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Quentin Tarantino drops ‘The Movie Critic’ as his final film
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David Dunning: discoverer of Dunning Kruger effect on overcoming overconfidence
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Hades II technical test - Live gameplay
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How one author pushed the limits of AI copyright | US Copyright Office grants copyright for work made with AI, with caveat
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Why Gen Z is quietly giving up
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PostmodernJukebox ft. Jack Amblin - It’s Not Unusual (Tom Jones, vintage Fred Astaire style cover, 2024)
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NPR suspends veteran editor as it grapples with his public criticism
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Movie of the Week #25 - Run Lola Run
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
Next up is Run Lola Run (original German title: Lola rennt) from 1999 starring Franka Potente and directed by Tom Tykwer. It won several awards at various film festivals.
Besides any thoughts on this movie, what did you think of Franka Potente's performance in this?
The rest of the schedule for April is:
- 22nd: Aliens
- 29th: Fargo
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Swedish parliament passed a law Wednesday lowering the age required for people to legally change their gender from 18 to 16
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The forgotten war on beepers
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Super Mario 64's invisible walls explained once and for all
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There's a library on the moon now. It might last billions of years.
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How the 18th-century gay bar survived and thrived in a deadly environment
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The free Delta game emulator for iPhones is live on Apple’s App Store
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Copenhagen and Paris mayors exchange lessons learned after huge fires destroy landmarks
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The Museum of Science and Industry abruptly closed for a day last week to allow it to move “military artifacts from archival storage”
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Apple opens the App Store to retro game emulators
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Scammers are targeting teenage boys on social media—and driving some to suicide
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Russia appears prepared to create “environmental havoc” by sailing unseaworthy oil tankers through the Baltic Sea in breach of all maritime rules, says Swedish foreign minister
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gifboy - Create tiny GIF animations in Lua and share them using data URLs
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We need to rewild the internet
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There used to be a people’s bank at the US Post Office
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More than 11,000 evacuated in northern Indonesia as Ruang volcano erupts
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The search for the ultimate home/apartment spring cleaning guide
I've always considered myself a rather clean and tidy person (and get comments from others to that effect), but realized I was never formally taught on best practices for cleaning. There are...
I've always considered myself a rather clean and tidy person (and get comments from others to that effect), but realized I was never formally taught on best practices for cleaning. There are probably things I tend to overlook, things that may not be visible (best practices for cleaning pipes for example). There is likely a lot of "traditional" knowledge on cleaning I don't know.
I am curious if anyone here has some sort of "ultimate guide for spring cleaning" around the house to get everything to a nice deep clean, and some sort of routine on what someone should do every week/month/whatever in order to upkeep this cleanliness over the course of the year.
Not looking for some extreme clean freaks guide but I am genuinely curious as to what I may have missed and overlook as I was never really "taught" how to clean.
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Canadian science gets biggest boost to PhD and postdoc pay in twenty years
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What's something you've been mulling over recently?
What has your brain been spending its time pulling apart and thinking about? It doesn't have to be a complete thought, or something you've come to a conclusion on. It can be as messy or odd or...
What has your brain been spending its time pulling apart and thinking about?
It doesn't have to be a complete thought, or something you've come to a conclusion on. It can be as messy or odd or significant or inconsequential as you feel.
Inconclusive, directionless, stream of consciousness posts are welcome. This is a place to mull over the topic out loud, outside of your head -- not necessarily to take a stance or make a point.
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An electric new era for Atlas
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The dairy industry really, really doesn’t want you to say “bird flu in cows”
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‘It’s plain elitist’: anger at Greek plan for €5,000 private tours of Acropolis
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Energy as a conserved quantity (why it's a useful abstraction)
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This is a teenager
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The great Serengeti land grab
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Introducing AltStore PAL
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Astropulse: Reincarnation | Reveal trailer
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Saudi Arabia and UAE refused to open airspace to Israeli and US aircraft during Iran attack
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Midweek Movie Free Talk
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any films 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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Irene's Entropy - Speak (2024)
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What watch do you wear daily?
There's a recent post on watches, and it appears that there's a sizeable number of “watch people” (?), so I figured I'd ask.
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Orville Peck & Willie Nelson - Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other (2024)
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2020 election lawsuits continue... Smartmatic settles OANN defamation case: Here’s where Dominion and Smartmatic’s other lawsuits stand now
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Russian honeytraps useless against French spies … their wives already know: Documentary on French secret agent culture
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Keanu Reeves joins 'Sonic 3' as Shadow
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Hogzilla or Jaws? Wild pigs kill more people than sharks, research reveals.
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Inuuteq Storch – who is the first Kaalaleq/Inuit artist to have a solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale – aims to capture ‘the Greenlandic everyday’
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Strategies for coping with writers block
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Ukrainians contemplate the once unthinkable: Losing the war with Russia
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AI traces mysterious metastatic cancers to their source
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React: Some comments from a beginner
New job. I've been wanting to learn something new for a while, so I took a project where a lot of React is done. I'm learning it from scratch while I work with React. I have some comments about...
New job. I've been wanting to learn something new for a while, so I took a project where a lot of React is done. I'm learning it from scratch while I work with React.
I have some comments about it.
- React makes front end work a lot more like programming -- I like that!
- Javascript has changed a lot, and for the better, since I last used it over a decade ago.
- The React-Redux tool kit is the bomb. It should be integrated/absorbed into React. I can't see any reason not to use it, even for small applications as it is less wordy wherever you use it.
- The updating of state values should be more automatic, especially for flag variables not tied to GUI components. It is the major source of hassles with React
- Udemy React videos. My company makes them available free of charge to employees. I've sampled videos from a number of courses. I'm not a fan of the instructors showing you how to do things in older, less efficient ways first in a learning/demo project, the ERASING that code to do it a better way. The should include copies of the project at each stage if they do that. I finally figured out that the best way to take notes I can use later is to comment out the old code and put the new more efficient next stage stuff on top.
- React tests really need to improve. They are often more time consuming than the code itself. The tests have forced me to change my code or do needless testing to get the tests to pass. I had one situation where no matter what I did React test said I didn't cover the code until I broke an else clause off into it's one if clause. Blech.
All in all I've been enjoying learning React. It is neat new ( to me ) thing.
I feel sad that I will likely forget it all when I go back to my specialty language.
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In Berlin, I experience icks I never thought possible
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