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10 votes
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In search of the full stack testing team: What makes the best QA teams so good
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Fuser - A music-mixing game from Harmonix, coming to PC and consoles in fall 2020
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Lau Noah - La Belleza (Apartment Sessions) (2020)
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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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Rimworld's first DLC content has been released - Royalty
15 votes -
Why the world needs CSS developers
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“Be yourself” is terrible advice
14 votes -
Origin and evolution of playing card designs
6 votes -
Putin introduces constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage and mentioning God
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What are some bugs/glitches/exploits that have actually made games better?
Usually bugs, glitches, and exploits degrade the experience of a game, but occasionally they can actually work to a game's benefit. In some cases, they can become significant enough to become part...
Usually bugs, glitches, and exploits degrade the experience of a game, but occasionally they can actually work to a game's benefit. In some cases, they can become significant enough to become part of a game's identity. In others, they make a broken game worth playing in the first place. Even without such legendary status, a given wrinkle in a game might simply make it more enjoyable or entertaining, or perhaps open up unexpected modes or paths of play.
What are some examples of these, and how did they improve their associated games?
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How to build your own starter house in just five steps — for $25,000
6 votes -
Mac and cheese from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Binging with Babish
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Japanese toilets are marvels of technological innovation. American toilets not so much
7 votes -
Public Enemy fires Flavor Flav after Bernie Sanders rally spat
8 votes -
Three cheers for socialism - Christian love and political practice
7 votes -
Jake Chudnow - Moon Men
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New Covid findings from the report of the World Health Organization expert commission after nine days in China (Reddit Summary)
10 votes -
President Jokowi announces Indonesia’s first two confirmed COVID-19 cases
8 votes -
Australia records first cases of human-to-human transmission of coronavirus
6 votes -
It’s not overreacting to prepare for coronavirus. Here’s how
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Summers are now twice as long as winters in all Australian capital cities, report finds
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How hard will the robots make us work? In warehouses, call centers, and other sectors, intelligent machines are managing humans, and they’re making work more stressful, grueling, and dangerous
18 votes -
The forgotten story of America's first EMT services
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Which US presidential candidate do you think has the best foreign policy?
The nice thing about electability being uncertain is that you can choose the candidate you think is best. Unfortunately I have lost faith in my ability to decide that. Studying candidates'...
The nice thing about electability being uncertain is that you can choose the candidate you think is best.
Unfortunately I have lost faith in my ability to decide that. Studying candidates' policies seems useless since, after all, Congress makes the laws. We are likely to see either stalemate or centrist legislation regardless.
Maybe I should decide based on foreign policy instead? Most people don't do that but I don't see why not. Any recommendations for interesting articles to read?
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A Tennessee-based Democratic National Committee member backing an effort to use superdelegates to select the party’s presidential nominee is also a Republican donor and health care lobbyist
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A billion-dollar scandal turns the "King of Manuscripts" into the "Bernie Madoff of France"
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Healthcare rant thread
So I don't know about all of you, but I'm pretty sick of terrible healthcare in the USA. So I'm starting this thread for all of us to rant about our personal issues with healthcare. I'll be...
So I don't know about all of you, but I'm pretty sick of terrible healthcare in the USA.
So I'm starting this thread for all of us to rant about our personal issues with healthcare. I'll be writing my rant into it's own reply later (it's a bit of a long one), but I wanted to start the thread now to give others a chance to start venting.
Rules of Rant Thread:
- Don't argue a rant
- Thread is likely going to be incredibly USA-centric. USA healthcare is assumed unless stated otherwise.
- Rants should involve people no more than 2 degrees of separation from yourself. This thread is to vent about your personal experiences, not hearsay from total strangers.
In order to foster further discussion, and include those without a rant: Here are some things I personally would appreciate and expect for replies, but others might not.
- Explanation of how things would work out for you if you were in a similar situation
- Advice for dealing with any ongoing or future problems
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Real Numbers - Why? Why not computable numbers?
Do we have any mathematicians in the house? I've been wondering for a while why math is usually focused around real numbers instead of computable numbers - that is the set of numbers that you can...
Do we have any mathematicians in the house? I've been wondering for a while why math is usually focused around real numbers instead of computable numbers - that is the set of numbers that you can actually be computed to arbitrary, finite precision in finite time. Note that they necessarily include pi, e, sqrt(2) and every number you could ever compute. If you've seen it, it's computable.
What do we lose, beyond cantor's argument, by restricting math to computable numbers? By corollary of binary files and therefore algorithms being countable, the computable numbers are countable too, different from reals.
Bonus points if you can name a real, non-computable number. (My partner replied with "a number gained by randomly sampling decimal places ad infinitum" - a reply as cheeky as the question.) Also bonus points for naming further niceness properties we would get by restricting to computables.
I've read the wikipedia article on computable numbers and a bit beyond.
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Nihilism
7 votes -
The boss who put everyone on $70,000 minimum salary
22 votes -
A psychiatric diagnosis can be more than an unkind ‘label’
8 votes -
Tash Sultana — Blackbird (2016)
6 votes -
Sami Valimaki overcame difficult conditions to win the Oman Open on Sunday after beating Brandon Stone in a playoff
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Programming trick questions
7 votes -
Norway's $1 trillion wealth fund will exclude four companies for their vast emissions of greenhouse gases, or at least put them on probation to force them to change
8 votes -
Progressives' foreign policy dillemma
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Inside the Kyiv fraud factory stealing senior citizens’ savings
6 votes -
Inside the mad-science world of a professional fermentation chef
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How DuPont may avoid paying to clean up a toxic 'forever chemical'
10 votes -
Firefox has started enabling DNS-over-HTTPS by default for all US-based users
33 votes -
Daði & Gagnamagnið win Iceland's Söngvakeppnin 2020 with 'Think About Things'
7 votes -
17 Klein Bottles become 1 - ft. Cliff Stoll and the glasswork of Lucas Clarke
12 votes -
Iran's negligence may lead to an even greater global viral outbreak
7 votes -
Is change on the way for Sweden's zero tolerance drug policy? Shifting the focus away from zero tolerance to the pursuit of zero drug-related deaths
5 votes -
Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas ended pre-season F1 testing with fastest lap – both on Friday's final day and overall
3 votes -
Thirty-three Turkish soldiers killed in attack in Idlib, mostly by the Russian Airforce
9 votes -
How rockets are made (Rocket factory tour - United Launch Alliance)
6 votes -
COVID-19 situation in the US progresses in three ways in Washington state: first death, first case in a healthcare worker, and first possible outbreak
19 votes -
We’re not prepared for the end of Moore’s Law
13 votes