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38 votes
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Since 1978 ice shelves in North Greenland have lost more than 35% of their total volume, with three of them collapsing completely
23 votes -
Public health experts say narrow lanes should be the default on city streets
18 votes -
Infants are born with syphilis in growing numbers, a sign of a wider US epidemic
18 votes -
Denmark is preparing to make a significant pledge toward a new climate disaster fund, breaking ranks with other developed countries
12 votes -
WeWork files for bankruptcy amid office market downturn
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Steak-umm's raises awareness for the "DEEP FAKES Accountability Act"
29 votes -
YouTube’s anti-adblock and uBlock Origin
96 votes -
Is it possible to have support for theme switching according to system?
I often browse Tildes on my phone, which automatically changes from Light to Dark theme at night and vice-versa in the morning. The issue I'm having is that changing the theme on mobile is more...
I often browse Tildes on my phone, which automatically changes from Light to Dark theme at night and vice-versa in the morning.
The issue I'm having is that changing the theme on mobile is more difficult than on desktop, and I'd have to always be doing it manually.
Other websites can read the theme preference from the browser and automatically adjust. Some even give the users an option to choose which theme to associate with the Light and Dark preferences.
I'd like to propose automatic theme Change as a feature for consideration, since Tildes already supports themes, and customization of which theme is which for a later date.
11 votes -
New system could produce freshwater from saltwater more cheaply than how tap water is made
29 votes -
Mean Girls | Official trailer
9 votes -
Album of the Week #8: Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
This is Album of the Week #8 ~ This week's album is Tame Impala - The Slow Rush Year of Release: 2020 Genre(s): Psychedelic Pop Country: United States Length: 57 minutes Listen! (Album.Link)...
This is Album of the Week #8 ~ This week's album is Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
Year of Release: 2020
Genre(s): Psychedelic Pop
Country: United States
Length: 57 minutes
Listen! (Album.Link)Excerpt from NPR:
As a producer, Parker has more moving parts to balance this time, but he arrives at a deft auteur-pop synergy in which every last decision, down to the assorted cathedral-like reverb effects that lend his voice an otherworldly aura, become as intrinsic to the music as the melodies or the words. Though there's a lot going on in the latticework of the music — springy analog synthesizer arpeggios, guitars doing unguitarlike things, layers upon layers of pastel lushness — the post-psychedelic swirl of The Slow Rush registers as an organic blend, with the songs never feeling cluttered or too tightly scripted.
Discussion points:
Have you heard this artist/album before? Is this your first time hearing?
Do you enjoy this genre? Is this an album you would have chosen?
Does this album remind you of something you've heard before?
What were the album's strengths or weaknesses?
Was there a standout track for you?
How did you hear the album? Where were you? What was your setup?--
Album of the week is currently chosen randomly (via random.org) from the top 5000 albums from a custom all-time RYM chart, with a 4/5 popularity weighting. The chart is recalculated weekly.
Missed last week? It can be found here.
Any feedback on the format is welcome ~~
9 votes -
Can a chef turn a Subway sandwich into a completely different dish?
11 votes -
The bizarre story behind Shinzo Abe’s assassination
84 votes -
Hacking a 25 year old game (Worms 2) to make it work
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Movie of the Week #2 - Drive My Car (2021)
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
This is the second movie we discuss of Academy Award Winners. It also won for Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.
Feel free to add any thoughts, opinions, reflections, analysis or whatever comments related to this film.
The rest of the schedule is:
- 13th of November: L.A. Confidential
- 20th of November: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- 27th of November: West Side Story
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Humble Choice - November 2023
November's Humble Choice is now available with the following eight Steam games: Steam Page Opencritic Steam Recent/All Operating Systems Steam Deck ProtonDB Hardspace: Shipbreaker 83 88/89 Win...
November's Humble Choice is now available with the following eight Steam games:
Steam Page Opencritic Steam Recent/All Operating Systems Steam Deck ProtonDB Hardspace: Shipbreaker 83 88/89 Win Verified Gold WWE 2K23 81 77/81 Win Unsupported Platinum Unpacking 83 94/92 Win Mac Lin Verified Native Friends vs Friends TBC 85/81 Win Verified Gold The Legend of Tianding 81 97/95 Win Verified Platinum SCP: Secret Files TBC 89/89 Win Playable Gold Souldiers 76 80/65 Win Verified Gold Prodeus 82 90/93 Win Mac Playable Platinum Does anyone have experience with any of the games and, if so, would you recommend them? Is there anything in here that you're particularly excited to play?
11 votes -
What comes after Marvel? Better hope it’s not something worse
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Why are American carrots so skinny?
I know this is a weird thing to ask, but google is failing me and I don't have enough agricultural knowledge to know where to start looking. I'm hoping this isn't another food thing I'm the only...
I know this is a weird thing to ask, but google is failing me and I don't have enough agricultural knowledge to know where to start looking. I'm hoping this isn't another food thing I'm the only one who thinks about.
