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Former US President Donald Trump falsely claims attack ad used AI to make him look bad
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Las Vegas-S. California high-speed rail gets $3 billion federal grant
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Why railroad tracks don't need expansion joints
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Movie of the Week #6 - Lost Highway (1997)
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
So we have a month with movies from the 1990s and we are starting off with Lost Highway directed by David Lynch from 1997.
Are you familiar with other works by David Lynch and how does this compare? Does it have a certain "90s feel" to it? Feel free to add any thoughts, opinions, reflections, analysis or whatever comments related to this film.
The rest of the schedule is:
- 11th of December: Edward Scissorhands
- 18th of December: The Talented Mr. Ripley
- 25th of December: Home Alone
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Richard Farrant - Ah Alas, You Salt Sea Gods (1500s)
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How the US Secret Service keeps presidential motorcades safe
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The business of bad medicine
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Fooocus - The most user-friendly local image-gen interface to date
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Perusing Pentiment's boisterous bibliography
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Here’s what happened when I taught a fly-fishing course in the waterways of New Orleans
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I was scared to say this to NASA... (but I said it anyway)
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Netflix and Apple open door to bundling with streaming rivals
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Steaks grown from human cells spark interest and outrage [2020]
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GeoGuessr pros guess which Google Streetview images from around the world have been photoshopped
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Reading to Philadelphia train takes a major step forward as it gets federal funding (also, Scranton to NYC)
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Muse Group acquires Hal Leonard
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archive.org went down today
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Anyone else feeling completely exhausted this week? What's making you so tired?
2023 has been one of our busiest years in a decade for me and my partner. We moved house, experienced big career changes, and tackled responsibilities that kept rolling in. The pent up energy from...
2023 has been one of our busiest years in a decade for me and my partner. We moved house, experienced big career changes, and tackled responsibilities that kept rolling in. The pent up energy from COVID years helped us get through it, and I'm proud of how much we've gotten done this year.
Now suddenly I feel like we're so tired, especially this week, after Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving was super low key, we had a video chat with family because some nieces and nephews were sick with flu, so we're not tired from celebrating, it must be something else. It could be the shorter days, like two or three hours less sunlight than a month ago.
We've even gotten emotional and bickered over random petty things, which we usually don't, and I think that boils down to the tiredness too.
Speaking of the flu, there are people getting sick around us at work and the neighborhood, so I'll bet our immune systems are working hard and making us tired too.
What about you all? What's making you tired? What have you had to give up on because you don't have the energy to deal with it?
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Recordings show how the Mormon church protects itself from child sex abuse claims
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Any Star Citizen folks here? I'm a new player with a barely passable rig, looking for tips to make play bearable...
Howdy, citizens! So, after begging, borrowing and stealing, I've managed to piece together what I believe to be a barely capable rig so that I can get into playing this incredible looking game,...
Howdy, citizens!
So, after begging, borrowing and stealing, I've managed to piece together what I believe to be a barely capable rig so that I can get into playing this incredible looking game, but I'm running into a performance issue that makes it pretty unplayable.
Here's my rig:
AMD A-10 6800k @ 4.1 GHz
32 GB Ram
128 GB SanDisk SSD (for the game only, OS is on a similar size Kingston)
GTX 960 for the graphics.Last night I tried running the game from my normal HD, which is a 1tb platter. This did not go well. Just moving my character around in the initial apartment was torture, and using anything in the room was an exercise in frustration to the point that the room ended up looking like a brawl had happened in it before I made it out, with coffee cups and water bottles all over the floor.
So, after I read a few pointers online, I salvaged the SanDisk from a different PC and began reinstalling on that. Today I hope to be able to move around smoothly enough to actually play, but aside from setting every option to its lowest, are there any other little tricks I can use to get it more playable?
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Gaza and the future of information warfare
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Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels
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Israel-Hamas War Megathread, November 27 to December 7
It seemed about time to roll it over. Here's the previous topic.
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What the hell is going on at MAPPA?
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Smartglasses use ChatGPT to help the blind and visually impaired | 5G Playbook
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The weirdest bug I've seen yet
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Looking for favorite easy custard or pudding recipes that are not tapioca
We bought extra milk in a two for one deal. What's your advice for easy ways to use it up? Preferably dessert, but I'm open to suggestions
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How would you organize a global Rock, Paper, Scissors tournament?
A friend and I were bantering about how we should organize a RPS tournament, where the LOSER advanced and was ultimately kicked in the bum by the "winner" of the final round, and also given $10 as...
A friend and I were bantering about how we should organize a RPS tournament, where the LOSER advanced and was ultimately kicked in the bum by the "winner" of the final round, and also given $10 as a pity for being the "greatest loser".
This quickly morphed into daydreams of a global event, culminating in the grand finals at the Mandalay Bay, with coverage by ESPN 12, sponsorship deals, trading cards ("Joe is known for his southpaw stance and shooting from his off-hand which greatly throws off his opponent." and per-year statistics of Win % by rock, paper, and scissors); the whole nine yards.
But it got us thinking... in today's age, would it be difficult to organize a simple RPS tournament GLOBALLY? What technologies would you use? Could you approach it 100% digitally? How would you verify the loser for advancement?
Let's even say someone was willing to put up $20k or even $100k to actually fly winners from each continent or major population region and put them up at the Mandalay Bay (btw - that hotel just came to mind because it was the first to come to mind in Las Vegas) for a 1-day event. Would that change anything?
RPS because the absurdity of it and the zero cost to entry.
We await your thoughts...
