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5 votes
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FCC formally approves T-Mobile/Sprint merger
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In 2019, multiple open source companies have changed course and their licenses to try to protect their businesses—is it the right move?
10 votes -
Jacob De Haan - Ammerland (2001)
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America’s Orthodox Jews are selling a ton of the products you buy on Amazon
11 votes -
A photographer at the ends of the Earth - Thomas Joshua Cooper risks his life to document the world’s remotest places
7 votes -
What if we nuke a city?
17 votes -
China is usually strategic and savvy. Why does it seem so upset about a tweet, an app, and a gamer in a mask in the absence of any real threat?
13 votes -
Trump ambushed parents of teenage crash victim, family spokesman says
13 votes -
Analogue Pocket - A multi-video-game-system portable FPGA handheld and digital audio workstation
7 votes -
Elizabeth Warren faced sexism, split with a husband and found her voice teaching law in Houston
5 votes -
Hubble observes comet 2I/Borisov, the first confirmed interstellar comet
8 votes -
What can the UK learn from Norway's EU border? Its border, with EU member state Sweden, is over a thousand miles long
4 votes -
The A2 motorway no longer divides Maastricht
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Increasingly, scientists are taking note of the many indications that insects exhibit consciousness-like phenomena
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4,000-year-old mummies showed early signs of heart disease
8 votes -
Songlink (song.link) has changed name to Odesli
People have been using song.link links on Tildes a lot as a way to effectively link to the same album/song on all the different streaming services. It looks like, as of today, they've changed...
People have been using song.link links on Tildes a lot as a way to effectively link to the same album/song on all the different streaming services.
It looks like, as of today, they've changed their name to "Odesli", and their site is now https://odesli.co.
This tweet is about the only information I can find so far, I don't know if there's anything more anywhere: https://twitter.com/songlink_/status/1183919368058499073
9 votes -
Finland said that demands for a EU budget worth 1% of the bloc's combined GDP as well as the EU Commission's proposal for 1.11% were both unrealistic
6 votes -
How I miss Halloween and why I'm not handing out candy
Halloween has always been one of my favourite events of the year. I loved dressing up (though we always had to wear a winter coat over our costumes), I loved going trick-or-treating with my...
Halloween has always been one of my favourite events of the year. I loved dressing up (though we always had to wear a winter coat over our costumes), I loved going trick-or-treating with my friends, and I loved sorting through our pillowcase of loot at the end of the night. I remember entire streets decorated as graveyards and how lively it was with kids everywhere. A few houses down from us, a neighbour set up a haunted house in their garage every year, and it ended with a warm hot chocolate with little marshmallows. We always planned to hit that house when we started getting cold.
When my partner and I starting handing out candy, we were in a relatively newly developed neighbourhood, and had very few kids. We handed out full sized chocolate bars and chips, the best prizes when we were trick-or-treating! We took turns answering the door and just loved to see the costumes. We counted Darth Vaders and witches and whatever was popular that year. It was always a lot of fun.
We stopped handing out candy about two years ago, mostly because I didn't want to get Nestle candy, which was the nut-free stuff that we usually got, and because it felt wasteful. There are a lot of drives right after Halloween where people basically dumped pounds of chocolate (either trading them to their dentist, or using them to make Halloween art). At work, every parent would bring in bags of candy to share. It was honestly just too much, especially considering the individually wrapped plastic. I've also started noticing that everyone is starting to sell plastic "Halloween candy reusable" bags, and I just really dislike that.
We're always looking for an alternative because I still really want to take part in Halloween again. This year, we again decided against handing out candy, and I'm already missing seeing the little trick-or-treators and their costumes, and their joy in getting a little treat.
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Is there a reason I cannot have a tag people.doing.something
I usually don't mind my tags getting erased and someone putting a more appropriate tag, but I want to know what is wrong with people.doing.something, or someone doing something, or...
I usually don't mind my tags getting erased and someone putting a more appropriate tag, but I want to know what is wrong with people.doing.something, or someone doing something, or someone.doing.something. I tried various ways today, and each one got removed, and I would like to know why.
5 votes -
Sweden central bank governor Stefan Ingves calls Facebook's Libra a 'catalytic event'
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Is Tolkien's prose really that bad?
Recently I was reading through a discussion on Reddit in which Tolkien's writing and prose were quite heavily criticised. Prior to this I'd never seen much criticism surrounding his writing and so...
Recently I was reading through a discussion on Reddit in which Tolkien's writing and prose were quite heavily criticised. Prior to this I'd never seen much criticism surrounding his writing and so I was wondering what the general consensus here is.
The first time I read through The Lord of the Rings, I found myself getting bored of all the songs and the poems and the large stretches between any action, I felt that the pacing was far too slow and I found that I had to force myself to struggle through the book to get to the exciting parts that I had seen so many times in the films. Upon reading through The Lord of the Rings again recently my experience has been completely different and I've fallen in love with his long and detailed descriptions of nature, and the slower pacing.
Has anyone else experienced something similar when reading his works? Are there more valid criticisms of his prose that extend beyond a craving for the same high-octane action of the films?
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Meetup.com pricing changes: Up to $3 total per RSVP to free events
@securestep9: If you are using #MeetUp it's time to look for an alternative provider: from November they will charge you $1 per RSVP of a FREE event, so if you have 1000 attendees RSVP-ing to your FREE meetup you as the organiser will be charged $1000 per meetup https://t.co/eq78hPRW2b
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How can I make "whereis" automatically open the file on Nvim when it is the only result?
