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8 votes
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Are sexual abuse victims being diagnosed with a mental disorder they don't have?
9 votes -
The French Laundry’s bong course is a brilliant act of artistry
4 votes -
Dumbo review – Tim Burton remake lands with elephantine thud
7 votes -
Facebook to fight Belgian ban on tracking users, and even non-users
7 votes -
Amazon and Viola Davis to adapt Octavia Butler's novel, Wild Seed
6 votes -
Traveling the Green River to understand the future of water in the West
6 votes -
New York’s Orthodox Jewish community is battling measles outbreaks. Vaccine deniers are to blame.
8 votes -
When we first made tools
9 votes -
Meng Hongwei: China to prosecute former Interpol chief
4 votes -
In Brazil 30 million people live in a 'quasi desert' of news
5 votes -
The long, complicated, and extremely frustrating history of Medium, 2012–present
14 votes -
Tour Championship: Ronnie O'Sullivan beats Neil Robertson to become snooker world number one, for the first time in nine years
10 votes -
[David Matheson, the Mormon] ‘Gay conversion therapist’ comes out: Exclusive interview [to Channel 4]
8 votes -
The best $5,929.10 I ever spent: Moving back to the Midwest
12 votes -
Seven decades after the bomb, children of Hiroshima victims still worry about hidden health effects
8 votes -
How the Dalai Lama's dash from Tibet 'changed the concept of Buddhism' forever
8 votes -
ID@Xbox Game Pass - Indie Showcase - March 26, 2019
3 votes -
Brain implants are happening — are you ready for yours?
21 votes -
Advice for a soon to be college graduate
I am going to be graduating with a BA in Economics in May, and I am overwhelmed, like most people, with all the stuff that I am now responsible for. I was mostly wondering what advice you wish you...
I am going to be graduating with a BA in Economics in May, and I am overwhelmed, like most people, with all the stuff that I am now responsible for. I was mostly wondering what advice you wish you heard when you were 22.
10 votes -
The writing of Rihanna's Umbrella began with a default GarageBand drum loop
6 votes -
How a fantasy baseball league of pioneering indie rock heroes is just like yours.
3 votes -
Cleaning your GitHub profile with a simple Bash script
5 votes -
'Coal is on the way out': Study finds fossil fuel now pricier than solar or wind
13 votes -
“The big error was that she was caught”: The untold story behind the mysterious disappearance of Fan Bingbing, the world’s biggest movie star
12 votes -
What termites can teach us about cooling our buildings
9 votes -
Recreating the World's Oldest Tart Recipe | Munchies
6 votes -
Final Fantasy VII | Launch trailer
7 votes -
The internet's hidden rules: An empirical study of Reddit norm violations at micro, meso, and macro scales
19 votes -
Senate blocks Green New Deal, but climate change emerges as key 2020 issue
8 votes -
In one hour the Orlando Magic will play their most important match since 2012
For those of you not following the NBA too closely you might not be aware but tonight the Magic play the Heat. For about the past month or so the two teams have been battling out for the final...
For those of you not following the NBA too closely you might not be aware but tonight the Magic play the Heat. For about the past month or so the two teams have been battling out for the final seed in the Eastern Conference Playoffs. I'll re-cap why this is so important for the Magic since they're the team I support and maybe some Heat fans can hit back with a reply for why it's so important to them.
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In the 2011-2012 season the Magic entered a dark period called the "Dwightmare" where their best player who had led them to an NBA final Dwight Howard began stirring up drama within the organisation. Dwight was traded in the offseason to the Lakers giving serious deja vu of Shaq's time in Orlando. Since 2012 the Magic have consistently been cursed to mediocrity and missing the playoffs.
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Magic star Nikola Vucevic (a player acquired from the Dwight trade) has been constantly underrated and disrespected by people around the NBA. After 7 seasons Vuc has finally made the All Star team and has led this team to exceed the expectations set at the beginning of the season. It is also important to note that Vuc has not made the playoffs either since 2012 when he was playing with the 76ers.
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The Magic are 0.5 games behind the Heat, whoever wins this match will take the 8th seed from the other and likely bring a lot of motivation and momentum into their next games therefore being more likely to make the playoffs.
There's many more storylines to this match than I've put in here but I feel that this gets the main gist of why it's so important to fans of the Magic.
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Big gods came after the rise of civilisations, not before, finds study using huge historical database
15 votes -
Vice President Pence gives NASA five years to put Americans back on the Moon
14 votes -
What are you reading these days? #15
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it. Past weeks: Week #1 · Week #2 · Week #3 · Week #4 · Week #5 ·...
