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9 votes
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Depth of field
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Robin Quaison's extra-time winner took Sweden past the Czech Republic and into a World Cup play-off final with Poland
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What did you do this week?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do...
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
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Megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - March 23-24
This thread is posted Monday/Wednesday/Friday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted Monday/Wednesday/Friday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
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Ada Hegerberg has announced she will return to play for Norway at the Women's Euros this summer after a close to five-year absence from the national team
5 votes -
Hannah Gadsby on her autism diagnosis: ‘I’ve always been plagued by a sense that I was a little out of whack’
7 votes -
The great design of the Dutch government
4 votes -
The fifteen-minute bug initiative
6 votes -
The future of lithium-ion batteries
4 votes -
Good web dev communities?
Hey folks. May someone recommend a good web dev community out there for quality discussions? Right now I'm using Vue for a project and I'm wrestling with architectural decisions. I'd love for a...
Hey folks.
May someone recommend a good web dev community out there for quality discussions?
Right now I'm using Vue for a project and I'm wrestling with architectural decisions. I'd love for a place where I can discuss different approaches' trade-offs and merits.
Many thanks. :)
11 votes -
MacKenzie Scott donates $436 million to Habitat for Humanity
11 votes -
Absolute power
4 votes -
Sidewalk robots get legal rights as "pedestrians"
6 votes -
What are you reading these days?
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction or poetry, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit.
6 votes -
eInk calendar display object
I bought a colour eInk screen last summer and had a bit of fun getting it to talk to my shared Google calendar that runs our house. Recently I finally got around to making a frame for it so it can...
I bought a colour eInk screen last summer and had a bit of fun getting it to talk to my shared Google calendar that runs our house. Recently I finally got around to making a frame for it so it can sit somewhere prominent and tell us about upcoming events. It's basically just a raspberry pi zero hat, so it's debian underneath. There's some slightly hacky python to make it (a) talk to Google, (b) mung their API output into something useful, which turned out to be HTML which is then "screenshotted" to create a PNG which can be sent to the eInk display. Updating takes about 30 seconds in total, partly because the pi zero is slow and partly because the refresh rate of the screen is in double-digit seconds. Works in full sunlight though, which is nice, and it's a much nicer screen than it looks in photos.
Screen is this one here. Pi Zero is a pi zero, the frame is flamed oak, the base is beech, the copper is copper. If there are no events in the next week, it shows a random picture instead (and boy, if I thought rendering html was slow on a zero that's nothing on 7-colour dithering a jpg!)
16 votes -
The case for nudity
8 votes -
Modest – Won't Be The Last (2022)
2 votes -
The sanction-fueled absolute destruction of the Russian aviation industry
11 votes -
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is set to extend his term as head of the alliance by another year due to the war in Ukraine, say reports
6 votes -
MacKenzie Scott donates a record $275 million to Planned Parenthood
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Our fundamental right to shame and shun The New York Times
16 votes -
Men | Official trailer
6 votes -
Tyre Extinguishers – deflating SUV tyres as a form of climate action
13 votes -
HBO Max adds a shuffle button to help you find something to watch
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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 are your thoughts on using a website/blog as a resume?
Like the title says, I'm curious if anyone has experience encountering digital resumes. Whether you're an employer or you've used a digital resume yourself how well did it work? Were you more...
Like the title says, I'm curious if anyone has experience encountering digital resumes. Whether you're an employer or you've used a digital resume yourself how well did it work? Were you more likely to hire a candidate because they had a well-rounded website that showed off their skills or was it an immediate discard because it didn't conform to normal practices.
I'm graduating with my MS in organic chemistry this May, and I'm trying to work my way in the job market. A website/blog sounds appealing to me because I can show off data annotations and analyses from failed reactions that normally aren't discussed in papers, so I think it would be a good fit.
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My "final" Oscar winning predictions for the 94th Academy Awards
I might end up switching things around but these seem pretty solid. Best Picture: CODA Best Director: Jane Campion - The Power of the Dog Best Lead Actor: Will Smith - King Richard Best Lead...
I might end up switching things around but these seem pretty solid.
Best Picture: CODA
Best Director: Jane Campion - The Power of the Dog
Best Lead Actor: Will Smith - King Richard
Best Lead Actress: Jessica Chastain - The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Best Supporting Actor: Troy Kotsur - CODA
Best Supporting Actress: Ariana DeBose - West Side Story
Best Original Screenplay: Don't Look Up. Story by Adam McKay and David Sirota. Screenplay by Adam Mckay.
Best Adapted Screenplay: CODA. Screenplay by Sian Heder. Based on the motion picture La Famille Bélier
Best Cinematography: Dune
Best Costume Design: Cruella
Best Film Editing: Dune (Edit: I switched to King Richard)
Best Makeup and Hairstyling: The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Best Production Design: Dune
Best Original Score: Dune
Best Original Song: No Time To Die
Best Sound: Dune
Best Visual Effects: Dune
Best Animated Feature: Encanto
Best Documentary Feature: Summer of Soul
Best International Film: Drive My Car
Best Animated Short: Robin Robin
Beat Documentary Short: The Queen of Basketball (Edit: Switched to Audible)
Best Live Action Short: The Long Goodbye
4 votes -
Dungeons & Dragons’ next anthology is written entirely by Black and Brown authors
12 votes -
Koffee - Shine | Vevo LIFT live session (2022)
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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!
4 votes -
The portentous comeback of humpback whales
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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.
4 votes -
Röyksopp feat. Astrid S – Breathe (2022)
7 votes -
YouTube to stream 4000+ episodes of television for free to US viewers
8 votes -
MGM’s Amazon era begins with big, unanswered questions
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Iceland's last remaining whaling company said it planned to hunt this summer for the first time since 2018
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Maine’s disaster from PFAS-contaminated produce is causing farms to close and farmers to face the loss of their livelihoods
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Analysis by computer science professor shows that "Google Phone" and "Google Messages" send data to Google servers without being asked and without the user's knowledge, continuously
11 votes -
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has heaped praise on Manchester United striker Anthony Elanga as Sweden prepare for their World Cup playoff semifinal against Czech Republic
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Megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - March 21-22
This thread is posted Monday/Wednesday/Friday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted Monday/Wednesday/Friday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
21 votes -
Google said Steam had arrived on Chromebooks, but now says it’s ‘coming soon’
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What examples of Goodhart's law have you encountered in your own life?
Goodhart's law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. For example: my parents' health insurance company incentivized physical activity1 by giving rebates to people that...
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
For example: my parents' health insurance company incentivized physical activity1 by giving rebates to people that got a certain number of steps daily, as measured by Fitbits. While my parents genuinely did make an effort to walk more, there were also days where they attached their Fitbits to the dog, gave them to someone else who was going for a walk, or even aggressively tapped their feet with the device on their knees while sitting in order to meet the measurement. Thus, their step counts ceased being an actual measure of physical activity.
How does this play out in your life, job, industry, field of study, etc.? What measures have been made targets? How has that changed the reliability or validity of the measures themselves?
Also, have you experienced any counterexamples? Are there measures in your domains that haven't succumbed to Goodhart's law? Why do you think that is?
1. This was the face value reason given. I'm more cynical and feel it probably wasn't about physical activity but instead about data gathering.
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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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What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking?
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
6 votes -
itch.io Bundle for Ukraine
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Simple, small, awk analytics HTTP log parsers
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VRoom is an open source, very high performance, RISC-V implementation targeting cloud servers, it's licensed under a copyleft license (GPL3) but also available as a commercial license (like MySQL)
5 votes -
Casiopea vs The Square Live (2003)
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Why coding interviews aren't all that bad
4 votes