EDIT: SOLVED It looks like it was much simple than I thought and someone solved it on Reddit already. I won't delete, just leave the link if someone is interested. Runtime Environment OS: MX Linux...
EDIT: SOLVED
It looks like it was much simple than I thought and someone solved it on Reddit already. I won't delete, just leave the link if someone is interested.
Runtime Environment
- OS: MX Linux 18
- Result of Y: 4.19.0-5-amd64
- dotfiles
- i3 version: 4.13
- ~/.config/i3
- GNU Emacs: 27.0.50
- ~/.emacs.d
Issue
Sometimes I use "whereis" (aliased for "wh", but it doesn't make any difference...) for my own scripts.
I usually copy their paths manually (using tmux) and paste to the command line resulting in something like this:
nvim /home/my_username/my_scripts_folder/my_script
Could I make that into a single command?
Thanks in advance!
3 votes -
Google's AI plays football in its new reinforcement learning environment
3 votes -
What's Copenhagen's magic formula to reduce CO2 levels?
5 votes -
Vietnam bans Dreamworks' "Abominable" over South China Sea map showing Chinese claim to the region
9 votes -
Google’s new voice recorder app transcribes in real time, even when offline
7 votes -
Banning cars on San Francisco’s Market Street, once a radical idea, approved unanimously
10 votes -
Japanese satellite re-enters atmosphere after experiments in ultra-low orbit
7 votes -
A tale of two marathon records and Nike's magic shoes
5 votes -
Chinese-British citizen posts detailed explanation of reasoning behind Chinese views on Hong Kong/China/Blizzard situation
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Introducing Launcher, a new section covering video games and e-sports from The Washington Post
7 votes -
TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
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Matpakke – How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world's most boring lunch
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Group suggestion: tech support
Right now ~comp and ~tech are getting these kinds of posts, but I personally feel a ~tech_support ~tech.support (or ~tech_help? ~tech.help) group would be a better alternative. People who love to...
Right now ~comp and ~tech are getting these kinds of posts, but I personally feel a ~
tech_support~tech.support (or ~tech_help?~tech.help) group would be a better alternative.People who love to help would flock to the group, and people who need it would feel safer to ask for help without receiving straight up LMGTFY (Let Me Google That For You) kind of answers.
There could be also a ~help group, wich a much broader scope (probably about Tildes itself).
What you think?
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What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
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Stellaris: Galaxy Command launches on mobile, is immediately taken down after players discover it's using Halo 4 concept artwork
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Python 3.8.0 has been released
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A site to randomly stumble on to new and unique webpages - stumblingon
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xEMU - A next generation spacesuit for the Artemis generation of astronauts
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Forager - Combat Update now available
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Fortnite was down for over 24 hours after a Season 10 finale involving the entire game getting sucked into a black hole
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What are you doing this week?
This topic is part of a weekly series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss their week. If you have any plans, goals, accomplishments, or even failures, whether they be personal or work...
This topic is part of a weekly series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss their week.
If you have any plans, goals, accomplishments, or even failures, whether they be personal or work related, I'd love to hear about them. This is a place for casual discussion about your week, past, present, and future.
A list of all previous topics in this series can be found here.
So, what (or how) are you doing this week?
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2,500 more MS-DOS games playable at the Internet Archive
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You can now search your own topics and comments, and a theme preview page is available
Two updates today: Theme Preview page This is another contribution from @deing, who's been working on this one for a while. It ended up being more complicated than it originally seemed and still...
Two updates today:
Theme Preview page
This is another contribution from @deing, who's been working on this one for a while. It ended up being more complicated than it originally seemed and still has a few minor oddities, but I think it ended up coming out quite well.
When you're on the Settings page, there's now a "View theme previews" link just below the theme-selection dropdown near the top. That will take you to this new Theme Preview page. The blocks with the theme names at the top give you a quick idea of each theme's color scheme, and you can click them to change the whole page's theme and see what it looks like on the example topics and comments below.
I should also mention that Gruvbox themes (with Light and Dark variants) were added about a month ago by @lugubris. I don't think I ever announced those being added, but you can easily check them out here now.
Search your own posts
@mrbig's recent post with multiple suggestions reminded me to work on this one. You know the drill: it's minimal, the interface is a little weird, etc. but you can now search your own topics and comments (separately).
To use it, go to your own user page and click into either "Topics" or "Comments" from the top, you can't still be on the default "All posts" view. When you go into either of the individual post types, there will be a search box at the top, and you can use that to search your own posts.
Just like the overall site search, the search always works as "look for all of these words", so only include multiple words if you want to find posts that contain all of them. I'm hoping to upgrade the PostgreSQL version that I'm using fairly soon, which should make for some easy enhancements to search, so hopefully soon we'll have some more capabilities there.
Let me know if you notice any strangeness with the search results.
And as usual, I've given everyone 10 invites, accessible on the invite page
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Loop quantum gravity explained
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"March to Protect The Sacred" against tar sands pipeline in Clearbrook, MN
5 votes -
We Found a “Staggering” 281 Lobbyists Who’ve Worked in the Trump Administration
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Area-focused narrative design
4 votes