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10 votes
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Tottenham Hotspur have completed the signing of Dejan Kulusevski on a permanent deal from Juventus
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‘The Flash’ disappoints with $55 million debut, Pixar’s ‘Elemental’ flops with $29.5 million in battle of box office lightweights
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Anyone interested in joining a small, tightly-run accountability group?
I am co-admin of a small Discord group (currently 5 members; we like to keep it up around 7-9) that is dedicated to enthusiastic, interactive accountability, support, task management, habit...
I am co-admin of a small Discord group (currently 5 members; we like to keep it up around 7-9) that is dedicated to enthusiastic, interactive accountability, support, task management, habit tracking, yada ... all that good stuff. Atomic Habits is one of our popular guiding stars.
And, yeah, we've lost a couple of members recently, and we're looking to invite a few new people to the group.
This is an active group. We expect people to contribute (at least) daily, both regarding their own efforts, and in helping/supporting others in their efforts. One of the things we try to emphasize is providing active support and feedback to others, rather than just posting our own goals and efforts ... this is one of the areas where we feel that "traditional" accountability buddies/groups fail.
Drop me a DM if you're interested, and we can discuss details.
Edit: Thanks for the replies. I think we have enough "new blood" for now. If you're still interested, just keep an eye out for another invite post in a few months, when membership starts to flag.
16 votes -
One person was killed and several injured in a roller coaster accident at the Gröna Lund amusement park in Stockholm
22 votes -
US President Joe Biden's Federal Transit Administration announces $1.7 billion in grants for electric bus fleets and infrastructure
34 votes -
The Website Obesity Crisis
39 votes -
Tips and tricks for remaining scheduled and motivated with unscheduled time?
I've always had a fairly structured routine life (clock in/out of work) and am able to stick to deadlines/routine in this format. There are only a few times in my life when I have more...
I've always had a fairly structured routine life (clock in/out of work) and am able to stick to deadlines/routine in this format. There are only a few times in my life when I have more unstructured time and have to self-employ deadlines and things tend to fall apart during those instances (staying up late wasting time -> wake up late -> vicious cycle). I find when I'm held accountable to others (eg showing up for an appointment or a start time for work), things go fine, but when I'm only accountable to myself things tend to fall apart fairly quickly.
I'm sure many of you have jobs / hobbies where you work remotely and have to come up with your own schedules and am wondering what tips and tricks you've accumulated from your experiences that you would be willing to share that have been helpful for you to accomplish your goals?
I have a few months of free time coming up, and am hoping to make the most of it to improve my personal / professional life and make progress on my own personal projects/hobbies.
Some tips / tricks that I will be employing that have been somewhat helpful in the past:
- Creating a schedule for myself at least a day ahead
- Using time-blocking websites to block or temporize access to certain websites (I like coldturkey for PC)
- Minimizing distractions (putting phone on do not disturb / airplane mode), working in a quiet environment
Interested in what tactics you have all successfully employed in your own lives!
20 votes -
The AI art apocalypse
25 votes -
RIP to my Pixel Fold: Dead after four days
29 votes -
Big Giant Circles - HappiNESs (feat. Disasterpeace) (2011)
6 votes -
Aly & AJ - Don’t Need Nothing (2021)
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How do you find community after leaving a religion?
Hi Tildes! Long time lurker here who recently got an account. I love the long-form thoughtful discussion here and thought this might generate some interesting replies. I and my partner left a...
Hi Tildes! Long time lurker here who recently got an account. I love the long-form thoughtful discussion here and thought this might generate some interesting replies.
I and my partner left a high-control religious community (fundamentalist evangelicalism, think a Canadian version of the Shiny Happy People doc) eight years ago, and the experience was like a bomb going off in our life that we still find ourselves recovering from in many ways.
Growing up in that environment led to us having an extremely strong, and very possibly distorted, sense of what community is. People that treat you like family; bringing meals when you're sick, throwing you wedding showers, helping with home repairs, being shoulders to cry on... the works. Of course, as we later found out, this community could very easily be turned against you by certain powerful members of it, and it turned out there were many many strings attached that only became visible once we bumped up against them. When we left Christianity our entire community essentially disowned and ghosted us and we were left adrift.
