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8 votes
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The doctor who challenged the unicorn myth
6 votes -
How the Internet failed and how to recreate it
6 votes -
Claire Saffitz makes soft and crispy focaccia | Dessert Person
7 votes -
An in-depth exploration of the virtual economy
5 votes -
Show Tildes: critique my first portfolio site
14 votes -
The social life of forests: Trees appear to communicate and cooperate through subterranean networks of fungi. What are they sharing with one another?
5 votes -
Operation Broken Fang; Major CSGO update adds map vetoes, retakes servers, detailed stat tracking
7 votes -
Day 4: Passport Processing
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python
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13 votes -
Best articles of 2020
5 votes -
The deadly temptation of the Hastings Cutoff shortcut on the Oregon Trail
8 votes -
Matt Taibbi: Hate Inc., Why today's media makes us despise one another (Hosted by PennState)
6 votes -
I hacked into my own car
7 votes -
PS5 users are reportedly getting banned for selling PS Plus Collection unlocks to PS4 owners
6 votes -
Inside a Muslim detention camp in Xinjiang, China
10 votes -
Logging in to get kicked out: Inside America's virtual eviction crisis
7 votes -
Disney's ‘Ducktales’ will not be renewed for a Season 4
8 votes -
Norway hires Ståle Solbakken to replace Lars Lagerbäck as coach of the national football team – Lagerbäck leaves after failing to qualify for next year's European Championship
4 votes -
The morality of canceling student debt
17 votes -
Covid-19 has drawn new attention to indoor air pollution. Science has long considered gas appliances to be key culprits.
9 votes -
Warner Bros to release all 2021 movies in theaters and on HBO Max simultaneously
22 votes -
L'Entourloop × Skarra Mucci - Golden Nuggets (2020)
3 votes -
The scientists studying why some gamers invert their Y-axis controls
6 votes -
StoryBundle: The Greatest Hits Game Bundle (eBooks)
3 votes -
esoteric board game rules templating review, please
I'm working on a card game that would arrive to your home without a rulebook, but I'm having a comprehensibility problem. Below is some basic rules text for this game. If you had enough time to...
I'm working on a card game that would arrive to your home without a rulebook, but I'm having a comprehensibility problem. Below is some basic rules text for this game. If you had enough time to decipher the below, do you believe you could understand its meaning? Are there any words which are too obscure?
Join a game by selecting a central objective from among its currently apparent contests. Catch a turn from wherever to start playing then describe your plan aloud to the group. If anyone agrees that your plan is valid (legal?) then they can accept you into the game as their second. Anyone else who wants to join at this point may also join/rejoin as your teammate.
Contests are tensions between two scales which can be described by consensus. For example, imagine I'm 1v1 with Ah while you are on a team with Bo and Ci against Du. Imagine Du sees that the tide is not in their favor, and decides to jump ship to the other game. They may do so at any time by admitting they want out of their losing position and describing which team in the other game they would like to swing over to join (My team or Ah's.). Bo, Ci, and you are left in the boat without an opponent. This may cause a crisis (see "Crisis Card").
Farewell, I am off to prepare lunch for a child.
4 votes -
Parler’s got a porn problem: Adult businesses target pro-Trump social network
13 votes -
Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq - Well, This Is Shit
5 votes -
Researchers restore lost sight in mice, offering clues to reversing aging
6 votes -
What are you reading these days?
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction or poetry, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit.
13 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?
8 votes -
Spotify claims it’s dominating the podcasting market because of a million-plus tiny podcasts
8 votes -
The way we train AI is fundamentally flawed
16 votes -
How the CCP does job promotions
6 votes -
Day 3: Toboggan Trajectory
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12 votes -
I, Pencil
3 votes -
Looking Glass Portrait: Kickstarter campaign
5 votes -
Linus Tech Tips - $1500 PC Secret Shopper 2 (full playlist)
15 votes -
Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges
18 votes -
What do I need to know about switching from Android to iOS for my phone?
I've been all in on Android for quite a while, but I'll be making the jump to an iPhone with the next phone I get, which will end up being soon, as my current one is having some hardware issues....
I've been all in on Android for quite a while, but I'll be making the jump to an iPhone with the next phone I get, which will end up being soon, as my current one is having some hardware issues.
What do I need to know about crossing over?
In particular, I would like to leave my Google account behind and NOT have it logged into my new phone. I use Fastmail for my email and contacts -- will I be able to sync my contacts easily to an iOS device from it, or will I have to import them into iCloud?
I'm also open to app recommendations for basic stuff -- preferably ones that are open-source and privacy-friendly. On Android I run a lot of stuff out of F-Droid, but I know iOS is a lot more locked down, so I'm interested to know what the best options are in their store (I have no interest in jailbreaking mg device).
Also, are there any huge disadvantages I should be aware of regarding older models? The new line just came out, which means the older ones are cheaper, and I'm a casual enough phone user that I should be fine with older hardware, but I want to know if there are any big tradeoffs.
Finally, if there are any cool iOS tips or tricks I should know about, let me know!
