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33 votes
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The Mazinger Problem: On “different times,” “lost in translation,” and the role of translators
3 votes -
Rook1e - grape soda (2018)
3 votes -
Strategy Games & Geopolitics: Examining popular strategy games and their connections to Geopolitics
7 votes -
Dressing up a Tudor lady
3 votes -
Dermot Kennedy - NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert (2018)
2 votes -
The men who have taken Wiffle Ball to a crazy, competitive place
6 votes -
The history of passport photos, from ‘anything goes’ to today’s mugshots
9 votes -
Amber Enderton on why Wil Wheaton got chased off Mastodon
13 votes -
How do you back up your data?
...you do back up your data, don't you?
36 votes -
Better CLI Commands
21 votes -
Kokomo - Do it Right
3 votes -
Lawyer was told Russia had ‘Trump over a barrel’
10 votes -
Free copy of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine on Humble Bundle until September 1st
16 votes -
Godot 3.1 Alpha 1 released
12 votes -
Can you help me source this climate change map?
7 votes -
Is Lovecraft supposed to be scary?
Starting to read a lot of Lovecraft, and I'm really enjoying it. I've only read like 5 or 6 of his stories (including Call of Cthulhu and The Dunwich Horror as being the famous ones) and I'm...
Starting to read a lot of Lovecraft, and I'm really enjoying it. I've only read like 5 or 6 of his stories (including Call of Cthulhu and The Dunwich Horror as being the famous ones) and I'm really enjoying it. I think HPL has quickly risen to be among my favourite authors. But I'm not really scared, or terrified by any of his work so far, as I would normally with Horror fiction. Instead, I'm just entertained and fascinated by it. Is this normal? Are you supposed to feel like that with Lovecraft?
17 votes -
"Mugshots" - Three new paintings in the series
10 votes -
Factorio Friday Facts #258 - New autoplace
8 votes -
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) asks FTC to investigate Google's market dominance
17 votes -
The mystery of people who speak dozens of languages
15 votes -
How two thieves stole thousands of prints from university libraries
5 votes -
Eminem - Kamikaze (2018)
11 votes -
How Little Witch Academia got its magic
7 votes -
A robot shoots me when I get shot in Fortnite
11 votes -
Fixing a broken popcorn machine
Album link So we have had this popcorn machine for ages and just recently it completely stopped working. Being a fan of bigclive on youtube I though why not try fix it and maybe get a sense of how...
So we have had this popcorn machine for ages and just recently it completely stopped working. Being a fan of bigclive on youtube I though why not try fix it and maybe get a sense of how it works.
The insides honestly are pretty underwhelming - both the impeller and heating elements are quite small considering it only takes a few minutes to make a bowl of popcorn.
Circuit board and Another shot
Considering how few components there it was not too time-consuming to draw up a diagram. Please excuse the crude drawing.
From what I can tell it uses a bridge rectifier with a some caps to convert DC and even out the signal - and what looks like two resistors to further drop the voltage to the motor, maybe two offered better cooling? idk why they didn't use one. It's also kind of interesting how they used two separate coils for the heating with one of them in series with the motor, that will drop the voltage right?
They also have overheating protection here, with a an sefuse and a thermo switch, it actually has the piece of metal and a contact that will bend away when it's hot, I've only seen these in a textbook. Not sure why there are two types of thermo fuses?
Finding the fault ended up being quite easy, the main heating coil that comes off blue wire had melted. A piece of corn, oil, bits of salt or a mixture had found their way in and somehow melted the wire in multiple places. It cut the circuit so not even the motor was working which was my initial though when it stopped. I wound some solid core wire around the two ends, hopefully it will not unfurl or melt in the heat.
12 votes -
The rise of giant consumer startups that said no to investor money
9 votes -
Chris Marker’s La Jetee Analysis: Mortality and the Illusion of Time
4 votes -
Australian filmmaker James Ricketson has been found guilty of espionage and sentenced to six years in a Cambodian prison
8 votes -
Logged off: Meet the teens who refuse to use social media
39 votes -
What have you been watching/reading this week?
note: title subject to change A few days ago I asked this question and got a few replies, so I figure this idea is worth trying out. If there's enough interest I'll probably move the day that this...
note: title subject to change
A few days ago I asked this question and got a few replies, so I figure this idea is worth trying out. If there's enough interest I'll probably move the day that this gets posted to something more regular for the week like Friday/Saturday/Sunday, but I figured I could make this one and gauge interest for the week.
Anyway, what have you been watching/reading this week?
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 Anilist, MAL, or any other anime/manga database you use!