It's now been eight years and we've managed to develop some friendships with folks that we hang out with once in a while, but nothing that even approaches the level of closeness and "family" that we felt in the church.
But maybe that's not normal or a realistic expectation? The funny thing about being so immersed in a subculture like that your entire life is that when you're suddenly on the outside of it, you realize you don't really have any idea what normal is. I still feel like I don't a lot of the time.
So: What insight can you share? Has anyone had a similar experience? What do your social communities look like out here in the real world? How do you find them?
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How does the "collapse old comments when I return to a topic" feature work?
I have the "collapse old comments when I return to a topic" setting turned on, but I can't quite figure out how it works. For example, when open a new topic for the first time and scroll through...
I have the "collapse old comments when I return to a topic" setting turned on, but I can't quite figure out how it works. For example, when open a new topic for the first time and scroll through the comments, the next time I open the topic, they're all still open.
Does anyone have more details about how this feature works or how I should be using it?
Thank you!
19 votes -
POOP - Performance Optimizer Observation Platform
4 votes -
A big gravitational wave announcement is coming thursday. Here's why we're excited
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Any vegans on Tildes?
If so, how did you become vegan, why, and what has your experience been like?
50 votes -
Frame walk spacing in Super Smash Bros. Melee
12 votes -
‘Black Mirror’ gets the software update it sorely needed in season 6
25 votes -
The famous Nuclear Gandhi glitch in Civilization is a hoax
52 votes -
iPhone support -- SMS verification codes not appearing as autofill. Help?
My phone used to autofill the 2-factor SMS verification codes used when logging into a site. I can't remember when or why, but suddenly it doesn't appear, and I have to... (gasp) type in the SMS...
My phone used to autofill the 2-factor SMS verification codes used when logging into a site. I can't remember when or why, but suddenly it doesn't appear, and I have to... (gasp) type in the SMS code manually.
SOLVED:
Autofill SMS codes only work with Safari.
8 votes -
Organizing self-hosted classical music collection
I'm currently using Navidrome to self-host my music collection, while using DSub to listen on-the-go. This works very well for most genres, except for the bulk of my music which is classical...
I'm currently using Navidrome to self-host my music collection, while using DSub to listen on-the-go.
This works very well for most genres, except for the bulk of my music which is classical music. This presents its own host of problems pertaining to cataloguing and using metadata, since there are often multiple recordings of the same musical composition, recorded by multiple conductors with different orchestras and/or soloists. There may also be different instrumental arrangements of the same musical piece. Merely sorting by "Artist" is therefore quite unsatisfactory in this scenario.
Some streaming services have come up with quite satisfying solutions in my experience (notably Apple Music Classical and Idagio), but I am not sure how to go about listening to my own self-hosted classical music.
Is anybody here on Tildes familiar with this organizational problem? I would be very eager to hear how you have tackled this. Is there any self-hosted software more suitable to cataloguing musical collections with extensive metadata?
13 votes -
LastPass users locked out due to MFA resets
64 votes -
Jeff Geerling: I'm done with Red Hat (Enterprise Linux)
32 votes -
You may soon have to pay more to drive that SUV in New York
37 votes -
“Musical main characters” in Tears of the Kingdom
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Shopping for induction ranges
With all that's been coming out in recent years about the negative health impacts of burning gas indoors even with good ventilation, I've been looking into replacing the cheap gas range that came...
With all that's been coming out in recent years about the negative health impacts of burning gas indoors even with good ventilation, I've been looking into replacing the cheap gas range that came with my house which had been less than amazing to use anyway with a nice induction range.
I have no experience with induction ranges however and have no idea what idea what to look for. I grew up with traditional coiled-eye electric ranges where even "bad" models are still functional, but slow to heat up.