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I edited the Netflix Castlevania show's first two seasons into a single, slight-over-two-hours movie
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Matthew von Erick - F Train (2023)
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Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance | Official teaser
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Cillian Murphy & Margot Robbie | Actors on Actors
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Denmark's largest trade union has joined strike action by Swedish Tesla workers, piling pressure on the US electric car company to agree to collective bargaining rights
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Movie review: What Ridley Scott's 'Napoleon' gets wrong about war
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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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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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Film Independent Spirit Awards nominations: Best Feature ‘American Fiction’, ‘May December’, ‘All Of Us Strangers’, ‘Passages’, ‘Past Lives’ and ‘We Grown Now’
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The Boys | Season 4 official teaser trailer
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Early on-demand music streaming required lots of nickels
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A 1990 experiment to test whether we could discern life on Earth remotely
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Some developments in US abortion litigation in response to the Dobbs decision - other constitutional rights such as the right to travel are now in question
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Day 4: Scratchcards
Today's problem description: https://adventofcode.com/2023/day/4 Please post your solutions in your own top-level comment. Here's a template you can copy-paste into your comment to format it...
Today's problem description: https://adventofcode.com/2023/day/4
Please post your solutions in your own top-level comment. Here's a template you can copy-paste into your comment to format it nicely, with the code collapsed by default inside an expandable section with syntax highlighting (you can replace
python
with any of the "short names" listed in this page of supported languages):<details> <summary>Part 1</summary> ```python Your code here. ``` </details>
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Review: A Field Guide to American Houses, by Virginia Savage McAlester
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In the wake of substantial growth, Novo Nordisk's stock price climbs to near-peak levels – investors are asking whether the stock is now hovering in overvalued territory
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KeenWrite 3.5.0: Captions and cross-references
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What does it mean to friend someone online?
Recently my daughter (third grade) has started learning to type at school. It's a Montessori program, so it's a pretty low tech environment overall, which I mention because I don't necessarily...
Recently my daughter (third grade) has started learning to type at school. It's a Montessori program, so it's a pretty low tech environment overall, which I mention because I don't necessarily expect them to have a nuanced view of technology issues.
One of the typing programs they use is nitrotype.com, which adds a competitive gameplay element. However, it also has mechanism to friend another player. Friends can only communicate with stock phrases, so there's not too much "Internet leakage" beyond being able to choose a username.
I set it up for my daughter on her Linux Chromebook (I whitelist things I want her to have and everything else is blocked at DNS). Seeing her interact with it the first time, I realized that she spends as much time "adding friends" as doing the typing.
On its face, this activity is pretty harmless. But I am worried about the patterns it might be creating for her. I'm worried about her uncritically engaging with the dopamine hit of getting a new friend. Or how it shapes her idea of how many friends she has or where idea of her self worth comes from. Or what she thinks friends are.
So after that long preamble, here are some questions:
- How would you explain "friends" in this context?
- Would you distinguish them from other kinds of friends, either real or virtual?
- Would you attach a moral component to the activity? E.g. that it is good/bad or helpful/harmful
- How would you frame it to the teacher? Not so much in terms of whether or not they should do it in the classroom, but what kinds of conversations should they be having about the friends experience?
- If I'm asking the wrong questions, what questions should I be asking instead?
I'm really interested in seeing the perspectives people have on this. My own ideas are a bit murky, but I will put them down as a comment.
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No Fap: A cultural history of anti-masturbation
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What podcasts are you listening to?
First off, hello, I'm new here, and I hope this is an okay place to ask...what podcasts are you all into? Here's some of my favorites: Dispatches from Myrtle Beach: Link from Good Mythical Morning...
First off, hello, I'm new here, and I hope this is an okay place to ask...what podcasts are you all into?
Here's some of my favorites:
Dispatches from Myrtle Beach:
Link from Good Mythical Morning has a conversation with his father. It's a strange mix of funny, heartwarming, raunchy, and endearing.The Newest Olympian:
Mike Shubert from the Potterless podcasts reads the Percy Jackson books (I tried reading along with the podcast because I'd never read them, but couldn't put the books down, so I'm ahead of the podcast now). It's a funny podcast regardless if you've read the books.RadioLab and the new season of RadioLab's More Perfect podcast
If you've never listened to radio lab, just pick any episode. They're interesting and weird and you'll learn stuff. They're just good. The new hosts are still finding their way, but it's still good, so maybe start with some of the older episodes.Judge John Hodgman
- He settles stupid disputes between people...e.g., "Is a hotdog a sandwich" (No.)
Song Exploder
- Even if I've never heard of the song I listen. It's about how songs are made, and it's super interesting.
99% Invisible
- it's about recognizing all the fascinating things in the world around us that we pass by every day without noticing. Always read the plaque.
Oh No, Ross and Carrie
- they do non-sciencey things and then discuss from a science perspective. (E.g., joining a religion, going to flat earth meetings, visiting psychics, getting holistic medical treatments, etc)
This American Life
just interesting stories about people and things in life?The Memory Palace
super cool podcast...usually pretty short that takes things from history and tells the story in just a unique and interesting way.Science Friday
deep dive into science news for the weekBehind the Bastards
all about the worst people in history.Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine
Hilarious podcast about medical historyThe Adventure Zone
The McElroy family plays dnd and other role play gamesThe Moth
people tell personal stories to crowds of people.The Daily
New York Times's podcastWait Wait Don't Tell Me
news comedy gameshow60-Second Science
as describedGood Job Brain
pub trivia podcastA Hotdog is a Sandwich (but it's not)
Good Mythical Kitchen's Josh and Nicole debate food thingsDead Pilots Society:
really interesting. They take scripts from failed TV pilots and hire actors to do table reads of the script. Every other week is an interview with the script's writers too, so you can listen to those if interested or just the table reads if not.Brainstuff:
just interesting tidbits. Short podcasts.I'd love to hear your recommendations!
Edit: Thank you all for all the recommendations! I'm still reading all the posts and adding them to my list to give them a shot!
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Six months from now this channel stops
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