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4 votes
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Texas' grid operator warns rolling blackouts are possible as winter storm escalates demand for electricity
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Rush Limbaugh dead at 70
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Meet Elizabeth Ann, the first cloned black-footed ferret
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Portland police officers guard Fred Meyer dumpsters, face off with residents seeking discarded food after power outage
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Are you open about your gaming?
The title question is more of an umbrella one, and I want to state from the get go that I am asking these questions non-judgmentally. I want this to be a space where people can feel safe to...
The title question is more of an umbrella one, and I want to state from the get go that I am asking these questions non-judgmentally. I want this to be a space where people can feel safe to respond honestly.
I’ll also qualify that I’m not asking these impartially, as part of my reason for making this thread stems from some identified frictions in my own life that I’ve been mulling over. I don’t want to prime anyone’s answers, however, so instead I’ll just lay out what I’m interested in hearing about:
- Do you feel that you need to hide your gaming from others?
- Are you honest with others about the amount of time you spend playing games, the types of games you play, or the importance you ascribe to them?
- Do you feel that people judge your gaming habits or status as a gamer negatively?
- Do you identify yourself as being a part of a broader gaming culture?
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The Super Bowl of dissonance
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What creative projects have you been working on?
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on. Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just...
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on.
Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just ideas.
If you have any creative projects that you have been working on or want to eventually work on, this is a place for discussing those.
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After years of prep, NASA's Perseverance rover is ready to land on Mars Thursday
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Ancient Egyptian brewery is the oldest ever found
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The making of football's 'humble' superstar Erling Haaland
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Rae Khalil: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert (2021)
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Greenland's government called a national election after parliament threatened it with a no-confidence vote – coalition torn apart by dispute over mining project
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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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Manchester Orchestra - Bed Head (2021)
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White Ward - Love Exchange Failure (2019)
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The Great Suspender and the problem of malware being introduced into open-source browser extensions
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‘Roaring Kitty’ sued for securities fraud over GameStop rise
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Nearly 100,000 remain without power in Portland as outages stretch into sixth day
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Billionaires see VR as a way to avoid radical social change
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Social media platform Parler is back online with new hosting
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The US' vaccine rollout is world-beating. That doesn't mean it's good enough. But let's take a moment to appreciate it.
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A brief overview of popular slang of the 1920s in the US
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How was the Colossus of Rhodes built? From siege tower to ancient wonder
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COVID/Vitamin D: Much more than you wanted to know
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What's Cajun Mardi Gras? Here's the story
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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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Blips - Episode 8 (Venineth, A Hand With Many Fingers, Lucifer Within Us, Going Under)
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AI alignment problem: Mesa-optimizers and inner alignment
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Boris - Korosu (2002)
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Remembering "All Your Base" twenty years later
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Mario Draghi forms new government in Italy, politicians and technocrats named as ministers
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Badlands – Out Of Reach (2021)
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YouTubers have to declare ads. Why doesn't anyone else?
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Indian government restricts foreign mapping services to one metre accuracy
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Noga Erez - End of the Road [Live] - Kids Against The Machine Vol. 4 (2021)
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The long history of warrior turtles, from ancient myth to warships to teenage mutants
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Tim Cook expanded Apple in ways Steve Jobs used to resist
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What pandemic-related norms would you like to see remain once the current COVID-19 crisis is "over"?
I know that "over" is a nebulous concept as it relates to COVID-19, but I'm using that more as a way of prompting long-term thinking rather than identifying any actual endpoint to the pandemic....
I know that "over" is a nebulous concept as it relates to COVID-19, but I'm using that more as a way of prompting long-term thinking rather than identifying any actual endpoint to the pandemic.
The question could also be phrased: what changes did COVID-19 bring about that you hope will stick around in the years to come?
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Is social media hijacking our minds?
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Organizing life in checklists
I was wondering if anyone organizes their life in checklists, and if so, how people go about doing it. I'm interested in starting to try this, but haven't yet taken the time to do so and I'm...
I was wondering if anyone organizes their life in checklists, and if so, how people go about doing it. I'm interested in starting to try this, but haven't yet taken the time to do so and I'm curious what works for people.
My idea of this came off of CGP Grey's usage, which he often talked about in his podcast with Brady Haran, Hello Internet, but I'm a Windows/Android kind of person and would probably use a program such as Notion, which I'm using for notetaking and other tasks already, to do so.What I'm mainly wondering is how you might structure checklists to a day of the week, and what to include/not include on there. What works for you if you've tried this before, and would you recommend it?
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Children with same-sex parents do better at school than their peers
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Posing as Amazon seller, consumer group investigates fake-review industry
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I'm considering on becoming a first-time dog owner soon, looking for advice
I find myself at a point in my life where I have the time, energy, and money to adopt a dog. Growing up I never had a dog - my parents only had cats. I don't totally know what I'm getting into so...
I find myself at a point in my life where I have the time, energy, and money to adopt a dog. Growing up I never had a dog - my parents only had cats. I don't totally know what I'm getting into so I'm looking for some advice.
I would like to have a moderately active dog, as I live a moderately active life. However, many donation sites list even just moderately active dogs as needing a yard. I live in a fairly spacious 1 bedroom apartment that's in a small complex (5 units) on the ground floor. Does this severely restrict the kind of dogs I should adopt? I know a hyper-active breed wouldn't be happy here. But should I consider myself limited to small, lower needs dogs?
Edit:
Probably important bit of information, I don't plan to get a puppy.
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Natural gas skyrockets again to $500 as blackouts spread in US
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Input from a text file, pull from multiple APIs, formatting output, etc. in Python
I don't need answers so much as an idea of where to start. Essentially, I have a Google Sheet that uses importjson.gs to pull from the following APIs OMDB (IMDB) TheMovieDB TVMaze I also use...
I don't need answers so much as an idea of where to start.
Essentially, I have a Google Sheet that uses importjson.gs to pull from the following APIs
- OMDB (IMDB)
- TheMovieDB
- TVMaze
I also use another script to scrape Letterboxd for ratings.
This works well, but sometimes it'll time out or I'll hit urlFetch limits that Google has in place.
Basically, I'd like to have a text file (input.txt) where I pop in a bunch of titles and year or IMDB IDs, then the script runs and pulls set endpoints from all of these, outputting everything on one line (a pipe as a delimiter.)
My thinking is that I can then pull that info a sheet and run all of the formatting, basic math, and whatever else so it suits my Sheet.
I have a feeling I'll be using
requests
for the JSON andbeautifulsoup
for letterboxd -- or maybe a module.Can anyone point me in the right direction? I don't think it'll be too difficult and should work well for a first python project.
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US Census Bureau announces delay in data needed for redistricting to the end of September
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The current New York Times Best Sellers list for combined print and e-book fiction, scaled according to demand for the e-book at a selection of US public libraries
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February 16th is Fettisdagen (Fat Tuesday) here in Sweden, our name for the Catholic celebration of Shrove Tuesday – bake your own Semla with this easy, traditional recipe
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Rosa Parks' Stanford press conference recording now accessible online
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