What models have those here had good experiences with, and what are the gotchas? I've done some looking around already and it seems like it's not as simple for going for a high-end option… even top of the line Bosch units seem to have a surprising number of "it ate my dog and insulted my grandmother" types of 1-star negative reviews, and it's hard to tell if that's just noise or something that should be paid attention to.
EDIT: Specifically, I'm looking for standard 30" oven combo slide-in unit. Storage drawer is preferred over second oven.
Thanks!
26 votes -
The Early History Of Smalltalk
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Do C programmers usually create and curate a personal library for their own use?
I've been using mostly C at my current job for about half a year now, and I find myself reusing some little function that I've written for another code base in current projects. I'm relatively new...
I've been using mostly C at my current job for about half a year now, and I find myself reusing some little function that I've written for another code base in current projects. I'm relatively new to this, so I'm wondering if it makes sense to have a repertoire of general purpose utility functions and whatnot for future use.
I mean, the language's pretty established and whatever I think of must have been written by somebody else already, so is there even a need for what I'm talking about? Are there well-known open source libraries that resemble what I am talking about? Should I just include them instead of writing my own?
Sorry if this is a bit vague. General purpose as in string manipulation, debug output, buffer operations, implementations of data types not in C, etc., just to name a few examples.
32 votes -
Greek elections: Mitsotakis hails conservative win as mandate for reform
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What apps/plug-ins/extensions etc do you use to improve Youtube on desktop?
My experience with the extensions below is solely from Firefox. For livestream chat, I use Hyperchat mostly for the cpu usage reduction. Youtube-shorts block (Firefox,Chrome) forces shorts to play...
My experience with the extensions below is solely from Firefox.
For livestream chat, I use Hyperchat mostly for the cpu usage reduction.
Youtube-shorts block (Firefox,Chrome) forces shorts to play in the regular video player, avoiding the horrid shorts UI.
32 votes -
Inside the secretive world of penile enlargement
19 votes -
How to clean up the space taken by old Snap and flatpak files
When Snap and\or flatpak install or update packages they do not always do so cleanly Snap for example can keep up to 3 previous versions on updating and if you are struggling for space then this...
When Snap and\or flatpak install or update packages they do not always do so cleanly
Snap for example can keep up to 3 previous versions on updating and if you are struggling for space then this can be a Bad Thingtm
These couple of pages show a good reliable way to tidy up and get back some disk space
SnapPlease note, I am not the author. The articles are on a website called debugpoint.com and does not carry a credit
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Traffic AI | Feature highlights #2 | Cities: Skylines II
20 votes -
Bartending made easy: Mix up a Pump-tini!
2 votes -
Warner Bros. needs to stop copying Disney and let its superheroes fly solo
25 votes -
Relatively early 2024 Oscar predictions
I just realized I haven't made a full post with Oscar predictions since January (did one for the Globes and one for the Guild). Well now that we're half-way through the year, here's where I think...
I just realized I haven't made a full post with Oscar predictions since January (did one for the Globes and one for the Guild). Well now that we're half-way through the year, here's where I think the current Oscar race stands:
Picture:
- The Holdovers
- Oppenheimer
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Dune: Part Two
- Barbie
- Past Lives
- The Zone of Interest
- The Killer
- Saltburn
- Anatomy of a Fall
Director:
- Christopher Nolan - Oppenheimer
- Martin Scorsese - Killers of the Flower Moon
- Alexander Payne - The Holdovers
- Denis Villenueve - Dune: Part Two
- Jonathan Glazer - The Zone of Interest
Original Screenplay:
- The Holdovers
- Past Lives
- Saltburn
- Anatomy of a Fall
- May-December
Adapted Screenplay:
- Barbie
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Oppenheimer
- Dune: Part Two
- The Zone of Interest
Lead Actor:
- Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer
- Paul Giamatti - The Holdovers
- Leonardo DiCaprio - Killers of the Flower Moon
- Barry Keoghan - Saltburn
- Colman Domingo - Rustin
Lead Actress:
- Margot Robbie - Barbie
- Greta Lee - Past Lives
- Natalie Portman - May-December
