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Scientists at Purdue have created a white paint that, when applied, can reduce the surface temperature on a roof and cool the building beneath it
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Diplomats missed a key deadline while negotiating rules for deep sea mining, allowing companies to apply for permits before rules go into effect
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Do you think life was better in the past?
I've seen discussions on here about nostalgia or nostalgic moments. It seems not only in this site, but others find themselves reminiscing about a time long passed. I've seen it popping up more...
I've seen discussions on here about nostalgia or nostalgic moments. It seems not only in this site, but others find themselves reminiscing about a time long passed. I've seen it popping up more and more. Some brush it aside as people being nostalgic about a time when they didn't have to work, but I find myself thinking that the increased rise of people reminiscing about the past is because the quality of life and/or the world itself feels so much worse than it did in the past. I've done this as well, too many times.
What're your thoughts on this?
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What is your favorite type of horror movie antagonist?
Zombies, aliens, kaiju, regular humans (like ghostface), super humans (like Freddie or Jason) demons, vampires, ghosts, or something else I haven't mentioned. What's your favorite type of villian...
Zombies, aliens, kaiju, regular humans (like ghostface), super humans (like Freddie or Jason) demons, vampires, ghosts, or something else I haven't mentioned. What's your favorite type of villian for horror movies?
I've always been partial to zombies, as I think they're the perfect mix of horrifying and unstoppable yet benign enough to not make the main characters feel hopelessly unable to do anything. I guess I find the idea that given the right choices I can make it out alive more interesting than the idea of a ghost/demon where you're just entirely at the mercy of magical powers that you can't do anything against.
But maybe that feeling of complete powerlessness is what some people are looking for in a horror movie.
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Making infrared cooling paint from grocery store items
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Interview: Jerry Tate (62), possibly the oldest watchmaking school graduate ever (SAWTA, CW21 certification)
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Books with WTF premises
Books that make you want to side eye the author, because why....would you come up with that? For example, Frank Herbert, you know, the guy that came up with a beloved series that examines...
Books that make you want to side eye the author, because why....would you come up with that?
For example, Frank Herbert, you know, the guy that came up with a beloved series that examines philosophy, religion, human nature, and the dangers of power, also wrote The Whipping Star - a book about a noirish, twice-divorced space detective who has to free a star from being contractually obligated to be whipped to death by a notorious, billionare dominatrix.
I'm looking for books where the premise is played straight, like the author doesn't know what a little weirdo they're being.
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Americans turning to installment apps Klarna, Affirm to buy groceries
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Megadeth drummer hears "Mr. Brightside" for the first time then efortlessly transforms it into his own unique masterpiece, showcasing the value of learning songs quickly for session work
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If you went to a game-type fantasy world and could take one skill back to Earth, what would you choose?
I wish there was a more concise way to phrase that question. I've asked it a couple times and always get some interesting answers. This is inspired by all the "isekai" stories in anime and manga...
I wish there was a more concise way to phrase that question. I've asked it a couple times and always get some interesting answers.
This is inspired by all the "isekai" stories in anime and manga where a hero is summoned to help fight the demon king, along with the LitRPG genre. They use game-like interfaces to track stats and skills. Not just the typical combat ones like magic or weapons, but mundane skills like cooking, cleaning, walking, resting, drawing, lying, etc. Naturally, higher level skills tend to surpass basic physical limitations found on Earth. You could run faster than a train if your speed is high enough, or sculpt an exact replica of Michaelangelo's David in just a few days with a sculpting skill.
So imagine you got summoned to such a world and went through the whole "defeat the demon king" quest, and could choose one skill to take back to Earth. This includes anything from some specific magic ability like weather control and invisibility, to trained skills like archery and blacksmithing, to even basic stats like strength and stealth. Anything is fair game, but you can pick only one.
So, what skill would you choose and why?
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Sohla and Ham make dinner and dessert with Tajín | Mystery Menu
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Inside Bryan Johnson's anti-aging mansion
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DeAndre Hopkins signs two year deal with the Tennessee Titans
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DOSbox help for a noob - mouse doesn't work at all
First, forgive me for I am a first time DOSbox user. My O/S is Windows 10 home 64-bit I went to old games and grabbed Doom & Doom II. I use to play these quite a bit and remember them fondly. I...
