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Indie game VVVVVV's source code is now public
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The Clash - Rock The Casbah (1982)
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His Dark Materials s01e01 - "Lyra's Jordan" discussion thread
The first episode of the BBC/HBO adaptation of His Dark Materials, by Phillip Pullman. Synopsis: Orphan Lyra Belacqua's world is turned upside-down by her long-absent uncle's return from the...
The first episode of the BBC/HBO adaptation of His Dark Materials, by Phillip Pullman.
Synopsis: Orphan Lyra Belacqua's world is turned upside-down by her long-absent uncle's return from the north, while the glamorous Mrs Coulter visits Jordan College with a proposition.
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That time the Mediterranean Sea disappeared
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The Good Place S04E10 - "You've Changed, Man" discussion thread
We're back, and we have three episodes (one double length) to go.
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The appointment of Sanna Marin as Finland's prime minister has reversed the dwindling fortunes of her Social Democratic party
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David Edgerton: "Boris Johnson might break up the UK. That’s a good thing."
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The Elephant Chart and how statistics made three of them
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A News Corp employee has accused the organisation of a "misinformation campaign" filled with "irresponsible" and "dangerous" coverage of the national bushfire crisis
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Sweden's PM Stefan Löfven wants swift and complete probe into Iran plane crash
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Copenhagen-based firm Henning Larsen Architects has proposed a low-rise neighborhood south of central Copenhagen using all-timber construction
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Magnus Carlsen: ‘You need to be very fortunate to be number one in fantasy football’
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CES2020: Cyrcle Phone is round and has two headphone jacks
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Florida faces a rocky rollout to restore voting rights after felony convictions
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What are your favorite Instant Pot/pressure cooker recipes?
My husband and I are looking to do more with our Instant Pot in the coming year. The last thread we had on this topic was from 2018, so I figure we could use an update. What are your favorite...
My husband and I are looking to do more with our Instant Pot in the coming year. The last thread we had on this topic was from 2018, so I figure we could use an update.
- What are your favorite Instant Pot/pressure cooker recipes?
Please link to the full recipe if possible!
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Scott Derrickson steps down from director's position on "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness," citing creative differences.
@scottderrickson: Marvel and I have mutually agreed to part ways on Doctor Strange: In the Multiverse of Madness due to creative differences. I am thankful for our collaboration and will remain on as EP.
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Air filters create educational gains
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"This airplane is designed by clowns who in turn are supervised by monkeys."—Boeing employees mocked FAA in internal messages before 737 Max disasters
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Are there any personalized recommendation engines/sites that you trust?
In the 2000s I used to use a service called last.fm (originally called Audioscrobbler) that would track the music I listened to and give me recommendations based on that. It was able to give me...
In the 2000s I used to use a service called last.fm (originally called Audioscrobbler) that would track the music I listened to and give me recommendations based on that. It was able to give me some really great personalized suggestions, but that came at the expense of me handing over significant amounts of personal data.
In prioritizing privacy, I feel like I've stepped away from a lot of the big recommendation engines because they're tied to data-hungry companies I am in the process of disengaging with (e.g. Goodreads is owned by Amazon). I can still find stuff I like, but it's often the result of manual searching that turns up popular recommendations that work for me, rather than less well-known or acutely relevant things. last.fm was good at giving me less "obvious" recommendations and would find music I was unlikely to find on my own. I want that, but for all of my media: books, movies, etc.
There's a second concern in that I also feel like I can't trust platforms like Netflix, who seem to prioritize their content over that of other studios. Their recommendations feel weighted in their favor, not mine.
What I want is an impartial recommendation engine that gives me high quality personalized suggestions without a huge privacy cost.1 Is this a pipe dream, or are there examples of this kind of thing out there?
1. I don't mind handing over some of my specific interest data in order to get good recommendations for myself and help a site's algorithms cater to others, as I get that's how these things work. I just don't like the idea of my interests being even more data for a company that already has thousands of intimate data points on me.
