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6 votes
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Day 7: Handy Haversacks
Today's problem description: https://adventofcode.com/2020/day/7 Join the Tildes private leaderboard! You can do that on this page, by entering join code 730956-de85ce0c. Please post your...
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python
with any of the "short names" listed in this page of supported languages):<details> <summary>Part 1</summary> ```python Your code here. ``` </details>
12 votes -
The 2020 SANS holiday hack challenge is live!
4 votes -
Hummingbirds get noticeably fatter when they feed
26 votes -
Day 9: Encoding Error
Today's problem description: https://adventofcode.com/2020/day/9 Join the Tildes private leaderboard! You can do that on this page, by entering join code 730956-de85ce0c. Please post your...
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11 votes -
The stock market is less disconnected from the “real economy” than you think
7 votes -
Being-in-the-room privilege: Elite capture and epistemic deference
7 votes -
Hyundai Motor acquires Boston Dynamics from SoftBank for approximately $920 million
4 votes -
The man who found Forrest Fenn's treasure
5 votes -
Boeing’s 737 MAX aircraft is now back in service
3 votes -
Strange object recaptured by Earth, and currently in Earth orbit, is 1966 Centaur upper stage from Surveyor 2 spacecraft
6 votes -
Dirtybird co-founder Worthy announces she is transgender
5 votes -
Covid: 'How a picture of my foot became anti-vaccine propaganda'
11 votes -
No, Mars is not a free planet, no matter what SpaceX says
18 votes -
Five good books for a lousy year - Bill Gates' holiday book recommendations
6 votes -
How primate researchers are protecting great apes from Covid-19
4 votes -
Call of the Sea | Launch trailer
4 votes -
Scientists identified a green, poisonous gas used by Federal agents on Portland protesters
40 votes -
This and that: The duality of Gene Luen Yang
3 votes -
Security company FireEye was breached by a sophisticated attacker and had some of their red-team tools stolen, and are releasing countermeasures for them
7 votes -
Conspiracy theories and fallibilism
3 votes -
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!
4 votes -
My family’s slave
10 votes -
Denmark's prime minister has apologised to twenty-two children who were removed from their homes in Greenland in the 1950s in a failed social experiment
11 votes -
The Skeleton Lake - Genetic analysis of human remains found in the Himalayas has raised baffling questions about who these people were and why they were there
11 votes -
Is there a video downloader extension/program that still works?
In the past I used whatever Chrome extension I found, then moved on to youtube-DLG because Google Play store doesn't allow extensions that let you download off of Youtube. Now neither is working,...
In the past I used whatever Chrome extension I found, then moved on to youtube-DLG because Google Play store doesn't allow extensions that let you download off of Youtube. Now neither is working, on and off Youtube. I'd wager websites are trying to actively fight people downloading videos, even though (I assume) the data is likely identical to what we're viewing in the browser.
9 votes -
Day 8: Handheld Halting
Today's problem description: https://adventofcode.com/2020/day/8 Join the Tildes private leaderboard! You can do that on this page, by entering join code 730956-de85ce0c. Please post your...
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12 votes -
Is it possible to make a laser out of wood?
9 votes -
Rate my homepage!
Inspired by this post on lobste.rs, I thought it'd be fun for us all to post our homepages and talk about them. I'm posting this in ~creative because I think of a homepage as a creative endeavor,...
Inspired by this post on lobste.rs, I thought it'd be fun for us all to post our homepages and talk about them. I'm posting this in ~creative because I think of a homepage as a creative endeavor, but feel free to move this to ~design or ~tech or wherever, mods.
Just post your homepage as a top-level comment, and we'll workshop in replies!
42 votes -
Did youtube just make it so you can't watch embedded videos that have an age restriction without logging in?
I just try to navigate the internet with as little "logging in" as possible. Youtube always had an age restriction that forced you to confirm your age by logging in but it could be bypassed when...
I just try to navigate the internet with as little "logging in" as possible. Youtube always had an age restriction that forced you to confirm your age by logging in but it could be bypassed when watching the video embedded on another site. I just tried for the Hitman 3 trailer on /r/games and it didn't let me. That's the first time this happened. Could it be just some adblock thingy? Or are they no longer letting you watch restricted content without logging in?
10 votes -
Former Israeli space security chief claims an alien "Galactic Federation" has been in contact with humanity for years, but are keeping themselves a secret to prevent hysteria until humanity is ready
19 votes -
What are you following this week? Weekly sports round-up thread
What's going on in the sporting world that's got your interest?
