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11 votes
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ActivityPub: The “worse is better” approach to federated social networking
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Why rigged capitalism is damaging liberal democracy
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Programming Q&A Thread
An experiment I've been thinking about lately: a (recurring?) Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer other users' questions, or post suggestions for future threads. Don't forget...
An experiment I've been thinking about lately: a (recurring?) Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer other users' questions, or post suggestions for future threads.
Don't forget to format your code using the triple backticks or tildes:
Here is my schema: ```sql CREATE TABLE article_to_warehouse ( article_id INTEGER , warehouse_id INTEGER ) ; ``` How do I add a `UNIQUE` constraint?Meta questions:
- Should I turn this into a recurring thread?
- If yes, should it be a weekly or a monthly thing?
- Should DBA and SysAdmin questions be allowed or should someone else make a separate recurring thread for these?
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Kind Words (Tildes Edition)
For those that aren't familiar with it, Kind Words is a recently released "game" where players can write a message about a difficulty they're facing or something that's troubling them. Other real...
For those that aren't familiar with it, Kind Words is a recently released "game" where players can write a message about a difficulty they're facing or something that's troubling them. Other real people in the game can then respond, letting that person know that they're not alone. Players can also write un-addressed messages of positivity in the game, which are spread to other users via paper airplanes.
I figured we could have a thread on Tildes with our own version of the game via comments.
Here's how I figure it will work. We'll have three post types:
Request: share your situation in order to get kind words in response
Response: offer kind words to other people who have posted here
Airplane: write general thoughts of goodwill for all the readers of the threadPlease begin your post by naming its type in bold font. For those posing Requests, please let people know if you would rather receive public responses or PMs.
Example post:
Request: Sometimes I find myself wondering if there's any point to anything. It feels like I'm working so hard at meaningless stuff, just to get by. Anyone else feel this way?
That isn't my request, just an example of what someone might type.
Remember that the point of the thread is to let people know that they are heard and that they are not alone!
Let's all be kind!
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AI learning to play hide and seek
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New infrared-based technology promises to give textiles recycling a giant leap forward by replacing manual sorting with an automated method in Finland
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West Zealand has given the green light to rebuild a Viking fortress on its original archaeological site, more than 1,000 years after it first stood there
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New Wi-Fi 6 certification is officially released, up to 3x faster than 802.11ac
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When a newspaper started a town: The story of Lake Michigan Beach
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Inside the launch of the Cosmic Crisp apple, the “largest launch of a produce item in American history”
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A bronze cauldron dating back to the Roman Age has been unearthed in a burial cairn in central Norway
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Elon Musk spent $50,000 digging into Thai submarine critic Vern Unsworth’s personal life
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List of Apple Arcade games available at launch this Thursday
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Raising prices is hard
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Humble Builder Bundle - featuring Portal Knights, Bridge Constructor Portal, and others
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GameInformer interview with Hideo Kojima about Death Stranding
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GitLab announces $268 million in Series E funding, at a valuation of $2.75 billion
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Joel Spolsky and Clive Thompson discuss the past, present, and future of coding
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Wi-Fi just turned twenty, but things could have gone very differently for the now ubiquitous wireless connectivity standard
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Where to put buttons on forms
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Could we terraform Mars?
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AI: The Somnium Files | Release trailer
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When prosecutors bury New York Police Department officers' lies
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Inside the narrative design of Control, Remedy Entertainment's least linear game
6 votes -
American becomes first person to swim English Channel four times without stopping
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WeWork's parent company is expected to postpone its IPO
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NBCUniversal announces "Peacock" as the name of its streaming service and unveils initial content lineup for April 2020 launch
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Moving Firefox to a faster four-week release cycle
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Motorsports
Anyone here into motorsports? Also, anyone into simracing?
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Scientists taught rats to play hide-and-seek with them
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Iceland hosts first major international #metoo conference – three-day gathering will explore why movement gained traction and effect it has had
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The powerful women whose patronage shaped art history
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What can a software developer do about climate change?
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Amazon changed its search system to boost more-profitable listings, including its own brands
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George Pell seeks leave to appeal child sex abuse convictions in High Court
News article: George Pell seeks leave to appeal child sex abuse convictions in High Court Background: How does the High Court decide whether to grant George Pell a final hearing?
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What happened to the real time strategy genre
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The Dance House Helsinki – Finnish practice JKMM's newest project is set to become Finland's first venue dedicated primarily to dance and the performing arts
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2019 Ambassador of Conscience Award – Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has been honored by Amnesty International USA
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In 1886, the US Government commissioned 7,500 watercolor paintings of every known fruit in the world
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Unofficial Weekly Discussion #4 - What is your most "thinking outside the box", "pie in the sky", and/or "out there" idea for Tildes?
Despite me still being a little distracted thanks to WoW Classic and somewhat absent from Tildes lately as a result, since it's been a few weeks since the last Unofficial Weekly Discussion topic,...
Despite me still being a little distracted thanks to WoW Classic and somewhat absent from Tildes lately as a result, since it's been a few weeks since the last Unofficial Weekly Discussion topic, I wanted to make sure to get one posted this week. And since it's been a while, I wanted to try something a bit more lighthearted and fun than usual to get things flowing again. So here it is:
What is your most "thinking outside the box", "pie in the sky" and/or "out there" idea for Tildes?
It doesn't matter whether you think it's really a good idea or not, it will work or not, it would ultimately have a net positive or negative effect, or how impossible it might be to implement; Let's just get the creative juices flowing and start throwing out our "craziest" ideas for the site!
p.s. Once again, let's please try to keep things positive, and keep any criticism purely constructive and friendly so as not to discourage people from participating.
Previous Unofficial Weekly Discussions:
Other relevant links:
Donate to Tildes - Tildes Gitlab : Issues Board - Tildes Official Docs28 votes -
Tildylongstockings, what’s your morning routine?
Can’t make myself get out of bed and actually go do things (like get ready for work, or leave for work, namely.) What’s the routine you have in the morning that keeps you functioning as an adult?
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Evolving AIs eating each other | With Pheromones ! [OC]
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Remove Richard Stallman
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10 Japanese board games worth checking out
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Coil, Mozilla, and Creative Commons have launched Grant for the Web, a $100 million fund to invest in reshaping the economics of the web
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Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (109 Models Explained)
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How do you handle your different online identities versus your real life identity?
I've recently been trying to confront the fact that a lot of the things I want to do online work best if they've got some connection to my real life identity (or will eventually, almost by...
I've recently been trying to confront the fact that a lot of the things I want to do online work best if they've got some connection to my real life identity (or will eventually, almost by necessity, become connected). Things like working on open source software, writing, etc. almost always seem to lead back to other people knowing at the very least your real name and probably your email address.
I know that my threat model for people going after my identity is a lot different from someone with nation-state level adversaries like Ed Snowden or various activists, but I still find it hard to decide what gets to be connected to what. Do I put my real name on my GitHub account? Do I post things on my GitHub blog to here? Should I have my real name on my Twitter account? What about the fact that some of my usernames resemble each other?
I'm not necessarily looking for advice about my particular situation, but I would really like to hear how other people have dealt with such situations and what you generally think about things like identity compartmentalization.
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Russia carried out a massive breach of FBI communications system, escalating the spy game on US soil
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Constance Wu’s Hollywood destiny - Coming late to celebrity, the star has felt the burden of representing all Asian-Americans
5 votes