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8 votes
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Surprise! First peek inside Mars reveals a crust with cake-like layers
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Understanding ProRAW: A journey into cameras, RAW, and a look at what makes ProRAW so special
12 votes -
Is computer code a foreign language?
14 votes -
Privacy considerations in large language models
3 votes -
Sarah Fuller: The trailblazing college football player says her background in soccer and the support of her family helped her make history this season
4 votes -
Pornhub purges ten million videos after losing credit card support
23 votes -
The debate over the detection of phosphine gas, and possible alien life, on Venus
8 votes -
European Commission proposes Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act: New rules for all digital services, including social media, online marketplaces, and other platforms operating in the EU
10 votes -
How science beat the virus
8 votes -
Bandcamp Fridays—the first Friday of each month where Bandcamp waives their fee—will continue in 2021 from February until May (skipping January)
14 votes -
Warnock and Ossoff are testing a new strategy for Democrats in the US south
8 votes -
Janine de Greef, Belgian who helped smuggle downed Allied airmen to safety during World War II, dies at 95
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A deeper, darker look at James Beard, food oracle and gay man: A new biography traces the influence he wielded as a writer and the pain he endured for his sexuality in an unwelcoming world
6 votes -
New Steam Labs experiment adds new ways to browse games through genres, themes, and player modes
9 votes -
The empty spectacle of Wonder Woman 1984: The disappointing sequel highlights not only the dire state of the live-action superhero genre, but the dire state of Hollywood filmmaking as a whole
8 votes -
The best books on The Philosophy of Language
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How the Kingston coal ash spill unearthed a nuclear nightmare
6 votes -
The world's most important body of water: The history of the South China Sea and four men who helped shape it
6 votes -
How accessibility leads to better digital products for all customers
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Jeans now, pay later: Are the new online services that allow you to buy just about anything in interest-free installments too good to be true?
8 votes -
How PEZ candy dispensers evolved from an anti-smoking tool to a beloved collector's item
6 votes -
The Tildes' Make Something Month (Timasomo) 2020 Reflection Thread
Unless there are any remaining holdouts still waiting to enter their works in the showcase, Timasomo 2020 has officially concluded! I couldn't be happier with how it turned out. While the...
Unless there are any remaining holdouts still waiting to enter their works in the showcase, Timasomo 2020 has officially concluded! I couldn't be happier with how it turned out.
While the experience is fresh, I want to gather some feedback for next year's Timasomo. Use this thread to identify:
- Positives
- Negatives
- Tweaks
- Suggestions
Basically, what should we keep the same for next year, and what should we change? Feedback is welcome from anyone, but in particular I'm interested in hearing from Timasomo participants.
Also, while I would be more than happy to run next year's event, I think one of the signs of a healthy community is when community events trade hands and leadership successfully. As such, I would like to be able to hand over Timasomo to someone else. You don't have to commit right now given how far away a year is, but just know that come October of next year I'll be seeking someone to take the reins. Let me know if you'd be interested!
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Pine64 December update: The longest one yet
4 votes -
The making of Hey's dumpsterfile.email, an internet service that receives an email, prints it, and burns it in a dumpster on a livestream
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Do you think that Shopify could soon rival Amazon?
Notice: This has been cross-posted to another website, and re-worded I currently work in the eCommerce industry, and have hands-on experience building up a Shopify site from the ground up. As I...
Notice: This has been cross-posted to another website, and re-worded
I currently work in the eCommerce industry, and have hands-on experience building up a Shopify site from the ground up. As I watch all of the developments that Shopify makes both from a technical development standpoint and logistical standpoint, it becomes more and more clear to me that Shopify can begin to take on Amazon directly.
The introduction of Shop app, which aggregates all shipments into a single application including those outside of Amazon, also allows users to browse products from any particular Shopify store. The app also notifies you of any shipping updates, and when packages have been delivered.