13 votes -
Fantasy Football team discussion thread
Any Fantasy Football players on Tildes? Post your team here with your league rules and let's rate and discuss each other's teams! Side thought: Are there enough NFL fans here to warrant a Tildes...
Any Fantasy Football players on Tildes? Post your team here with your league rules and let's rate and discuss each other's teams!
Side thought: Are there enough NFL fans here to warrant a Tildes league? That might be fun. There's enough time to draft before the season starts if enough people are interested.
11 votes -
How Cyberpunk 2077 uses asian culture as window dressing
12 votes -
[SOLVED] How is the inbox sorted?
I'm here staring at my inbox for the third time trying to figure out how the hell the sorting in it works. It isn't alphabetically by subject or user, it isn't the recency of the first message...
I'm here staring at my inbox for the third time trying to figure out how the hell the sorting in it works. It isn't alphabetically by subject or user, it isn't the recency of the first message (nor is it the recency of the latest message), and it isn't the number of messages. Testing it now, it also isn't the most recent you've opened, so I have no idea how this works or how to look for anything, not that it's big enough to matter much yet.
Am I missing something obvious? I feel so lost.
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We can't fix the internet (because we conflate social media with the entire internet)
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If you have the "mark new comments" feature enabled, old comments will now be collapsed when returning to a thread
The "mark new comments" feature (which isn't enabled by default) has two main functions: From the listing pages, it shows which topics have new comments (and how many) On the comments page, it...
The "mark new comments" feature (which isn't enabled by default) has two main functions:
- From the listing pages, it shows which topics have new comments (and how many)
- On the comments page, it puts an orange stripe down the left side of the new comments
These are both extremely useful (and you should probably enable it if you don't already have it on), but it was still a bit hard to find the new comments in larger threads, even with them marked. You had to just scroll around and look for the orange stripes.
I've deployed a new update now that makes it so that when you go back to a thread that has new comments, all the old comments will be collapsed, except for the direct parents of the new ones. I've also updated the appearance of collapsed comments so that you can see the first part of the text of the collapsed comments.
No behavior will change if you're not using the "mark new comments" feature, and if visit a thread for the first time or go back to a thread with no new comments, all comments will be expanded as normal. Remember that you can also use the new "expand all comments" button added last week to quickly uncollapse all comments if you want to.
Edit: And if you really don't like it, you can disable it now with the second checkbox at the bottom of the settings page: https://tildes.net/settings/comment_visits
Let me know what you think, and if you notice any issues. This should make navigating large threads a lot easier, and there are also some other interesting possibilities with the "individually collapsed" comments that I'm going to be working on soon. One thing I definitely want to do is add an indication of how many comments are in a particular collapsed chain, since right now you can't distinguish a single collapsed comment from one with (potentially many) replies.
81 votes -
Deadline for climate action – act strongly before 2035 to keep warming below 2°C
20 votes -
Bank of America freezing accounts of customers suspected of not being US citizens
18 votes -
How to view subgroups?
Is there a way to view all the subgroups in a group? Right now I don't see any way to access them without someone directly linking a subgroup. I think it would be helpful if there was a list of...
Is there a way to view all the subgroups in a group? Right now I don't see any way to access them without someone directly linking a subgroup. I think it would be helpful if there was a list of subgroups in each group sidebar, or a link to a page of them.
I just got here, so sorry if this has been covered elsewhere.
4 votes -
DNS Privacy
11 votes -
Cannabis should be added to NAFTA, former Mexican President Vicente Fox suggests
12 votes -
What is cyberpunk? A brief history of the near future.
20 votes -
Elizabeth Warren’s Theory of Capitalism: A conversation with the Democratic senator about why she’s doubling down on market competition at a moment when her party is flirting with socialism
20 votes -
The religion of Whiteness becomes a suicide cult
12 votes -
Mozilla: Changing our approach to anti-tracking
34 votes -
Colin Kaepernick’s NFL collusion case can continue, arbitrator rules
9 votes -
Would you consider it unhealthy to smoke pot twice a day recreationally?
i just started getting into drugs and have found that it's more comfortable to smoke around two bowls a day after lunch and after dinner, i only smoke after i've finished all my tasks for the next...
i just started getting into drugs and have found that it's more comfortable to smoke around two bowls a day after lunch and after dinner, i only smoke after i've finished all my tasks for the next few hours, and i don't let it drain my wallet. opinons? also if anybody here is starchy against legalization please give me your reasons i want to understand both sides of the issue.
19 votes -
The Performance Cost Of Spectre, Meltdown, & Foreshadow Mitigations On Linux 4.19 with Intel & AMD processors
14 votes -
Australia to push EU-style trade deal in Asia
5 votes -
From skyscraper to 'plyscraper': The towering potential of timber
6 votes