First, forgive me for I am a first time DOSbox user. My O/S is Windows 10 home 64-bit
I went to old games and grabbed Doom & Doom II. I use to play these quite a bit and remember them fondly. I did the easy setup which added DOSbox 0.74 and the game. It loads up and runs just like I remember with the keyboard, just no mouse.
I did searching online, but the only solutions seem to be making sure autolock=true in the config file, and using cntl-F10 to capture the mouse. Toggling cntl-F10 does seem to grab the mouse in that the cursor disappears, but the mouse still will not function in either full screen or windowed mode.
I seem to be missing something obvious, but for the life of me I just don't see it. I'm reasonably computer savvy, but feeling stupid at the moment.
Any advice would be appreciated. TIA
Edit: Forked over the 5 bucks and went with the Steam version. Works perfectly.
Thank you everyone for your advice.9 votes -
Downtown Recovery Rankings
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Longer-lasting light bulbs: it was complicated
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I'm trying to find "mild" horror movies, any suggestions?
To preface, I'm trying to find horror movies that may be considered more on the mild side, something that's more accessible to someone not familiar or comfortable with horror or thriller movies....
To preface, I'm trying to find horror movies that may be considered more on the mild side, something that's more accessible to someone not familiar or comfortable with horror or thriller movies.
Happy Death Day and it's sequel are already on my list, especially since there doesn't appear to be overt nudity / sex and the language is mild.
I suppose it could be described as PG-13 horror, but even the Scream series is actually kinda mild on the gore/violence side of you really break it down, as they have a whodunit plot more than a "let's douse the protags in blood" vibe.Oh and of course Tremors is always on every list of all time great movies.
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‘Boxing is a mess’: The darkness and damage of brain trauma in the ring
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Men are lost. Here’s a map out of the wilderness.
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komorebi - A tiling window manager for Windows 10+
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Sunday Game Jam Review Thread (July 16 2023)
Welcome back to the third weekly game jam thread. Whats a game jam you may ask. Well imagine if you locked a group of game developers in a box for box for some quantity of time ranging from a few...
Welcome back to the third weekly game jam thread.
Whats a game jam you may ask. Well imagine if you locked a group of game developers in a box for box for some quantity of time ranging from a few days to a few weeks and told them to compete with each other by building something around a theme and then judging whatever each other came up with, that's a game jam.
Longtime viewers AKA the 5 people to who looked at the 2 previous threads will have no doubt noticed I missed last week. During an unusually normie weekend I was busy awkwardly standing in a corner at not 1 but 2 different parties and was super tired when I got back I did not want to write this up. I hope you can forgive me. To ensure that this does not happen again I am moving this thread to Sundays which should give me more time flexibility and something to look forward to instead of sitting around dreading the upcoming work week.
Also as a bit of compensation for your troubles today I am linking 2 top quality longer games that you can really sink your teeth into this week. I am 100% cool with someone discussing games from any week in future threads so don’t sweat the time commitment and don’t feel you have to finish the whole game before returning to discuss it. Quality video games shouldn’t have an expiration date.
With that said lets get into the this weeks games
Infinimall: Dream Job!
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux, Android
Authors: Pandora
Genres: Visual NovelComing to you with love from the the folks in the the proverbial vaporwave-dreamworld-liminal-mall-urbex complex, Infinimall: Dream Job! Is a dating sim visual novel set inside a surreal mall and originally written for the NaNoRenNo 2023 Jam. Featuring the Doomer Girl like bisexual disaster Mia(I wonder if its the same Mia as Heart Beat) as she navigates a dead end job and tries to get her dead end life back on track.
According to my calculations the game has about 100 book pages worth of dialogue over all its branches which should be a breeze for the text-only titans that walk the halls of this site.
Hypnagogia
Platforms Windows
Authors: sodaraptor
Genres: AdventureOur second game is also taking us to the dreamworld but this time its inspired by late 90s PSX aesthetics, in particular, the cult classic game LSD: Dream Emulator which is fitting given it comes from LSD Jam 2020. It centers on a gameplay loop of exploring diverse dream worlds inspired by dreams from the developers own dream diary. I think the game is best thought as a sort of drug trip or spiritual experience in the same way as something like Superliminal. Go in with an open mind and I think most people can get something from the experience. This goes double for the games sequel Hypnagogia 無限の夢 Boundless Dreams which is available without DRM on itch.io or with DRM on Steam if you are into that sort of thing.