I love carrots but I'm increasingly irritated by the tiny long carrots that I can find in the markets. I just bought a bag of carrots that had a number of them thinner than my pinky finger. In the meanwhile whenever I look at cooking shows on Youtube that are made in other countries they have thicker, longer, or otherwise more substantial carrots. The ones in Japan seem huge; some of them look like they have a 2" diameter!
Is it just that they are using a different variety? If so, why would they be using those tiny ones here?
18 votes -
Sony announces a9 III: World's first full-frame global shutter camera
26 votes -
Zero-electricity floating desalination machines powered by waves
19 votes -
How Denmark destroyed Greenland: Brief history of Denmark's colonialism in Greenland
17 votes -
State opening of parliament 2023 | Live video from 11:15 GMT
11 votes -
Why everyone hates this concrete building, and why brutalism dominates US college campuses
18 votes -
Mike Johnson's 'porn monitoring' remarks spark US national security concerns
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A Qanon cult set up a compound in a small town. The locals are fighting back.
81 votes -
Joe Biden administration issues $16.4 billion in Northeast Corridor rail grants
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Klarna reports first quarterly profit in four years – swing to profit of £9.6m by Swedish firm improves its fortunes in run-up to possible £12bn flotation
9 votes -
If you use ChatGPT or other LLM, how do you use it?
I am interested in how people are using ChatGPT, especially in a professional context. Any tips, tricks or pointers? I would appreciate if the discussion didn't revolve around the technology's...
I am interested in how people are using ChatGPT, especially in a professional context. Any tips, tricks or pointers?
I would appreciate if the discussion didn't revolve around the technology's negative aspects or future perspectives.
43 votes -
Welcome to Aftermath
19 votes -
Sam Bankman-Fried is a feature [of effective altruism], not a bug
31 votes -
A Meta engineer known as an expert at curbing online harassment saw his own child face harassment on Instagram. Now, he’s testifying before the US Congress
19 votes -
TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
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How are your fantasy teams doing?
Every other year besides this one I have suffered from several injuries on all of my teams, but this year I seem to have zero injuries on my two teams. I guess this is great considering I kept...
Every other year besides this one I have suffered from several injuries on all of my teams, but this year I seem to have zero injuries on my two teams. I guess this is great considering I kept Michael Thomas on my team a year or two ago when he was out for nearly the entire season, hoping he would come back and save my team (that didn't happen).
Anyways, just wanted to see if anyone else was doing as well as me, think I have a shot of winning this year which I've never done before.
6 votes -
Big brother, little brother | Shaq vs Kobe
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Firefox will support at least 200 new extensions on Android this December
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Xbox's Phil Spencer considers PS5 and Nintendo Switch players part of the Xbox community
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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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US diplomats privately criticize US public policy stance towards Israel in leaked memo
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Nationalist leader convicted for ordering violence against Polish abortion rights, lgbtq rights, protester “Grandma Kate”
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A cast saw can't cut through skin. Find out why in slow motion.
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Sophia Bogle has nerves of steel: one slip and a century-old first edition book could be ruined. Come inside her workshop as she breaks down what goes into her history preserving specialty.
6 votes -
Which is easier to pull? (railcars vs. road cars)
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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.
20 votes -
Inside the small world of simulating other worlds
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Vanessa Lillie interviews Native American booksellers about their picks for Native American Heritage Month
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‘Fallen Leaves’ and ‘The Zone of Interest’ top European Film Award nominations in main categories
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UnbanCoolies interview with Ashley Hope Peréz, author of Out of Darkness
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Formula 1 Sao Paulo Grand Prix 2023 - Results
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
Interlagos delivers again! Great weekend.
Two weeks until Las Vegas, Nov. 16-19. Which I'll be at -- Well, at least FP1!
Remember, this is an unusual one since it's a Saturday night race.
Results for both the GP and the Sprint Race from yesterday below.