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Iranian missile accidentally brought down Ukrainian jet, officials say, citing early evidence
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Devs | Season 1 official trailer
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Why/when do you encourage diversity of opinion?
I sort of want to casually throw this discussion out there, because I feel like this is something people sometimes mention in the same conversations without agreeing on it's fundamentals....
I sort of want to casually throw this discussion out there, because I feel like this is something people sometimes mention in the same conversations without agreeing on it's fundamentals. Especially when talking about sites, like Tildes, leaning too much towards one particular worldview.
What is the goal of having diverse opinions? Why do you think it is necessary or desirable? Is it for a practical reason, or for a more ideological/principal one? What is the barometer by which you measure whether or not the level of achievement of a such a goal? And do you think it could produce undesired secondary effects?
To perhaps give a concrete hypothetical: do you think Tildes would benefit from it if we had more members who are of the opinion that the Australian Bushfires were caused in large part not by Anthropogenic Climate change but by, deliberate malicious actors (arsonists)?
Or if you disagree with the example what would your hypothetical be?
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Pokémon Direct - January 9, 2020
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Too much combustion, too little fire
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A condemnation of time - Discussion of how to tell a linear story in a medium that is inherently nonlinear
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How to fail at democracy 101: The Weimar Republic
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Would you eat lab grown human meat?
This question popped up between my friends and I when we were discussing the possibilities of lab grown meat. When discussing lab grown meat, one of the arguments for it is that it is far more...
This question popped up between my friends and I when we were discussing the possibilities of lab grown meat. When discussing lab grown meat, one of the arguments for it is that it is far more ethical to consume as it didn't originate from a living, conscious being. But if you replace the meat being grown in a lab to human meat rather than fish or beef, is it still less ethical? Or is it something that will be seen as incredibly taboo to the point where it should be outlawed?
I would be curious to read your thoughts and points of view on this!
For me, it's going to be a hard no that it shouldn't it be done. But to be honest, I feel like my feelings regarding it come from an emotional perspective rather than a logical one.
Edit: Let's throw in lab grown human organs as well. Say these are the organs that aren't suitable for transplant, but are perfectly edible.
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What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's...
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
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The AnitaB.org Pass It On Awards Program - Applications are open
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Bots are destroying political discourse as we know it
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Ukranian Boeing 737-800 plane with 176 people on board crashes near Tehran, Iran with no survivors
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Barry Hearn: Snooker's elite can 'go or pass' on Saudi Arabia tournament
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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?
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The dognapping of poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog Flush in 1846, and how she negotiated for his safe return just before secretly eloping with Robert Browning
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Alienware’s Concept UFO prototype imagines a gaming PC that’s shaped like a Nintendo Switch
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Design systems, mistakes, and the sea
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The restorative pause of Silent Record Week
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"The Ego of Metrics" - Ben Grosser - Podcast - Twitter Demetricator
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Cory Wong // "Golden" (feat. Cody Fry) (2020)
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Men are scamming crisis hotlines to masturbate on calls
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The Dead South at Paste Studio NYC (live from The Manhattan Center) (2020)
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Mayor Pete's invisible black police
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Information, photos, and demo of Intel's first discrete graphics card: the DG1, based on Xe graphics architecture
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Mad Show Boys - Ja Nie Khodíl Na Karaté (I Didn't Go To The Karate Class) (2011)
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Billionaire’s company in talks to buy electric grid on Lanai
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Style your Google Docs to look like WordStar
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How a mysterious seismic hum led scientists to the birth of an enormous undersea volcano
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Prince Harry and Meghan quit the Firm - Couple step back as senior members of Royal Family
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British Board of Film Classification discussion of "Gremlins"
https://bbfc.co.uk/case-studies/gremlins I found the notes written at the time to be interesting: https://bbfc.co.uk/sites/default/files/attachments/Gremlins.pdf
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