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3 votes
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Ads Inc. spent over $50M placing ads on Facebook with fake celebrity news and "subscription traps", scamming people out of millions
11 votes -
NOAA's 2019 Arctic Report Card has been released - Dramatic, disruptive and rapid Arctic warming is threatening both ecosystems and livelihoods
9 votes -
Greenland's ice sheet melting seven times faster than in 1990s – scale and speed of loss much higher than predicted
11 votes -
Apple’s ad-targeting crackdown shakes up ad market
22 votes -
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is complete - After over six years of development, the final pieces (King of Cards and Showdown) have been released
9 votes -
Coolest Cooler, which raised $13M on Kickstarter in 2014, announces they are shutting down with about 20,000 (1/3) of their backers not having their $200 pledge fulfilled
17 votes -
Elizabeth
5 votes -
In France, a bloody WWI battlefield has become a wildlife refuge
5 votes -
Nintendo Switch Indie World Showcase - December 10, 2019
5 votes -
Aerothermodynamics, or how scientists learned to survive re-entry
7 votes -
PlayStation State of Play | December 10, 2019
5 votes -
The Witcher | Character Introduction: Geralt of Rivia
6 votes -
"Project DREAD": White House veterans helped the United Arab Emirates build a secret surveillance unit
5 votes -
Chunking Optimizations: Let the Knife Do the Work
8 votes -
Day 9: Sensor Boost
Today's problem description: https://adventofcode.com/2019/day/9 Join the Tildes private leaderboard! You can do that on this page, by entering join code 730956-de85ce0c. Please post your...
Today's problem description: https://adventofcode.com/2019/day/9
Join the Tildes private leaderboard! You can do that on this page, by entering join code
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.Please post your solutions in your own top-level comment. Here's a template you can copy-paste into your comment to format it nicely, with the code collapsed by default inside an expandable section with syntax highlighting (you can replace
python
with any of the "short names" listed in this page of supported languages):<details> <summary>Part 1</summary> ```python Your code here. ``` </details>
9 votes -
This is what democracy tastes like: Why America will never tire of seeing its political wannabes take a big, performative bite of something deep fried or grease soaked
7 votes -
Can Venice hold back the tide? Sea level rise, erosion and cruise ships are worsening their flood problem, and corruption has nearly scuppered the solution
8 votes -
30 Years of Rage: Fabio & Grooverider
3 votes -
Fortnightly Programming Q&A Thread
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads. Don't forget to format your code using the triple...
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, 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?
6 votes -
Home brewing
So, I'm currently working up 2 1 gallon apfelweing batches. For a while I was doing many 6 gallon batches, but took a break for a while, and getting back into it. Any other homebrewers out there?...
So, I'm currently working up 2 1 gallon apfelweing batches. For a while I was doing many 6 gallon batches, but took a break for a while, and getting back into it.
Any other homebrewers out there? Anything fermented, even kombucha :)
13 votes -
Merriam-Webster's Time Traveler: Words by year of appearance
6 votes -
In Sweden's Arctic, ice atop snow leaves reindeer starving
3 votes -
Day 5: Sunny with a Chance of Asteroids
Today's problem description: https://adventofcode.com/2019/day/5 Join the Tildes private leaderboard! You can do that on this page, by entering join code 730956-de85ce0c. Please post your...
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Join the Tildes private leaderboard! You can do that on this page, by entering join code
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.Please post your solutions in your own top-level comment. Here's a template you can copy-paste into your comment to format it nicely, with the code collapsed by default inside an expandable section with syntax highlighting (you can replace
python
with any of the "short names" listed in this page of supported languages):<details> <summary>Part 1</summary> ```python Your code here. ``` </details>
7 votes -
The Timasomo Showcase Thread
EDIT: We welcome your feedback and would love to hear your thoughts! Please support the creators by commenting on their work! Introduction The first Timasomo (Tildes' Make Something Month) has...
EDIT: We welcome your feedback and would love to hear your thoughts! Please support the creators by commenting on their work!
Introduction
The first Timasomo (Tildes' Make Something Month) has finished! A big thank you to everyone involved, whether you participated or spectated, and whether you finished or not!
Below is the work of the participants who have chosen to feature their Timasomo projects for the showcase. Enjoy!
Procedural Note
When commenting on specific works from the showcase, please ping those users using
@username
so that they get notifications.
Hope: The Stolen Wish
by @xstresedg
Link, itch.io link
When you pull the camera away, you get to see the world from a different perspective. This was the thought I had when bringing The Sword of Hope 2 from a Dungeon Crawler-like game into the style of a Metroidvania. However, with that came a number of challenges, such as dealing with the JRPG elements and utilizing multiple characters. While not present in this demo, they were idealized as possible, with tweaks. Regardless, while it isn't much more than a technical demo, I hope you enjoy this short jaunt of gameplay as much as I enjoyed making it!
Reusable Christmas Gift Bags
by @Akir
Link
Four Meetings
by @kfwyre
Download Links
PC Build (should work on Linux and Windows)
Windows Build (in case the PC build doesn't work)
Linux Build (in case the PC build doesn't work)
Game was tested on Linux and Windows, but not Mac. Let me know if you encounter any errors!
I wanted to make an interactive fiction story in Ren'Py. Four Meetings puts players in the shoes of Ms. Wilson, a high school teacher, as she makes decisions in four different meetings across four different days. It is a short story (10-20 minutes) meant to be played in one sitting.
