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6 votes
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A spectre is haunting Unicode
18 votes -
The fishermen and the sea
5 votes -
US is unprepared for the health challenges of climate change, experts warn
9 votes -
Strong 6.4 magnitude quake strikes Indonesia
5 votes -
Thinking allowed
3 votes -
As economics improve, solar shines in rural America
8 votes -
How's your day going?
How's it going? What's the best thing to happen today? What's the worst thing to happen today? Why did it happen? I made good progress on angular components for work. Figured out how to test...
How's it going? What's the best thing to happen today? What's the worst thing to happen today? Why did it happen?
I made good progress on angular components for work. Figured out how to test mocked http requests.
Worst thing is that I should've left about an hour earlier from work. But at least that means I can leave earlier tomorrow.18 votes -
What are you working on this weekend?
This is a thread to discuss the projects you have planned for the weekend. Previous threads: 2018-06-16
28 votes -
A web app to test connected gamepads and controllers in your browser [OC]
5 votes -
Zimbabwe gears up for first post-Mugabe election
5 votes -
Bitfi's hardware wallet is terrible
4 votes -
It’s Rubens vs. Facebook in fight over artistic nudity
5 votes -
These mice have brains that are part human. So are they mice, or men?
7 votes -
Ten years left to redesign lithium-ion batteries
9 votes -
VicForests says experiment 'very likely' to kill threatened glider, continues research
4 votes -
The terrifying rise of alt-right fight clubs
7 votes -
"Where were you radicalized?"
In all the discussions about whether "alt-right" should be tolerated, I tripped over the curiosity rock about what causes people to form or change political beliefs, what constitutes extremism,...
In all the discussions about whether "alt-right" should be tolerated, I tripped over the curiosity rock about what causes people to form or change political beliefs, what constitutes extremism, whether or not people come to realize they hold an extreme position, and how we can restore balance.
I got caught having a bad knee-jerk reaction here, and while I don't think my conclusion was wrong, it's taking a bit of work to unpack all of the knowledge, experience, and ideological biases that underlie it.
So, Tilders, was there a formative moment in your life (or close family/friend's experience) that set you on a course to uphold and defend a particular ideology, or did your position evolve over time?
Do you feel your adherence is "radical" or "extreme", and/or have others told you that you're an extremist/radical/ideologue?
What (or who) does your position make you unable to tolerate, if anything (or kind of person)?
Has your belief changed over time, or what do you think would change it?27 votes -
Tildes writing prompt week 2!
You're home alone and watching TV. Yawning, you tilt your head to loosen up the knots in your neck and out of the corner of your eye see a dark, fast, blur. When you focus on that spot, you can't...
You're home alone and watching TV. Yawning, you tilt your head to loosen up the knots in your neck and out of the corner of your eye see a dark, fast, blur. When you focus on that spot, you can't see anything, so you turn back and continue watching. It happens again during a blink, but as you turn your head you almost catch it. Another round of this and you are positive you aren't going crazy, so you blink but turn your head as you open your eyes.
Shout-out to Mozzribo for the idea. I hope this is inspiring enough to the writers out there! If anyone is interested in doing a prompt next week just say so in the comments. Thanks everyone!
14 votes -
Need help dispelling myths about how hackers access websites
I hope I’m posting this in the correct place. I’ve been having a disagreement with someone over the abilities of hackers. I kinda hope Deimorz pops in because he wrote automod. I said that the...
I hope I’m posting this in the correct place. I’ve been having a disagreement with someone over the abilities of hackers. I kinda hope Deimorz pops in because he wrote automod.
I said that the only way for someone to gain access to a subreddit to make changes is if they steal a moderator’s account password or they are added to the mod team. The person I’m having a disagreement with believes that adding text to the wiki for users to view (like the extensive wiki r/skincareaddiction has) would make it easier for hackers to insert malicious code in order to gain access to the sub. This person also mentioned being able to change the subreddit through browser tools. She insists the sidebar and wiki are potential access points for scripting attacks. Automod just so happens to be enabled which is why I mentioned Deimorz.
I’m not an IT professional. My brothers currently are which helped me learn most of what I know. I’ve supplemented that over the years with whatever info I came across online. What she’s saying sounds like crazy town to me. But since I’m not a hacker, is there a way to use the sidebar or wiki area to hack into a subreddit?
Thanks in advance to anyone who pities me by providing a detailed answer to this thinly veiled request to help me win an internet argument 🙇🏾♀️.
10 votes -
Old Poems from a Summer
Dans la vie intérieure, le temps tient lieu d'espace. (In the inner life, time takes the place of space.) Simone Weil, La Pesanteur et la Grâce (Gravity and Grace) Inside [the black hole's event...
Dans la vie intérieure, le temps tient lieu d'espace.
(In the inner life, time takes the place of space.)
Simone Weil, La Pesanteur et la Grâce (Gravity and Grace)Inside [the black hole's event horizon]… [what used to be a spatial
coordinate] is the time. … The singularity… is not a place in space; it
is a moment in time.
