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When you’re trans, living with your parents can be complicated
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Neon Genesis Evangelion is out on Netflix. Discussion Megathread.
Neon Genesis Evangelion is out on Netflix. I'm thinking to use this topic as the megathread to discuss the (re-)watch, to avoid flooding the Tildes Activity feed with one topic per episode. To...
Neon Genesis Evangelion is out on Netflix. I'm thinking to use this topic as the megathread to discuss the (re-)watch, to avoid flooding the Tildes Activity feed with one topic per episode.
To borrow a past Tildo's approach, I ask that any top-level comments contain ONLY the episode number, such as "Episode 13" and no other text.
Press the Collapse replies button, find the top-level comment for the episode you care about, and reply under that top-level comment. If there's not yet a top-level comment with that episode number, create it.
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Internet Public Radio: Cheb Gero - Anti Apartheid (30 June 2019)
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Root-level Remote Command Injection in the V playground
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How language governs our perceptions of gender
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Nine genre and mood-inspired playlists I've been building since a few years
Hey there, Someone suggested I add this here, hope you enjoy my collection of music. Been collecting/doing write ups about my favourite tracks since 2013 (~4.5k posts) and last year I started...
Hey there,
Someone suggested I add this here, hope you enjoy my collection of music. Been collecting/doing write ups about my favourite tracks since 2013 (~4.5k posts) and last year I started re-thinking how to organize music + putting together playlists on the major streaming platforms.
Chill Beats | lofi hip hop, chillhop & jazzhop
Spotify | Apple Music | SoundCloud | YouTube
Groovy Beats | instrumental hip hop, soul, funk & bossa nova
Spotify | Apple Music | SoundCloud | YouTube
Funky Flavors | electro funk, break beats, hip hop & electro soul
Spotify | Apple Music | SoundCloud
Soulful Hip Hop | hip hop, neo soul, jazz & r&b
Spotify | Apple Music | SoundCloud
Acoustic Escape | indie, acoustic, folk & folktronica
Spotify | Apple Music | SoundCloud
Dance Vibes | nu disco, electro, funky house, indie dance, french house
Spotify | Apple Music | SoundCloud
Ambient Space | downtempo, chillstep & trip hop beats
Spotify | Apple Music | SoundCloud
Bass Waves | future beats, future bass, electronic dance and trap
Spotify | Apple Music | SoundCloud
Lush Vibes | r&b, soul & future beats
8 votes -
A comprehensive survey of possible MH370 paths
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Portland police offer no proof that protesters had milkshakes with "quick-dry cement"
38 votes -
The pitfalls of searching for alien life
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America needs to see Amazon’s tax returns
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How do you fit a video game's interpretation with its source files?
Given a movie with ambiguous story, you have multiple options to base your interpretation upon: you have the movie itself, the screenplay if available, what the author said in interviews or books,...
Given a movie with ambiguous story, you have multiple options to base your interpretation upon: you have the movie itself, the screenplay if available, what the author said in interviews or books, etc... Now, if we take a video game, you also have additional tools: the source code, the installed file names, unused resources, etc. There are of course a few games that expect the player to check these files but that isn't what I want to focus on.
Would you say that all these files have the same authority as the game itself when it comes to interpretations?
I'd like to take an example with SPOILERS FOR LIFE IS STRANGE 1, as this is the game that sparked this topic for me:
The blue butterfly has a special place in this game, it is what starts the whole journey when Max takes a picture of it and Chloe gets shot. It also shown again in the 'Sacrifice Chloe' ending during that same scene. And later during Chloe's burial that butterfly is shown to land on the coffin in front of Max and fly away. There are some scenes that imply that spirit animals are a thing in the in-game universe. After finishing the game my interpretation was that the blue butterfly was Chloe's spirit animal. Now what a surprise to see in the game wiki that the texture file for that butterfly is named 'Spirit_animal_Chloe' !
Is there any room left for interpretation when the source makes it explicit text? Or can the source be reasonably be pushed aside?
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Nardwuar vs. The Roots (Questlove & Black Thought) (2019)
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Attending Dice Tower Con
I'm not sure how many people here are into board games, but I figured I'd make a post about it. I'm going to be at dice tower con this week. I'm hoping to get a game of Blood on the Clocktower...