- Sandra Huller - Anatomy of a Fall
- Annette Bening - Nyad
Supporting Actor:
- Robert Downey Jr. - Oppenheimer
- Robert DeNiro - Killers of the Flower Moon
- Ryan Gosling - Barbie
- Jesse Plemmons - Killers of the Flower Moon
- Teo Yoo - Past Lives
Supporting Actress:
- D'avine Joy Randolph - The Holdovers
- Lilly Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon
- Emily Blunt - Oppenheimer
- Julianne Moore - May-December
- Rosamund Pike - Saltburn
Cinematography:
- Oppenheimer
- Dune: Part Two
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- The Killer
- The Zone of Interest
Film Editing:
- Oppenheimer
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Dune: Part Two
- The Holdovers
- The Killer
Sound:
- Oppenheimer
- Dune: Part Two
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- The Killer
- Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning - Part One
Original Score:
- Oppenheimer
- Dune: Part Two
- The Zone of Interest
- The Killer
- Past Lives
Original Song:
- "Dance the Night" from Barbie
- "Quiet Eyes" from Past Lives
- "More of Us" from Wish
- "Gonna be You" from 80 For Brady
- Original Song from Wonka
Production Design:
- Barbie
- Dune: Part Two
- Oppenheimer
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Wonka
Costume Design:
- Barbie
- Oppenheimer
- Dune: Part Two
- Wonka
- Killers of the Flower Moon
Hair and Make-up:
- Oppenheimer
- Dune: Part Two
- Guaridans of the Galaxy Vol. 3
- Renfield
- Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
VFX:
- Dune: Part Two
- Oppenheimer
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
- Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning - Part One
- Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Animated Feature:
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- How Do You Live?
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
- Wish
- Nimona
7 votes -
The history of how US school buses became yellow
13 votes -
Madeon - Gonna Be Good (2023)
11 votes -
If you would like to add a feature to Tildes, what would you recommend?
What missing feature on Tildes would you like to see being implemented?
114 votes -
Wagner head says group standing down after claims of deal
70 votes -
Meta Quest+ subscription service
5 votes -
Welcome to the next generation of agricultural drones
9 votes -
What, in your opinion, are the best true wireless earbuds for the price?
My Soundcore earbuds recently kicked the bucket a bit too quickly for my taste, so I'm looking to spend more than $40 on my next pair. However, I'm not enough of an audiophile to get top of the...
My Soundcore earbuds recently kicked the bucket a bit too quickly for my taste, so I'm looking to spend more than $40 on my next pair. However, I'm not enough of an audiophile to get top of the line Bose/Sony ones. What is the best mix of good price and quality you've found out there?
41 votes -
The Apple Vision Pro headset is a stupid product on the surface, but it is a calculated move that can bring Apple to the holy grail of computing: true augmented reality
17 votes -
Somalia faces worst drought in decades, leading to record number of displacements
Somalia faces worst drought in decades, leading to record number of displacements — Toronto Star Somalia is facing the worst drought in four decades, devastating floods and more than 30 years of...
Somalia faces worst drought in decades, leading to record number of displacements — Toronto Star
Somalia is facing the worst drought in four decades, devastating floods and more than 30 years of conflict, leading to a record number of displacements this year, with more than a million people fleeing their homes in just 130 days. This brings the total number of internally displaced people to nearly four million, which is close to a quarter of the country’s population. In desperation, some mothers are poisoning their babies with detergent and salty water to trigger illnesses and thus receive free food from health centers. This food, instead of being given to the sick child, is sold to provide for the whole family. Source
17 votes -
Linux 6.4 debuts
9 votes -
Apple fixes zero-days used to deploy Triangulation spyware via iMessage
8 votes -
Wes Anderson’s secret weapon: The camera moves of Sanjay Sami
8 votes -
Weekly megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - June 22
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic,...
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - 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.
If you'd like to help support Ukraine, please visit the official site at https://help.gov.ua/ - an official portal for those who want to provide humanitarian or financial assistance to people of Ukraine, businesses or the government at the times of resistance against the Russian aggression.
51 votes