James B. Hartle, Gravity: An Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity
In my old poems I saw
the sentimental one
scenting sighs, seeing scars
everywhere, twisting them
into words, arranging words
so they fit in a grid,
regular, repeating.Preoccupied, she wanted the answer
to the only question: What had made her
like this? An effect that sought the cause and
nothing else. Her city caught in a verdant
early summer day, light abounded; she
felt time had been running out silently.How much has really changed ever since?
I now have an answer, and more.
She made me; cause, effect. Questions!
How will I be? What will I be?
What am I?I am a tiny bit of what she wasn't:
the all-embracing space and time beyond
her self, her fear of being forgotten,
solitude unwitnessed, and pain futile.I am not just her descendant either.
Holding her precious gift of exposed self,
I too am exposed to what I am not,
asking how much has changed, what I'm changing.
This is a new one I wrote today.
Edit: replaced one "the" with "an".
6 votes -
Scientists say ‘not face’ is universal part of language
5 votes -
IVF at forty: Revisiting the revolution in assisted reproduction
3 votes -
A record-breaking microscope
10 votes -
Natus Vincere vs Team Liquid / ELEAGUE CS:GO Premier 2018 - Semi-Final / Post-Match Discussion
Natus Vincere 0-2 Team Liquid Dust 2: 13-16 Map stats: https://www.hltv.org/stats/matches/mapstatsid/70934/natus-vincere-vs-liquid Overpass: 9-16 Map stats:...
Natus Vincere 0-2 Team Liquid
Dust 2: 13-16
Map stats: https://www.hltv.org/stats/matches/mapstatsid/70934/natus-vincere-vs-liquidOverpass: 9-16
Map stats: https://www.hltv.org/stats/matches/mapstatsid/70939/liquid-vs-natus-vincereTeam Liquid upset NaVi to move on to the Grand final
3 votes -
US Congress demands Jeff Bezos explain Amazon’s face recognition software
15 votes -
The troubled quest for the superconducting wind turbine
5 votes -
'The discourse is unhinged': how the media gets AI alarmingly wrong
6 votes -
Dead game news: (Lawbreakers, Ubisoft and streaming, Steam)
3 votes -
Motherhood in the age of fear
11 votes -
Why some environmentalists hate Captain Planet
5 votes -
Kadokawa Cinema Shinjuku reopens as anime-exclusive theater
4 votes -
Yes, Hellmann’s has frozen over. Mayonnaise ice cream is here.
2 votes -
New York moves to kick Charter Spectrum cable out of the state
11 votes -
How does the comment removing work?
Someone posted comment, I wrote a response (here), but when I wanted to send it, I got this message: Comment not found (or it was deleted). After I refreshed, the comment was gone, not even...
Someone posted comment, I wrote a response (here), but when I wanted to send it, I got this message:
Comment not found (or it was deleted)
. After I refreshed, the comment was gone, not even something like[deleted comment]
.Do someone know how the comment removing work?
9 votes -
Sysadmin Appreciation Day
Barely half an hour ago, I wrote a comment linking to this entertaining piece and re-discovered this little snippet: Most people don’t even know what sysadmins do, but trust me, if they all took a...
Barely half an hour ago, I wrote a comment linking to this entertaining piece and re-discovered this little snippet:
Most people don’t even know what sysadmins do, but trust me, if they all took a lunch break at the same time they wouldn’t make it to the deli before you ran out of bullets protecting your canned goods from roving bands of mutants.
Having not had a dedicated sysadmin to help me with the myriad of headaches I've had to deal with over the last few months, this has only proven to me to be a truer statement than I had ever realized. Then, out of curiosity, I decided to look into when sysadmin appreciation day was. It turns out that, quite serendipitously, it happens to be today.
So, with that in mind, I thought I would take a moment to remind you all to remind your sysadmins just how much you appreciate them keeping the roving bands of mutants at bay with all that they do. And to those of you who are yourselves sysadmins, keep being awesome :)
29 votes -
Casual Conversation 27/07/2018 - for random chit chat and nonsense that doesn't fit elsewhere.
Share a story, ask a question, or start a conversation about (almost) anything you want.
13 votes -
Angelo Cruzman - Dr Peppers Lonely Soda Drinkers Club pt1
2 votes -
Catalog of Fania Records, the Motown of latin music, is sold
5 votes -
Daily Tildes discussion - general plans for the week
It's been a few weeks since I did this, but I'd like to start getting back into the routine of using the Monday post for a general outline of how I'd like to see the week go. So for this week,...
It's been a few weeks since I did this, but I'd like to start getting back into the routine of using the Monday post for a general outline of how I'd like to see the week go.
So for this week, here's my general intentions:
- I added some new groups today, so I'll want to see how those are looking, and think about whether some other adjustments are needed soon.
