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4 votes
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Epic Games closes a $1.78 billion funding round, with the company's valuation now at $17.3 billion
5 votes -
A review of "5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel"
11 votes -
Democracy maybe?
4 votes -
Lab mice have a chill, and that may be messing up study results
2 votes -
Priya Krishna, Rick Martinez, Sohla El-Waylly exit Bon Appétit Test Kitchen
15 votes -
Walk Monster
7 votes -
Freedom Isn't Free
21 votes -
Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
4 votes -
The subtle linguistics of polite white supremacy
11 votes -
Virginia touts nation's first contact tracing app with Apple-Google tech
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Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace against the Universe | Trailer
5 votes -
The truth is paywalled but the lies are free
56 votes -
Dark Energy Survey census of the smallest galaxies places the lower limit for the mass of dark matter to be 10^-21 eV
4 votes -
Denmark’s 300-year-old homes of the future – thatched with a seaweed that has the potential to be a contemporary building material
6 votes -
Tag plurality
'videos' tag is plural even though long read is not (vs "long reads"). I keep typing 'video' into the tag list because of that. IMO it makes more sense as a singular noun, as tags generally...
'videos' tag is plural even though long read is not (vs "long reads"). I keep typing 'video' into the tag list because of that.
IMO it makes more sense as a singular noun, as tags generally describe the submission, not the plurality of submissions in the group. Though I feel this is not a new discussion. It also seems to be the case in other examples I can find eg. ask.survey (vs ask.surveys)
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Should we have a dialogue box to warn us when pressing the cancel button when editing a comment?
Basically I accidentally pressed the cancel button when I was editing a comment, so I lost the edit so I needed to re-write it. Might be for mobile only or a toggleable setting.
10 votes -
Satellite images have revealed eleven previously unknown emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica
7 votes -
Ren & Stimpy is getting a reboot with a new creative team
6 votes -
“Hot-dog salad” is not a phrase that naturally ignites the appetite, but please hear me out
5 votes -
Twilight of the imperial chef: For decades, the notion of the lone genius in the kitchen has fostered culinary creativity — and restaurants marred by abuse. This may be the time for change
6 votes -
The evolution of Extinction Rebellion
7 votes -
Replacing YouTube & Invidious
14 votes -
Anthony Levandowski sentenced to eighteen months in prison for stealing self-driving trade secrets from Google before joining Uber
13 votes -
Impostor Factory (To the Moon 3) | Official trailer
4 votes -
Immunology is where intuition goes to die
8 votes -
If you have pets, what is it like?
This is a year old repost, BTW. I'll start, in a Q&A format. "What pets do you have?" I have 3 cats, almost in a large, medium small configuration. (M,F,M respectively.) I've named them Rodolfo,...
This is a year old repost, BTW.
I'll start, in a Q&A format.
"What pets do you have?"
I have 3 cats, almost in a large, medium small configuration. (M,F,M respectively.) I've named them Rodolfo, Penelope and Alfredo (PT-BR) (respectively), but rarely if ever, they're actually called by those names, usually we (me and my parents) call them bichaninho, bichanoca e bichanão. (also PT-BR, also the "bi" (pronounced like bee) can often be silent.)
All of them are castrated.
"For how long have you had them?"
Around 8,7 and 2 years respectively.
"what pets did you have?"
I had another "small" cat, we never gave her an actual name, we called her minifufa. She died after 4/5 years of us finding her because her liver practically stopped working. We've buried her at our formerly grandparents' house (because the father went back to his home state 1700 kiliometers away and the mother also died, from cancer.)
We also took care of a cat who accidentally fell into our house because a part of the roof is made of some less resistant stuff I can't really name. She was female and we took care of her for about 2 weeks.
"What are they like?"
Rodolfo is pretty calm and dependent, he often wants to be petted, sometimes late at night. Sometimes I do that, sometimes I hug/squish him.
Penelope if like that, but more because she unfortunately has some terrible breathing. We don't know what's in her lungs and why it got there, so it's not going away. It makes her the most frail :l
Alfredo is the most aloof and often gets into fights with the other 2 cats. He seems to be the most hungry, despite being the smallest cat.
15 votes -
A Short Vision (1956)
4 votes -
Pikmin 3 is coming to Nintendo Switch in October with all DLC and a new co-op mode
9 votes -
Six ways to improve your debugging skills
5 votes -
The ways that a cheese can go extinct, and the cheesemakers who are working to save them
10 votes -
Digit Dilemma Plus - A mind bending puzzle game in only 1k of JavaScript
15 votes -
Facebook launches Instagram Reels, its TikTok clone
7 votes -
The Good Lord Bird | Official trailer
8 votes -
The final years of Majuro
5 votes -
State Health Director warns coronavirus is widespread on Oahu
5 votes -
Walmart to host pop-up drive-in theatres at Supercenter locations across America
9 votes -
Things you want to do in Git and how to do them
4 votes -
Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G and Pixel 4A all at once
16 votes -
Axios: President Trump exclusive interview (full episode)
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Shopping addiction and COVID: The Amazon addicts of quarantine
11 votes -
Many Americans are convinced crime is rising in the US. Even if they're wrong, their fear is making everyone else less safe
16 votes -
Bisexuality exists: Bisexual attraction study upends decades of flawed research
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Time killers: The strange history of wrist gaming
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Are there any words/terms that people often use that are offensive to you/your group of people?
