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16 votes
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How does one delete their Tildes account?
And what happens to their content afterwards? Just an exploratory question for now.
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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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1800s astronomical drawings vs. NASA images
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The history of humiliation points to the future of human dignity
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Victoria II, Part I: Mechanics and Gears
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Copenhagen Metro | Transit Explained
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This article is about the standard test brain image. For the original human, see Miguel Acevedo.
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Wolin, on his coined 'inverted totalitarianism' and the motivations of citizens under it
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What’s a mistake many people do not know they are making?
Any answer in any scope is fair game: can be something very minor or something quite significant. It can be very domain-specific or very general. Also the goal of the thread isn’t to judge people...
Any answer in any scope is fair game: can be something very minor or something quite significant. It can be very domain-specific or very general.
Also the goal of the thread isn’t to judge people for their mistakes but more just highlight some common errors in hopes of bringing more awareness to them.
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Swedish ice hockey star Peter Karlsson was stabbed to death in the street in 1995. His killer said he was protecting himself via the so-called 'gay panic' defence
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Why the Quad alarms China
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Taliban enter Afghan capital as US diplomats evacuate by chopper
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Stonekettle Station - Bitter Pill
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Dream Theater - The Alien (2021)
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Rysolv is a open source platform for posting bounties under the AGPL
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Peter Roland - (Unofficial, informal proposal) Hymnus Latinus Unionis Europaeae (Latin anthem of the European Union)
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Why is it so hard to be rational?
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How a board game about birds became a surprise blockbuster
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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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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!
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Much ado about title case
I've noticed some people making a point of editing titles on articles to either impose or undo title case on articles. I dug around a bit and haven't been able to find any style guide suggestions...
I've noticed some people making a point of editing titles on articles to either impose or undo title case on articles. I dug around a bit and haven't been able to find any style guide suggestions on the matter.
Barring some kind of official stylistic standards being laid down, that I'd like to respectfully request that curator roles refrain from overruling a submitter's formatting choices without good reason.
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Remember when multiplayer gaming needed envelopes and stamps? The history of play by mail games
9 votes -
Doc Gooden's career was over. Then he did the impossible.
2 votes -
Film-makers buckle under relentless appetite for Danish TV – a victim of its own success, the industry behind cult dramas such as The Killing struggles amid bullying claims
10 votes -
Through the looking GLASS - Om Malik interview with the developers of GLASS, a subscription photo sharing app
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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!
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What did you do this week?
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 week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do...
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 week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
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Buying a house relatively soon, lay your advice on me!
I'm in the market for a house, been looking pretty seriously for the past week or so. I've got two pre-approvals for mortgages, and I think I'll probably look for at least two more for fee...
I'm in the market for a house, been looking pretty seriously for the past week or so. I've got two pre-approvals for mortgages, and I think I'll probably look for at least two more for fee comparison purposes. I have yet to actually see a house unfortunately, since every house we try to view gets sold that very same day :/ Hopefully the streak is broken, since we have an appointment with another house today!
Anyway, who here has advice for (any part of the process of) buying a house? Things to look for when viewing a house, things to consider that the common person might not, tips for making offers, tips for not giving up because of the market, etc.
I'll lead with some tidbits that I've gained from asking around friends and family that have already bought places recently.
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Apparently, sending a personal letter to the owners with the offer letter has gotten multiple people a house even when their offer wasn't the highest. For example, my sisters friend knew the owners had a cat, and has cats herself. So in the letter she wrote, she mentioned how happy her cats would be laying on the windows and running around in all the new space and such.... and she got it! The owners realtor was kinda pissed.
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Try to find out the reason the owners are moving out. My sister and her husbands realtor asked around, and they were able to close on their house because the owner needed a quick turnaround to get out as fast as possible. They got the house for 60K under asking price because they were able to sweeten the deal to suit the owner.
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Location is (generally) more important than furnishings. You can add or remove things from a house, but you can't move it once you buy it.
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Once you make an offer on a house and the owner accepts, make sure the contract includes the following two parts that are (apparently) very important:
- House must appraise for at least the same value you've agreed to buy it at
- Inspection must show no more than
$buyer_defined_value
dollars of necessary repairs, otherwise the deal should be re-negotiated or considered void.
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Always leave enough money in your savings account to pay for any extras (because there are always extras) after the house is yours. New furniture, carpets, smaller repairs, paint, etc. You don't want to drain your account for the house only to find out you can't do anything afterwards.
I'm very excited (and exhausted already), but I want to make sure I'm as thorough as possible since I'll be spending the next several years of my life in it!
Forgot to mention(Thanks @Thra11), this is the US East Coast.
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The case for optimism
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Plymouth shooting: Six dead including child on a devastating night for the city
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Reddit is raising up to $700M in Series F funding, at a valuation of over $10 billion
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Developing ethical, social, and cognitive competence
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Anyone order a USB cable lately?
OK, so this is kind of a weird question, but has anyone here ordered a USB cable recently, and if so, how long did it take to arrive? I ordered a 3 meter USB A male to USB A male cable on June...
OK, so this is kind of a weird question, but has anyone here ordered a USB cable recently, and if so, how long did it take to arrive? I ordered a 3 meter USB A male to USB A male cable on June 27th from NewEgg, who have been fairly reliable in the past. I got an email later that day or the next saying the shipping label had been printed. So I thought, OK, it will go out in the next day or two. It still hasn’t shipped. After about 2 weeks of waiting, I ordered another one from B&H Photo. It also hasn’t arrived yet. I know there is a global chip shortage. Would that affect cabling too? It just seems odd that it’s taking so long to get a single USB cable. Anyone else experience this or am I just unlucky this month?
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About one out of three men prefer playing female characters. Rethinking the importance of female protagonists in video games.
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Weekly coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - week of August 9
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the...
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
8 votes -
Nestflix: The only platform for your favorite nested films and tv shows
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Adios - A cinematic narrative adventure l loved (+giveaway!)
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Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources
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The co-founder of Snopes wrote dozens of plagiarized articles for the fact-checking site
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Debian 11 "Bullseye" released
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Jair Bolsonaro’s ‘banana republic’ military parade condemned by critics
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How to get a near perfect shave in less than ₹5
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Introduction to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
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How to write your own Minesweeper AI
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Netflix intensifies ‘VPN ban’ and targets residential IP-addresses too
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Morten Messerschmidt, a leading right-wing Danish politician, has been convicted of fraudulently receiving funds from the European Union
9 votes -
The Fixx - Don't Be Scared (1987)
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Tens of thousands of Hong Kongers leave the city to accept British citizenship
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Denmark and Norway are closing their embassies in Kabul and evacuating their staff as the security situation worsens in Afghanistan
8 votes