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it.
Past weeks: Week #1 · Week #2 · Week #3 · Week #4 · Week #5 · Week #6 · Week #7 · Week #8 · Week #9 · Week #10 · Week #11 · Week #12 · Week #13 · Week #14
16 votes -
Change the e-mail address.
Is it possible to change the e-mail address my Tildes account is using? Asking this since I have switched from GMail to ProtonMail and want to move all my accounts over to ProtonMail as well.
8 votes -
How to Deliver Constructive Feedback in Difficult Situations
6 votes -
Every way to cook an egg (fifty-nine methods) | Bon Appétit
8 votes -
The greatest lesson you've learned from classical fiction?
I am currently enjoying a very thought-provoking semester of American Literature. Prior to this class, I wouldn't have considered fiction as useful in my everyday life, as opposed to something...
I am currently enjoying a very thought-provoking semester of American Literature. Prior to this class, I wouldn't have considered fiction as useful in my everyday life, as opposed to something like a self-help book. What I've found is exactly the opposite, and I have found novels such as Great Expectations to be even more influential than anything I've ever read.
So I ask you all, what is the greatest lesson you've learned from classical fiction?
12 votes -
Jussie Smollett case: Chicago prosecutors drop all charges against 'Empire' actor
15 votes -
Louisiana’s disappearing coast - The state loses a football field’s worth of land every hour and a half. Now engineers are in a race to prevent it from sinking into oblivion.
9 votes -
A battle is raging over the largest solar farm east of the Rockies
10 votes -
Behind The Scenes - Jaguar Catwalk - A CG Jaguar That Reacts To The Audience In Real-Time Using AI Gesture Recognition (video)
3 votes -
Make Emacs write (part of) your git commit messages
I was fed up with the chores of writing consistent git commit messages, so a while ago I started developing a hook in Emacs which I used with Magit (actually git-commit-mode) which uses some crude...
I was fed up with the chores of writing consistent git commit messages, so a while ago I started developing a hook in Emacs which I used with Magit (actually
git-commit-mode
) which uses some crude heuristics to fill out theCOMMIT_EDITMSG
buffer for me. Here is what it does (|
stands for the cursor):-
If only a single file modified, insert
<filename>: |
- If can figure out function name, insert
<filename> (<functionname>): |
- If can figure out function name, insert
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If only a single file added, insert
Add <filename>|
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If a
TODO
added toReadme.org
, insert; TODO <headline>|
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If a
TODO
wasDONE
, insert; DONE <headline>|
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If the files are
Readme.org
andReadme.org_archive
, and no new TODO's were added anywhere, insert; Archive DONE|
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If the file is
.gitignore
, insert; Ignore |
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If the file is
TAGS
, insert; Update TAGS|
I extend this when I find new cases where I repeatedly do the same thing. The code is below. It's probably a good idea to use it as a starting point and personalise it because this reflects how I like to write my commit messages (and I like pretending how they do it over at Emacs git repo). It is sloppy and probably buggy, but I don't think it can be destructive.
Final note: I can't figure out how to set this up so that after this takes effect, the buffer is marked as modified. I want to flip the modified bit so that in some cases I can just hit
C-c C-c
and go. But I need to modify the buffer somehow to commit in some cases (I just typeC-o
to open a new line in those cases). Here is the function:(defun gk-git-commit-mode-hook () "Set up git commit buffer." ;; If a single file is modified, prefix the message w/ it. (let ((modified-re "^# modified:") (new-re "^# new file:") (issue-re "^[+\\- ]\\*+ \\(TODO\\|DONE\\) ") current-defun filename addp onlyp issuep) (save-excursion (with-current-buffer "COMMIT_EDITMSG" (goto-char (point-min)) (re-search-forward "^# Changes to be committed:" nil t) (forward-line) (beginning-of-line) (cond ((looking-at modified-re) (re-search-forward ": " nil t) (setf filename (thing-at-point 'filename t))) ((looking-at new-re) (re-search-forward ": " nil t) (setf filename (thing-at-point 'filename t) addp t))) (setq onlyp (progn (forward-line) (not (or (looking-at modified-re) (looking-at new-re))))) (when (and onlyp (equal filename "Readme.org")) (goto-char (point-min)) (when-let* ((pos (re-search-forward issue-re nil t))) (setq issuep (progn (re-search-backward "\\*" nil t) (buffer-substring (1+ (point)) (line-end-position)))))) ;; Try to set ‘current-defun’. (when onlyp (save-excursion (goto-char (point-min)) ;; Error if not