I'm not sure how many people here are into board games, but I figured I'd make a post about it. I'm going to be at dice tower con this week. I'm hoping to get a game of Blood on the Clocktower going. If you see a guy trying to gather people for a game of botc, that'll be me. Come say hi.
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The addictive cost of predatory videogame monetization
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Notes on privacy and data collection of Matrix.org
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This traditional Brazilian raw milk cheese is caught in the crosshairs of a battle over government regulation
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Friday haiku challenge
I used to work at Amazon, and one of their internal "chatter" mailing lists had a tradition that every Friday people would write haiku, often about how their week went, or something in the news,...
I used to work at Amazon, and one of their internal "chatter" mailing lists had a tradition that every Friday people would write haiku, often about how their week went, or something in the news, or just something random. Going to try to resurrect that here.
If you want lines to color within, the "normal" requirements for a haiku are:
The essence of haiku is "cutting" (kiru). This is often represented by the juxtaposition of two images or ideas and a kireji ("cutting word") between them, a kind of verbal punctuation mark which signals the moment of separation and colours the manner in which the juxtaposed elements are related.
Traditional haiku often consist of 17 on (also known as morae though often loosely translated as "syllables"), in three phrases of 5, 7, and 5 on, respectively.
A kigo (seasonal reference), usually drawn from a saijiki, an extensive but defined list of such terms.
But of course often the 5-7-5 syllable structure is the only part used in Westernized haiku. Feel free to follow the guidelines above as narrowly or as loosely as you want.
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Universal Basic Income - Life after automation
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Google open-sources their robots.txt parser and releases an RFC for formalizing the Robots Exclusion Protocol specification
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NASA chooses Saturn’s moon Titan as its next destination as part of Project DragonFly—a drone mission to explore Titan's surface over two years
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Oregon just voted to legalize duplexes on almost every city lot
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Becoming a data scientist: The career path for job changers
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Peter Cat Recording Co. - Bismillah (2019)
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The universe of John Wick
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Imogen Heap - Guitar Song + Speeding Cars + Hide and Seek: NPR Tiny Desk Concert (2019)
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Zach Weinersmith, the cartoonist behind Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal and co-author of SOONISH, does a Q&A
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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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Sandra Boynton is tweaking some of her beloved children’s books. But why mess with perfection?
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In defense of the salmon burger
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Pig-Pen Effect: How our "personal pollution clouds" affect indoor air quality
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Reparations are not the answer - The struggle against poverty needs to be a collective fight
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Creator of DeepNude, app that undresses photos of women, takes it offline
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Mobilizon reaches its funding goal with 10 days left
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Animating the Inanimate Poetry Challenge
@cadadr's 4 word poetry challenge is one of my favorite Tildes threads to read through on account of the many clever and thoughtful responses, so I figured I'd try to kick off another one. This...
@cadadr's 4 word poetry challenge is one of my favorite Tildes threads to read through on account of the many clever and thoughtful responses, so I figured I'd try to kick off another one. This one is a little more conceptually involved, but I think it still has the potential to be a good time like the last one.
Rather than going with a strict word or line count, instead I am creating a restriction based around personification:
Challenge:
Your poem must:- Be written from the point of view of an inanimate object
- Give the object personality/emotion
- NOT name the object, so that people have to infer it from what you've written
An example might be an automatic door that is bored to tears from opening and closing ad nauseum. Or maybe a watering can that is excited to tend to its garden.
In trying to come up with a model I decided to channel a resentful milk carton:
It's fine
I get it
You don't have to justify yourself
Lots of better things have come around
Since you first chose meJust know that I'm still here
If you need me
Waiting for that blissful moment
Where you light up my world
And take me in your hand
And make me feel like I'm flying
Before you lower me down
In a lover's embraceIt's fine
I get it
Until then I'll sit here
In the cold, cold dark
Trying not to go sour
Next to the slowly molding cheese
And forgotten grapesIt's far from perfect but hopefully it gives you an idea of what the assignment can look like. While I saved my "reveal" to the end, don't feel obligated to use that tactic unless you want to. You don't have to hide the identity of your object, just don't name the object outright in the poem.