GRAND PRIX Results -- SPOILER
POS NO DRIVER CAR LAPS TIME/RETIRED PTS 1 1 Max Verstappen RED BULL RACING HONDA RBPT 71 1:56:48.894 25 2 4 Lando Norris MCLAREN MERCEDES 71 +8.277s 19 3 14 Fernando Alonso ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES 71 +34.155s 15 4 11 Sergio Perez RED BULL RACING HONDA RBPT 71 +34.208s 12 5 18 Lance Stroll ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES 71 +40.845s 10 6 55 Carlos Sainz FERRARI 71 +50.188s 8 7 10 Pierre Gasly ALPINE RENAULT 71 +56.093s 6 8 44 Lewis Hamilton MERCEDES 71 +62.859s 4 9 22 Yuki Tsunoda ALPHATAURI HONDA RBPT 71 +69.880s 2 10 31 Esteban Ocon ALPINE RENAULT 70 +1 lap 1 11 2 Logan Sargeant WILLIAMS MERCEDES 70 +1 lap 0 12 27 Nico Hulkenberg HAAS FERRARI 70 +1 lap 0 13 3 Daniel Ricciardo ALPHATAURI HONDA RBPT 70 +1 lap 0 14 81 Oscar Piastri MCLAREN MERCEDES 69 +2 laps 0 NC 63 George Russell MERCEDES 57 DNF 0 NC 77 Valtteri Bottas ALFA ROMEO FERRARI 39 DNF 0 NC 24 Zhou Guanyu ALFA ROMEO FERRARI 22 DNF 0 NC 20 Kevin Magnussen HAAS FERRARI 0 DNF 0 NC 23 Alexander Albon WILLIAMS MERCEDES 0 DNF 0 NC 16 Charles Leclerc FERRARI 0 DNS 0 Fastest Lap: Lando Norris
Source: F1.com
SPRINT RACE Results -- SPOILER
POS NO DRIVER CAR LAPS TIME/RETIRED PTS 1 1 Max Verstappen RED BULL RACING HONDA RBPT 24 30:07.209 8 2 4 Lando Norris MCLAREN MERCEDES 24 +4.287s 7 3 11 Sergio Perez RED BULL RACING HONDA RBPT 24 +13.617s 6 4 63 George Russell MERCEDES 24 +25.879s 5 5 16 Charles Leclerc FERRARI 24 +28.560s 4 6 22 Yuki Tsunoda ALPHATAURI HONDA RBPT 24 +29.210s 3 7 44 Lewis Hamilton MERCEDES 24 +34.726s 2 8 55 Carlos Sainz FERRARI 24 +35.106s 1 9 3 Daniel Ricciardo ALPHATAURI HONDA RBPT 24 +35.303s 0 10 81 Oscar Piastri MCLAREN MERCEDES 24 +38.219s 0 11 14 Fernando Alonso ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES 24 +39.061s 0 12 18 Lance Stroll ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES 24 +39.478s 0 13 10 Pierre Gasly ALPINE RENAULT 24 +40.621s 0 14 31 Esteban Ocon ALPINE RENAULT 24 +42.848s 0 15 23 Alexander Albon WILLIAMS MERCEDES 24 +43.394s 0 16 20 Kevin Magnussen HAAS FERRARI 24 +56.507s 0 17 24 Zhou Guanyu ALFA ROMEO FERRARI 24 +58.723s 0 18 27 Nico Hulkenberg HAAS FERRARI 24 +60.330s 0 19 77 Valtteri Bottas ALFA ROMEO FERRARI 24 +60.749s 0 20 2 Logan Sargeant WILLIAMS MERCEDES 24 +60.945s 0 Source: F1.com
Enjoy the break!
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Presenting a new (old) way to solve the "album problem" when streaming music
The "album problem" is, of course, the fact that our music listening habits have changed over the past decade and the value of a well-thought-out album is not nearly what it once was. This is in...
The "album problem" is, of course, the fact that our music listening habits have changed over the past decade and the value of a well-thought-out album is not nearly what it once was. This is in large part due to the fact that it's easy for people to create playlists with a billion different songs to choose from, recommendation algorithms, "Discovery Weekly" playlists, and whatever else the streaming services can throw at us.
I may not speak for all of us, but I've personally not been able to fully consume a new album for quite a while now, finding that I gravitate toward a few songs/singles that get dumped into a separate playlist. I don't like this and I miss the days that I would discover deep cuts in the back of an album that I listened to ad nauseum.
I present to you the "Six Disc Changer" playlist. The rules are simple:
- Create a new playlist in Spotify, Tidal, or your chosen platform. Call it "Six Disc Changer"
- Add six FULL albums to the playlist
- Force yourself to listen to the playlist -- maybe not exclusively -- but a fair amount. Imagine you're driving around in your 2002 Honda Civic and the only music available to you is what you've got in your CD changer.
- Any time you want to add a new album, you must remove an old album. You should only have six CDs loaded up at any time.
If you want to take the concept a few steps further...
- Any time you remove a CD, add it to a separate playlist called "CD Catalogue".
- Any time you want to add a new CD to the catalogue, you must "purchase" it with an "allowance" of your choosing. I'm going with 1 new album per week. You can swap out albums from your Catalogue playlist freely, but new albums must be "purchased." This will simulate scarcity, which was a large part of what drove us to listen to albums over and over again.
But... why?
My goal is to get back to listening to full albums and truly taking them in. The best way I can think of to do that is to simulate the way things used to be. By using a streaming service instead of, say, just going back to CDs or records, you get the benefits of convenience, Last.fm, easy Bluetooth, etc.
As for what's in my CD changer right now, I've got:
- Sufjan Stevens - Javelin
- The Antlers - Need Nothing
- Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
- Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
- George Harrison - Living in the Material World
- Bob Moses - Battle Lines
Is it dumb? Probably. It's been fun so far and my music listening experience has been much more focused.
25 votes