Fragile Little World
by @Gyrfalcon
Link
Fragile Little World is a personal website, with a focus on sustainability and space. My main creations were the website itself as well as the first article, which covers the environmental impact of a web page and how that impact can be reduced.
Poetry
by @anahata
the city
Untitled I
Untitled II
fire
lost
Sir Curse Band Website
by @0d_billie
Link
I built this website for one of my bands, both to increase our online presence and also to (re)learn web design. It's pretty minimal for now, I'm waiting on things like a photoshoot, confirmation of a few gigs, and updated bios before I can get the rest of the site together.
That said it's been a fun exercise in web development, not least because I've been trying to keep it lean and light, so no JS or JQuery, and only a minimal CSS framework to work within. I've learned a bit of php, how to use github, and how to accept that Minimum Viable Product still has the word "viable" in it.
20 votes -
2K announces the founding of Cloud Chamber, a new studio starting work on the next BioShock game
5 votes -
Denmark plans $30 billion offshore wind island that could power ten million homes
6 votes -
Banana duct-taped to a wall has sold for $120,000
11 votes -
Papoose ft.Young Chris - Let's Get It (2008)
3 votes -
Marie Fredriksson - I en tid som vår (1996)
4 votes -
Middle-class millennials aren’t leaving home
20 votes -
Australia’s democracy has been downgraded from ‘open’ to ‘narrowed’ in the 2019 CIVICUS Monitor report
9 votes -
Vulfpeck live at Madison Square Garden (2019)
5 votes -
How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer
28 votes -
How standardised are Z-Wave/ZigBee device APIs? Can I directly control off-the-shelf hardware?
I'm looking to get a couple of remote controlled dimmer sockets for a quite specific use case (heat lamps in a tortoise enclosure), and I'd like to control them directly from a Raspberry Pi. I've...
I'm looking to get a couple of remote controlled dimmer sockets for a quite specific use case (heat lamps in a tortoise enclosure), and I'd like to control them directly from a Raspberry Pi. I've found a couple of decent looking fairly generic options - examples from Trust and TKB - and there seem to be several appropriate radio modules, either USB or GPIO.
Detecting and pairing with devices seems (hopefully) straightforward. My sticking point is trying to figure out how standardised the actual messaging is; there seem to be several brands of hub and device that can be used interchangeably, but a few that can't. In my case, of course, the RasPi will be taking the position of the hub and speaking to the devices directly.
I'm having trouble finding reliable info on whether a command like "dim to 70%", or "read output power" will be the same across all devices, whether it will follow some kind of standard but it may be one of several competing formats, or whether it's completely proprietary.
Any insight on how easy it is to programatically talk to these things would be very much appreciated!
6 votes -
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?
5 votes -
Why racists (and liberals!) keep writing for Quillette
23 votes -
The Mysterious Double Tilde (~~) Operation
12 votes -
FYI, Wikipedia is discontinuing support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1
Hey everyone, I noticed accessing Wikipedia today that my old version of the app no longer loaded any pages, so I tried checking with my stock browser and it displayed a warning that Wikipedia is...
Hey everyone,
I noticed accessing Wikipedia today that my old version of the app no longer loaded any pages, so I tried checking with my stock browser and it displayed a warning that Wikipedia is dropping support for anything that can't negotiate TLS 1.2. I haven't seen any articles on it yet online, so just thought I'd holler a mention.
8 votes -
The worst takes of the 2010s
7 votes -
Chris Morocco makes easy chocolate cake | From the Test Kitchen
3 votes -
Death Come True announced - A full motion video game directed and written by Danganronpa creator Kazutaka Kodaka
5 votes -
Ghostbusters: Afterlife | Official trailer
8 votes -
Megan Rapinoe: Sports Illustrated 2019 Sportsperson of the Year
5 votes -
What are you doing this weekend?
This topic is part of a weekly series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss their weekend. If you have any plans, things you want to get done, things you have done, things you haven't...
This topic is part of a weekly series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss their weekend.
If you have any plans, things you want to get done, things you have done, things you haven't done, or even if you just want to talk about how you're doing this weekend, this is a place for casual discussion about those things.
A list of all previous topics in this series can be found here.
So, what (or how) are you doing this weekend?
11 votes -
Varien - The Second Industrial Revolution (2019)
7 votes -
Building a map with secret paths for Shovel Knight: King of Cards
3 votes -
Synthesizing Tonewheel Organs: Part 1
4 votes -
How big and diversified is the Samsung group of companies?
5 votes -
How would you determine the best overall athlete in the world?
I would host a competition that measured strength, speed, agility, endurance, and intelligence. I would measure strength using some strongman and some powerlifting lifts. I would measure speed...
I would host a competition that measured strength, speed, agility, endurance, and intelligence. I would measure strength using some strongman and some powerlifting lifts. I would measure speed with 100 meter sprints. I would measure agility with some kind of ropes course, obstacle course, and gymnastics meet. I would measure endurance with a triathalon plus rowing (a quadrathalon?). I would measure intelligence by testing ability to memorize a bit of text in their mother language, teaching them the rules to a made-up game (Calvinball anyone?), and testing them on some trivia game with a format like Jeopardy. What would you measure, and how would you measure it?
5 votes