2 language model, along with code and model weights
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Azul: Summer Pavilion - Game overview
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Latin Music lovers
Are there tildies that like latin music? I'm just getting back into it after a long excursion into electronic genres. Do you know and want to share with us some favourite tracks? Some of my...
Are there tildies that like latin music? I'm just getting back into it after a long excursion into electronic genres.
Do you know and want to share with us some favourite tracks?
Some of my favourite stuff, from wildly different genres:
Devine - La Chica Colombiana
Calypso Rose - Calypso Blues
Chica Libre - sonido amazonico
Pericos - Los Pericos
Tigrillios - Cameleon
Dinastya Angelito Y Su Sabor Costeño - Con La Botella En La Cabeza
Mister Cobra - BailaI'm looking especially for traditional styles and good cumbia
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What are your favourite low contrast themes?
What are your favourite low contrast themes? I've seen many high contrast themes, but I would like to see some low contrast ones.
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Typographic Illusions: Ten examples of typographic phenomena
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Few-shot Video-to-Video Synthesis
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The Project Jengo saga: How Cloudflare stood up to a patent troll – and won
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What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
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Diablo IV announced at Blizzcon 2019
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Persona 5 Scramble | Joker trailer
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Vikings killed off Iceland's walruses – ancient DNA says the extinct Icelandic walruses were a genetically distinct population
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Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté - Jarabi (1988)
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Who's making good films?
I'm interested to find out who you think is making good films? I'm also interested in what your favourite film from them is, and why you like it. Feel free to interpret it how you like -- I'm...
I'm interested to find out who you think is making good films? I'm also interested in what your favourite film from them is, and why you like it.
Feel free to interpret it how you like -- I'm interested in distribution as well as production companies, as well as producers, directors, writers, and actors.
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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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Miki Núñez - La Venda (The Blindfold) (2019)
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I accidentally uncovered a nationwide scam on Airbnb
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Climate campaigners are taking Norway's government back to court to oppose its plans to open the Arctic for oil drilling
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'Uncle' by Denmark's Frelle Petersen won the grand prix, the top award, and $30,000 at the 32nd Tokyo International Film Festival on Tuesday
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The African-Italians who want to send migrants home
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New Orleans has failed over the last decade to do urgently needed lead testing, and then buried a 2017 report that would have alerted the public to the lapse
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ISPs lied to Congress to spread confusion about encrypted DNS, Mozilla says
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South Africa win Rugby World Cup 2019
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Why 3D logos fell out of favor overnight
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What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's...
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
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What editor/IDE do you use?
How fast do you think it is and what are your reasons to use it?
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Jackson Pollock deliberately avoided “coiling instabilities” when creating his paintings
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Zack de la Rocha interviewing Noam Chomsky (c. 2000)
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Norwegian police have arrested a high-profile American white supremacist as he was scheduled to address a far-right conference in Oslo
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Edmund McMillen explores the development of Bum-bo
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Voyager 2 illuminates the boundary of interstellar space
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Rich robbers: Why do wealthy people shoplift?
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Designing Facebook's new company branding
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Hackers can use lasers to ‘speak’ to your Amazon Echo or Google Home
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Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (1994)
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Chinese professor sues wildlife park after it introduces facial recognition entry system
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What terminal emulator do you use?
What are your experiences with your current terminal emulator or former ones? What makes you use your current terminal emulator? What shell do you use?
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The Trump campaign has held at least 15 contests since 2018 offering the chance to win breakfast, lunch, or dinner with the President. There is no evidence anyone has ever won.
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First Contact (Internet at 50yrs old) - Dr Julian Onions recalls working to bring the Internet to Nottingham
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Let's talk bags
What are you using to carry your stuff? What stuff are you carrying? What's good/bad about it? What is your dream bag? Anything bag related is welcome.
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Death Stranding: Inside Kojima Productions
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Marvel Unlimited offering two month free trial through Target
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I Built the Sky - Up Into the Ether (2019)
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Nara: Sacred images from early Japan
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Fortnite Pastoral - They rebooted the world
5 votes