16 votes -
I remember the Jazz Standard
5 votes -
No-kill, lab-grown meat to go on sale for first time. Singapore’s approval of chicken cells grown in bioreactors is seen as landmark moment across industry.
14 votes -
Beat Saber (and the Oculus Quest 2)
The first time I saw beat saber was this gameplay video in 2018 and I immediately fell in love with it. I adored the concept and wanted to play it so badly. There's a VR arcade close to my place,...
The first time I saw beat saber was this gameplay video in 2018 and I immediately fell in love with it. I adored the concept and wanted to play it so badly.
There's a VR arcade close to my place, where I actually played Beat Saber for ~30 mins last year. Lots of fun! And last week, I bought and received an Oculus Quest 2 and finally played it by myself.
First of all, god damn that is a good game. It's perfect at making you feel like you're naturally good at it, too. Or maybe I actually am. With only ~4 hours of played time I'm doing hard or expert on most new songs with faster song mode (+20% song speed). Which has this weird effect of making me feel like that's the natural pacing of the song… super, super weird when they are ones I already know, as now the version I know feels slowed down.
The campaign felt short and a bit too easy, with one exception (1-hand expert $100 bills with max 4 misses… spent 2 days on that. Looks like I'm not the only one having problems with it). Though it's been frustrating in places; I find the whole "you need to make at least x mistakes to win this level" pretty ridiculous. Min/max movement is an interesting mechanic but I'm not fond of the execution.
I have some frustrations with the game. No replays I can save to show off the most awesome combos. Hit detection feels way off on some levels. I haven't tried online mode yet, pretty excited about it.
But god daaaaamn it's an awesome game. I'm finally playing something again! I haven't really played any video games since … shit, almost two years. And the workout you get is fantastic. I am finally getting a handle on my lockdown atrophy.
Ben Brode once said: "Make your games super easy to get into. The longer it takes me to get into your gameplay, the less interested I will be in playing your game. Except for Beat Saber: I will jump through any hoop just to play that."
And that brings me to the Oculus Quest 2. I was a 2020 original Oculus Rift kickstarter backer. I actually tried the first dev kit. A pretty awesome and unique feeling, but all that for shitty resolution, motion sickness and 4 cables hanging off your head.
Well, it's all gone. Integrated audio, fully wireless, good resolution, no cables, no base station, no PC required. And the features just blow my mind. IR cameras to detect objects around you, the guardian mode with its virtual barriers, the pass-through mode which lets you see outside the oculus without removing it (killer feature). Casting support so it's easy to show your gameplay to friends in the same room. Oh and hand detection?! This is some Star Trek shit.
I recall my reactions to touching and playing with the first iPhone: "Wow, this is game-changing." - Such is my reaction to the Oculus Quest 2. VR is now a console that is, frankly, cheaper and less intimidating than owning a playstation-type console or some such (after all, you need a TV for those). It's on the same level as the Nintendo Switch. I know a lot of people who are greatly intimidated by VR and this removes almost everything scary about it.
Incremental progress is weird; sometimes you stop following the various upgrades in a field and suddenly you catch up and it's mind-blowing.
The problem with the Quest 2 is still the lack of true killer games. Right now, I bought a $400 Beat Saber game… though, it's still worth it. Like Ben said: any hoop.
(I also got The Room VR because I'm a sucker for these kinds of games and it came highly recommended)
17 votes -
Notable developer Hector Martin "marcan" starts Patreon to fund Apple Silicon Linux port
21 votes -
Why archaeologists are brewing ancient beers
7 votes -
This is the winter from hell for restaurants and workers: A potential indoor shutdown, a lack of stimulus aid, and other hospitality industry restrictions couldn’t come at a worse time
8 votes -
I've created a temporary sub-group for Advent of Code 2020, subscribe if you're interested!
As we did last year, I've set up a temporary sub-group that we can use for this year's Advent of Code at ~comp.advent_of_code Some discussion and solutions were starting in this thread, but it...
As we did last year, I've set up a temporary sub-group that we can use for this year's Advent of Code at ~comp.advent_of_code
Some discussion and solutions were starting in this thread, but it will be easier to organize inside a devoted sub-group, and also makes it simpler for people to both find and avoid the relevant topics.
If you posted solutions in that topic, please move them into the threads for Day 1 and Day 2.
I automatically subscribed everyone that commented in or voted on that original topic, as well as everyone that posted a comment in any of last year's topics, but nobody else. So if you're interested in participating in Advent of Code or discussing it, please subscribe to the sub-group. Posts from the sub-group won't be shown to logged-out users by default either, so any logged-out users that want to observe will need to visit the sub-group directly (or you're welcome to email me and request an invite so you can register and subscribe).
I've also set up scheduled posts to happen automatically as each day's puzzle unlocks.
25 votes -
The hidden cost of building fences
4 votes -
Day 2: Password Philosophy
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15 votes -
Day 1: Report Repair
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13 votes -
Trump promises to veto crucial defense-spending bill unless it includes a full repeal of CDA 230, the law that protects online platforms from liability
27 votes