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Daily coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - April 15
This thread is posted daily, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the...
This thread is posted daily, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
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Food expiration dates you should actually follow, and ones you can ignore
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Zvi Mowshowitz's comprehensive review of the new Magic: The Gathering set, Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths
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Earth-size planet in habitable zone found hidden in early NASA Kepler data
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We’re on the brink of cyberpunk
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Iceland's forestry service has come up with a novel way to overcome the sense of isolation many people suffer because of Covid-19 – hug the trees
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Why the Big Bang produced something rather than nothing
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Tax change in US coronavirus package overwhelmingly benefits millionaires, congressional body finds
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Tildes' Book Backlog Burner Event: Week 2 Update Thread
What is this? See here for full details on the event. Post Your Update How did your week go? What books did you get through? How did you feel about them? What's up next for you? (Optional!)...
What is this?
See here for full details on the event.
Post Your Update
- How did your week go?
- What books did you get through?
- How did you feel about them?
- What's up next for you?
(Optional!) Focuses for Week 3
- Books with an aggregate review score of less than 4.0/80% on Goodreads, LibraryThing, or any other review aggregator
- Books that someone else recommended to you
- Non-fiction books
Let's burn through these backlogs!
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Millennials are now the new lost generation
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Official F1 2020 game announced: “My Team”, custom season length, local split-screen, Schumacher Edition
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The death of the Liberal class
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How to encourage clicks without the shady tricks
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Google announces a Journalism Emergency Relief Fund for local newsrooms
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Assassin's Creed II - Free on Uplay until April 17th
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Scientists confirm dramatic melting of Greenland ice sheet – loss largely due to high pressure zone not taken into account by climate models
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Daily coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - April 14
This thread is posted daily, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the...
This thread is posted daily, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
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Denmark may issue securities in foreign currencies for the first time in years to finance programs to support the economy through the coronavirus crisis
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Just like Phoenix LiveView but in Typescript
@beenotung: Like the concept of SSR reactive web but not ready to use dynamic type Elixir for building webapp? TS LiveView get you covered 🤠 https://t.co/Enrprt6G2N https://t.co/elOC0N2vXd https://t.co/W9pdg1FAAr
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Amazon threatens to suspend French deliveries after court order
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Inside the world of hyper-realistic baby doll collecting
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Copper-coated doorknobs to kill COVID? It makes sense, say scientists
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In his book Arcade Game Typography, type designer Toshi Omagari breaks down the evolution, design, and history of arcade game fonts
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Sling TV gives America free 14-day 'quarantine offer,' supports local and state shelter-in-place orders
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The warrant used by Australian Federal Police officers to search the home of journalist Annika Smethurst last year was thrown out by the High Court today
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A Perth man has become the first person in Australia to be jailed for breaching emergency coronavirus laws after he repeatedly snuck out of his hotel room while he was supposed to be in quarantine
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The animated history of Iceland
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Making a home that’s affordable, for good
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This mile-long wooden xylophone plays Bach's Cantata 147 when you roll a ball down it
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San Francisco 49ers’ Super Bowl loss a life-saver for Bay Area? UCSF doctor calls it a gift
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Is macOS truly the holy grail UX for older people?
My mother is 65+ years old and loves everything Apple, but whenever I need to touch her computer I find myself questioning that choice. The degree to which Apple abstract things from the user...
My mother is 65+ years old and loves everything Apple, but whenever I need to touch her computer I find myself questioning that choice.
The degree to which Apple abstract things from the user enables the most absurd behaviors. macOS gives little indication about which programs are open, and the red
x
on the top left corner just closes windows, not apps. Because the session persistence is so robust, the consequence is that my mother's Macbook Air keeps 12+ programs and their states open at all times literally for months. Every time she comes over from another continent, I close a bunch of stuff and get her an instant performance boost. Plus, she's never really sure if a program is open or not.The concept of (work)Spaces, as well as the launchpad, spotlight, or even how Finder really works is beyond her. Because of her over-reliance on the dock, she never enabled autohiding, so her screen real state is always crowded.
Folders are entirely immaterial for her. Everything goes to "Downloads" with no organization whatsoever, and she's always looking for stuff "manually" by reading the filenames.
Her machine is running Mojave, and right now I can only see that finder displays two "Libraries": Documents and Downloads. Linux and Windows have Videos, Downloads, Music, etc. Those are easy to make sense of. What's the supposed Mac alternative? Buy stuff on iTunes. Well, if something is not on Amazon Video or Netflix my mother is a pirate like me (hehe), so she never made sense of it and I truly despise using iTunes for doing anything at all. She also downloads a bunch of media related to her job.