- I'm planning to make a proper blog post (on blog.tildes.net) about the site being open-sourced tomorrow morning. This may end up getting a burst of attention for the site again if it gets some traction on HN, programming/open-source subreddits, etc. (but it's hard to predict if that will happen or not)
- Related to the above, I think it's about time to start actively trying to bring some more people in again. The site's size has been fairly constant for a few weeks now, and it's been pretty stable in terms of activity, so I think bringing in more users is a good idea. The blog post may help with this, but we'll also probably do another official invite thread on /r/tildes or look for some other possibilities.
- Various work related to the open-sourcing. There are multiple merge requests open for features/fixes that I need to review, and I'd like to put more work into the documentation, filling out the issue tracker, and so on.
- Get user pages paginated. I think this is my top priority for a feature to implement personally now, and I believe I should be able to do it this week while working on the other items. My current intention is to start out by only allowing users to look through their own full history, and leave that for a few days to allow people to go back and edit/delete anything they want to. After giving a bit of time for that, I intend to enable it for everyone. We can talk a bit more about this, but that's my current plan.
Feedback and suggestions for those plans (or other ones, if you think I'm prioritizing the wrong things) are welcome, thanks.
48 votes -
How to survive a twenty hour Basque breakfast
5 votes -
Adobe Flash’s gaming legacy — thousands upon thousands of titles — and my efforts to save it
10 votes -
For any given product, why is the iOS client often the best client?
Background: I was deciding what to do since we use Atlassian’s Stride and it will be sunsetted. For us, the options are Teams or Slack. I’m going to give Teams a try since we already pay for it....
Background:
I was deciding what to do since we use Atlassian’s Stride and it will be sunsetted. For us, the options are Teams or Slack. I’m going to give Teams a try since we already pay for it. Someone I know also happens to be a PM there. I texted him “wow, Teams iOS has a 4.7 rating in the App Store!” He said, yes, it’s probably our best client. It made me realize that this is very often the case. The iOS client is often the best client for many services.Questions:
Do you all find this to be true as well?If so, why do you think this is? iOS itself? iOS app guidelines? iOS devs are more product minded? Android device fragmentation?
Any and all thoughts appreciated.
note: I am mobile OS agnostic, I use them all (both) regularly.
12 votes -
Imran Khan’s battles have only just begun, after Pakistan’s ‘dirtiest election’
4 votes -
Bingeable book series - light reads for summer.
You know the kind I'm talking about - a series of fiction novels (generally falling into urban fantasy/sci fi/straight fantasy) based around a main character (or small group of characters),...
You know the kind I'm talking about - a series of fiction novels (generally falling into urban fantasy/sci fi/straight fantasy) based around a main character (or small group of characters), nothing overly serious, though they may sometimes touch on serious topics. Fun, fluffy reads with engaging characters that leave you wanting more. The main drawback of a lot of these series is that the starring characters can turn into Mary Sues REAL FAST (Looking at you, Harry Dresden), but I'm ok with that.
A few examples:
- Jim Butcher - The Dresden Files
- Kim Harrison - The Hollows
What series have you enjoyed?
8 votes -
Myths, monsters and the maze: How writers fell in love with the labyrinth
2 votes -
Colombian journalists say death threats reflect 'ugly' climate under new leader. They say ‘dangerous new atmosphere’ has emerged since Iván Duque, a fierce opponent of the peace process, took power
5 votes -
Daily Tildes discussion - Just... try to relax a bit
Today I want to talk about a pattern that seems to keep happening—someone makes a post that's on the low effort end of the scale, and people freak out in response. Multiple users attack the poster...
Today I want to talk about a pattern that seems to keep happening—someone makes a post that's on the low effort end of the scale, and people freak out in response. Multiple users attack the poster in the thread itself, at least one separate meta post gets made about it, people send me messages concerned about the direction of the site, etc.
This really isn't necessary. Every instance of a post being a bit outside the lines isn't a harbinger of the site's impending doom. I know that a lot of you are passionate about having a higher-quality community site, but it doesn't mean that everything even slightly outside that goal needs to be viciously suppressed. It's okay to just ignore some posts here and there (or nicely point out that they don't really fit the site's goals), we don't need to try and chase off anyone that dares to post a joke or a cat gif.
So... just try to relax a bit, it'll be okay. Tildes is still very new, and there's a lot to figure out. The site's got a lot of growth and evolution in its future, and it doesn't need to be run with an iron fist from the very beginning. I promise that there's a solid vision for the site and I'm going to make sure it goes in that direction, but every minor deviation from that goal doesn't need to be destroyed. One of the most important parts of these early stages is to build up a good base culture, and we really don't need the community to feel extremely unwelcoming with people scared to post anything because it might be judged "too low effort".
148 votes -
Programming Challenge: creative FizzBuzz
Pretty standard: Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print “Fizz” instead of the number and for the multiples of five print “Buzz”. For numbers which...
Pretty standard:
Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print “Fizz” instead of the number and for the multiples of five print “Buzz”. For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print “FizzBuzz”.
The twist: come up with the most creative or unusual way to solve this in your language of choice.
39 votes -
Why Pollies Want You To Fear African Gangs [video 7m 53s]
3 votes