3 votes -
Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built COVID-19 dashboard
39 votes -
K.Flay - Self Esteem (The Offspring cover) (2020)
6 votes -
Day 2: Password Philosophy
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15 votes -
Unwrapping Aztec Tamales | The Tamale Wars
8 votes -
These vehicles are dead for 2021
8 votes -
Three ways to cook a smashburger with three burger experts | The Burger Show
7 votes -
Beat Saber (and the Oculus Quest 2)
The first time I saw beat saber was this gameplay video in 2018 and I immediately fell in love with it. I adored the concept and wanted to play it so badly. There's a VR arcade close to my place,...
The first time I saw beat saber was this gameplay video in 2018 and I immediately fell in love with it. I adored the concept and wanted to play it so badly.
There's a VR arcade close to my place, where I actually played Beat Saber for ~30 mins last year. Lots of fun! And last week, I bought and received an Oculus Quest 2 and finally played it by myself.
First of all, god damn that is a good game. It's perfect at making you feel like you're naturally good at it, too. Or maybe I actually am. With only ~4 hours of played time I'm doing hard or expert on most new songs with faster song mode (+20% song speed). Which has this weird effect of making me feel like that's the natural pacing of the song… super, super weird when they are ones I already know, as now the version I know feels slowed down.
The campaign felt short and a bit too easy, with one exception (1-hand expert $100 bills with max 4 misses… spent 2 days on that. Looks like I'm not the only one having problems with it). Though it's been frustrating in places; I find the whole "you need to make at least x mistakes to win this level" pretty ridiculous. Min/max movement is an interesting mechanic but I'm not fond of the execution.
I have some frustrations with the game. No replays I can save to show off the most awesome combos. Hit detection feels way off on some levels. I haven't tried online mode yet, pretty excited about it.
But god daaaaamn it's an awesome game. I'm finally playing something again! I haven't really played any video games since … shit, almost two years. And the workout you get is fantastic. I am finally getting a handle on my lockdown atrophy.
Ben Brode once said: "Make your games super easy to get into. The longer it takes me to get into your gameplay, the less interested I will be in playing your game. Except for Beat Saber: I will jump through any hoop just to play that."
And that brings me to the Oculus Quest 2. I was a 2020 original Oculus Rift kickstarter backer. I actually tried the first dev kit. A pretty awesome and unique feeling, but all that for shitty resolution, motion sickness and 4 cables hanging off your head.
Well, it's all gone. Integrated audio, fully wireless, good resolution, no cables, no base station, no PC required. And the features just blow my mind. IR cameras to detect objects around you, the guardian mode with its virtual barriers, the pass-through mode which lets you see outside the oculus without removing it (killer feature). Casting support so it's easy to show your gameplay to friends in the same room. Oh and hand detection?! This is some Star Trek shit.
I recall my reactions to touching and playing with the first iPhone: "Wow, this is game-changing." - Such is my reaction to the Oculus Quest 2. VR is now a console that is, frankly, cheaper and less intimidating than owning a playstation-type console or some such (after all, you need a TV for those). It's on the same level as the Nintendo Switch. I know a lot of people who are greatly intimidated by VR and this removes almost everything scary about it.
Incremental progress is weird; sometimes you stop following the various upgrades in a field and suddenly you catch up and it's mind-blowing.
The problem with the Quest 2 is still the lack of true killer games. Right now, I bought a $400 Beat Saber game… though, it's still worth it. Like Ben said: any hoop.
(I also got The Room VR because I'm a sucker for these kinds of games and it came highly recommended)
17 votes -
Attack on Titan Season 4 has launched
11 votes -
The more boneless, skinless chicken breasts I sell, the worse I feel
17 votes -
Kimchi making, in pictures: Originally a means of preserving vegetables during winter, kimchi is emblematic of Korean cuisine and accompanies almost every meal served in the country
6 votes -
New Zealand's Ministry of Health has released the source code for the NZ Covid Tracer application on GitHub
10 votes -
FedEx and UPS hit companies with unexpected holiday shipping limits
9 votes -
How Overwatch conveys character in first person
7 votes -
Does it make sense to grow fish in indoor tanks? Inland farms offer an alternative to diminishing wild Atlantic salmon stocks, but the price tag is higher carbon emissions.
4 votes -
Garry Kasparov vs. Deep Blue: The historic chess match between man and machine
4 votes -
We had the vaccine the whole time
24 votes -
"Important, Spoofing" - A zero-click, wormable, cross-platform remote code execution in Microsoft Teams
10 votes -
Volleyball star Hayley Hodson had it all, until blows to her head changed everything
5 votes