I'm not saying macOS is bad, I'm just asking: is it really the best choice for non-technical older people?
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US President Donald Trump halts funding to World Health Organization, criticizing group's pandemic response
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I wrote a poem - Coming Out 2.0
I'm working on this for a poetry class I'm taking, any criticism is welcome. Edit: Italicized some text I forgot when I copied it out of Word. Edit 2: Fixed some phrasing. Coming Out 2.0 When I...
I'm working on this for a poetry class I'm taking, any criticism is welcome.
Edit: Italicized some text I forgot when I copied it out of Word.
Edit 2: Fixed some phrasing.Coming Out 2.0
When I first came out
I thought it was over.
Done.
I know myself now,
My life can finally be
worthwhile and fun.But there was always a mess I dared
not touch. Who do I like? What gaze
makes me blush? I suspected the feminine
but held out hope – only taking up one letter
made it easier to cope.And some people do change after starting
HRT, so patiently I hoped men would appeal
to me. I had some feelings before, it seemed reasonable
they would grow. But as time went on I realized I had
nothing to show. My feelings for men were entirely gone,
but still hopeful for a straight-passing future, I pressed on.I had definite feelings for women before,
But at times the attraction seemed a bit more –
Did I want to be them or did I want to be with them?
The former I assumed, as it helped to distract,
focus on my work, brush my desires under the mat.I’d think “She looks cute”, but “in that outfit”, “with that hairdo” and other qualifiers
I began to append, convincing myself what I felt was normal and, like a
Chicagoland road, no bend. When I began to notice some feelings bubbling up I said
“Female friendships are close, it’s nothing, the end.” But try as I might, they flowered
and bloomed, and soon I could not help but be all-consumed. Maybe I’m bi, I thought,
That isn’t so bad. More options for dating, how can I be mad? I told my friend my feelings, and as
expected, for me she had none. She’s still one of my best friends, so I’d neither lost nor won.I dealt with the rejection and moved on. I could still be bi, better not
jump the gun. You can’t take back coming out, you’ve got one shot – nail it
and be done. I thought everything would be the same, but the floodgates were open,
my restraints had been broken. I could finally be honest about my feelings
for women (endless, confusing and interwoven) and for men, which were at most
an appreciative token.A week after confessing to my crush, it was obvious
who won. The Sapphic feelings and desires made
their presence known, their intent to stay,
and more difficult than coming out
as trans was admitting
to being gay.15 votes -
Finnish carrier Finnair, which has focused heavily on routes to Asia, says it will deepen its cooperation with China's Juneyao Air
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GitHub's private repositories are now free with no limit on collaborators
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Australian government plans to bring in mobile phone app to track people with coronavirus
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UTF-8 Everywhere
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COVID19 serology is harder than it looks
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Google has made significant progress toward developing its own processor to power future versions of its Pixel phones and Chromebooks
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Bernie Sanders endorses Joe Biden
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Abso-bloody-lutely: Expletive infixation
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Sony announces "Play at Home" Initiative - Offering Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection and Journey to all PS4 users
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XCOM: Chimera Squad announced, releases 4/24
Firaxis just announced a new addition to the XCOM series in the form of XCOM: Chimera Squad. It takes place 5 years after the events of XCOM 2 and focuses on a specific squad of named human and...
Firaxis just announced a new addition to the XCOM series in the form of XCOM: Chimera Squad. It takes place 5 years after the events of XCOM 2 and focuses on a specific squad of named human and alien characters trying to maintain the peace in a one of the new cities.
It's currently $10 on steam, presumably since it looks like it was built on the XCOM 2 engine. The sale lasts until May 1st, so you'll have time to wait until some reviews are out before you buy it.
I absolutely loved XCOM 2: War of the Chosen, so this is a nice surprise for me. Some of my friend who have played some of the older XCOMs are comparing it at least thematically to XCOM: Apocalypse
Edit:
@cwagner provided a link to GMG where its currently $9.509 votes -
Lionsgate to livestream 'John Wick,' 'Dirty Dancing,' 'La La Land,' and 'The Hunger Games' as free YouTube events
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Satisfaction: How the Rolling Stones made tequila a hit
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Shelter in place with Shane Smith & Edward Snowden
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Inhabiting the earth: A new history of raw earth architecture
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Behold Dune: An exclusive look at Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Oscar Isaac, and more
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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?
3 votes