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17 votes
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What are you following this week? Weekly sports round-up thread
Great match-ups? Rivalries? Upsets? Key injuries? It's all game, let's hear it.
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In America, Christmas trees are a multibillion-dollar business. But who’s making the money?
12 votes -
Experiments on a DIY air purifier that takes thirty seconds to assemble
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Worker cooperatives: Bringing democracy to the workplace
12 votes -
Mara Gómez on becoming Argentina's first trans footballer
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Former Houston police captain charged with pointing gun at air-conditioner repairman, believing he was a voter fraud 'mastermind'
12 votes -
According to Need is a documentary podcast in five chapters from 99% Invisible’s Katie Mingle that asks: What are we doing to get people into housing?
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What books are you giving as gifts this year, and why?
'tis the season for "best of the year" / holiday shopping guides for things like books. I thought it would be interesting to sort of crowdsource Tildes' own list. What books did you buy to give as...
'tis the season for "best of the year" / holiday shopping guides for things like books.
I thought it would be interesting to sort of crowdsource Tildes' own list.
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What books did you buy to give as gifts? (I'm specifically thinking of this holiday season, but anytime recently is fair game)
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Who did you get the book for?
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Why did you think they would enjoy the book?
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What should I sing (or say) to myself?
I work long hours and can find myself alone for good stretches. I don't like to spend too much time with my inner monologue, and I haven't reached a level of mindfulness to shut it off, so I've...
I work long hours and can find myself alone for good stretches. I don't like to spend too much time with my inner monologue, and I haven't reached a level of mindfulness to shut it off, so I've been singing to myself. Rocky Top by the Osborne Brothers and Loch Lomond by the Corries have been my favorites. With songs I think folk music works well for its repeating melodies. Also, my brother has sung these songs for hours on end throughout my growing up, so they're in my heart already. I also keep stumbling through Hedy West's Little Sadie and The Stanley Brothers' Over in the Glory Land. Otherwise, I memorized a poem in Russian (Я вас любил by Pushkin) for a class last year, and had previously memorized one in German (Künstlers Abendlied by Goethe). I've still got the former, but will have to refresh my memory on the latter.
I'm wondering what things y'all have memorized or what you think would be cool or fun for me to memorize and rehearse (or meditate over if it's a thinker) during work.
I like the sounds of other languages and have some familiarity with Russian, German, and Chinese. I have a good ear tone-wise, so I'd take a hearty string of notes if there's one that gets to you. I have taken a liking to stoicism over the past year, and also would read any religious text that has a bit of rhythm.
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What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
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GOG bails on selling Taiwanese horror game Devotion
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The 2020 MDN Web Developer Needs Assessment report is now available
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Day 15: Rambunctious Recitation
Today's problem description: https://adventofcode.com/2020/day/15 Join the Tildes private leaderboard! You can do that on this page, by entering join code 730956-de85ce0c. Please post your...
Today's problem description: https://adventofcode.com/2020/day/15
Join the Tildes private leaderboard! You can do that on this page, by entering join code
730956-de85ce0c
.Please post your solutions in your own top-level comment. Here's a template you can copy-paste into your comment to format it nicely, with the code collapsed by default inside an expandable section with syntax highlighting (you can replace
python
with any of the "short names" listed in this page of supported languages):<details> <summary>Part 1</summary> ```python Your code here. ``` </details>
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I just got accepted to do a Master's degree!
I'm dead excited, and I just wanted to share somewhere! Since graduating from my Bachelor's I've been working in IT support, and it's slowly killing me. Progression is slow, the work is boring,...
I'm dead excited, and I just wanted to share somewhere!
Since graduating from my Bachelor's I've been working in IT support, and it's slowly killing me. Progression is slow, the work is boring, and at the end of the day all I have to show for my efforts is (hopefully) a slightly lower number of open tickets than at the start. It all feels incredibly pointless, and like I'm not making a difference in peoples' lives.I decided earlier this year to start looking into possible Master's degree programs, to help me enter a different field, and I'm happy to say that from next September I'll be returning to my alma mater to study Linguistics and English Language Teaching. From there, I'm hoping to go into teaching English as a foreign language, first abroad, and then to immigrants and refugees back here in the UK.
I'm super excited, and also a little nervous. I coasted through my Bachelor's and the past few years of my working life, so it'll be a shock to the system to have a proper workload again. I've got to get through the next 8 months or so first, but that will be easier knowing that I have something different and exciting waiting for me at the end of this particular career path. I'm desperately saving up as much money as I can to cover my living expenses for the year (I don't intend to work during my degree), which is another thing to feel nervous about.
But right now, I'm mostly just ecstatic, and wanted to share! In the interest of discussion, I'd love to hear about your experiences studying a Master's degree, and whether or not it helped you in your life after graduation.
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Teachers in Africa are using radio to keep remote learning affordable and accessible, since many households have no access to internet or a computer
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Kalandra - Brave New World (2020)
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2020 has been marked by irresponsible, unaccountable, myopic behavior by those in power, both in gaming and the world at large
8 votes -
Firefly reboot coming to Disney+
16 votes -
A record breaking number of journalists arrested in the US this year
11 votes -
Google's Blob Opera
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SuperRT - Realtime raytracing on the SNES (walkthrough and technical overview)
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Ten awesome, rigorous, and curated Python interview questions
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The folkloric roots of the QAnon conspiracy
5 votes -
MLB is finally recognizing the Negro Leagues as the Major Leagues they always were
8 votes -
Book recommendations based on which TV shows you watched this year
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Why I post my pronouns and you should too
17 votes -
Gmail suffers another outage
12 votes -
What if we nuke the moon?
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Voices from the pandemic: A Walt Disney World waitress struggles to hold on to her middle-class life amid a pandemic and catastrophic layoff
10 votes -
The fraying of the US Global Currency Reserve System
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The creative mastermind of Minecraft – meet Jens 'Jeb' Bergensten, Chief Creative Officer at Mojang
8 votes -
Surprise! First peek inside Mars reveals a crust with cake-like layers
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Understanding ProRAW: A journey into cameras, RAW, and a look at what makes ProRAW so special
12 votes -
Is computer code a foreign language?
14 votes -
Privacy considerations in large language models
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Sarah Fuller: The trailblazing college football player says her background in soccer and the support of her family helped her make history this season
4 votes -
Pornhub purges ten million videos after losing credit card support
23 votes -
The debate over the detection of phosphine gas, and possible alien life, on Venus
8 votes -
European Commission proposes Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act: New rules for all digital services, including social media, online marketplaces, and other platforms operating in the EU
10 votes -
How science beat the virus
8 votes -
Bandcamp Fridays—the first Friday of each month where Bandcamp waives their fee—will continue in 2021 from February until May (skipping January)
14 votes -
Warnock and Ossoff are testing a new strategy for Democrats in the US south
8 votes -
Janine de Greef, Belgian who helped smuggle downed Allied airmen to safety during World War II, dies at 95
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A deeper, darker look at James Beard, food oracle and gay man: A new biography traces the influence he wielded as a writer and the pain he endured for his sexuality in an unwelcoming world
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New Steam Labs experiment adds new ways to browse games through genres, themes, and player modes
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The empty spectacle of Wonder Woman 1984: The disappointing sequel highlights not only the dire state of the live-action superhero genre, but the dire state of Hollywood filmmaking as a whole
8 votes -
The best books on The Philosophy of Language
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How the Kingston coal ash spill unearthed a nuclear nightmare
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The world's most important body of water: The history of the South China Sea and four men who helped shape it
6 votes