Inspired from my conversation with @CALICO about how the word "trap" is offensive and how less than a day later, the r/animemes mod team has banned the word for the same reasons that he has cited,...
Inspired from my conversation with @CALICO about how the word "trap" is offensive and how less than a day later, the r/animemes mod team has banned the word for the same reasons that he has cited, which has caused practically universal backlash and closed the sub to anything not related to that decision.
6 votes -
Google Play Music streaming ends in September/October 2020, fully shuts down in December
16 votes -
We quit our jobs to build a cabin—everything went wrong
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Should I give up from programming?
This is gonna be kinda of a personal mess. My background is in film. In Bahia, Brazil. I understand this is a very personal question with numerous factors to take in, some on which I'll absolutely...
This is gonna be kinda of a personal mess.
My background is in film. In Bahia, Brazil.
I understand this is a very personal question with numerous factors to take in, some on which I'll absolutely not be able to convey.
I'm not looking for any definitive life advice because I know that's impossible. I just wanna hear perspectives from some smart people that might help me understand my situation. I've recently been through a (kind of a) life and death situation. I'd be dead or with severe neurological trauma without a helmet.
This made me rethink a lot of stuff about my goals and my life in general. I feel I can confide on Tildes, you people are usually caring and smart and awesome. I'm also a bit emotional, so please be gentle. Spending 24 hours on a hospital bed contemplating death and incapacitation kind does that too with you.
I won't change many details because fuck it, I don't thank there are a lot of people in the world wanting to dox me. And Google already knows everything about me anyway.
I have two very serious psychiatric diagnostics that impart my life in serious ways: bipolar disorder (type II, thankfully) and ADHD. I'm also suspected to be on the autism spectrum but I don't have the means to achieve this diagnostic. It would be useful anyway. These conditions seriously impact my ability to sustain a job for long periods and I have a hard time working with teams bigger than three (sometimes not even than).
I live for free in my mother's conformable apartment, while I she actually spends most of the time on another continent. It's a pretty good deal. But I wanted to be independent.
About two years ago I decided that work in film (my original major) would never provide me the financial independence I needed. Working in film means traveling a lot, infrequent hours, absurd exploration (its common to sleep 4 hours a day), and rampant drug use. I love film and do have a talent for it, but the environment is simply not conducive to my mental health.
Of course, now I realize that computer science may also not be conducive to mental health issues at all. The thing is, really like. When I'm lisping, the real illogical world becames more bearable, and I feel in a wonderland of logic, reason, and calming predictabilidade. This doesn't happen as much with other languages such as Python. I also suck at it. So much that's not even funny. I'm addicted to Linux, Emacs, and the command line, but that's kinda it. I became a Vim/Emacs semi specialist. I don't see myself ever doing anything complex. It this my mind, really!
I've been trying to program for almost 3 years and, beside my super awesome machine, I have nothing to show for myself. I try focusing on using things like Java or Python but I always get sidetracked trying to do some cool shit on Emacs.
Sometimes I wonder if I should just assume that I won't be able to concentrate on anything else and just learn Emacs Lisp for real. It's frowned upon by a lot of people, but Emacs is a wonderful learning environment and at least I would be doing something. Maybe an interesting package that some people would like to use.
Right now my choice seems to be between failing to study things that make me miserable (like OOP), but have clear professional possibilities, or focusing on something I actually like that might make a better programmer in the future.
An important detail: I'm 38 years old and unemployed. My region is not very economically active in that area but I'm afraid to leave it because then I would lose my support network. And the mere notion of being with other people on a daily bases causes me panic attacks.
And, as a reminder, studying programming with bipolar disorder ADHD is hard as fuck. My ADHD is so severe that I constantly forget what I'm doing withing seconds. That's probably why I like Lisp, which is more regular than other languages and I can get things more easily from context.
On the other hand, I'm super charming (and not at all modest hahaha) and interesting at parties because my scattered interests make it possible to contribute meaningfully (and sometimes witty) to pretty much any conversation. My success with women is indirectly proportional to may financial troubles.
Anyway, I know I said this was not about advice, but I kinda lied: what's your advice? Should I keep trying on something I'm not really talented at just because I like it (and it may bring financial rewards in the future).
Or should I just give up and, try my hand at some shorts and even a novel? (I'm currently on a severe writer's block though, but I do have some talent for it).
Maybe I could work from home, be some kind of sysadmin (in which case, what would be the quickest and cheapest way to do so?). I absolutely don't wanna create huge complex products, but managing thinks remotely would be awesome.
I also love philosophy and logic, and, if became suddenly rich, that's what I'd do for the rest of my life. Oh, well.
12 votes -
The extraordinary story of Thomas Quick, the Swedish serial killer who never existed
4 votes -
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.
17 votes