However long it takes after you awaken from your strange dream let me know what you are thinking. Its okay I won’t die if you don’t like the same games I do though I will be sad. Its lonely walking the path of niche games but you can’t make friends if you never share.
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Every year is someone's year of Linux desktop
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Can cricket crack America? New T20 league aims to take US by storm.
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A new, thin-lensed telescope design could far surpass James Webb – goodbye mirrors, hello diffractive lenses
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The small web and minimalist websites - what are your thoughts and experiences?
I'm a supporter and believer in the small web and minimalist websites (i.e. NOT "minimal design" websites, which are not minimalist more often than not). Some examples: Tildes. Sourcehut....
I'm a supporter and believer in the small web and minimalist websites (i.e. NOT "minimal design" websites, which are not minimalist more often than not).
Some examples:- Tildes.
- Sourcehut.
- HackerNews.
- To a limited degree, the different motherfucking websites (as they are, in essence, websites with no purpose).
- Members of the 512kb club (also see https://10kbclub.com/).
- Tools like Miniflux and Kanboard.
- Pinboard.in.
- And many others.
What is your experience, if any, with the small web?
Which steps have you taken (if at all) to ensure your website is not bloated?
What do you think can be done better both individually as well as globally to make the web a nicer, faster place?Edit: So I don’t look like I don’t practice what I preach, this is my blog. I try and follow the minimalist principles.
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The last WGA/SAG strike started in 1960 – and was won by a young Ronald Reagan
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Alternatives to Goodreads?
I appreciate Goodreads for its pretty extensive catalogue of books, the ability to see reviews from other readers, and the social aspect of following what my friends are reading. However, I find...
I appreciate Goodreads for its pretty extensive catalogue of books, the ability to see reviews from other readers, and the social aspect of following what my friends are reading. However, I find both the website and the app very slow and not very well designed. Plus, I liked to minimize my interactions with Amazon. Has anyone used or built any alternatives? While the features I listed above are nice, the only ones I would really want are:
- The ability to quickly look up and add a book to my "want to read", and to keep track of books I have read
- The ability to leave notes or reviews on books (not necessarily visible to others).
I've started to keep a reading log in Notion which satisfies the second point above, but there's no easy way to search through a data base of books and add a book to one of my lists. It would be nice to be able to do so on the fly as I browse books at the store. So Tildeños, what solutions have you all come up with to track your reading?
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Analysis of thirty long-running farm trials shows crop choice and manure addition can sustain high yields at low fertilizer rates
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I had a severe panic attack two days ago
I am 20 and I was going to move to a different country to pursuit my bachelors. I was going to make my parents proud! But, 2 days ago, I had a severe panic attack in the middle of a night and a...
I am 20 and I was going to move to a different country to pursuit my bachelors. I was going to make my parents proud! But, 2 days ago, I had a severe panic attack in the middle of a night and a terrible nightmare which preceded the attack. I started seeing weird things when I closed my eyes and I couldn’t manage a day without crying and continuously kept having tremors so I sought professional help.
Now, I have been diagnosed with severe depression and moderate anxiety and I have deferred my plans to pursuit my higher education. I was once ahead of my peers and enthusiastic about life but now I just feel stuck in life, I feel worthless, undeserving and a piece of shit. I haven’t accomplished anything in the past 4 years which could work as a groundwork for my motivation and I only seem to fall deeper into despair. I feel as if I won’t be able to accomplish my goals or achieve anything in my life.
I haven't thought of harming myself but I think the fear of not being able to achieve anything might just make me suicidal.
I have found the tildes community to be observant and kind, I was a lurker before and asked someone for an invite just to post this here. I don't know if I am looking for advice or comfort or anything else but I sure wanted to put this out here.
