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9 votes
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Cubans begin third day without power as hurricane nears
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2024 World Fantasy Awards - Winners
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US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash
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Dr1v3n Wild
49 votes -
Void Crew | Release date reveal trailer
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What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
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EverCraft
13 votes -
Inside the Norwegian TV station using reporters that all have learning disabilities – every week they put together an hour-long magazine programme covering news, entertainment and sport
14 votes -
FBC: Firebreak | Official announcement trailer
21 votes -
What are Hubble and Webb looking at right this minute?
27 votes -
Twelve years and $700 million later, what's going on with Star Citizen's development?
36 votes -
World of Warcraft 20th Anniversary Celebration patch 11.0.5
14 votes -
The story behind the Oblivion mod Terry Pratchett worked on
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What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
13 votes -
Using Euro coins as standard weights
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Weekly Middle East war megathread - week of October 14
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant Middle East war content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant Middle East war content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
Please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
13 votes -
Axel Flóvent – Moonlight (2024)
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Endweek 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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Gamedev in Lisp. Part 1: ECS and metalinguistic abstraction
9 votes -
The rise of the compliant speech platform
8 votes -
Tildes Book Club - October progress check in. How are you doing with Kindred?
Our next book discussion will be about Kindred by Octavia Butler. Have you started? How is it going? I'm looking forward to discussing with you all.
11 votes -
Weekly thread for casual chat and photos of pets
This is the place for casual discussion about our pets. Photos are welcome, show us your pet(s) and tell us about them!
8 votes -
Did you live in a city then move out? How was it? Did it change your energy towards the day-to-day?
This is such a vague thing to post, but in the past few years I've been wrestling with my increasing introversion. I'm always tired. I was talking about my feelings towards friendships to a friend...
This is such a vague thing to post, but in the past few years I've been wrestling with my increasing introversion. I'm always tired. I was talking about my feelings towards friendships to a friend (without an intent to say anything negative) and found myself surprised at how little I mentioned any benefits from companionships. What weighed on me was the time spent, the work spent, the money spent on trying to "keep people happy." (I have a few other closer friends, so it's not the way I feel about everyone). It's a weird position to be in as someone who had once tried hard to make new friends. I find myself struggling with the guilt for how I feel and the desire to just recess, to focus on myself, and to attend to my desire for stability (especially financial stability-- I feel like things have gotten more expensive). I have deeper and more commitments than I used to, which should make me feel so fortunate. However, as a result, they are also in competition for my time / energy.
I've been feeling really weighted down by this lately, so I'm curious to hear from people who may have gone through something similar. A part of me feels that perhaps if I made my life more stable (a cheaper mortgage instead of renting in a major / global city, a higher paying job, lower-key friendships etc.) then I would feel happier on a day-to-day level.
edit: clarified some things
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Factorio: Space Age | Trailer
42 votes -
Steve Klabnik's Tutorial on Jujutsu (git replacement)
18 votes -
Never missing the train again, thanks to Rust
21 votes -
Investigating the most extreme ancient village in the United States
9 votes -
Karl Ove Knausgård on the magic of Ursula K LeGuin, returning to Virginia Woolf, and the insight of Jorge Luis Borges
13 votes -
Our US disaster recovery system must evolve to respond more effectively to climate change
18 votes -
The "dirty side" of a hurricane, explained
10 votes -
What are your ten favourite movies of all time?
What are your ten favourite movies? My daughter asked me this the other day - we were watching Cabin in the Woods, which is one of my favourites, and I said that it was a top ten movie for me, and...
What are your ten favourite movies? My daughter asked me this the other day - we were watching Cabin in the Woods, which is one of my favourites, and I said that it was a top ten movie for me, and she asked me about the others. Now I want to hear yours!
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Sólstafir – Hin Helga Kvöl (2024)
9 votes -
Weaponised autism and the extremist threat facing children
23 votes -
Tales of Kenzera: Zau dev Surgent Studios puts entire games team on hiatus due to lack of funding
5 votes -
Contraption theory - Or why helicopters are so damn weird
18 votes -
Surviving the Titanic - dining on Carpathia
12 votes -
Alan Wake 2: The Lake House | Expansion launch trailer
16 votes -
Millions of people are using abusive AI ‘Nudify’ bots on Telegram
24 votes -
Formatting Maven Errors
Maven conveniently puts all errors at the end of a build. However, the error messages are not formatted. The errors messages are presented as once giant line via word wrap. I'm on a windows box,...
Maven conveniently puts all errors at the end of a build.
However, the error messages are not formatted. The errors messages are presented as once giant line via word wrap.
I'm on a windows box, using Git Bash to run maven.
I could futz around and make a macro in Notepad++ for formatting the error messages into a more readable format.
Before I go that route I was wondering if maven had any handy settings or if there is some handy utility that will do that for me.
3 votes -
Meta fires staff for abusing $25 meal credits
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Why OpenAI is at war with an obscure idea man
23 votes -
Thinking on storage
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Save Point: A game deal roundup for the week of October 13
Add awesome game deals to this topic as they come up over the course of the week! Alternately, ask about a given game deal if you want the community’s opinions: e.g. “What games from this bundle...
Add awesome game deals to this topic as they come up over the course of the week!
Alternately, ask about a given game deal if you want the community’s opinions: e.g. “What games from this bundle are most worth my attention?”
Rules:
- No grey market sales
- No affiliate links
If posting a sale, it is strongly encouraged that you share why you think the available game/games are worthwhile.
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The lunar Olympic games
4 votes -
Beating every possible game of Pokémon Platinum at the same time
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Subnautica 2 | Official teaser trailer
32 votes -
Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more
35 votes -
Illdisposed – Lay Low (2024)
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Kobo for a casual reader
Howdy, Just this morning I got a wild hair and started thinking about replacing my older Kindle Paperwhite, mostly because something with a a USB-C port would be nice to have. I'm still not sure...
Howdy,
Just this morning I got a wild hair and started thinking about replacing my older Kindle Paperwhite, mostly because something with a a USB-C port would be nice to have. I'm still not sure I'll actually do this, as my Kindle works just fine, occasionally needing a reboot is about the extent of it, as well as the reading time can get janky here and there.
Based on what I'm reading about Kobo, it seems like it offers a bunch of features I'll never use or be interested in. I do not care about customization. I don't borrow from the library. I don't mind buying from Amazon. I rarely read books more than once, so I almost never go back through my collection to see what I have. I don't like ads (I have a PiHole, for example), but the ads on Kindle don't bother me, my brain skips over them, never even noticing. And by casual reader, I mean I read maybe 5-10 books a year, so my Kindle often just sits by my bedside, gathering dust for a spell.
Basically all I do is pick up my Kindle, unlock it and get back to reading whatever I had been, then close the case and set it aside. I like that I can read on the Kindle app on my phone if I've forgotten my Kindle at home. I do read lots of samples on it.
Kobo seems nice and I like an excuse to migrate away from a major corporation, but it's more expensive than a Kindle (I've bought both my Kindles I've owned, used for $40) and seems to offer little that I care about over the Kindle. I'm well aware I can transfer my purchases over, but I'm not sure I care or want to bother with the hassle, so I'm wondering if a Kobo would be at all the right choice and am looking for opinions.
Thanks!
15 votes