Feel free to make your poem as long or short as you wish. Feel free to make it as meaningful or silly as you want. Above all else, have fun!
If you need help with ideas or just want the challenge of writing to a randomly selected specification, you can use this noun generator for objects and this adjective generator for sentiments.
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No pride in police, no police in Pride
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Kabul blast: Massive bomb kills at least ten in Afghan capital
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On 'hottest day in history of France,' world told 'do not look away' as police tear-gas climate campaigners in Paris
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Having issues setting goals and sticking with them? I’m working on a solution
I am working on an app called Percent Done that is a combination of goal setting, time tracking and habit tracking. I like setting time-based goals for myself every day, such as “write for an...
I am working on an app called Percent Done that is a combination of goal setting, time tracking and habit tracking.
I like setting time-based goals for myself every day, such as “write for an hour” or “work on Percent Done for four hours.”
I also like Seinfeld’s “don’t break the chain” method. For example, Apple Watch shows you how many days you have completed your exercise circle and tells you that you have been keeping at it for x days.
Percent Done is a marriage of these two concepts. It allows you to set goals and track the time you spend on them, as well as how many days in a row you have consistently completed them. For example, you can add a goal that says “write for an hour every day,” and Percent Done will notify you every day to write for an hour. You will be able to tap on this goal and Percent Done will start counting back from one hour. You will also be able to see how many days in a row you have written for an hour.
You can also add one-time goals to Percent Done with or without time tracking, so it is a task management tool as well.
You can play with the design prototype here: Percent Done design prototype
I would really love to get your feedback on this. If you are interested in being a beta tester, feel free to reply to this topic or e-mail me at "hi at evrim dot io."
By the way, this is almost completely a self-promotion post. If it is against the rules, I'd be happy to remove this.
23 votes -
The shape of things to come
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Experiences of using Byobu instead of a graphical DE
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Denmark’s new government raises climate change to highest priority
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How to find out the age of your plane
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The human cost of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
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Parkinson's disease-causing protein hijacks gut-brain axis
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The dark side of the Caribbean
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Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq - No More Fucks To Give (2019)
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Tildee — A python library for interacting with Tildes
Update! After a few hours of struggling I managed to set up Read the docs for Tildee, it should help using the library significantly. After getting some inspiration from TAPS I thought that maybe...
Update! After a few hours of struggling I managed to set up Read the docs for Tildee, it should help using the library significantly.
After getting some inspiration from TAPS I thought that maybe I try to work on something vaguely similar on my own. And after… some? hours of coding today I came up with this: tildee.py (source)
It's a wrapper for the Tildes Public/Web API that is already used by the site internally to make it work. The obvious problem with that is that it will at one point break when this unstable API is changed. It can do basically all things a normal user can do with the notable exception of applying comment labels (because I haven't gotten around to that yet).Example of usage for a DM reply bot (result):
import sys from tildee import TildesClient import time # Initialize client and log in, 2FA isn't supported yet and will probably break in horrible ways t = TildesClient("username", "password", base_url="https://localhost:4443", verify_ssl=False) while True: # Retrieve the "unread messages" page and get a list of the conversations there unread_message_ids = t.fetch_unread_message_ids() for mid in unread_message_ids: # Access the conversation history page; this also clears the "unread" flag conversation = t.fetch_conversation(mid) # Get the text of the last message text = conversation.entries[-1].content_html # Abort if it's from the current user (I don't think this could actually happen) if conversation.entries[-1].author == t.username: break print(f"Found a message by {conversation.entries[-1].author}") # If the message contains a reference, reply in kind if "hello there" in text.lower(): print("Replying…") t.create_message(mid, f"General {conversation.entries[-1].author}! You are a bold one.") # Delay before processing next unread message time.sleep(3) # Delay before next unread check time.sleep(60)
This has a lot of potential. Haven't yet figured out potential for what, but I'll take what I can get.
I'd be really grateful if someone with a little more experience than me (that's not exactly a high bar :P) could give me some pointers on the project's structure and the "API design", hence the ask tag. Other creative ideas for what to use this for are appreciated, too.47 votes -
Boeing's 737 Max software outsourced to $9-an-hour engineers
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Formula One Racing: 2019 Austrian Grand Prix Results
8 votes