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3 votes
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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?
5 votes -
Tunnels are our transportation future
4 votes -
Change mammals to viruses and bacteria
2 votes -
Valtteri Bottas has taken full responsibility for the early chaos at the Hungarian Grand Prix, which ended his and several other drivers' races
11 votes -
Armand Duplantis fails to break world record but strolls to pole-vault gold – Swede had three attempts at 6.19m after securing gold medal
6 votes -
Laurel Hubbard is an extraordinarily ordinary person struggling with her place in history
6 votes -
Homeownership can bring out the worst in you
14 votes -
Fifteen podcasts episodes you have to hear
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How has the pandemic changed you?
I won't give a preamble for this one like I normally do in my ask topics, as I don't want to prime anyone's responses. Feel free to interpret the question however you like, and answer with...
I won't give a preamble for this one like I normally do in my ask topics, as I don't want to prime anyone's responses. Feel free to interpret the question however you like, and answer with whatever you feel is relevant.
35 votes -
Speedruns for Trans Liberation charity marathon begins today, July 30
11 votes -
Don’t farm bugs
11 votes -
Scientist invents toilet that turns human feces into cryptocurrency
6 votes -
What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
7 votes -
New leadership at Blizzard
16 votes -
What sports matches have you watched recently?
I'm making this post because I haven't been able to find decent (English) articles for some of the matches I've watched, so that should probably be the focus of this thread. If you can find good...
I'm making this post because I haven't been able to find decent (English) articles for some of the matches I've watched, so that should probably be the focus of this thread. If you can find good articles for a match you've watched, post them in the group instead.
7 votes -
AI has the worst superpower… medical racism
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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?
6 votes -
How major media outlets screwed up the vaccine 'breakthrough' story
12 votes -
Zoom to pay $85M for lying about encryption and sending data to Facebook and Google
28 votes -
Norway's Karsten Warholm ran a stunning men's 400m hurdles race to obliterate his previous world record and take gold at Tokyo 2020
7 votes -
The fight to end child marriage in North Carolina
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What did you do this weekend?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at...
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
7 votes -
Stop saying print journalism is dead. Sixty magazines launched during this crazy year
10 votes -
Why right to repair matters – according to a farmer, a medical worker, a computer store owner
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Writing Club #3—"Madness" (Submissions)
Shakespeare's birthday is observed today. Thank you, verily, for sharing your writing! Please post your efforts below, with an introduction and/or questions for your readers. Here are the...
Shakespeare's birthday is observed today. Thank you, verily, for sharing your writing!
Please post your efforts below, with an introduction and/or questions for your readers.
Here are the guidelines, again.8 votes -
New Form Energy iron-air battery outperforms best lithium ion tech
11 votes -
The future of airliners? The plane that may change air travel forever (Boeing X-48)
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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?
6 votes -
How Blizzard's reputation collapsed in just three years
15 votes -
What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking?
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
3 votes -
Five parrots separated at British zoo after encouraging each other to curse profusely at guests
18 votes -
Is Glenn Greenwald the new master of right-wing media?
6 votes -
How did you find niche stuff before the Internet?
Over in the topic on the perceptions of teenage boys, it was asked, “How did you find niche stuff before the internet?” I thought this was an interesting question and wanted to open it up to hear...
Over in the topic on the perceptions of teenage boys, it was asked, “How did you find niche stuff before the internet?” I thought this was an interesting question and wanted to open it up to hear others’ memories about this.
Edit: Somewhat related, I saw this post today: The most unbelievable things about life before smartphones
21 votes -
How Foucault was shielded from scandal by French reverence for intellectuals
6 votes -
Cloudflare's inaccessible browser contradicts the company's mission
11 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of July 26
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
8 votes -
More development would ruin our neighborhood’s character and that character is systemic racism
18 votes -
High court victory for Stonehenge campaigners as tunnel is ruled unlawful
10 votes -
What's the point of a company? Philip Morris is attempting to purchase a respiratory illness treatment company, let's talk about it.
10 votes -
Hollywood reaps the rewards of becoming more diverse: Films with a diverse cast tend to outperform the rest
9 votes -
Big Oil’s solution for plastic waste littered with failure
10 votes -
Nesting as prepping
10 votes -
Tomorrow's wireless world will be fatter, faster, and creepier
7 votes -
How the long-dead public-television painter Bob Ross became a streaming phenomenon (and kicked up plenty of dirt in the process)
9 votes -
The male millennial vernacular of getting swole
14 votes -
The simplest math problem no one can solve
10 votes -
Accentuation on tags? ("á", "ã", "é", "í", etc)
I was trying to add andré bazin as a tag on an article about the film theorist André Bazin, but the box became red and prevented me from submiting. So I had to use the incorrect andre bazin. I...
I was trying to add
andré bazin
as a tag on an article about the film theorist André Bazin, but the box became red and prevented me from submiting. So I had to use the incorrectandre bazin
.I suppose there's a very rational technical reason for not using accentuation on tags -- even so, I believe it would be useful to suport those characters, since many languages use them.
11 votes -
Ian Manuel, survivor of excessive child punishment, tells his story
9 votes -
How hard is it to get counting right?
3 votes