found, means verbose diffs ;; not enabled. (re-search-forward "^diff --git") (goto-char (line-beginning-position)) (let ((str (buffer-substring (point) (point-max))) (default-directory (expand-file-name ".."))) (with-temp-buffer (insert str) (diff-mode) (goto-char (point-min)) (setq current-defun (diff-current-defun)))))))) (if onlyp (cond ((and issuep (not addp)) (goto-char (point-min)) (insert ";" issuep)) ((equal filename "TAGS") (goto-char (point-min)) (insert "; Update TAGS")) ((equal filename ".gitignore") (goto-char (point-min)) (insert "; Ignore ")) (filename (goto-char (point-min)) (if addp (insert "Add " filename) (insert filename (if (and current-defun) (format " (%s)" current-defun) "") ": ")))) (when (and (equal filename "Readme.org") (save-excursion (goto-char (point-min)) (re-search-forward (concat modified-re " +Readme.org_archive") nil t)) (save-excursion (goto-char (point-min)) (re-search-forward "\\-\\*+ DONE" nil t)) (not (save-excursion (goto-char (point-min)) (re-search-forward "\\+\\*[\\+\\-] TODO" nil t)))) (goto-char (point-min)) (insert "; Archive DONE"))))) (add-hook 'git-commit-mode-hook #'gk-git-commit-mode-hook)
Hope you find it useful.
12 votes -
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A new Lord of the Rings video game is coming in 2021
7 votes -
IMO, Trump 2020 is better than a non-progressive Democrat
In 2016, I was an ardent supporter of Bernie. But come the general, I voted 3rd party, because I was "Bernie or Bust." Many people accuse me of indirectly voting for Trump, allowing "the worst...
In 2016, I was an ardent supporter of Bernie. But come the general, I voted 3rd party, because I was "Bernie or Bust." Many people accuse me of indirectly voting for Trump, allowing "the worst thing ever" to happen (esp since I'm in a swing state that went Trump). But here's the truth as I see it: Voting Democrat regardless of candidate, with their only qualification being "Not Trump," will only increase the USA's slide (deeper) into fascism.
The reality I see is that even if Trump had never entered the 2016 race, 90%+ of the policy, judicial appointments, and everything else that he has done since being elected would be identical no matter which "R" candidate won the race, because all of these things are exactly what the GOP has been doing for decades. In that regard, I consider Trump more favorable than any other R candidate, because he is at least failing to do his "real" job: Hiding fascist, imperialist policy behind a charismatic smile and some clever words.
Ultimately, this is the reason why I don't generally support Democrats either. Hillary's policy wouldn't have been as immediately destructive as the GOP agenda, but it also would not have stopped the march towards fascism. I voted my conscious in 2016, and will do so again in 2020. I just hope there are more people willing to do the same this time around.
I like to picture that the government of the USA is digging a hole. With every shovelful, we're sliding ever closer to a fully authoritarian fascist regime, and the destruction of our planet. While Trump (and the GOP as a whole) has been calling in for backhoes and drills to speed the process....as far as I can tell, only two candidates in the 2020 primary are calling to stop the digging: Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. At best, the other candidates are conveying messages akin to: "We need to compromise with the GOP and maybe slow down the rate at which we allow new backhoes to be brought to the pit."
In my mind then, it makes more sense for 4 more years of Trump, than to allow another center-right candidate for his opposition. Because at least Trump isn't able to pull off the charismatic smile and/or intelligent language that the Regan's, Bush's, Clinton's, and Obama's of the world have that allow terrible things to continue behind a cloak of "incremental change." It wakes up those who would otherwise tolerate these horrendous acts, and perhaps inspires them to become more active. By allowing for the political discourse to end with "Anything is better than Trump", it just permits the overall platform to gradually, but continually shift to the right.
And in my mind, it is the total death of real, dissenting voices in public discourse that is far, far worse than Trump winning another term could ever be.
I would love to hear if anybody else in this community has had feelings akin to what I've described here, as I've only been described as "insane" by most of the people I've discussed this with in person.
30 votes -
Jobs in southeast Kentucky's coal mines are vanishing. Can green jobs replace them?
4 votes -
Mozambique floods cover more ground than NYC, Chicago, D.C., and Boston — combined
5 votes -
How To Boost Your Home Wi-Fi Signal
5 votes -
Edge-on-Chromium approaches; build leaks, extensions page already live
4 votes -
Kickstarter for Firmament, a "next-generation narrative adventure" from Cyan, has launched
5 votes