From a technical standpoint, Shopify's main attractions come down to a few things: order management, credit card processing, customer management, and plugin integrations. This is the core of Shopify's platform for both larger and smaller businesses. Though due to Shopify's requirement of using their CMS to serve your content, enterprise users have to look elsewhere in order to build something called "headless builds", which essentially use alternate CMS mixed with Shopify's CMS to continue serving their content.
There are a few companies that make such software in order to build out a fully custom site while still using the Shopify platform as its core, though at the moment they are a little 'hacky' but still fully functional. Given the interest in Shopify's platform at such a high level, they are very likely working on their own headless framework which could allow for 1) mainstream stores to integrate their existing platforms into a unified Shopify marketplace, and 2) to allow stores to build out fully custom websites using the Shopify platform at its core and also enroll them into a unified Shopify marketplace.
Amazon has mostly become a front for cheap Chinese-made products, laden with review manipulation and questionable product quality. By instead bringing large brands on board with a unified Shopify marketplace, those stores can sell quality products backed by their brands which can gain trust from customers, and will give rise to smaller brands that may have been unnoticed by larger populations.
[ For example, I recently bought a pair of shoes from a very popular Shopify store: they represent quality, comfort, and eco-friendliness. I personally find myself more willing to spend money on quality products from companies I know I can trust. ]What's everyone's thoughts? Are there any general problems that could come from Shopify trying to jump-start a full-blown marketplace? Do you think that companies would be willing to integrate their ERP's and CMS's with whatever API's or headless framework Shopify decides to build out?
9 votes -
Chris Pine to star in ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ movie
6 votes -
Electronic Arts reaches agreement for recommended acquisition of British racing game developer Codemasters for approximately $1.2 billion
8 votes -
EU reveals plan to regulate Big Tech
6 votes -
Yawning Man - Live at Giant Rock (2020)
4 votes -
Plasticenta: First evidence of microplastics in human placenta
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Are Black people more homophobic than white people? Crunching the numbers on Black people's views of gay people
9 votes -
Nintendo Switch Indie World Showcase - December 15, 2020
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Companies often want to keep loyal employees when their jobs change or go away. Here are some effective ways to move people onto a new career path.
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FTC issues orders to Amazon, TikTok, Discord, Facebook, Reddit, Snap, Twitter, WhatsApp, and YouTube seeking data about practices related to personal information, advertising, and user engagement
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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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Fischerspooner - Emerge (2001)
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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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The presence prison
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Those who are not planning on getting a COVID-19 vaccine, what are your reasons?
From my understanding, even the usual allergies to like the trace egg proteins of typical influenza vaccines (not some of the ultrapure, though) don't apply to the new mRNA vaccines. So all that's...
From my understanding, even the usual allergies to like the trace egg proteins of typical influenza vaccines (not some of the ultrapure, though) don't apply to the new mRNA vaccines. So all that's left, aside from some immune disorder I think, there are only personal reason left and I'm curious as to what those are.
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Michigan man jailed for nearly four decades exonerated after witness admits to lying
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Wooden buildings that won’t burn
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Collapsible comments vs. spoiler tags
Just noticed that the contents of expandable comments are automatically shown in the one-line summary when comments are collapsed; see here. Considering we often use them for spoiler comments,...
Just noticed that the contents of expandable comments are automatically shown in the one-line summary when comments are collapsed; see here. Considering we often use them for spoiler comments, maybe this warrants changing this behavior? Or at the least it adds to the case for implementing dedicated spoiler tags within comments.
7 votes -
Calculus explained and illustrated
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Day 14: Docking Data
Today's problem description: https://adventofcode.com/2020/day/14 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/2020/day/14
Join the Tildes private leaderboard! You can do that on this page, by entering join code
730956-de85ce0c
.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>
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Netflix didn’t disrupt Hollywood, Hollywood disrupted Netflix
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MILCK - Somebody's Beloved (feat. Bipolar Sunshine) (2020)
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Mother Sauces Ep12 (series finale) : I had to rewrite Wikipedia's Sauce article. Hollandaise is a fraud and Mayo is not who you think it is.
5 votes -
US Electoral College affirms Joe Biden’s victory
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Ween - She Caught My Fancy (2000)
5 votes