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Smoke clouds and lava as volcano erupts near Icelandic capital – eruption near Reykjavík follows week of small earthquakes in area
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‘We are not prepared’: Disasters spread as climate change strikes
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SAG begins granting waivers to indie productions but plenty of questions remain, not least whether actors will show up
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Parrots taught to video call each other become less lonely, finds research
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America’s therapy boom
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Red Rising series made me start reading again (no spoilers)
Currently on book 3 of the Red Rising series. I've been trying to get back into reading for years but I've felt like "quicker" forms of entertainment (video games, etc.) have broken my ability to...
Currently on book 3 of the Red Rising series. I've been trying to get back into reading for years but I've felt like "quicker" forms of entertainment (video games, etc.) have broken my ability to sit down and focus on a book. Case in point - I've had Red Rising book 1 downloaded to my kindle for years after a friend of mine gave it a overwhelmingly positive recommendation. I tried reading it a few times but my lack of attention span made me fail after just a few pages.
Well all that changed recently when I finally sat down again and gave the book a proper chance by reading more then 3 pages I feel like I'm 14 years old again just crushing books in a few days. Several times I have not been able to put the book down and read until 2AM.
Since the end of June I've finished the first 2 books and am around 1/3rd through the 3rd one.
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This laser repairs OLED phone screens by repairing broken internal traces - without taking the screen apart or even turning it off
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A new bill would force internet companies in the USA to spy on their users for the Drug Enforcement Administration
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Why can't we stop homelessness in the US? Four reasons why there's no end in sight
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Citizen science observation of a gamma-ray glow associated with the initiation of a lightning flash
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About the times American films focused on labor struggle
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Travel deals not credit card based
Wondering if this group has recommendations on some of the best rewards or other savy ways to spend for traveling that are not credit card based? Particular hotel chain, gas station, fast food...
Wondering if this group has recommendations on some of the best rewards or other savy ways to spend for traveling that are not credit card based?
Particular hotel chain, gas station, fast food based. My husband and I do a trip once annually plus to go back to our hometown typically via car and we already get decent credit card rewards for travel but wondering if there are other rewards we might be missing out on?
Next trip were definitely looking at what museum memberships might exist to do or get discounts on several locations during the trip. We do have a local zoo membership that gets us reciprocity when we travel.
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Ms. Marvel coming back as a Mutant in new series, Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant
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Scifi / action (audiobooks)... who would I like next?
I'm in need of "the next" great Sci-Fi / action series to binge on. I've currently gone through read most / all of: Craig Alanson Andy Weir Jeremy Robinson John Scalzi Jonathan Maberry Timothy...
I'm in need of "the next" great Sci-Fi / action series to binge on. I've currently
gone throughread most / all of:- Craig Alanson
- Andy Weir
- Jeremy Robinson
- John Scalzi
- Jonathan Maberry
- Timothy Zahn (all his Star Wars works)
- Max Brooks (WWZ)
- Earnest Cline (RP1/2)
I like Star Trekky plots and plucky nerd protagonists.
Also, I'm finding that I'm getting a bit tired of R.C. Bray (I think he narrates the majority of the above. At some point every snarky AI sounds like Skippy). Marc Thompson of the Star Wars series is an amazing narrator.
Side comment: I'm inclined to listen to a good audiobook just for the narrator's performance alone.
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Best way to use Instagram from a privacy perspective?
If I wanted to create an Instagram to try to build a brand but value privacy, what are some good tips and tricks for using the app and not have all your personal data harvested by Meta? Of course...
If I wanted to create an Instagram to try to build a brand but value privacy, what are some good tips and tricks for using the app and not have all your personal data harvested by Meta?
Of course they're going to collect whatever info I post but are there some mitigation strategies? Always use a VPN? Should I get a brand new phone number?
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Total recall: A brilliant memory helps chickadees survive
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The book To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick by Alden Wicker explores public health and fast fashion
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Movement narcissism: A warning and a guide
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Tuna chewing: Why some say "chube" and some say "toob"
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Why are so many movies super long now?
Was recently discussing this with someone after we saw Dial of Destiny: lots of movies the past few years have been much longer than they need to be. DoD was 2 and a half hours, Spiderverse 2 made...
Was recently discussing this with someone after we saw Dial of Destiny: lots of movies the past few years have been much longer than they need to be. DoD was 2 and a half hours, Spiderverse 2 made the jump from under 2 hours to almost 2 and a half hours. Is there some incentive for studios to make movies longer that we're not seeing?
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